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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I’ve seen and heard both men and women bring up their own stretch marks, but I’ve almost* never seen or heard anyone of any gender bring up someone else’s. And I have stretch marks, and have been seen naked by several people of various genders.

    *the one exception I’ve seen is as part of a list of reasons husbands have given for why they find their wives unattractive post pregnancy. And that was maybe twice and in anonymous comments.





  • I got some preliminary testing done by a clinical psychologist for both ADHD and autism, and it indicated I have both. For a diagnosis to ‘count’ medically, you have to have a doctor make it though, so I went to a psychiatrist.

    Both the psychologist and psychiatrist basically advised that I should only seek a medical diagnosis for neurodivergence if I was going to seel treatment or other disability accomodations with it. Otherwise, there’s no real benefit and a huge chance of discrimination by other doctors. A friend, who’s from another country, said her psych gave the exact same advice.

    So I only got a medical diagnosis for ADHD and remain content with the psychologist’s autism ‘diagnosis’.