#Health food for kids

[catmask]

what is it about trying to learn health facts or hygeine or body care that after a certain point it tailspins into online fanaticism. why does my mom believe gut health powders meditation and sunlight mean she will never die or age. girl i just want to find a good yogurt brand

#we're trying different yogurts bc our kid (also has autism) is super super food picky #moreso than i ever was as a kid #forrest never had issues with food more sensory things like sound and heat/textile stuff #whereas i was super super picky BUT. i was always introduced to something of at least diff food groups #so even if i onyl atelike 6 things id always have One vegetable. One probiotic. One protein source. u get the deal #we only recently got our kid to start eating fish sticks and chicken and even beef! #so hes got protein down. before he only at chips and frozen mini pizzas. like thats literally it #and he eats bananas and strawberries. we got him vitamin/protein drinks for the time being so hes not nutrient deficient #and he likes those theyre chocolate #but we're trying to find a yogurt he doesnt mind bc he doesnt have like. any. digestive or fiber ro like anything ot help him #i dont want him to feel sick and sluggish all the time . we've had a lot of success with the drinkable yogurts #but talking abuot this made my mom start talking about gut health.......

[faeriekit]

Health and Hybrids (XVII)👽👻💚

[I can't remember the original prompt posters  for the life of me but here's a mashup between a cryptid!Danny, presumed-alien!Danny, dp x dc, and the prompt made the one body horror meat grinder fic.]

PART ONE is here PART TWOis here PART THREE is here PART FOUR is here and PART FIVE is here PART SIX is here and PART SEVEN is here PART EIGHT is here PART NINE is here PART TEN is here PART ELEVEN is here PART TWELVE is here PART THIRTEEN is here PART FOURTEEN is here PART FIFTEEN is here PART SIXTEEN is here and we're limping into part 17...

💚 Ao3 Is here for all parts (now featuring mediocre mouseover translations, only available on a computer)

Where we last left off... Two! Words! In! English!!! And a television? Hardcore!

Trigger warnings for this story:  body horror | gore | post-dissection fic | dehumanization (probably) |  my nonexistent attempts at following DC canon. On with the show.

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Danny can raise his head now.

Only a little. It still hurts his neck for a while after. But his arms and his head both rise, now. His fingers curl, now, too.

The result is that Danny can now watch and change his own television channels. No more news! Now it’s all Food Network, all the time, baby. The result is that sometimes the doctors tending to him get distracted by various pasta dishes, but also. Danny is also distracted by various pasta dishes.

And roast chicken.

And fried potatoes. Every potato ever, actually.

…It makes eating his oatmeal a more awful ordeal.

“Aw, dyrling, na þa sæd egean,” the lady says to him, spoon at his lips. Danny weakly moves his arm towards her, but only manages to hit her elbow with the heel of his thumb. “Inne cwic tima, gise? Hiere þa læce.”

Danny is pretty sure his face is a nightmare to look at at the moment, but he still makes the world’s saddest expression at the lady, because she hasn’t blasted him or hit him or even sedated him yet, and he needs something. Anything.

He’s pretty the lady makes an equally sad look under her medical mask, but Danny is hungry and he’s tired all the time and he’s sad and he wants a cheeseburger. Or fries. Or…or anything at all!

Danny’s look gets progressively sadder, and the lady gets progressively sadder to match, and then they’re both just looking at each other so very sadly until a doctor physically has to cut between them to reach for Danny’s green-speckled blankets.

Ugh. Great. Now he’s cold too. He can’t quite muster a glare, but the doctor gets an extremely stern squint from him for their “help”.

The only response Danny gets is a half-strangled laugh. That is not the response Danny needs. He needs immediate respect and a Nasty Burger number two special.

And a new blanket.

“—Eall dæg?” the doctor asks the woman, but not Danny, and then he has to listen to everyone talking about him in a weird language without even pretending to ask for his input. It’s extremely annoying, and Danny half-considers falling asleep to avoid it. His gaze slides back to the television. He’s just as capable of ignoring everyone else as they are. He bets it sucks. He hopes it sucks.

They talk for a while, but then the lady takes the oatmeal away—and hey! Danny’s eyes widen and sting from the stretch. Uh. Maybe he didn’t think this one through. He’d still thought he’d get lunch out of this.

