That's an interesting read I wanted to share:

Hey, question for my fellow studyblrs: If anyone’s ever taken an online course (on coursera, edx, coursesforsuccess, etc.), do you think they helped you? I’m thinking of taking an intro to neuropsychology course so that I know that that’s what I want to do and so that I have some base knowledge when I go into grad school in a year (might also take a neuroanatomy course as well). Again, if anyone’s taken one, please tell me your experience in the comments!

Idk if I even have any science followers but did y'all see that nature review disavowing the link between serotonin and depression bc it's something I've been crowing about for a while and I feel so vindicated

Paper in question:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0.pdf

Though I am a little bummed because it invalidates the purpose of a 5-HIAA sensor I had tried to develop

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the dichotomy of "free healthcare is slow and paid healthcare is fast" is absolutely fucking false. guess who is waiting well over 4 months to have an introductory appointment with a neurologist (for its very scary and dangerous seizures) and has to pay out its ass for it.

omg i got my big girl post-grad job !!!!!

you know what? it's fine.

[Guy who has been disabled for their entire adult life]: Holy shit I forgot how awful it is to be disabled in the social model sense (there are zero public restrooms in Chicago and cops will arrest you or be called on you for vomiting in public) (that and epilepsy + its public response were why I developed clinically significant agoraphobia. Like my agoraphobia is inextricable from the medical-carceral complex and how disability is responded to in the public sphere)

Like I have gastroparesis and epilepsy in a city with no public bathrooms where the social norm in public spaces is to call the police on someone having a seizure. If I wake up feeling Bad I am terrified to leave my house. And I am a white person who usually gets granted "benefit of the doubt" in these situations. Still. I've been tackled and arrested while seizing, had cops follow me into the restroom, been handcuffed in the ER because I couldn't talk and was presumed "threatening." I literally have PTSD mostly from the criminalization of Being Disabled In Public + the curtailing of supportive infrastructure lol

after by reject by almost everyone who do adult neuropsych in state (mind you one of US state with better health care quality & availability), because see nonverbal (and regression) and run other way (some don’t take insurance telehealth but mostly nonverbal part)…

finally start be refer to children’s places…😅

reality of adult nonverbal (w regression) here…

Twilight Advent Calendar, Day 5

Dec. 5 - What is each Cullen's favorite college major so far? What new major should they should try someday?

Masterpost/Prompts

Jake: got bored while Renesmee was in medical school. He started at what was at the time Paris Diderot in math, hoping to shore up for a Mechanical Engineering program eventually. He sidetracked into programming, and after he finished his short course, started working on Ruby on Rails. It feels a lot like working on cars, including the triumph of getting the thing running.

Renesmee: hasn't experienced multiple majors yet, so her medical studies are it. She wanted some distance from her grandfather's preference for trauma medicine (plus, she feels a little inferior in that her human half makes her a little less bright and a little less fast than her father or grandfather) and was originally headed for obstetrics until COVID hit. She's proud of having been able to be of such great use during the hardest parts of the pandemic, but like many doctors, she's burned out and is thinking about just straight up pursuing French literature the next go-round.

Bella: Also hasn't had lots of time to pursue many degrees but she worked her way through the content of a bachelor's degree while Renesmee was growing up in Forks, and then felt comfortable with Edward's offer to forge a transcript for her so that she could take an M.Phil at Cambridge in English Literature while Renesmee was in medical school. She's joked to Edward that she'd like to study neuropsych so that she can understand his messed up head better, but the longer this joke has been going on, the more she thinks she'd actually like to do it.

Jasper: loves history and has taken several degrees in it. He wanted to become a specialist in the American Civil War but he kept getting into fights with his professors (once the Cullens had to move because he was ranting so hard about what the Civil War was actually like that he tipped several people off). So he's actually an expert in the Almohad Caliphate and has two very obscure books on the topic published by almost unknown university presses. He also enjoys philosophy, especially Eastern philosophy, but has not done advanced work in it. He's the only person apart from Carlisle in the family to have published books.

Alice: took one one of her greatest challenges in hiding her vampirism to study dance under one of Balanchine's top students in the 1970s. She doesn't care much for formal education, but she's thought she might like to pursue a degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology the next time the family lives in the area.

Emmett: moved with Rosalie to Knoxville for a brief stint in the 1990s, where he studied kinesiology. Like Alice, he doesn't much care for the value of formal education, but he has a degree from the University of Tennessee and he's damn proud of it. If he does more than just hide in college sometime again, he basically just wants to go back there. In addition to Maria, he's a big reason the Cullens can't live in the southern US—they're afraid that if Emmett is within a reasonable run of Alabama or Georgia, he'll just go there and stir shit on behalf of the Vols.

