True life fact: I'd rather live in Stockton than Fresno.

Ramona is my homegirl, too.

Except awesome, cheap produce, delicious Mexican food, hot weather . . .

Fresno is not a small town. Nor is it a place I would ever like to live again.

I met Mr. Plummer a few weeks ago when he was filming in Boston with Mr. Travolta, and Mr. Plummer looked quite frail. I'd be afraid that I would break him in the bedroom.

I justify it to myself through profession. I do therapy- I just REALLY like hearing how people think.

I . . . really love reading self-indulgent memoirs. Does that make me a bad person? I've never read a celebrity memoir, if that helps anything.

Is Asperger's still in the ICD? And even in the U.S., the DSM-V transition is not expected to be complete until the end of the month.

I work in mental health and I can probably dig up an assessment. Respond to this to remind me?

Maybe, maybe not? Remember that for a diagnosis, you have to actually experience impairments in multiple spheres of functioning. So there are minor things, like not being able to get through movies, but that's not reeeeally a functioning issue, and there are more significant things, like frequently losing your keys,…

If that's true, your psychiatrist is REALLY irresponsible. Part of her job is to use her clinical judgment. You don't need to prove that someone DOESN'T need something, you need to demonstrate that they DO. Yikes.

YES. I spent WEEKS going to appointments, forgetting to bring my evaluation! Eventually they made me fill the damn thing out in the office.

Conversation with a college campus psychiatrist when I first started taking Concerta.

I take Adderall to study, I take Adderall to focus at work. I also take Adderall to ensure that I will remember to put on a bra and grab my keys before I leave my apartment in the morning. I know that I need the Adderall, because I often forget to take it.

I would like to propose the addition of Dorothy Roberts' Killing the Black Body.

All the picking on Stockton in this thread just made me sad. It's like your little brother . . . YOU can tease, but everyone else had better shut it.

Seconded on the 50/50, with a caveat that the buses are even worse for both types of offenders.

Fresno is two hours away from Stockton. Sacramento is 40 minutes away. I have lived in both Stockton and Fresno, and please, do not lump us together.

Oh hush. Stockton <3 forever. So what if our economic situation isn't the best? We have culture and heart and reasonably low cost of living!

Hey, don't pick on Stockton! Don't we have enough to deal with?!