Um. He would like to continue to receive meals. But he’s watching her walk out with his oatmeal, which is the only human food that’s ever been given to him here, and…

Danny’s stomach cramps. It’s probably just anxiety.

He wishes he’d eaten the stupid oatmeal.

The doctor stays with him, setting the blanket into a laundry bin and checking over Danny’s body (ew) (gross) (nasty) for whatever they have to check on him, and Danny tries to go intangible at least four times during the check only to get oWOUCHOW jerks inside his core. At least one time, he flickers invisible. Not much, he thinks. Probably just an arm and the chunk of his torso.

The doctor pauses. Danny waits for things to (start to hurt) get worse.

“Mæg Ic?”’

…Danny doesn’t move. It hurts to breathe. Every time air scrapes through his nose and mouth, it burns a little more.

The doctor doesn’t move.

So they just.

Wait.

“Mæg Ic?” the doctor asks again.

They move very, very slowly. They touch him, and his—skin—and they rotate him to check underneath him. If they find something of whatever it is they’re monitoring him for, he gets wiped down with something gooey and wiped clean, and sometimes he even thinks they bandage him.

Danny wishes he had a bath. A whole, real bath. Where he could wash his own hair. And wipe off whatever this goo is.

When they’re done, the lady comes back in.

The sound of the door latching shut makes Danny flinch. Is she going to punish him? She walks to his bed. With her medical mask over her face, Danny can’t see if she’s visibly mad at him or not. She doesn’t look mad though…does she?

She stands to his good side, presumably so that Danny can see her. The oatmeal is back—it looks kind of gloopy, though, like it’s been badly reheated. The lady shows something to the doctor, who makes an irritated groan, and then they start talking to each other again. She cuts off to show him something, though—

Danny blinks. She’s showing it to Danny. He…looks down at it.

It looks like a mustard packet. It’s a black packet with yellow streaks, with writing on it with those letters Danny’s never seen before coming here, and it takes his eyes a second to focus on the package before realizing that there’s a little bee and pot on one end of the packet.

Oh. It’s honey?

Oh!

…Oh!!

Danny jerks upright, and, OW, and he definitely scares the lady and the doctor who rush to settle him but there’s honey?? Flavor??? His food can taste good again??!

He wheezes— and slaps a stinging hand onto the packet. “Pl’s?” he begs. He’d stopped begging in the old labs, no one there had listened to him—and he’d stopped begging for them to be gentle, to stop hurting him, to let him go. But for food. For food that tastes, Danny might do anything. Anything. “P’lease? Ple’se? Pleese?”

“Pleece?” the woman repeats, baffled. The word doesn’t mean anything to her; she’s only repeating the sounds. But Danny can’t stop begging.

“P’lease?”

“Pleece? Pleace?”

“Please?!”

“Awrite þis,” the woman mutters, and the doctor leaves. “Bist wel. Eom hebbjan eower wist. Es wel.”

And that still means nothing to him, but the lady gently lifts him up until his back can lay on the pillows, and he can sit more than lay. Danny watches in raspy silence as she rips the packet open and dumps the contents into the oatmeal. She stirs with gloved hands, ensuring that the packet is equally distributed. And then there’s a glob on her spoon, and the spoon to his lips.

Danny takes a bite. Tears well.

“Shhh,” the woman coaxes. “Wanian ma?”

Ma sounds kind of like more. Danny opens his mouth, and is rewarded with another spoonful.

He doesn’t start crying in earnest until the bowl is gone. But that’s alright. The lady finds tissues, somewhere, and he gets to look into her human-blue eyes as she carefully dries over and around his still-soft, green-edged wounds.

It’s a very nice gesture.

Danny sobs a little harder.

