prokopetz:

apocalyptic-genderpunk:

“Vampires are rich and white, werewolves are poor and/or POC” is a trope I’m honestly very tired of.

I’d be totally down for grungy anarchist vampires versus inbred aristocrat werewolves. I mean, the dog breeding metaphor is right there.

should i go from windows 7 to windows 10?? my computer is telling me it’s gonna do it in 3 days time if i dont tell it not to. am i gonna have problems or nah

specifically: are there any compatibility issues with older programs or other stuff i should know about

It’s Different for Girls with ADHD

clittyslickers:

sufnlower:

Dr. Ellen Littman, author of Understanding Girls with ADHD, has studied high IQ adults and adolescents with the disorder for more than 25 years. She attributes the under-diagnosis of girls and women—estimated to be around 4 million who are not diagnosed, or half to three-quarters of all women with ADHD—and the misunderstandings that have ensued about the disorder as it manifests in females, to the early clinical studies of ADHD in the 1970s. “These studies were based on really hyperactive young white boys who were taken to clinics,” Littman says. “The diagnostic criteria were developed based on those studies. As a result, those criteria over-represent the symptoms you see in young boys, making it difficult for girls to be diagnosed unless they behave like hyperactive boys.”

ADHD does not look the same in boys and girls. Women with the disorder tend to be less hyperactive and impulsive, more disorganized, scattered, forgetful, and introverted. “They’ve alternately been anxious or depressed for years,” Littman says. “It’s this sense of not being able to hold everything together.” 

Further, while a decrease in symptoms at puberty is common for boys, the opposite is true for girls, whose symptoms intensify as estrogen increases in their system, thus complicating the general perception that ADHD is resolved by puberty. One of the criteria for ADHD long held by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is that symptoms appear by age 7. While this age is expected to change to 12 in the new DSM-V, symptoms may not emerge until college for many girls, when the organizing structure of home life—parents, rules, chores, and daily, mandatory school—is eliminated, and as estrogen levels increase. “Symptoms may still be present in these girls early on,” says Dr. Pat Quinn, cofounder of The National Center for Girls and Women with ADHD. “They just might not affect functioning until a girl is older.” Even if girls do outwardly express symptoms, they are less likely to receive diagnoses. A 2009 study conducted by at The University of Queenland found that girls displaying ADHD symptoms are less likely to be referred for mental health services.”

This is so important. [source]

oh man

my friends: what’s up
me: I can’t stop thinking about how birds don’t remember a time before roads. Like, birds have no written history or oral tradition. As far as any bird is concerned, This is how the world has Always been and they’re just tryin’ to make it like the rest of us. They just keep on keepin’ on. Birds have no idea there used to be so much more for them. So much forest and food abundant, so they just live in this era the best they can without the burdensome knowledge of the life they could have lived and I find that both fortunate and sad.
my friends: Why Are You Like This.

teaching art film techniques and animation in the same class makes sense in theory but in practice like 2/3 of my class are internet people weebs who dont care about film and the other 1/3 like film and dont care about the internet