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[rhivolution]

Insert rage about Robin Hobb here.

If my mother had left me to be 'who I genetically am', I would be up shit creek without a paddle. There will be more on this in the OCD post that is in progress. I think we can all agree that medication should be a choice, but not medicating should ALSO be a choice, ne?

Like were_duck, it also makes me really fucking sad that she never tried it.

(h/t boosette)

Comments

[were_duck]

What really bothered me about that post was how it reduced meds to frivolity--that people only use meds to cram for finals or to help them remember their keys, or that the main benefit to taking them would be that we don't leave half-drunk coffee cups all over the house, and that taking meds forecloses options like joining the military, rather than thinking about how meds make other things possible, like finishing high school.

It reminds me of sasha_feather's comment about disabling metaphors like 'crutch', that we use that word metaphorically to mean 'something we use when we should be able to do without it', rather than what it really is, which is 'a tool we can use for improving our lives'.

[raanve]

I agree with this.

I am also dismayed that she equates prescribed medication for a diagnosable condition with "using drugs". And she is clearly ill informed about current methods for managing ADD/ADHD, since strategies like using medication on weekdays & not on weekends are well-accepted strategies for managing.

I probably have enough argument with that blog post for my own blog post. (Including selectively citing Kay Redfield Jamison.) Just.. ugh.