#Diana: kids like sweets right? Honey? We have honey packets in the caf for the tea drinkers #Closest Doctor: I don't know if it would be too hard for him to digest at this stage— #Diana: look at him. Look at my sad child #Danny: *having several simultaneous crises* #Closest Doctor: ...Okay. I will say. That's pretty bad. Yeah he can probably digest like a teaspoon of honey; lemme go add that to his char #health and hybrids #danny phantom #dp x dc #dpxdc #dcxdp #tw gore #tw medical #tw body horror #dcu crossover #Lemme ✨sprinkle in✨newfound food insecurity trauma

[tranakin-skywalker]

Little baby boy baby

I’ve got this thought that togruta’s coloring will be all washed out and faded when malnourished, and becomes brighter and more vibrant the healthier they are. So, have fun with that

#babykin #togruta anakin Skywalker #togrutakin #myart #I’m on a togrutakin kick today #if tog coloration is tied to their health then you know Vader is a washed out bitch under that suit #speaking of I need to design a tog vader #what do the hyenas call togruta Vader again? #oh right. it’s tograder #me every time babykin in mentioned: hey hey. you ever think about how the child slave character was probably starved? #you ever think about all the fucking health issues that poor kid probably had? that his fucking owner would withhold food as punishment? #you ever think about how his other fucking owner would go on to literally make it impossible for him to eat? #huh? you ever lie awake at night and think about that? #cuz I do

[daz4i]

not to ruin my edgy dark online persona but i met so many sweet people recently, who genuinely care about others, who want to help and uplift and just be there for those in need or even just show care to random strangers in the smallest of ways, and life seems brighter ngl

it's easy to fall into those spirals after seeing people be awful online or watching the news, or even having a bad experience with one person in real life. but. there are more good people than bad ones, i think. and it's good to be reminded of that sometimes

#i got to meet lots of nice doctors in the last few years #and lots of nice mental health workers in the last few months #and i got to meet really friendly people yesterday #and even like. nice kids in my building here and there #and i appreciate them 🧐 #anyway that's enough sappiness for one day. um. uh. so what's the deal with airline food amirite?

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

Lil Debbie

#My family was very health food oriented so we never got these much as kids... but I did oggle them on the store shelves #and getting to eat one at a friends house or like. a school event?? It was a rare treat for me <3 #food #nostalgia foods #nostalgia food #junk food #desserts #dessert #lil debbie #2000s food #90s food #agere food #nostalgia #nostalgic #my childhood #gen z #gen z nostalgia #gen z things #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s kid #2000s kids #90s nostalgia #90s kid #90s kids #90's #nostalgiacore #nostalgia trip #kid stuff #kidwave

[lesbian-moon-gf]

some days being sober is easy. then other days it’s like, “you know what would make this sunday really swell? being crossfaded”

#i feel like a kid who wants mcdonalds #we got food (three psychiatric meds) at home #and i WANT that dopamine hit #but my mental health #sober #moon

[thediktatortot]

Someone slap the shit out of me my body didn't tell me I was hungry for the last 16 hours 🫠

Getting a steak and cheese sub now but like...fuck I hate my body sometimes. Doesn't tell me SHIT until the last fuckin second.

I swear my body goes through like, phases where some weeks all I can do is be hungry and then some weeks where my body forgets food exists. I don't know why this happens. I know part of it is my ADHD and not noticing things, but sometimes I literally just...don't feel anything physically happening in my body.

I know the fact I drink coffee doesn't help because coffee is an appetite suppressant but I drink it regularly so at this point there's not too much of an effect.

Otherwise? Idk. I don't feel hunger pains. Not like what most people describe they feel.

#tator rants #food #food talk #physical health #eating #dont forget to eat three square meals a day kids

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i’m so frustrated with people’s lack of common sense about wildlife. if you’re interacting with wildlife, you’re not having your disney princess moment. you’re not forming a magical bond. that’s a wild animal who is potentially terrified; maybe it’s curious if it’s young enough, but that just means you should minimise interactions as much as possible to make sure that animal lives a normal life. if your kid comes in holding a wild animal, don’t pick up your fucking phone to videotape it. bring the animal back outside and educate your kid to leave animals alone. you know what happens when you take in wildlife as a “pet”? either you keep it and do damage because even though it’s “tame” it’s a wild animal who is in no way meant to live in that setting unless it’s being kept by a trained and licensed rehabber who knows the housing and feeding requirements (and even then i’ve seen some who are keeping animals irresponsibility), or it ends up at a wildlife rehab when you inevitably harm it enough that you don’t know what to do, or when no vets see you, or when the animal becomes too aggressive for you to handle. and then we either figure out how to rehabilitate an animal whose temperament and/or body you have massively damaged or we euthanise it because the damage is too extensive. start treating wildlife like wild animals rather than a dog or cat. they’re not pets, they’re not domesticated, leave them alone and let them live happy lives as they’re supposed to.

