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did your grade school do any of these safety drills?
fire drill
tornado drill
earthquake drill
hurricane drill
nuclear drill
active shooter drill
two or more of these
none of these
other!
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See Resultsif you rb pls tag where your from and which ones you did! i live in texas and we did fire, tornado, shooter, and nuclear (there is a nuclear power plant near where i grew up and the plan was to hide under our desks and clench)
nobody showed up to my public execution :/ what the fuck you guys :/
fine. whatever. well they're beheading me with a sword and you're all going to miss it.
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India totally fucks with statistics imo. Remember the whole T-Series vs. PewDiePie situation and fucking nobody outside of India had even heard of T-Series, let alone subscribed to them.
Not to discount Indian people but I think it's worthwhile to essentially remove them from stats, similar to bots. Or at the very least set them aside, identify them, label them as distinct from the rest, whatever. They completely skew what would otherwise be normally distributed results.
They skew results because there are a lot of them. If you're attempting to measure something on a worldwide scale, excluding a country that makes up something like 17% of the world population is the absolute last thing you want to do.
"Not to discount Indian people but..." [compares us to bots] 🫠
My guy, I'm SO sorry you're having an "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me" moment here, but I need you to understand that you cannot just Spiders Georg away the existence of 1.8 billion brown people
"'Average person is not a white western male' factoid actually just statistical error. Average person is actually very opinionated white libertarian gamer guy in United States of America. South Asians, who live on the Indian subcontinent and make up 23% of the world's population, are a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted."
THANK YOU. YES.
This is why I use a cane. Most people think "I don't have any trouble walking until I've gone about a quarter mile" is still "you don't need a cane" territory, but using the cane has kept it at that quarter mile.
Honestly, given that I've always had issues standing or moving slowly for long periods (waiting in line has always been hell for me), I probably should have gotten a cane decades ago.
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On the contrary, we should encourage people to use mobility aids when they might help prevent a condition deteriorating. Description ends]
Here's a "fun fact": in the U.S., Medicare (and, therefore, private insurance, which follows Medicare's lead), will not help pay for a mobility aid if you can manage to walk 20 feet at all independently -- even if that "independently" is painful or unsteady, and you risk falling every other step.
And depending on the aid you need, they can get effin' expensive.
So go ahead and buy that drugstore cane (and learn to properly use it -- there are tutorials on YouTube), before your condition does deteriorate, and you need something a lot more complicated and expensive sooner rather than late or never.
Can I also extend this to disability aids in general? Like, why are they so expensive?
I've had hearing aids my whole life and I'm grateful for my healthcare system because we get our hearing aids covered up until we're like, 26 ?unless we want fancy ones then we have to pay more it's complicated) but I don't understand why basic necessities are so expensive in other countries??? It's not something nice that people can go "ahh, yes, a fun little thing that helps me a bit" it's not like buying a bike when you can walk, it's like not getting access to a wheelchair if you're paralyzed because you can't pay for them.
Also, what is up with insulin in the US??? My sister has type 1 diabetes and I believe her insulin is covered by healthcare. People need that to live but it coats a ridiculous amount???
Honestly I think if people need something then it should be given to them (Or maybe cost very little) because this isn't to simply make a small inconvenience go away, it's to be able to function in life. We can't function without this stuff and it's honestly depressing that it's being exploited for money. It's ridiculous
Being overstimulated is such a weird thing to explain to people. Like "hey sorry, I'm not mad at you and this is nobody's fault and I'm not blaming anyone for it happening, I am aware this is a part of regular everyday life but I am mentally crumbling because There Have Been Things Happening nonstop for 5 hours straight back to back with no breaks, and I really need to sit down in complete silence for like 15-25 minutes, after which I will be completely fine and can proceed as normal. But if I'm not allowed to have that, I will resort to violence."
Fun fact: people who care about you find it charming if you just...say this. You don’t need to explain anything, just say that you need to go sit by yourself in silence for a bit like you’re telling them you need to go to the bathroom.
...Actually, if you say anything casually with an air of “this is not a weird thing for me to say/do/ask for”, even relative strangers will roll with it because they don’t want to be the one who Makes It Weird. I once asked someone to take over note-taking duties for me because “I need to go run up and down the hall real quick”. Nobody even asked follow-up questions when I got back.
This post goes out to the disabled people who don't live perfectly healthy lifestyles. I'm talking about the disabled people who drink. The disabled who smoke. The disabled people who do drugs. The disabled people who don't exercise. The disabled people who eat junkfood. The disabled people who are angry, negative and bitter. The disabled people who choose to say no to a recommended treatment option for any reason. Considering that even fully abled people rarely manage to live up to the ideal for healthy living, it is both ableist and ridiculous to hold disabled people who are already struggling more to an even higher and more unrealistic standard. So if you're not the perfect patient, you're still valid and you still deserve support!
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