tackling Med Schoool with adhd

i think i should be allowed to prove my adhd to medical professionals by having them watch me drink coffee and then fall asleep

— Natalie Diaz, Manhattan Is a Lenape Word

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

i know i’m getting old bc i feel a need to warn young girls not to do stuff

"I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes. We crack open bedroom doors, step over the creaks, and kiss the children. We are sore from this grief, like we’ve returned from a run, like we are training for a marathon. I’m with you all the way, says my grief, whispering, and then we splash our face with water and stretch, one big shadow and one small."

— Callista Buchen, Taking Care

Btw, if you have not had tragedy dropped on you before, grief does fuck you up in unexpected and physical ways. If you can’t sleep or sleep more than expected or have more or reduced appetite, or energy goes weird— your brain just had a bunch of emotions dropped on it and sometimes it reacts by hitting every button in your brain. It will pass. Just try to not get too frustrated with yourself.

It’s also fine if you feel normal. Grief literally hits everybody differently, and some people are made to be able to to keep the farm going the day after a death, and some of us turn into sleepless gargoyles and get really into trying to help, and some of us are just unspeakably sad. Grief is weird. Be kind to yourself.

Personally I think I'm shockingly normal for someone who has spent every day on the internet since they were 12

neutral- ketamine lol

If this is your first time encountering shorthand then you're in for a treat. What's shorthand? Shorthand is a technique for writing very quickly.

At its basics you're writing sounds not spelling and combining simple lines to make full words.

Get it? You're optimizing for speed of writing not density or accuracy. So it's hard to read and takes up more space but you can write down notes fast. How fast? Here's someone writing at 120 words per minute.

The world record is 250 wpm, but even with a little practice you can get a lot faster than cursive or print.

I've seen a few people ask if Jonathan is writing assuming Dracula can't read his notes. I don't know the answer to that, but I can share exactly that happening with Superman and Lex Luthor.

Naturally a reporter like Kent would use shorthand to quickly transcribe notes in the field.

This is the sort of think Mina is practicing specifically because it's the language used in business. You can read a great article on the expectations of men's and women's writing of the era here:

so is this what doctors are writing in??? is that why it looks scribbly and impossible to decipher when viewed by your average person - because it’s shorthand??

no hahahH we dont write in short hand 😭🤣 its truly jist bad handwriting , written at speed, AND some abbreviations can make it harder to read too.

-ddx for differential diagnosis , rx for prescription, abx -antibiotics

bd- twice daily , PO = by mouth, NAD = no abnormalities detected

and many many many more. but not Short hand. short hands are journalist languages yoj really have to study and learn

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

something about an act of reclamation or something