#saw a video of someone’s kid bringing in a baby raccoon and holding it to her chest. what the FUCK are you thinking #‘it’s mine now it’s my pet’ and everyone in the comments is going ‘you heard her that’s her pet now’. fuck all the way off #not only does that harm the animal but that makes it very possible for animals to spread diseases to you or your actual pets #not to mention parasites and fleas #there was one the other day of someone getting a rabbit out of a skate park which is good thanks for helping it. but then the person spent #another 5 or 10 minutes interacting with it and petting it. that’s not a pet store bunny that’s a wild animal and it’s absolutely terrified #im not saying learn body language and temperament and shit for a bunch of different animals im saying have some common sense and leave #wildlife alone. look but don’t touch. if an animal looks to be in distress then contact a local wildlife rehab or any rehab at all and ask #for advice. if there’s a rehab near you then see if you can bring the animal in #if you try to do that shit yourself you can do irreparable damage #it’s all fun and games and ‘oh im keeping it as a pet’ until the animal is malformed and has broken bones and infected wounds or is so #aggressive that it’s taking chunks out of people with no warning #‘this wild animal andomly attacked someone for no reason!’ you see how it’s overweight? people have probably been feeding it and when that #person didn’t have food it jumped on them #someone’s gonna do this shit with a ‘sick bird they plan to nurse back to health’ and get fucking bird flu #im just tired i haven’t been working with wildlife for a year and am going to study wildlife and work with them for the rest of my life for #this shit to keep happening. i know it will but im just tired of seeing it over and over again #my post #y’all can rb if you want im just pissed and on my soapbox

[neilperrydeservedbetter1959]

idk i just really feel like the black brothers were iron deficient

#it would explain so much #pale as fuck? iron deficiency. #mood swings? iron deficiency. #irritability? iron deficiency. #anxiety and paranoia? iron deficiency. (other than their family trauma) #depression? iron deficiency definitely wasn’t helping. #psychological distress? iron deficiency. #other mental health problems and disorders such as ADHD? iron deficiency causes an increased risk in having them. #i mean come on #you know those kids weren’t given proper nutrition #like can you ​imagine walburga and kreacher with a food pyramid chart? #please. she’d rather let them starve than actually be a MOTHER #the black brothers #sirius black #regulus black #harry potter #the marauders #james & peter & remus & sirius #james potter #remus lupin #marauders #peter pettigrew #wolfstar #jegulus #walburga's a+ parenting

[eldistchild]

Something I’ve been thinking about: The Placebo Effect is a proven phenomenon of the body. When I was young, I used to think a lot of stuff was “healthy” that I later found out is actually junk. Energy drinks that make health claims because they’re “packed with vitamins” or granola bars that are packed with added sugar, I just didn’t know a lot about nutrition so I thought these foods were good for me. Now, as an adult, I know these things are linked to all sorts of negative health effects, and when I consume them it feels negative on my body. “Bad” foods will sit poorly in my stomach or just make me feel bad overall. As a kid when I thought all these things were “good” they never affected me poorly. What if the reason adults have so many aches and pains and poor health is because… we have all been told how many things are “bad” for us. I mean, all of us have heard since we were young “Enjoy eating freely now because you won’t be able to eat like that forever” or something to that affect. What if children don’t experience as many of the negative outcomes from food because they’re not constantly bombarded with information about the negative impacts of food? I’m not saying we should all be able to eat candy and French fries all day so long as we believe it’s healthy. But I’m just thinking, maybe all this obsession and catastrophizing about food and health could actually be linked to the general decline in health as people age.

#blah blah blah #2024 #March 2024 #food obsession #weight obsession #health obsession #orthorexia #kids are people too

[batcavescolony]

Jughead Jones would have beef with Michelle Obama over her 'The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids' Act of 2010.

