It’s more like a bunch of paraplegic people asking you if they can borrow your wheelchair because doctors will not acknowledge their need for one and dismiss their symptoms as drug seeking behavior.

Speaking as a woman who only got diagnosed in my late 20s after years of needless suffering. Boys are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed than girls because our current ADHD assessments are based on studies from decades ago that were only done on boys. Girls are socialized differently as children and thus present different symptoms. Behavior that is excused in boys for having ADHD, like not being able to sit still or running around yelling a lot, is punished as ‘un-girly behavior’ and internalized as a failure to adhere to gender roles in girls, hence why girls are conditioned to mask better at a young age, at the expense of their own mental health the longer they continue to mask.

This is the other side of the coin from the social media backlash against women coming out with ADHD whilst the internet dismisses them for faking ADHD and being attention whores. Women are punished, not rewarded, for masking their ADHD. The more effort we put into masking, the more people assume we are neurotypical, and the more we are criticized for ADHD symptoms we are unable to mask because we are held to the same standards as neurotypicals.

That’s because the average person has 1.999… legs, hence the appreciation for having 2.

The mapping of MBTI questions and results have no basis in science or modern psychology. The perceived accuracy of the results of the test is created through the Barnum effect. It’s not any different from how a horoscope might say ‘scorpios have intense emotions’.

It’s not the the results are untrue, it is that the reader will always introspect on the qualities that they are told that they have, and find it true to some extent.

For example, I can tell you that you are a messy person, or I can tell you that you are organized person. In each instance, you would be able to find supporting evidence for both.

This is because the human mind is far more complex than the black and white definitions given by MBTI. If anything, horoscopes give you a much longer list of non-specific attributes to think about, which might lead to more introspection.

There’s a contradiction here. If your MBTI type isn’t ‘fixed’ and is based on how you decide to answer questions, then it implies that you can choose your own outcome and MBTI type, rendering it meaningless.

If your MBTI is fixed because it is based on how you answer questions so long as it is without the intent to alter its outcome, then it is not anymore deterministic than a horoscope.

At the end of the day, people see what they want to in themselves and discard the rest, whether it’s reading a horoscope or MBTI profile.

Having ADHD is cool on Lemmy, because it’s one of the few places where it’s safe to talk about the daily challenges of living with ADHD with people who understand you and won’t judge you.

You are actively making it uncool to talk about ADHD by downplaying and dismissing people’s struggles with ADHD by calling ADHD symptoms a pathologized neurotypical experience. So please stop.

I don’t know about surgery options for trans men, but for cis women where periods are a concern, we don’t need our uterus removed. That would be like cutting off our whole foot because of an ingrown toe nail. Hysterectomies, as with the removal of any organ, comes with inherent risks.

Birth control pills, IUDs, shots, are all options that can allow periods to go away. If we need almost absolute certainty that we will never get pregnant, bi-salp and tubal litigation are an option too.

I imagine, for trans men it’s not just a matter of periods, as owning female reproductive organs comes with body dysphoria that goes beyond periods.

People will shit on astrology and then gloat about MBTI like it’s any different.

Arguments like yours are hurting, not helping, women’s advocacy in modern medicine.

When you throw out all nuance, it opens the door for misogynists to dismiss every valid concern that women have when it comes to systemic discrimination in medicine. You are also alienating men who support male birth control in the process.

As someone who has had life threatening issues dismissed by doctors, been gaslit about the efficacy of my medications, berated for going to the ER when my doctor instructed me to, gone through an excruciating IUD insertion, trust me when I say I am the last person to defend sexism in medicine.

However, male birth control isn’t as that simple of an issue. There are legitimate scientific barriers to developing male birth control. It doesn’t erode away the slow pace and funding in developing male birth control that is made worse by sexism, but sexism isn’t the full story.

Medical science is not that black and white.

Think about birth control in terms of preventing death and disfigurement. Men don’t die from pregnancy, women do.

When women take birth control, it has the upside of not dying in pregnancy, having horrific pain in the process, or permanent changes to their body. Birth control has a lot of side effects, but at the end of the day, the maternal mortality rate of women who take birth control is far lower.

The reason why medical trials for male birth has been put on hold before, is because when weighing the side effects vs benefits of male birth control, men did not have to weight against death and suffering through pregnancy. Thus, the justification for male birth control requires a much higher bar.

While discrimination against women is prevalent in medicine, this isn’t as simple as an instance of dismissing male birth control because men didn’t like it. The process through which new modern medicines are vetted requires comparing the positive and negative outcomes of a medication, and that doesn’t necessarily take gender dynamics into account.

It’s not an insult?? It’s a joke about owning trans people. OP didn’t even make any grammatical errors, the sentence was just open to interpretation.

English is my second language too. I don’t get why people like you feel the need to get offended on behalf of others who didn’t ask for it.

Where does one go to ‘have’ a trans person? Asking for a friend.

Edit: It’s a joke about owning a trans person, and has nothing to do with grammar. Not sure why people are looking for something to be angry about.

What’s wrong with pumpkin spice?

The brevity of police training program is definitely a major contributor.

While there are mental health programs present, the stigma of mental health has rendered many of them unused. Police surveyed in North Dakota found that an overwhelming majority will not disclose their mental health issues to their colleagues or supervisors, most expect to be discriminated if they do, and see mental health issues as a personal failure.

Of the services provided, only debriefings and weight rooms saw significant use. Outside of that, few used therapy, peer support groups, mental health checks, and resilience therapy.

That’s a good point. Conservatives often excuse the abuse of power because the scope of police work demands it, without acknowledging that there are non-police alternatives that are likelier to descalate a situation.

I think this ties into their inability to acknowledge mental health as a real and treatable issue. Perhaps because doing so would require acknowledging their own while being inhibited by the shame and cultural conditioning they grew up with.

It is horrifying for so many to fail their psych exam. However, I would also question if this is the most effective approach to better policing outcomes.

Psych exams in volatile workplaces are contradictory due to self reported elements in the exam. In aviation, there is a phenomenon where pilots historically masked mental health issues because a diagnosis was a death sentence to their careers. Paradoxically, acknowledging and allowing pilots to fly with these issues while being medicated has led to better outcomes.

The police who answered truthfully in the exam were fired, but that begs the question of whether the remainder were mentally sound or simply knew how to mask themselves in the psych exam.

No, I am speaking about the police specifically.

The advancements being made to mental health care in the military are meaningful, and the reduction of homeless veteran through housing programs speaks to the progress and recognition of difficulties in reintegrating into civilian life.

The ‘little dicks’ part was unnecessary.

You can make a great argument against the Confederate flag without resorting to toxic masculinity.

The conservative mind genuinely believes that vaccines are harmful thanks to fox news and RFK Jr. There’s no recovering from that. The kids will die and they will still insist it’s the right thing.

However, that does not justify mandatory vaccinations. The US has historically denied, medically abused, and withheld consent from minority patients. To this day, black women are still receiving poorer outcomes due to a history of neglect and blatant discrimination. While most vaccine deniers are not among this cohort, mandatory vaccines would ultimately marginalize the very people conservatives aim to marginalize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_exploitation_of_Black_women_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-a-history-of-abuse-in-american-medicine-black-patients-struggle-for-equal-access

Well ackchyually, that’s anti-semitism. /s

Six Flags, the amusement park mentioned in the post, are all located in the United states with the except of two in Canada and one in Mexico.