Wasted Words

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[techietheshit]

Backrooms Spoilers below but like….

At the end when Phil goes “we used to make MRI machines” I couldn’t grasp the Lore implications because I was full tilt trying not to just giggle. I just kept thinking of Aperture Science and how they started just making fucking shower curtains and Cave Johnson wanted More so now they have murder AI’s and portal guns.

ASync made MRI machines and now they’re stuck studying The Dimension That Knows You because Ivan Beck has amnesia or something and wants to remember.

[depsidase]

[revacholianrobot]

In hindsight it's very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually "quite common"

[revacholianrobot]

just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.

[yourheartinyourmouth]

only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus

[jecook]

Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.

[lady-harrowhark]

PSA: The Job Accommodation Network maintains a searchable database of accommodation suggestions for a wide variety of disabilities.

The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.

Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here

The ADHD page linked above also includes case examples and strategies for determining what sort of accommodations might be necessary. More broadly, the JAN website as a whole is a treasure trove of information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and resources for both individuals and employers.

[trambrosia]

Oh fuck that's really nice, I will read it

Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions

Being a developer with ADHD

Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support the

[dandelionsresilience]

The head of disability accommodations at my college just kept ablesplaining to me that “accommodations are to level the playing field, not give you an advantage,” and that her job is to “protect the school’s rights” rather than help disabled students. The only accommodations they would offer me were 1. extra time on tests, and 2. an alternative test-taking location - neither of which I needed. I ended up getting (most of) what I actually needed by unofficially asking the individual professors, but it should have been legally protected.

[xxxball-fondlerxxx]

oh my goddd yes. i remember in high school when i had a meeting to get a 504 plan it was so terrible. it took MONTHS to even get the meeting, and then they also did not tell me what accommodations were available, they talked down to me the entire time like "you know this isn't gonna just get you out of doing your work, right?", and thats not even MENTIONING the fact that i only found out about the existence of 504 plans in my sophomore year, and i found out about them from other students, not the school!

[techietheshit]

Got to purchase iron lung and I was reminded of going to see it with my mom. There were three other people in the theater with us (a woman in the far corner and a couple literally right behind us in pre-bought seats) and at some point I hear the girl behind me go “is he gonna take his shirt off?” And then when it actually happened I could hear her quietly freaking out and her boyfriend asking what was wrong lmao

[techietheshit]

Was waiting to get into the Backrooms movie because we got there too early and the staff was cleaning the theater and the theater behind us was for the Michael Jackson film. A group of people were going into the Michael Jackson screening and when they passed by someone??? Spit??? On the poster???? And started cursing???WHY?!??? YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THAT EXACT MOVIE WHY ARE YOU MAD!??

[techietheshit]

Met a man today with one of my brothers’ name (spelled exactly the same) who’s sister has my deadname (also spelled exactly the same) and a nephew with my other brother’s name (one letter off) and I haven’t been this fascinated and confused in a WHILE

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[ralfmaximus]

More of this please, everywhere.

After the incident, another video went viral showing what appeared to be that man getting a beating. The Maui Police Department said they had no record of any reports of disorderly conduct or assault related to the monk seal incident.

Even the local police are being cool about this.

[matchagirl]

[homura]

[techietheshit]

Finished my copy of Project Hail Mary and my mom’s immediate reaction was to ask to borrow it so I’m considering that a Win

[techietheshit]

I could be wrong but the one issue I have with ‘Yue would’ve been the avatar if Aang died!’ Theories ignore that the water-tribe avatar switches every cycle. Kuruk was Northern water tribe so the next water avatar was going to be southern no matter what. THAT’S why the fire nation went after the southern water benders so heavy if there was even a rumor about one existing and why Zuko was prowling the southern oceans for so long. Korra is southern water tribe too! I’m 80% sure there’s a mention of this in the Kyoshi novels or SOMETHING. If anything I think Katara (or maybe someone else if we think the spirit reincarnates immediately) has a higher likelihood of being born the avatar had aang died in the ice :////

[delmondo]

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[holdharmonysacred]

I've been thinking I really want to do something to try and help folks over in Palestine, so while I can't donate I want to at least help link to some of the general charities for folks there:

Here's arab.org's daily clicks for Palestine!

Here's eSims for Gaza!

Here's the Gaza Soup Kitchen!

Here's the linktree for the Sameer project!

Here's Crips for eSims for Gaza!

Please donate and helps spread the word if you can! If you're like me and can't donate, there's at least the daily clicks site you can bookmark and do!!!

[pukicho]

Four words: don’t go to bed without a big fucking jug of water because what if you wake up thirsty

[sloppystyle]

[techietheshit]

I am currently unable to see the movie so I’m working through reading Project Hail Mary and Martin DuBois is… he’s so fucking funny dude. I have an inkling of what happens because I’ve been Matrix dodging movie spoilers (very very poorly) and it’s kind of obvious something happens to the guy once it’s pointed out (I mean duh) but like…. I had to put the book down and laugh when he’s so bluntly talking about himself and Annie Shapiro

[techietheshit]

Watching my father fall into the Grok/AI bullshit while I tell him the issues with Musk plus the ecological/moral/security issues using generative AI’s like that and him doing it anyway