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I don’t know what to tell you then. About a billion studies since have said that people with ADHD who use their prescription as directed will not get addicted. I’ve taken it every day for a month and then forgotten it. I regularly forget it before I leave for work so I keep a spare bottle in my purse with a single dose or two just in case.

I think it’s easier for a person with an addiction to get a diagnosis and then abuse it than it is for a person with ADHD to get addicted to the medicine. But also it doesn’t do any of those things for me that would get me addicted; I’m told it causes euphoria in people. I’m told it causes high energy. I’m told it’s basically a party drug! I can take it and all it does is make me focus on stuff I’m supposed to instead of whatever I happen to focus on.

As for the opiate thing, I’ve been prescribed them for pain and I hate how they make me feel. My pain has to be truly god awful for me to actually take one.

So I guess what I’m saying is obviously your experience isn’t invalid but I disagree on your takeaway. (Wish I replied after I woke up and took my meds so this answer wouldn’t be a billion words long and meandering lol)

For people who do not have ADHD, the medication used to treat ADHD can be extremely addictive.

Bender had his gender bent twice! Once when he had a sex change operation and became Coilette to participate in the robot Olympics, and later when the Borax Kid and the Rock Alien changed the gender of everyone on the Planet Express.

Both episodes are imperfect through today’s lens but I actually did enjoy the Coilette episode.

“You’re making us look bad in front of the other genders!” And “Do you promise to get out of my gender and stay out?”

The Brunch Amendment of 2008 lists all the people welcome to brunch and explicitly states that allies are allowed.

I call bullshit.

I do not see brunch anywhere on that list.

Aldi has been doing it forever. But it doesn’t change based on surge pricing. What an evil idea…

The 67-year-old woman who started kicking him, then took off a shoe to beat him with… I want to be her when I grow up.

Obviously that’s the case. I didn’t make a statement contrary to it. My point was “even if it’s not guaranteed, some is better than none,” not, “be happy to get anything at all.”

We should be pissed we don’t have guaranteed access to the meds that make us function! It’s our entire lives in jeopardy! But the person I’m replying to doesn’t yet know that they can have at least some help, and that was the point I was making.

If this seems aggressive it’s because I’m constantly being attacked on the internet for saying something I didn’t say.

I mean… it doesn’t need time to build in your system. ADHD meds work from after you take them until they wear off (the extended release is about 7 and a half hours for me) so even if you can only get them sporadically, some help is better than none.

Same.

I’m not even lonely!

I promise many of us are not.

But Mr. Peppy was a lover, not a fighter! He only drank the bones of sheep!

Vagueposting is lame. Either say something or don’t. Don’t call attention ot what you’re not saying.

This is the best kind of people coming to an understanding.

I want to say (cuz I’ve said it a million times) that it can seem like occurrences are going up when really, people like me never got help. I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 34 and that was while getting treatment for depression!

There’s a lot more cases like mine than we know about, so even if we are only catching up to the “normal” number of neurologically atypical people, it’s going to seem like we are gaining more cases.

My now recoils in horror.

Sure, they take years to ban things like r/jailbait and all those fascist subs, but people with rooms to jerk off in a step too far.

I have zero interest one way or another in people who have the resources to devote a space to this, or the ego to want to share that space. It’s a completely foreign interest to me. But to ban people on the internet for being sexual in a way you don’t understand is equally beyond me.

I agree they’re an asshole. But I do want to say I’ve been vegan off and on for… Jesus 17 years. Anyway, there’s this thing I noticed in some members of the community (not that guy) where their experience is so insular that they think everyone in the world knew 20 years ago that factory farming was environmentally disastrous but they just ignored it.

So they’re so burnt out on it that they become these crazy screaming judgey assholes. Then, add to that, that there really are the most remarkably assholish omnivores at almost every social event involving food. I was 22, and I got cornered at a work pot luck when a man found out I was vegan (I never ever mentioned it, I brought food! But someone finally dragged it out of me when I had to explain I couldn’t try their fried chicken) and he spent forteen minutes lecturing me on how not eating meat was an “insult to God” and how he’d eat twice as many animals because I was there.

…I was young and used to be too polite to get away from assholes like that. I’m better now.

My point here is, spending years and years of that makes you angry and bitter if you let it, especially if you’re a self-important jackass with a savior complex.

Same witch that did Beast’s curse is the one who saved Gaston.

You have a year to prove you’re not a piece of shit or you die.

She doubles as a quest giver. “Here’s a couple quests. Pick one and do it. Every time you help someone you prove you’re a little less awful, and every time you ask me if you’ve done enough to be saved, you lose a few points of redemption credit, so don’t ask me if you’ve been good enough to not die. Get to cracking on these heroic deeds, chop chop.”

Make a few of the tasks morally complicated.

Make all of them take measurable time. Sure, rounding up sheep for the farmer isn’t too dangerous, but it’ll take you a while and it’s not as heroic as fighting that necromancer… which task do you take?

Well since I’m going from professional caregiver into a medical degree, my bedside manner will continue to involve my folksy southern style of speech.

So I’m fixin to go to school. Means “going to.”