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rank 8 check against Violence? huh

we're literally on the precipice of water wars

read the post. social support and worthy distraction. engagement and activity. replacing an addictive behavior with something meaningful, valuable, fulfilling.

A couple things are wrong with the image. To be clear, the image doesn't actually describe an act of doing anything. The image describes a barrier to diagnosis. It's a real problem and one worth discussing - but I'm not sure if the conclusion should be "lol just do it yourself." The image also says you're just saying someone to "say what you've already known" which is a blatant attempt to flatter the reader's intellect and skips over the most important part of diagnosis, the DDX. Which leads to the biggest issue, the implied conclusion, represented in this post's title: "Self-diagnosis is valid".

As for what to do: I'm just saying that you can make behavioral changes without having to name your behavioral patterns. Or name them whatever you want, call it Fred. For ADHD behavioral interventions alone wont be as effective as it would if combined with medication, but if there's no other option then by all means. See what others have done to manage ADHD and try it out for yourselves. That doesn't necessarily mean you have ADHD - but the name doesn't matter! If you're forgetting appointments, keeping an appointment book is just a generally good practice. Keeping a schedule, adjusting how your space is organized to cue your attention instead of relying on executive function, and utilizing post-it notes to stay on track - these are all good practices! And so on. You don't need a diagnosis to do this. Why must we insist on "self-diagnosing"?

I just want people to shift from this horoscope-esque idea of "diagnosis" and focus more on "treatment". I think a lot of the emphasis on the name and not the action comes down to a desire to fit in and finding liberation in a lack of agency. Like if we look at a false dichotomy: Would you rather be officially labeled ADHD and not have to work on yourself at all, or would you not get the label but be in charge of making the changes you want in your life? Both sound pretty scary, but the latter sounds far more difficult.

Thanks for the thoughtful response!

Good question. I wondered the same thing: could I see a shareable source that one might take more seriously than a meme?

Here's some things I found on DDG:

US DOL stats on wage theft

Then I found a couple more sources, one of which has OP's image, and both point to the same article from an organization called the EPI which I've never heard of. It seems to be some big NGO that's been around since the 80s but really vetting the credibility of this source is a bit beyond my attention span right now.

The EPI seems to have credible sources in that article and seems to cite them appropriately. The larceny et al. crime stats seem to come from an FBI data set from 2012. The EPI article itself is from 2014, so that eases one potential concern of cherry picking old data compared to current inflation numbers. But it's also worth noting that ten year-old data isn't great. That said, is it hard to believe that not much has changed in ten years? The figures seem reasonably trustworthy given this brief (BRIEF) assessment.

Great question, keep on askin'.

Star Trek was literally always woke.

is this a Lemmy post of an Instagram post of a Reddit post?

Cool! Don't care! Fuck Tildes. And I'm a longtime RIF user and Tildes alpha user. (And it's still in alpha, years later...) It's a weird ass place over there. Not too keen on their "private club" theme centered around the "God of Tildes" either.

Instead it was destroyed by two greedy fucks rushing the ending two seasons early so they could move on to their next cash grab flop!

Edit: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

Can we leave this kinda stuff behind? It is NOT obligatory.