we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)

Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.

im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction

this callout is completely deserved

Ploop ploop ploop

i know this is a predator. like a hardened killing machine. tempered by hundreds of years of evolutionary prowess to fine tune him into a living weapon. but ohhhh the little BABYYY look at the Little Bouncing Baby he is going Boing Boing Boing oh my gooddddd

told my parents i miss archaeology and my mom was, very sympathetically, like: “do you want to dig holes in the garden?” and i was like. yes. i want to dig holes in the garden.

my wife, after reading this to me aloud: It’s your people! …do you want me to break a clay pot for you to put back together?

me, burying my face in my hands: Maybe…?

These are both moods, but unfortunately I am primarily a bioarchaeologist. (IE, I specialize in digging up old human skeletons.) And, uh, home-made bioarchaeology is tragically discriminated against by law enforcement.

Only if you get caught

I am kind of confused at how often I get adopted because like. I just have a flock of parents at this point. Both irl and online. Why have so many people just looked at me and gone, "Ah yes, a very adoptable creature" like it's so silly

Cause I got an army of kiddos so I just added ya to the pile

Oh Yippee, that's very fun!

I wanted to do blackout poetry wit a page or two of the outsiders so guess what I did as to not you know. Damage the book.

I wrote the whole page out in my sketchbook, then circled the words I wanted to use, then scribbled over the leftovers.

I wish it didn't take me as long as it did because I want to do it again but also. Ow. It hurts my hands.

I did blackout poetry of your post in my photos app cause. Idk. It’s 1am.

WOAH THAT'S ACTUALLY SO COOL WHAT

In hindsight it's very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually "quite common"

just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.

only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus

Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.

PSA: The Job Accommodation Network maintains a searchable database of accommodation suggestions for a wide variety of disabilities.

The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.

Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here

The ADHD page linked above also includes case examples and strategies for determining what sort of accommodations might be necessary. More broadly, the JAN website as a whole is a treasure trove of information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and resources for both individuals and employers.

Oh fuck that's really nice, I will read it

Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions

The head of disability accommodations at my college just kept ablesplaining to me that “accommodations are to level the playing field, not give you an advantage,” and that her job is to “protect the school’s rights” rather than help disabled students. The only accommodations they would offer me were 1. extra time on tests, and 2. an alternative test-taking location - neither of which I needed. I ended up getting (most of) what I actually needed by unofficially asking the individual professors, but it should have been legally protected.

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I wanted to do blackout poetry wit a page or two of the outsiders so guess what I did as to not you know. Damage the book.

I wrote the whole page out in my sketchbook, then circled the words I wanted to use, then scribbled over the leftovers.

I wish it didn't take me as long as it did because I want to do it again but also. Ow. It hurts my hands.

You steal a teaches copy of the book and then you do it with theirs has to be a teacher ya don't like

Funny thing is the literature teacher of my grade has several copies and is the only one who has copies but not only do I like her she is one of my friend's mother

Dang, library? And don't check it out just grab it put it in like a purse or satchel

I would but one the librarians are nice and know me by name and two they all know my dad since he's like a big guy in the city

Dang, ask the teacher if you could use a book of her for a project you wanna do, tell her this would require messing up the book

We had a unit on black out poetry already so maybe this would work but also I am scared of talking about things in general and also she saw I have my own copy so I don't know how much that will affect things and I'd much rather use my current method because talking to people and asking for things is sacry

That's fair, I love ya tho

Thanks papa love ya too

*shake with love*

*shooked with love*

I love you

I love you too

Welp off to take a shower since the older sister is done then take the two hour nap I was planning

ok don’t drown

Hapy to reprot that we did in fact not drown