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early (adj.) — posessing the qualities of an earl
How it feels watching your tumblr mutuals engage in discourse about fandoms you've never heard of
"hey i invented a machine to replace your workers"
"is it cheaper than the workers?"
"it is right now"
"ok everyone's super, super fired. now what"
"well now we're raising the price"
possible ways this could go wrong: 0
"they'll never see it coming" & they fuckin DONT
The 'hyperspecific situations' polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign' doesn't mean 'non-English' or 'non-American'
"Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?" Yeah I watched the foreign movie "The Martian" with foreign actor Matt Damon
Op why would you hide this is the tags
[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: 'Do you speak a foreign language?' Yeah yours /End ID]
Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem
Legal Eagle asking "are you covered to have an open flame in the studio?" and a producer worriedly yelling "we're not!" as Ally goes to light a bong they filled with real whiskey is maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at an episode of Game Changer.
Nice argument bro. Unfortunately for you, the meteor is coming
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accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you
never do any sort of collaborative storytelling with your friends youll get addicted for life
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Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday
I want to share some medical context for Al-Hashimi’s backstory in case it’s interesting or useful to anyone else in their fic writing endeavors (I have been thinking about her medical and career trajectories for fic writing purposes).
First some context about her seizure disorder and its treatment.
In 2x15 Baran mentions having temporal lobe epilepsy. She mentions having drug-resistant epilepsy (meaning continued seizures despite trials of two appropriate anti-seizure medications at appropriate doses). And she mentions that twelve years ago she had laser ablation and that her seizure focus was in her left temporal lobe.
First a mention of her having had viral meningitis at five and that her illness was severe and prolonged. This means that she likely had a fairly traumatic experience at that age involving an LP and an ICU admission. ICU means being sedated and restrained for safety very frequently. Studies show that about twenty percent of people who survive ICU admissions have PTSD following that event.
As far as what her seizures are like, we know she has focal seizures, meaning originating in one part of the brain. We see her have two focal seizures with impaired awareness which is exactly what it sounds like, a seizure beginning in one part of the brain causing the person to be unaware of their surroundings. Typically these last 30 seconds to two minutes. What they look like depends on the part of the brain they occur in and what we see from her is common for a temporal lobe seizure - behavioral arrest for about 30 seconds without awareness and maybe with some eye blinking.
Context from an interview with Moafi was that the scene before Baran calls her neurologist she had a focal aware seizure or aura. This is a seizure where someone retains awareness. For temporal lobe epilepsy this aura (which often proceeds having a focal unaware seizure) often takes the form of a feeling of deja vu, a rising feeling in the stomach, olfactory or gustatory hallucinations, though these are many other manifestations.
The third type of focal seizure is a focal seizure that then generalizes to bilateral tonic-clonic (tonic-clonic seizures being the type you commonly see depicted in media with stiffening of the body then rhythmic shaking and a prolonged period of confusion after). This is not something we see but is something that it would be reasonable to imagine might have occurred at some point in her history when her epilepsy was less well controlled.
A note on drug-resistant epilepsy. For people who have failed two anti-seizure medications the chance of having seizure freedom with a medication change is only about five percent. So it’s very telling that Baran spent decades trialing and failing many medications. That’s a long and frustrating process. And most of these medications have a lot of side effects. People often change medicines due to side effects and often people are accepting the least bad option when it comes to side effects rather than choosing a medication with no side effects.
She mentions her current medication is levetiracetam. This is a medication she might have been changed to prior to getting pregnant as it’s one of the two preferred medications in pregnancy due to its safety for the fetus. It has a lot of potential side effects including a high risk of psychiatric side effects and is not used in patients with concomitant mental health conditions. Commonly this medication can cause dizziness, fatigue, and cognitive impairment (common with most anti-seizure medications and surely something a physician would weigh strongly / worry about when changing medications). Other common side effects with this medication are nausea and loss of appetite.
For people with drug-resistant epilepsy who have a focal lesion amenable to surgery about half of people who have surgery will be seizure free after a year (though some people have later recurrence of seizures, which is what I think we’re meant to assume happened to Baran after ablation). It sounds like she has a seizure focus close to an area of the brain related to speech which made surgery a risky choice. We can think about how for this woman whose career is very dependent on cognitive ability this would be a difficult choice.
What this means is from age five to 28, Baran was having somewhat regular seizures. She says before ablation it was every few months. Likely given the repeated med changes it was much worse when she was younger and the best they got to with meds was reasonably well controlled with seizures every few months. And while that’s infrequent there are still serious limitations to how she would be able to live her life. Think of the safety of things like driving, swimming, running on a treadmill, cooking, if you might have a lapse in consciousness for two minutes. And think of the dangers of having a very young child.
Surgery became fairly standard about twenty years ago. Ablation, the procedure she did have, which is accomplished with a less invasive type of procedure, only about ten years ago. So it sounds like she probably would have had a surgical evaluation as a teen and her parents then Baran herself decided this was too risky. She ultimately decided on an ablation 12 years ago which would have been around the end of med school/ beginning of residency. Interesting to think about this too as a choice that really impacted her career and her choice to pursue an emergency medicine residency.
