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  A disabled boat being towed into a marina we were in ourselves 2 months ago makes the orca situation very real. They attacked a second boat in the same place. It sank. Everyone is alive.

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  Just hanging around

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  Have you SEEN what nature just leaves lying around the place? Jeez

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  Looks at packet of pseudoephedrine "Non drowsy" Has ADHD "You sure about that?"

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  I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence. But I did it "by the book" As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is. In 2007 I had...

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  ASRS is a screening test for adults to see if it's worth pursuing an ADHD diagnosis. It is 18 questions, written by neurotypical people who assume their external observations of ADHD are accurate representations of what it's like to have it, so needs to be translated into "actual person with ADHD" before you fill it in. That's why it includes stupid shit like, "do you feel driven by a motor?" No, I do not. Things driven by a motor spin round and round and I do no...

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  Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable! Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

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  A little story. In 2014, the UK charity, Stonewall, had a new CEO: Ruth Hunt. Ruth wanted to make Stonewall trans inclusive. Up until that point it hadn’t been. Part of that effort was to recruit an advisory group from the UK trans community. I was on that group. I ended up as its vice chair. We spent the next year and a bit creating a document called “A Vision For Change”, which detailed what we thought the areas that trans equality campaigning should focus on in Britain. Then the Brexit r...

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  A thing they don’t tell you when you start amphetamine for ADHD, but they SHOULD, is that what they do is NOT make you function like a neurotypical. What they actually do is turn you into a person with ADHD with greater capacity. Sometimes MUCH greater capacity. And there can be a honeymoon phase when you’re all like, “OMG! I’m saved! I can do all the things now!” And the risk is that you will use the extra capacity to mask harder and engage in more of the same stuff that was causing burnout...

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  Just seen someone saying they support bans on trans healthcare for under 18s because “let kids be kids”. By the time I hit puberty, I had KNOWN for a decade. I also knew that telling anyone would be profoundly dangerous. So I hid who I was and, am almost grateful that the neurodivergence gave the other kids something else to latch on to. They were so busy calling me a “mong” that they didn’t notice I was trans. Because that might have got me murdered. Or pushed me into a position where I fe...