A Door on Other Time

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.

robin-hood-for-freedom

Or to put it more succiently: Where did they get the ipad, sara?

90s movies: Psychopharmacology is as good as a lobotomy. If you take pills to treat your mental illness it will literally murder your imaginary friends and you will become a boring, lotus-eating conformist drone.

Me after taking my meds: drives the scenic route home to see if there are any geese on the pond and does a little dance in line at the grocery store and comes home to throw everything in my fridge into a stew pot because I can finally taste food again while singing songs at my birds in which I replace all the instances of "she" with "Cheese" and doing a Dolly Parton impression on the phone to my sister

"What were you like before taking the meds tho"

Two weeks ago I was posting about eating cake frosting for dinner.

comradesepsis

I feel like it's worth mentioning that being on The Wrong Meds can indeed do the 90s movie thing to you.

Like, if you go on meds and that happens, it's not because whatever's going on with you is jut Too Severe or that you're doomed or only people with Other Illnesses get to have meds that make them feel actually good and you have to settle for "miserable but somehow so hollow I no longer care about the misery" and be grateful you're no longer actively suicidal or whatever.

If that shit happens to you, tell your fucking doctor. And if your doctor doesn't take you seriously, or acts like That's Just How Being On Meds Is, ditch them! Find a new doctor!! Because that is NOT how being on meds is supposed to work! That means the meds are not working correctly!!

postapocalypticcottagecore

Reblogging to agree and say that what was happening to me was (and to an extent still is) severe and was the result of manifold health problems and has taken the better part of a year to effectively treat. I did not expect medication to be this effective. But it is. So if you think that you are untreatable, get a second opinion.

roach-works

there is a single pill i can take to immediately live a day as the best version of myself-- not a superhero, not a perfect genius, but a good dude who can read and write and do the dishes. im optimistic and coherent and can plan for the future. i write novels and walk the dog and remember to shower and brush my teeth.

if i don't take this pill i spend the day as a dirty, inept husk, a sad sack of well-meaning but futile intentions just sapient enough to be dimly aware of everything im unable to be.

this pill is incredibly difficult to obtain a steady monthly supply of because when normal people take it they have a little more fun at parties.

Counterpoint: At least if I spend the remainder of my natural life as a dirty, inept husk, a sad sack of well-meaning but futile intentions just sapient enough to be dimly aware of everything I'm unable to be... at least I'll know I'm me, not a fake version of myself created by medication. Nor do I have to worry about regressing if I run out, the repeat prescription doesn't come in time etc.

Not dissing OP's choice to take advantage of the meds, but they're not for me.

Hey, so, this is kind of the attitude that made me afraid to take meds that I really benefit from: the idea that who you are on medication is somehow "not really you."

The person I was when I was very depressed did not feel like the real me. That was a version of me that was very ill. The "real me" is the me that is able to dance at stoplights and make art and enjoy food and laugh at jokes. And for now, I need pharmaceutical help to get back there.

The assistance that medication provides doesn't make me any less The Real Me than wearing glasses or taking painkillers. Depression is a physical illness. If you try medication and you don't like the way it makes you feel, then it's not a good medication for you. But you do get to choose, and I'm glad I have the opportunity to choose to actually be myself again.

ashlgcostumes

Kill the idea that suffering is somehow authentic and worthy, and take the fucking drugs. I lost years of my life to this kind of thinking and I have nothing to show for it other than a handful of embarrassing memories and a house full of clutter I don’t want or need. There’s at least five regularly used different classes of antidepressants! And about four more specifically for anxiety! They’re all acting on your brain in different ways and you will have different reactions to each of them! Don’t give up and accept misery because you’ve mistakenly believed the misery is your real personality!

such-justice-wow

Refusing to take insulin because diabetes is the real me

hst3000

The other reason the 90s thing was/is a thing is that there's also thirty years of pharmacological advancement between the meds then and the meds now. I have been told on more than one occasion that the drugs I took even back in the early 2010s were 'something we don't normally prescribe anymore' and they recommended a different one which works better with fewer side effects.