#reason i know this: im aroace and have beef with Michelle Obama over her healthy hunger free kids act of 2010. #like ok i get that kids should have healthy food but thats not what happened. they just made everything whole wheet and now we needed to #buy a fruit and veg that was either half rotten of from a can. if schools actually made heathy good food that would be one thing but #they didnt! we used to have these warhead ices and the food was good and we ate it all then 2010 hit and the food was suddenly shit #and with this came alot of food waste too no one wanted to eat the oranges that fell off the back of the truck and over cooked green beans! #jughead jones #jughead comics #archie comics #and i took culinary and putting kids in the room with other kids makes them tey new things. their's a way you can them to eat healthy food #its by having that food NOT TASTE LIKE ASS! and not LOOK LIOE ROAD KILL! and obviously im not actually hating at Michelle she had her heart #in the right place its just the road to hell is paved with good intentions. it didnt work. usa school lunch is a literal joke! #and also in part with this what getting kids to move more and that didn't happen either! you known what i would have done? #got rid of the physical fitness test and have kids play funs games. making kids compeat against each other is a shit way to get them to #enjoy exercise! let them play. dont make them compare themselves to their peers. dont stop fun play in elementary! #and maybe dont cut their portions at luch and have them movie more? if you want them to move they need fuel to move! #just i have thoughts about the health and hunger free kids act of 2010 and how it utterly failed. #michelle obama #the healthy hunger free kids act of 2010 #school lunch #american school system #american school lunch program #comics #forsythe pendleton jones III #riverdale #yall get tagged get over it

[dexaroth]

godddd i WANT to like minecraft so much but theres fucking nothing going onnnnn the biomes are boring the geography is def better than was before but still theres so little variation and even then the core gameplay is just. nothing. the inventory management sucks so much ass ive straight up stopped playing vanilla without bundles and the way you progress in many areas is so dumbb like teehee go find a jungle biome that could be 200 blocks or 20000 blocks away from spawn just so you dont implode of anger trying to build something decent without wasting time on countless dirt pillars. oh and also the only things that look good are structures from the outside because furnishing stuff is practically impossible since theres no furniture. lolz

there are of course many mods that adress this sort of thing but each take it in a new direction and sometimes you just want a branch of the river yknow?

ive been trying to find datapacks for this sort of thing but it doesnt seem like they can accomplish much so it leaves everything to need to be mods.. sigh

#ive said it before and ill say it again. with the amount of creativity minecraft allows it should not be the type of game you need > #>to pump full of mods to flesh out #literally the most basic thing. a pixel. now make it 3d. it doesnt get easier than that to add things to! for fucks sake!! #i keep considering learning how to make datapacks or resource packs to add my own stuff to it #but then i remember. whats the point in building a house if danger can be avoided entirely by spamming torches everyone #literally the only two things you ever need to worry about is a basic ass food meter -> just kill animals #and health -> make everythign sun bright and have an automatic beef cooker for if you do lose health #AND THEN WHAT MY GUY. THEN WHAT!!!!!!!!!! #god everytime i think about mc i feel like making a mod myself but then it loses any personal value bc you know how everything works #and you'd have to test the shit out of it too so at one point it solidifies in your memory and poof. it aint new anymore #i hate this game with the fiery passion of someone who knows how great it could be. it hurts so much. *whimper* #i was gonna say it almost surpasses the pain i have for what watchdogs could have been but wd is a much smaller scale #and its like. sad. but i genuinely feel angry at how basic minecraft is. i look at it and go are you fucking kidding me. what the fuck man #is it too much to ask for a survival game where building a house has a fucking purpose and isnt a painful process to achieve. fkin hell #dextxt

[orcixs]

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#so i have some texture issues when it comes to fruit #to the point where i don't really eat fruit. so i've started having some super smooth baby food fruit pouches. probably not the best alt? #i also get sensory issues with adult toothpaste? so i got kid flavoured toothpaste (that has the recommended fluoride in it) #and now i actually brush my teeth a lot more #idk does any one else understand this

[soldier-poet-king]

I need to move out not just because my brain is going insane but also because I need complete control over my food again....I didnt start having all this stomach pain and constant acid reflux etc etc etc until I moved back in at the beginning of covid and my diet changed to whatever my mother decides. When I was on my own I ate way less meat/more veg and a more "traditional" Mediterranean food pyramid and I felt SO much better

Everyone wants to blame coffee or wine but my consumption of those hasn't changed so??? Like MAYBE it's partially age but also....I'm not that old and this is a p significant shift in a 2 yr period