Rosalie: is proudest of her medical training and how she can best Edward at it. But she also enjoys her mechanical engineering studies and is immensely proud of the things she's been able to invent thanks to them. She has been loath to study early childhood education, because she always thought it would make her too depressed, but after helping raise Renesmee, she's thinking that might be the next one she does.

Esme: most loved her M.Eng. in architectural engineering, which she received in the 1980s. While studying architecture felt challenging and transgressive because she was born in an era where advanced schooling at all for women was rare, it still felt enough like "art" to feel like something a woman should do. Architectural engineering, on the other hand, put her toe to toe with mostly men, and with her brains and her experience, she smoked them every single day. She was embarrassed for being so proud of it but Carlisle reveled in her joy and the way her success brought out an uncharacteristic braggadocio. She enjoyed the mathematics of it immensely, and if she did a new degree for fun, it might be in more theoretical mathematics. But the pandemic has opened up a world of opportunity for her for work (by @palmofafreezinghand) and she doesn't foresee that happening again soon.

Edward: would tell you his happiest time has been getting his two medical degrees of course, because he idolizes his sire. But in the 1940s, Carlisle shipped him off to Juilliard to study jazz piano. His mother had always wanted him to go there, and it gave him a great deal of peace to finally do what she wanted. After the pandemic, he's giving some thought to biochemistry, because he's seen the fact that he might actually be able to have an impact on the world like Carlisle does, and he's desperate to feel useful. (And he's suffering with anxiety about becoming an empty nester.)

Carlisle: mostly studies medicine of course and adores it, but his favorite course of study was his Ph.D. in musicology, specializing in the Baroque period. The book he published from his dissertation raised new questions about which compositions should be attributed to Bach and which should not and why won a first book award for its novelty, which was funny since he was mostly relying on his direct knowledge rather than his research.

His most meaningful degree, however, is his doctor of divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary. Like Edward, it was closing a loop of what his parent wanted him to do, but in it he found meaning and peace and closure he didn't realize he was missing.

dad gave me an hour-long angry lecture at 2 AM

Man I was gonna rest this morning but seeing the word upd8 somehow has my dysautonomia and vestibular stuff going wild. Body says fight flight freeze fawn fangirl are all hardwired together as a response.

In all seriousness though, I really miss when people used the term "autism cousin." I used to see it semi-frequently back in like 2013, but I never ever see it anymore. Nowadays everything is either about just autism, autism and ADHD, or "neurodivergence," a term I personally find somewhat meaningless because people have different definitions and which is often used as shorthand for just autism and ADHD anyway.

Idk. I just. Every few months I play a really annoying game in my head called "okay but am I autistic?" And I've been playing it for 10 years and the answer is always "no." But like. It's not an easy or solid no, or I wouldn't still be asking that. Except it is a solid no, I really don't consider myself autistic and my therapist whom I really really trust and respect doesn't think I'm autistic. So I'm not. Except. Except. Except if I were to go by the definitions I think a lot of people use I would be. And I have soooo many overlapping symptoms. And like every single post I see about autism is incredibly relatable, and I know self diagnosing based on social media is not a good strategy but like...when everything you see hits a cord...Except I know it's just because I have a lot of other disorders with overlapping symptoms and there's a fucking reason differential diagnoses are a thing. Everything can be explained by the combination of trauma, OCD, schizophrenia, dyspraxia, sensory processing disorder, and my "learning disorder not otherwise specified with characteristics of nonverbal learning disorder." Most people haven't even heard of NVLD but it has a lot of overlap with autism. Though I also don't have NVLD, I have "characteristics" of it, whatever that fucking means. So I end up as someone who doesn't have autism, but who relies on routines and has serious sensory problems and has intense and somewhat restricted interests and who sometimes struggles to speak and who stims and who struggles with transitioning tasks and who has issues with executive functioning and who sorts and counts things and who feels like an alien around other people etc etc etc. Anyway. The point is. I have a lot of disorders that when put together in a blender tend to look a lot like autism/have a lot of overlap, but aren't. And that's fine, but I really wish there was a way to say that/to acknowledge how much overlap there is and how much I relate to a lot of autistic people and content without a long and convoluted explanation like this. So I just. Miss the term autistic cousin, quite a bit.

might’ve accidentally girlbossed my way into an autism assessment

bro my neuro is trynna put me on addie......

like r u trying to make me an addict?

and then my sleep doctor said "actually maybe use ritalin instead"

HUH??????

i do not fucking have adhd.