I was an AuDHD kid in the 90s. That specific word was thrown at me a lot by both adults and my peers, especially because I lose the ability to speak when I’m stressed/overstimulated. I guess it still hurts when I hear it or read it, and going off this thread that’s a “me” problem. Definitely regret posting my original comment
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I don’t understand why this word has come back into common usage
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you close doors when you live by yourself?
20·2 days agoI keep my doors closed both for climate control and light. I prefer darker spaces but I have indoor vegetable plants in my spare bedroom. I very softly close my doors though, because I’m overly sensitive to sound lol
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Question for those who didn't learn cursive
4·18 days agoHe said that if anyone audited they’d need to be able to read my name in the signature. I still trusted him at that point so I didn’t have much reason to question it lol
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Question for those who didn't learn cursive
15·19 days agoWhen I bought my first car, my dad (who owned the dealership lol) shredded the paperwork that I signed in cursive, and made me re-write in block letters. It’s the only car or other big-expense/important thing that I didn’t sign for with my usual signature.
My other confusing problem with that transaction was I wasn’t allowed to buy the kind of vehicle I wanted. Yes, I was already an adult living on my own by then, but I figured he knew best. (he did not)
I don’t know the song but YouTube shows it was posted 8 months ago. This comic was originally published decades ago
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Boxelder bugs are relentless lil crittersEnglish
71·26 days agoKissing bugs cause chagas, and they do look very similar
Persimmon can be blue, but that picture is edited and over-saturated. They’re darker and have a powder coat, like blueberries. Wouldn’t be surprised if the apple picture was also edited, but they can have pink flesh.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your most important meal of the day? Bonus points, what's your most consistently cooked/eaten meal?
1·1 month agoI eat breakfast consistently, usually some form of rice porrige and various veggies. Lunch is my most skipped meal, but I forget to eat dinner sometimes too lol
If I’m lucky I made rice for dinner and have left over to stir fry the next morning
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Examples, when ethical concerns stopped scientific advances?
3·1 month agoEvery college chemistry class I’ve taken (5 now) has had a professor asking why no living thing uses all d-aminos. Kinda sounds like that experiment may answer the question one way or another!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMsEnglish
1·1 month agoI’ve heard they can at least survive a fall onto snow lol
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Improving handwriting when exhausted & slightly psychotic?
2·2 months agoI have no idea what this is called, since I’m still new to Apple, but iPad has a handwriting correction feature in its Notes app. I recently had surgery on my dominant arm, so that feature really came in handy for taking notes at uni. I write in cursive with some mixed symbols and it’s able to handle that.
Maybe when going for a mini laptop you can try finding a tablet that also allows for a Bluetooth keyboard, this way you get practice writing by hand but can swap to keyboard after some time.
Alternatively, you could try the Pomodoro method while writing. I find it helps when my adhd is too stronk
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If dogs only ever leave the house to go on walks do they assume you're just out walking without them whenever you leave?
25·2 months agoMy dog smells my car bumper on days I’ve been out, so I assume she thinks I’m taking the car for a walk
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Surgeons have to have *really* strong stomachs
5·2 months agoFrom personal experience knowing someone who posted that stuff just to get a reaction out of people: he was beat by his dad (who then divorced his mom because she produced “that”) and was severely bullied in high school. It’s not an excuse, he just desperately wanted the world to feel as miserable as he did.
He showed me a video of someone being shot in the head once. Mind you, I’m the kind of person that breaks down when I accidentally run over an animal or hear a bird splat on a high-rise window. He thought it was okay to show me without my consent because the guy lived, but didn’t understand that violence, pain, and disfigurement are just as traumatizing as death.
He diagnosed himself with Anti-social PD while taking a psychology class, take that however you wish
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•ladies, how do I take care of my hold ups' silicone bands?
6·2 months agoWash the bands with warm soapy water, and you can try using alcohol to remove the oils on your legs to see if that helps. You can use thin plastic (I just save the bag I get them in) to keep the bands apart and free of lint while stored. I don’t shave, and haven’t had an issue with fine hairs reducing the staying power of the bands, but you may have more dense hair than I do
It could also be that they are simply too wide to stay on you, and this is what I’d bet is happening to you. They stretch a little while warm from body heat, and if it’s too wide there’s very little room to stretch before falling off. Generalized women’s sizes drive me nuts, a large in that brand would fit me at 5’3 and I highly doubt you and I share a thigh size. So my recommendation is that you try a brand for tall women, or at least find one that advertises a thigh measurement.
Land snails are hermaphroditic
I take issue with using a phylogeny as evidence, because a phylogeny is a hypothesis. Or maybe I’m an idiot and don’t know what I’m talking about lol
c/superbowl deserves to see this lol


My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s