I am SO glad my message was well-received and not too imposing! And congratulations on your own diagnosis...life will get so much better with that knowledge (and maybe meds?).

Hi there. I don’t know you, but I’m someone with ADHD and a love of kitties. I’m so sorry your family is dealing with this suckiness. I am maybe hoping I can offer some insight?

My education growing up was also appalling, due to parents and teachers dismissing my diagnoses on account of my being intelligent too. Since…

Hahaha, well ugh sometimes it did. If it helps, it seems very tied to my general panic cycle. If I’m having “I’m going to die” type panic attacks, I cannot do weed. If I’m having “I want to fucking kill everyone and the world is overwhelming and please slow down, brain” sort of anxiety, weed is great. How do you do…

Yeah like this is why I smoke weed.

I cannot get “high” on weed. It does some...stuff...and I enjoy it all the time, but it’s definitely not being fucked up. Am I broken?

I am the other way around. Sativa or I think I’m dying.

I don’t have borderline but I’ve been call treatment-resistant before, so I get how harmful that can be to read. It’s SO untrue. Doctors are just lazy. They don’t care enough to think outside the box and consider various patient’s genetics when considering treatment.

Access to their parents, who will continue to drain their pennies on “schooling” all while they get roped into the church. It’s not ALL wealthy patrons. They also brainwash the poor who are desperate for help, and use them to become their little worker bees. You can Google “Scientology Learning Centers kids” or…

Right, that’s the concern. I’m not important. People might be supportive in the first weeks after I’d publish something, but then what? What about a year later? They have their hands in any industry where large amounts of money are exchanged in this state, so I’m concerned they could fuck over my reputation again in a …

I’ve always said I’d get it out eventually, and it’s looking like the timing is better now than it was a decade ago. They made me look like a fool, so of course I’ve always been a bit bitter about that...you can explain “my editor literally cut all the negative details” but no one’s actually going to believe you’re…

I mean, yeah...I don’t know anyone who’s a Scientologist either but a close friend lives around the block from a major office of theirs. The security outside is tight (and talkative) and they have so many cameras I’m certainly caught on tape walking by. My friend has started getting mail from them. There are a few…

Thank you! I’m moving in a few months and I’d be more comfortable with some distance, so I may eventually get in touch out of the blue. I also have an important life situation that I’m concerned they’d have the power to fuck with if I went public too soon. The thing is, they’re so underhanded, they’d screw someone…

Is it bad that I’m disappointed both my cats are just fine bois? The kitten might grow up to be A Heckin’ Chonker but it’s still too soon to tell.

In the early aughts, I was a freelance journalist in a major US city. The Church of Scientology had just set up it’s “learning centers” in low-income areas where they’d indoctrinate immigrant kids and then rope in the parents. I decided to do an investigative story about this, and it was to run in a two-part series in…

Nah they’re really perpetuating a dangerous stereotype here that BPD has no effective treatment. Psych meds work. CBT and DBT work. Any mental illness can resist treatment...

Yeah I came here to say this. It’s actually a really dangerous thing to put in this article. MANY mental health issues are “treatment-resistant” when the patient’s genetics don’t match up with typical medications. When I was told I had “treatment-resistant” anxiety, I felt hopeless and suicidal. Now, after twenty…

I got one of these recently, and although I like it, the concept is SO bizarre. “Let’s put this tiny cat in a giant sea of play-doh because cats like...dough...or something?” As you said: weird.

Ohhh yeah, I didn’t think of the sibling aspect. I have a brother who is five years younger, so Santa was sort of “our” thing and I definitely didn’t want to ruin it for him. But once he started questioning, no one really tried to convince him otherwise. 

Oh my God, on the way into the valley on Thursday there was a car upside down in the middle lane of the southbound 101, then on my way back, another car did the same fucking thing in the same fucking spot in the other direction. Coming from the east coast I cannot fathom how people lose all their driving skills once…

I was pretty old but I already knew deep down, I just had my suspicions confirmed. Maybe 9ish when it all really came out? And we were pretty firmly middle-class growing up.