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A nonbinary disaster. host of osdd1b system.
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Your goal should be to get weirder with age and im not kidding. Become that odd estranged extended family member that owns a whacky home wherein a powerful magical item is kept that is the catalyst for the story of a children’s adventure novel protagonist
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Another layer of fun. The first time I applied for a passport I was told my birth certificate was fake. It was the original. Literally the same piece of paper. But the state that issued it used to do half pages, so the government in other states, and then, the federal government wouldn’t accept it as real.
I had to get a new copy of it, which required a separate process, so I could then reapply for the passport. At one point they misplaced my submitted documents so there was a couple extra weeks. And then the earliest passport appt was like 9 weeks out.
If you changed any part of your name for any reason — Did your parent remarry and changed your name when you were little? — go start the process. You have no idea how many hoops it takes.
I don’t know if this will be in place. I don’t know if there will be another election. Start this process anyway. Right now.
FYI - if you were born on the rez, this is also probably how they feel about your birth certificate. I had to get mine reissued because I had a “certificate of live birth” not a birth certificate. Even if you are SURE you won’t be impacted, you should check.
Fwiw - the process of getting a birth certificate was at least pretty straightforward
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The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don’t have to watch any of that. I can just think “that sounds boring or otherwise doesn’t interest me in any way” and do something other than watch it
“They’re making a willy wonka origin story with timothee chalamet,” you might say to me. “They’re doing a live action the last airbender again, didn’t you love avatar?” I don’t find it necessary. This is nothing to me
My ability to not watch stuff is out of control. It’s so powerful I end up not watching stuff I was fully intending to watch
Kindred souls right there…
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Are you an English speaker willing to volunteer a few minutes of your time to answer a few questions about Palestine?
Mahmoud @ma7moudgaza2 is a web developer based in Gaza. He is currently still studying, and you may have seen his fundraiser or his spotlighting for fellow Gazan fundraisers.
Mahmoud has taken up a project to publish a website aimed at foreigners who want to learn more about Palestine. He is currently in the information-gathering phase, where he is hoping to ask you all a few questions about how much information the average foreigner knows about Palestine, and what they would be personally interested in learning about. I’ve seen the first couple of pages, and the project looks lovely!
If you’re interested in lending a few minutes of your time to Mahmoud, please do get in contact with him!
New update, I took your questions and comments and answered the 5 most asked questions and added them to my site. If you have any new inquiry about Palestine, you can send it to me via DM
Hi everyone! Mahmoud has told me that so many of you have been generous with your time and given him a lot to work with for his website. From the bottom of my heart I thank you.
But unfortunately I also bring difficult news from Mahmoud. His family is running out of food. They haven’t been able to acquire bread for 2 days as of now.
To give you an idea, Mahmoud has to risk a difficult journey due to thieving gangs hired by the occupation to steal aid, and then pay 1300 shekel for a single sack of flour.
That’s about $350 USD for flour that lasts less than a week to feed a family of around 20 people.
I don’t have the words to describe the situation enough. My friend is hungry. Please help him.
$20,925 / $35,000 as of 23 November 2024
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Anonymous asked: Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?
“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment.
This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions.
If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements.
Hope this answers your question!
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the things that we’ve been forced to manage through crowdfunding websites are insane. victims of a genocide are having to market themselves as someone who is worthy of being saved.
living for more than a year under an active genocide while seeing your oppressors cruelty and disregard for your life increase is so horrendous.
every single person in gaza has lost too much. i don’t think everyone must have to share their personal loss in order to be deemed as a person worthy of safety. i think we should try to help those we can see asking for it.
i request you to help alaa and her children. she needs to buy supplies and remain safe. her area was bombed very recently. her fundraiser has been verified.
We are currently at €36,912! The last donation was made 4 hours ago. Please donate and share. Alaa needs to purchase essentials for her and her 2 young children!
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I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren’t based on the person’s perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD “do you wash your hands excessively?” is not a good question.
a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it’s not excessive. we believe we’re exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.
better questions might be, “does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?” “do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?” “do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you’ve seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can’t clean off right away?”
being asked “are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?” also got “no” responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn’t ask for, and didn’t know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn’t know* that other people don’t do this.
“do you spend a lot of time cleaning?” -> no, it’s not a lot. it’s a good amount. why?
“do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often ‘take over’ for other people because they can’t do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?” -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.
if the screening questions on the mental illness test sound at all like “are you already aware you’re mentally ill?” then, shocker, it’s not going to work all that well!
this is an endemic problem - so many autism screening questions leave autistic people baffled as to how to answer them, because the inevitably neurotypical people who composed them haven’t the slightest clue how ambiguous they keep being
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