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prabe reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Yikes. I know it's only a single data point, but I've had several therapists over the years for different reasons, and I've never had a... -
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I think a good bit of it is also cultural. In American culture especially, it seems like everything has to be described as The Worst...
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It’s like Medical Student Syndrome. It’s been depicted in fiction, but it’s real. If you’re unaware, it’s the common but not universal...
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prabe reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Exactly! And usually some kind of treatment (counseling or coaching maybe) can help them learn social cues or focus. One shouldn't...
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I have family members who spend too much time on TikTok and now walk around diagnosing everyone as autistic and/or ADHD. It's...
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There's a reason autism has been reclassified as a spectrum rather than a binary disorder one does or does not have. I suspect it won't...
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prabe reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
The biggest things I learned from my therapist are the concept of magnitude, and what the word "disorder" means in psychology. Like...
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Hey, maybe this time it’ll be different. LOL, nope.
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I finished reading PKD's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Definitely a head trip to read, reflecting on how fast celebrity can fade...
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Absolutely. I grew up with books. Heck, one of my earliest memories is my mom reading Beowulf to me before I knew how to read. Yeah, I...
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There was a certain period of writing when authors seemed to like to stop in the middle of a story and add a few dozen pages on whatever...
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You and pretty much everyone else. Thing was, Doyle was pompous and self-important, and wanted to be a Dostoevsky (or more accurately, a...
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My deeply misguided parents thought my voracious fantasy habit was a waste of potential in middle school, and demanded I start reading...
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prabe replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.My parents very much tended to the "if you can reach it, you can read it" thing. This got awkward: My mom worked as an OB nurse and had...