Thinking about her career timeline:
If she went straight through school without time off:
Graduates college at 22, med school at 26, and residency at 29 or 30 (depending on if she did a three or four year program). This would mean she chose a speciality she couldn’t practice in fully as she was still having active seizures at 26.
Alternately we can shift things to her taking time off between college and med school, graduating at 29, which would have allowed her to have seen that the ablation made her seizure free and then chose emergency medicine as her speciality. This makes more sense to me. Ablation was still a choice with risks but she pursued it possibly in part to allow her to follow a career path in medicine that was important to her.
If she did a three year residency that means she finished at 32 in 2018. MSF typically wants two years of work experience, so she worked somewhere domestically for two years. We know she was in Afghanistan in 2020, so perhaps abroad 2020-2022. She returns to the US at 36, works at the VA for four years, then taken the job at the Pitt.
We know she had a seizure a year ago. We don’t know if she had others between then and the ablation in 2014. And we can probably assume she had a child after returning to the US so her kid would be two or three. That means she’s probably fairly recently divorced.
I have a million head canons by the way about all this and the trajectory of her seizure disorder and all the thoughts she might have had around treatment, career, and pregnancy decisions. But I am going to leave this here in case it is helpful to anyone to formulate your own head canons.
realizing how many times i could have asked for some grace or some help with something from a boss or a teacher or my college advisor but i didn't because deep in my bones i believe that people who have that kind of authority over you will not only not help, but simply asking for their help, bringing their attention to me and my problems will get me punished!! but if i had been brave, if i had just asked, i could have had things easier!! but i didn't because i couldn't because of how terrified i am that asking will make things worse, and to that i say, i think i kind of hate my parents, actually
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the literal first tag this post got was the name of a male character. you people are beyond all hope.
Viewing all phineas and ferb characters as autistic is so nice because you rarely see a range of personality types with autistic characters in the same show
Bless Bless Bless
Also let me help you back this up:
Phineas and Ferb freaking out because someone broke their rutine (Bully Bromance Breakup episode)
Phineas and Ferb's echolalia in "Candace against the Universe"
Phineas and ferb movieVroblok challenge
Ferb having selective mutism and only chosing to speak when he has an interesting fact
To continue in part 2
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Phineas being oblivious about Isabella's love indirects (that sinking feeling episode)( and most of the episodes too)
Baljeet having a written schedule and hyperventilating when they do something it's not there (Bubble boys episode)
Baljeet having a lof information about a specific subject (tip of the day episode)
To continue in part 3
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Candace having an special interest/hyperfixation in Ducky Momo since she was a little girl to now into teenhood
Candace can't break the routine to bust her brothers or she feels empty
I also HeadCanon she has ADHD as she is very loud and impulsive and can't focus on anything that doesn't has to do with busting her brothers, her boyfriend Jeremy, or Ducky momo
To continue in part 4
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Doof...
Where. Do . I. Begin
I headcanon him with autism and ADHD as well.. First, he can't do simple things and chose to do it the complicated way.
I mean, he flew the Big Ben to be close to his departamento so he didn't had to drive to the store and buy a watch
In another occasion he made clones of himself so he didn't had to wait in the line to buy things
He rambles.. A LOT
Changes subject in the conversation too quick ,forget what he was talking about and is a bad listener. (Maybe that's why he gets along with Perry because he doesn't talk and Doof has freedom to lead the conversation)
The 'a platypus?' 'Perry the platypus???' (prosopagnosia right there)
The way he stands with his hand in this pose
His happy stimming
To be continued in part 5
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Buford. He doesn't like the taste of two thing together. He prefers them separately
Speaks a lot of languages and play a variety of instruments
Lawrence Fletcher:
Pls he works at an antique store and is an history nerd
The echolalia. Fossils dun dun dun
Also he in general. There's no doubt he is Ferb's father
I see Candace trying to bust her brothers as her being controlling as a mechanism for mitigating her anxiety. It's not just about her blindly sticking to that role for the sake of it. If everything goes the way it's "supposed to" then there will no unexpected disruptions that she doesn't know how to deal with.
There's also that indignation keenly felt by all eldest siblings, at how unfair it is that their younger siblings are treated much more leniently now that their parents have mellowed out and are much less uptight about policing their children now that they have enough experience as parents to realise how little of a big deal all their previous fretting was. Not inherently a neurodivergent thing, but it's a big part of her nevertheless.
Also, there's that thing I don't quite know how to put to words, where autistic girls tend to be much better at masking than autistic boys, and tend to be much more cognisant of the consequences of inadequate masking, and so she's so overpowered by cringe that she's compelled to police them at all times lest they call too much attention to themselves, which—in her opinion—is inherently risky to them and their safety, on top of being risky to her by 'blowing her cover'.
Also, that rigid adherence to making sure everybody 'follows the rules'. I've seen that in a lot of autistic girls before.