As of June 2019 medschool is conquered, MD is acquired!! / Have some fic from my vld days. Blog also includes a little current events, a little travel,
a little dinosaurs, and other fun stuff.
Please do things to strengthen your attention span. It stresses me out so much when people just accept their small attention spans and cater to them without any acknowledgment that they are making it worse by doing that.
There is a reason attention spans are worse now and it didn’t just happen by chance. Media and the internet designed it that way and we went with it because it was easier.
Some of us with ADHD and brain fog need to meet ourselves where we’re at and exercise our attention span by watching a two minute video instead of a one minute video. Some of us need to sit down and read a novel with our phones turned off.
Wherever you’re at, just realize that not doing things that feel hard will keep making your attention span worse.
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
was talking to ford about this but i think like... the tendency people have to get really defensive over their personal interpretations of fiction ("everyone is wrong about this character" "i'm the only one allowed to talk about x/y/z") has much less to do with the potential for anyone to actually be "wrong" about fiction in a way that matters than it does with a search for understanding and recognition in other people. when i get frustrated by an interpretation of something i care about that feels wrong to me i am not really making a judgement on the truth of that statement or its worth to someone else, rather it is on a very basic level about feeling lonely. the discomfort in an interpretation that feels Wrong is often linked to a moment of "we have different life experiences" or "you don't see what i see" and then, "i wish somebody would see what i see!" as naturally follows.