Popular media would have us believe alcoholics drink themselves into a stupor at parties, or get wasted and hang out of car windows, or get violent or destructive. Some do.

I didn't think it was possible to hate a picture until I clicked that link.

I'd talk up the snow-capped mountain ranges, but seeing as you're in Portland...

It's not possible for me to agree with anything more than I agree with these statements.

If you're open to recommendations, I've enjoyed Awake so far. It hits all the "oooh mystery what's going on" spots that Lost did, for me. There's some interesting visual theme stuff going on as well.

I miss Living Single. Maxine Shaw is one of my heroes.

You know what TV show is great about casting people of all colors and ages? Grey's Anatomy. I'm constantly surprised that feminist sites don't give more time to that show, because it's seriously awesome in so many ways. Strong female characters, abortion storylines that positively portray a woman's right to choose,…

I take 25mg of Adderall for my ADHD and I still have trouble studying and focusing, because I'm really-super-turbo-ADHD. Can't really speak for the other uses. Are people without ADHD being prescribed Adderall now? I didn't realize that was a thing.

I've had excellent experiences with my therapist. Boyforged (I may have to find another way to indicate a male partner through an alteration of my handle...) did not have the same with his last. He was seeing a licensed psych nurse practitioner, since in my state they can prescribe psych meds. The NP told him…

Huh. It won't let me heart you. Hmph! It's the thought that counts, right?

Hearted, and thank you for saying that. It's a very human reaction to hate an offender (rapist, molester, murderer), and to some extent that reaction is even a socially adaptive sort of thing. However, if we really want to reduce such crimes I feel it is absolutely imperative to study why they happen and how we can…

That sounds remarkably like my school experiences, except I had the ADHD diagnosis. Not that it helped much in rural Virginia schools in the 80's, ah well. AD(H)D definitely existed when my dad was a kid, but it wasn't recognized as a cognitive disorder — that's more what I was getting at with that comment, my…

That is fantastic, thanks so much for linking it! Neat site, I'll have to explore it more when I'm not at work. Solidarity!

I'm not comfortable with drawing the line there. It's hard to establish pediatric onset when a person is only finally being diagnosed as an adult, which can happen for any number of legitimate reasons. I was diagnosed as a child, and my diagnosis — which happened in the mid-80's — led to the subsequent diagnosis of…

I agree, it really can cheapen the issue when everyone either claims they have it or claims it doesn't exist. Sometimes it's a wonder that I exist at all, since I'm a bisexual woman with ADHD and intermittent insomnia. That's four kinds of "doesn't exist" in one! ("ADHD" and "woman with ADHD" are two separate…

During my months-long bout with severe insomnia, a Facebook post at 3am meant I'd just gotten up from bed after tossing and turning fruitlessly for four hours straight. Insomnia is dead boring, and after a while you just get sore on all sides from lying in bed without getting to sleep.

I suffered from chronic insomnia for 4-5 months last year. I'm talking four-hours-of-tossing-and-turning, restless-leg-multiple-times-a-night-every-night, tried-everything insomnia. From what I understand ADHD is correlated with both insomnia and restless leg, so there's that.

That's true, and a good point. I try to be more formally polite to newer chat buddies. I have to say, though, that the invisible thing only holds MORE true if you don't know someone well. If I don't feel obligated to being visibly online to old friends, I definitely don't feel that obligation for people I barely…

Exactly! I forgot to add, I also don't think being invisible means you're an asshole. Sometimes I just want to talk to one person, not ten. That doesn't make me an asshole at all. I have the right to control my online availability, and being visible and ready to chat 24/7 is not some holy responsibility. I refuse…

It looks like I may approach IM in a different manner than other people. I'll typically have chat conversations open with anywhere from three to eight people at once, and each conversation progresses at its own pace. I don't see them as active, current conversations; if I did I'd quickly go insane from trying to…