I was talking with friends the other day about the unrealistic notions of adulthood that we give kids. We decided that it would probably be better to paint them the bleakest, darkest picture possible, so they'd be pleasantly surprised later on.

I'm not playing metal illness olympics with you or anyone else, Aggro, which is why I deliberately didn't answer that question, but bless, you went there anyways.
Believe you me, if I didn't have lived experiences of these things, I would be keeping my mouth shut, but I'm also sick to ohmygodactuallykillmenowdeath of…

"Focus on the person, not the illness."
That's it, right there.
What I was trying to emphasize was 1. that we shouldn't perpetuate the idea that mentally ill people = dangerous and 2. he has agency in all of this, he didn't *have to* respond to those forces in the ways he did.

This seems to imply Brown's violence is explained away by ptsd and being bipolar, which is some stigmatizing shit. Being bipolar and having ptsd does not make someone violent. Lots of us struggle with those things without beating up anyone, ever. Can we stop using mental illness as an explanatory factor for all evil…

Ohh! Perfect time for collecting!
<takes out jar labelled "white man's tears">
Of course, they'll be for sale in my shop on etsy. In handcrafted vials.

Thank-you! When something is wide-spread throughout the population, individualized causes do not make sense, systemic ones do, yet in this case as in so many others, the individualized notion of the problem gets huge media uptake such that it eclipses all other explanatory theories because the systemic notions…

Stephen Hawkins ftw. Physics is sexy, make no mistake!

WHERE IS THE SCOTCH??!!

I effin hate him in dazed and confused. Creepy, predatory, ewwwwwwwwwww!

So basically, anytime we - whoops - slip up and forget to act inferior, it's testicide.
Well, you know, we didn't start redefining ourselves out of a lack for something new to do on a slow Sunday afternoon. Maybe some of them will actually start noticing that they kind of have identity issues and consider talking with…

Remember when the point of minimum wage was that no one was supposed to be allowed to pay their workers too little to live on? Oh wait, that was always the point. We've just let "conservative" assholes freeze it too often. It's actually hilarious, because econ cons complain about the "downward stickiness of wages" -…

#LiesToldByMen "Never again"

And what a difference it is! Great comment ^^.

I only have anecdata, but I had a minor Saudi prince as a student once, and he basically set out for me that in his country and "those like it," education, especially for the elites, was particularly unrigorous: rather than attending school, the teacher would come tutor them privately, and their grades would depend on…

When I was in grade 4, I was on the math challenge team doing competitions n' whatnot, but by the time I got to high school, the message had changed, and all the girls I knew - myself included - had been told so many times that it was okay or understandable if we did't "get" math that we stopped bothering. We were…

Digital, and that is some damn fine advice vis a vis "the alot". I don't know if there are many other issues that are clear cut enough for that to work, but hallelujah, the alot has been defeated, which means I can stop wondering whether it's bleach affecting her brain*.

100%. I actually emailed her the link - with a little winky face because I realized it might look like a total bitch move. But the little winky face says, I know you know better but this is still relevant-funny, right? Er, I hope so!

I am editing a 27 page research paper written by myself and four other people. Who are all smart, and capable, and I like them. But wow is it hard not to have editing colour that when someone puts a period in front of their citations EVERY TIME and someone else treats a lot like one word. This may, however, simply be…

In most professional fields, there is a lot of on the job training - it might be pretty informal, and it might be done by your super smart self (with the help of ye olde internets), but they are unlikely to expect you to know everything walking in. On the job learning, wheee!

I'm only ten years older than most of mine, but I spend an awful lot of time and energy stopping myself from smashing my head against the wall. I hear your plight, and all I can say is, you will get *SO* much more out of it than they will.