Doesn’t help that the media has been infantilizing millennials for 20 years.
Doesn’t help that the media has been infantilizing millennials for 20 years.
I was very confused until I saw the Bandai Namco logo and remembered both IPs are owned by the same entity. Then I was only a little confused.
I’d extend what they’re calling the “NYC Metro” area from Boston in the north to Philadelphia (or maybe even D.C.) in the south as a sort of east coast mega-city.
What you’re describing is called the I95 Corridor.
Delaware Valley.
Agreed. At least one of them has been in for assessment, not sure about the other but the signs are there.
And I should probably clarify. There’s other (undiagnosed) mental illness that runs in my family, and one side in particular is rife with substance abuse. Whether the root of those issues can be traced to “benign” forms of neurodivergence is moot outside of genetics: the learned behavioral patterns of abuse and violence were pretty deeply ingrained. I only got to see some of it growing up, but it was enough. I wanted nothing to do with any of it. My brother fell into the drug trap in early adulthood. My sister was the youngest, and was thankfully shielded from the worst of the family bullshit. She still did the same thing my mom did though: had kids way too young with a meathead, and not enough money.
I am trying to be a role model for my nephew in particular, but as my shit isn’t exactly together it’s an uphill battle. There’s a whole world of toxic influencers out there taking in the bucks by telling him who and what to blame his problems on, all available at the tap of a screen. And then there’s… gestures vaguely at the world at large …yeah.
My dear cabbage dumpling
Is there an uncommon insults community floating around?
It ain’t much but it’s honest work.
"Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself. "
I did not get out early, but my eventual spouse and I were on the same page: the crazy stops with me.
My sister had different plans and now has two neurodivergent kids. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Growing up neurodivergent in the 80s and not being disruptive enough to demand said deeper look may lead to:
“Helps.”
Cobra Triangle fuck yeah! I can’t wait to play it and relive the experiences of my youth by being very excited for a half hour because boat stuff and then completely losing interest because of the difficulty.
The article touched on pretty much every anecdotal point I could possibly make. About 10 years ago, the decades-long pattern of “it’s hot and humid today, might get a thunderstorm in the afternoon or early evening” turned to “flash flood deluge for 20 minutes 3-4 times a week.” 3-4 years ago, we started adding droughts into the mix. Weeks without a single drop of rain, then an inch or two of water dumped in minutes. This past month was a pretty good snapshot of the general pattern:
In aggregate it cheekily masks as “about average,” but the majority of those downbursts just run off and the ground is baked back to dust a few days later.
Meanwhile, the humidity/dew point has been rising steadily, especially overnight. Clear nights that allowed daytime heat to radiate off became less common, in its place we now get weeks at a time where the temperature doesn’t drop below 70 at near-saturation. I was watching one of the PBS YouTube channels (Terra, maybe) a year or so ago and they showed a time lapse of ocean surface temperature changes. Sure enough, there was a hot spot off the coast of NJ. “Well, that tracks. 😑”
I noticed the trees started dropping leaves in mid-August a few years ago despite it being warm into October. Spring and fall are shrinking, with precious few weeks in the year where neither the heat nor the AC need to run.
People like to dunk on Florida because of the politics, and NJ because of the stereotypes. Both are in deep shit right now. The entirety of South Jersey is considered coastal plain, and a lot of the land around NYC is low elevation. The next few decades will not be pretty.
More of a misdiagnosis.
It’s 2am and all I have are the extended edition DVDs.
Have you checked the news? Plenty of that going around.
This, this, 1000% this. And if I do somehow manage to start, I can NOT stop. None of this “do x for y minutes, take z minute break, then go back to doing x.” If I stop, I don’t know when I’ll be able to start again. Which then feeds back into the “overwhelming” loop.
My brain is not kind to me.
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Mermaid Ms Piggy holding Roman candles.