#if i started cooking all my own meals and buying my own groceries i think my mother would be upset #mostly bc everytime i try she says oh just make me a list and she'll buy it #but shes OVERLY frugal and buys cheap and bulk and on sale #and im much more focus on small quantities of good shit #like it makes sense shes a SAHM of several kids and im a single person #but yall my GI tract is CONSTANTLY SUFFERING #and idk how to live with this near constant esophageal and sternum pain and bloating #that doesn't seem to be linked to any specific trigger food #i even had allergy testing done! nada of the main allergen foods #maybe i start meal planning again AND doing my own shoping #sure my bills will increase bc rn im a mooch #but im so desperate to not....be in pain.... #problem is my mother DOESN'T meal plan ahead of time so its hard for me to coordinate #i create WEEKLY schedules and i stick with them #i am a chreachure of habit and meticulous scheduling and lists #it makes my life easier and my stomach in less agony #franposting #health stuff tmi #sort of. im just. CHEST/STERNUM/DIAPHRAGM/ESOPHAGUS HURTY #my tums and gavascon consumption has increased exponentially #I NEVER USED TO NEED EITHER. EVER.

[candletrails]

not to sound like An Extremely Old Person Who Is Enamored With The Simplest Things, but people really had it right when they decided to take food outside. One of my favorite parts of my trip to England years ago was buying food and sitting in a park nearby. Packing lunch and eating beside a lake, the food somehow just tastes better. During lunch today, I walked down the street to the gas station, bought food, and ate it while walking back and it sounds so silly and simple but for real? Walking outside at a time when I don't usually get to walk outside? Eating warm food I just bought while it's breezy and cool out and I'm walking and looking at snow-covered mountains in the distance and a crisp blue sky scattered with wispy clouds, just taking my time, while people rush about around me? Truly, it is something else.

#candle ramblings #because I have health issues that affect what I can eat and how much I can eat at once I've developed a weird relationship with food #just coming out of a Bad Food Period and into a Good Food Period and I'm in love with everything I see and eat. #and did the gas station food upset my stomach? for sure! did I romanticize the hell out of it while I ate anyway? absolutely! #I made soup last night and had to drink the broth down because it was almost over the edge of the bowl and I had to just stand there for #a moment because I was suddenly transported to my childhood and the Chinese restaurant my great-grandparents would take us to #not exactly the same soup but close enough. I was absolutely in love just standing in my kitchen sipping broth feeling like a kid again

[art-of-mathematics]

Although there is so much wonderful beauty in the world I am in awe of, there's still some sadness that is tearing me apart.

#reliving the prolonged trauma is hard #yet the strength and compassion I have given myself since I was a kid is helping me withstand all the pain #i found old health files from when I was a baby #when i was 3 i had sensory processing problems and should visit an eye doc #my mom told me 'they thought i had bad eyes and wanted me to wear glasses' #my mom is and always was severely overchallenged/overwhelmed with all sorts health-related... #she can't even manage to distinguish the metformin she takes - diabetes meds- and melatonine -sleeping hormone... #even when i got diabetes at 7 yo I had no proper help from her. #... i am so sad as the somehow neglect was only due to her overwhelm... #and she was offered help my the state... #but she always denied it. #she 'wanted to secure her kidsjfrom the cruel curel world'.... #sadly... she is paranoid #and i grief for all the pain this has resulted in... #sadly she never kept us safe from her. #she always misunderstands everything medical staff tells her.. #ignorance is at fault. #she even seeked a homeopathic healer for my diabetes and tried to 'help' me with globuli. i only ate them because they tasted nice #i even ate dry cat food as kid because it tasted better than anything that was available #everyday just sweets and sometimes joghurt or milchreis #i don't know why i indulge in this thought loop again... #the flashbacks are like... interwoven... #I had autism and adhd all my life but my mother could never handle it... #she was adviced to send me to a special school back then. she denied it. #in elementary school the teachers wanted me to leap school years as I was far ahead with the topics. my mother denied it #she denied it 'because she needs to learn social competence'... damn... allji learned was to people-please #and to neglect my own needs. to fear because i never knew what i did wrong... #and today it still impacts me #as I am notmeven able to get proper diagnoses #because 'it's obvious you have adhd but there went so much wrong in your medical history...' - words of someone who wanted to diagnose ADHD