The other reason the 90s thing was/is a thing is Hollywood is fucking packed with Scientologists.

allamericansbitch

Everything costs at least ten dollars and gone are the days of being able to go to a Cafe and just buy a drink. Price gouging is driving me insane. I don't know what rich people are thinking making people save up for a snack or to go to the movies. I remember the early 2010's and shit wasn't that bad.

everything is a nightmare truly

isuggestendingthefed

I have a suggestion

beardedmrbean

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hometoursandotherstuff

bmd2026

souf-v-staff-rematch

They really are doing the 1984 "it has always been this way" thing all the time every single day and I'm calling these retards out whenever I see it.

ironlily-art

Wrapping a single long, rectangular piece of fabric around the body was exactly how many ancient culture made their fashion.

miizunos-blog-blog-deactivated2

Men too. The toga (and its cousins throughout Europe and the Indo-Iranian world, like the various plaids of the British Isles) and the thing best known to us as a sarong, called šndwt in ancient Egyptian (šento in Coptic), are also rectangles.

There’s actually reason to think Egyptians also called the women’s garment by the same name, since Greek kalasiris is of unclear Egyptian etymology and the only similar Coptic word, Kalašire, is a male given name meaning “giant” or “strongman”. Also all the other words for garments like that, that I find in the Coptic dictionary, are of Greek origin. Whereas šento also translates biblical references to robes and cloaks.

how did i miss this

(ed are you stealing your dad’s clothes)

…Does he know enough textile alchemy to drop them down about six sizes?

forthoutoffive

Not sure why this 4 year old untagged post showed itself to me, but in case case you’re still curious, in chapter 85 Edward is shown to be capable of making one of his red coats from just a bolt of red cloth.

Normally I would say my lack of knowledge about textiles means I wouldn’t assume that being able to make clothes from a bolt of fabric means you have the ability to modify them… but in FMA alchemy lets you break stuff down on the molecular level and reform it, so while he’d need to separate the excess material, he probably could resize Hohenheim’s clothes to fit him.

I figured, I was just making a short joke about Ed.

mommyhorror

I love the TRA argument “terfs don’t think trans people are real/exist” ok … uno reverse card YOU don’t think WOMEN are real. You don’t believe women, as a category, can or should exist. And you fight women who care about other women.

Some genders are more equal than others.

generallemarc

Honestly wondering if this is fake just based on how it's set up. 5k and 10k are the shortest, and thus most popular by far, lengths for organized distance running. Next distance up is usually the half-marathon, more than double the length of a 10k, and that's where you lose most of the hobbyists. Not only are separate races for men and women just pointless extra work for the organizers, but any organizer would be doing both distances for both genders because these are where you get the lion's share of your participants. Serious athletes, hobbyists, hell there's plenty of people who just walk the whole way, some even with their dogs or baby strollers, and more than you'd expect will do that for the 10k, not just the 5k. An event set up like this would be screwing itself over in multiple ways for no reason, with the only outcomes being needless confusion, extra work, and a scenario that makes feminists look bad. So I'm pressing x on this unless there's hard evidence beyond this one image.

Asked chatgpt to check up on it:

Following up the links, I saw the university posting about it after the event:

Zooming in on the pictures you can see the same poster art in the background:

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The entire left-wing of politics is insane today. There's no point trying to make sense of any of their words or actions, because there is none to be found there anymore.

“Today” I think the last progressives who weren’t basically this insane and hypocritical were…yeah nope never mind. I was gonna say the Hussites but then I remembered they were basically fighting for the “freedom” to impose Utraquism on all Western Christians.

Also Nazis raped less and could reliably produce agricultural surpluses.

anthraxofeffervescence

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

anthraxofeffervescence

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

bloodyraven1001

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

ariaste

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

horizon-penblade

We can't use aircraft because the fbi has access to all the flight data how many times do we need to go over this