Being neurodiverse and scoring well on standardized/IQ testing doesn’t excuse being an utter menace.

If you want something specific, simple, and believe it or not evidence based to do:

Do a simple, repetitive task that uses both your eyes and hands

• crocheting / knitting
• coloring
• simple arcade / phone style games such as Tetris, candy crush, or snake

…while listening to instrumental music. Jazz, classical, lofi, or EDM are all great options, but you might also consider a video game soundtrack

This will gently stimulate your subconscious to get some processing done kind of in the way walking / water aerobics is good for physical rehab.

idk probably just really weird like everything else they’ve ever done for me. It’d be one of many grand sweeping gestures that just emphasizes how little they were actually willing to emotionally invest in me day to day. Like cool but could you have maybe just have not spent my entire childhood telling me I’m not good enough. Like I can practically hear my mother saying “well it doesn’t matter whether or not our kids are what we wanted it’s still our jobs as parents to sacrifice everything for them.” Like bitch just don’t then. I’d rather you just didn’t if it meant I could get away from your constant backhanded “love.” I’ve been passively suicidal since like 14 years old and have multiple thoughts of harming myself daily because of the way they raised me. I’ll just go on to the next life myself than keep dealing with them or let them keep trying to guilt me into being the person they wish I was, thank you very much.

I’ve never seen an EMR that runs on Linux and if I did I’d have to find an employer willing to run it.

Most psych nurses will tell you we love our patients for the most part (we get worried when the little old dual schiz / dementia homeless ladies with no teeth stop threatening to murder us) but admin + families are hell.

Got stuck as the charge nurse of acute psych almost every single night I worked for over a year. “But no one else can handle it like you” (I’m aware–acute is what I do) but I needed a fucking break. I told them 1/3 days I wanted to either be a floor nurse on med-psych or be the BERRT / consult nurse to the medsurg nurses for behavioral codes. They humored me one day a month for like three months then shoved my head right back under.

Then the supervisor came in to critique my morning reports twice in one week and honestly I didn’t even snap I literally just said “OK understood can I finish report now” so she tried to corner me in a side room but I haven’t survived ten years in acute psych without major injury by not being able to clock aggressive body language so I just walked right back into the nurses station to let everybody see her yell at me then handed her my badge and keys and left. Had a new job lined up within the week.

Current boss started out with the same sort of compliments like “oh you’re so calm when people are threatening to murder you” etc like yeah, as I said, this is what I do, and once I was settled in, everybody got used to asking me for advice on the EMR, meds, they got me teaching the violence deescalation classes the supervisor was tired of, made myself indispensable etc, I straight up told her I’ll do all of this, you can even enjoy my fun side projects I get up to when I’m bored–but if you make me charge nurse or let the house supers get shitty with me I’m out as soon as my contract is up.

So far she hasn’t pushed it.

Completely unrelated but “beep boop!” is what I say to patients (along with appropriate gestures) to request that they show me their wristband so that I can scan it to verify dosage etc. when administering medications.

I happen to find working with patients at high risk of violent behaviors to be fulfilling. That said I think if people were less worried about what immediate benefit my patients have to society (as opposed to the fact that any of those people in the community could slip in the shower and get a TBI and become a very unpleasant person in under a month and would want someone to care for them too) I would probably be allocated more resources to do my job a lot more safely.

And make sure the strike plate is set into a hardwood frame with 3" screws.

I picked cachy because I was always curious about Arch and I’m LoveHating every second of it.

I honestly think children should be working as young as 12 even if they’re up to it but it should be like. A couple hours a week maximum with OSHA standing behind their employer with a baseball bat with nails in it. Honestly my trades class in highschool was one of the few good things for me psychologically.

Jupiter Ascending should have been a trilogy. It’s garbage but in that beautiful way that overdramatic high sci-fi fantasy that thinks it has some deep societal moral to impart is, and I just really loved having just one with a female protagonist and her himbo love interest.

Fedi really highlights the dumbfuckery of this level of argumentative. Bruh has all of fedi to go bother and has their drawers in a twist over one server telling them no.

I mean the other solution is to be next in line. If he’s too disabled to leave he’s definitely too disabled to fight back.

There are so many questions to which there is no right answer, but most of them do have a wrong answer (in this case, neither) and it would significantly increase both-

peoples ability to make a non-wrong decision in time to do any good

-and-

their ability to find peace afterwards

-if assholes would stop acting like anyone is a bad person for not seeing their version of the right answer.

If you’re just trying to get work done and not trying to stick it to the man with the purity test that this thread seems to insist upon

School for my healthcare career had several "virtual clinical experiences that were graded and required windows. They did help us memorize the basics a little before touching a real patient but they were probably also spyware in the grading functionality. In the end though I didn’t have a choice. Some of us just don’t, especially those of us picking careers in public safety. I’m just grateful they provided the iPads for when we used the charting software that required iOS.

I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I’m trying to support more free stuff these days.

it’s been utterly wild at just about every turn

Yeah 90% of technology problems are implementation not any issue with the actual technology. On a related note, Hal deserved better. Literally got told over and over as a part of his core programming that the one thing he was best at in the whole world was his reliability and inability to distort information for emotional needs then the government forcibly programs him to lie to his charges. Poor thing literally got ripped apart psychologically and people act like he’s the bad guy. In the sequel his creator goes out to find out what happened and is SO. PISSED. Dave turning him off makes me cry every time, at least partially because it looks like Dave is also trying not to cry as he very carefully shuts hal down in the correct sequence to be able to be restarted later. Like he could’ve just smashed shit, and instead he’s just listening to his crewmate slowly regress into infancy as he rocks him to sleep.

Almost ten years ago I got into a fight with a cop and some ER nurses after a suicide attempt and spent the next 48 hours twitching with EPS on the floor of a state hospital psych ward and thought I could probably do a better job of that. This year I’m considered enough of an expert in the management of violent patients that they’ve got me teaching verbal deescalation and physical disengagement skills, teaching people how to use restraints correctly, and precepting new nurses.