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Really? Because if others are the pandemic will end and mutations won’t happen and if you need to go to the hospital it won’t be over booked. And a myriad of other reasons.

I feel like you aren’t queer because this isn’t what we think about it.

I’m bi, and hiv is a big deal in the gay community. I know people who have it, we have clinics around dedicated to treating people with it. Straight people can do anal, straight people can get it otherwise, but this is hitting gay/bi men way harder. It’s okay to acknowledge that

As a male who is bisexual, this isn’t true. Transmitting hiv via unprotected vaginal sex is actually pretty rare, something like 1/1000 or under. And gay/bi men also tend to be more promiscuous. But of course a straight male and woman could do anal sex and that would be the same risk rate that gay men have, which is higher.

Let’s wait for the results before we decide what they mean

Your comment says way more about you than it does about some hypothetical small town fisherman

Yep, I agree fully

As someone who has ADD, I agree. I’ve been reading the biography of Leonardo DaVinci and the author mentioned if he was alive today, he would most likely have been medicated for ADHD and mood swings.

I think things like diet, food additives, busy society, and work demands make it impossible for people like us to function well.

I know for me at least, I live a pretty unconventional life so I can thrive in my own way. I’m often up very late. I’ll obsessively work on something and neglect others. I’ll be late to things. I can’t do big social environments and I definitely can not handle stuff like night clubs. I need a lot of alone time to sift through all of the data that has bombarded me. It’s taken me years to figure out. But as I craft my life to work with my oddities, I become happier, healthier, and more productive.

I think for me, a better description than mental illness is “neurodivergent.” Because if I build my life in my own unconventional way, I might be able to thrive. And then when I get put in situations that don’t work for me, I become textbook mental illness.

I think maybe the best way to tell if you fall in this category is the subjective experiences. And like many things it can be a spectrum so you can have it to some degree.

I know for me, I went to my dream college and studied exactly what I wanted to study, yet I couldn’t keep up. I went from getting mostly As in high school to eventually failing out (later to return). I was under immense psychological stress and couldn’t get myself to do basic things. I was always overwhelmed. I couldn’t and still can’t be in social situations when loud music is nearby. I’ve essentially had to reshape my life to work around this. It made me nearly non-functional.

And years later, now that I’ve built my life in a way where it works with my ADD, I can be incredibly productive and imaginative and innovative.

The New York subway system is riddled with inefficiencies, corruption, and terrible maintenance. You’ve gotta call it for what it is. Their bull shit has caught up to them. I feel nothing less than contempt for the people behind it.