There have been studies showing no loss in productivity too. But rich people want to fuck us over for no reason 🤷‍♀️

I mostly agree, except for the last part about marginalization. The idea you can always overcome whatever disability/disorder/whatever with hard work and the right mindset is not accurate at all. And that’s not you wanting to be a victim, it’s you advocating for what you need. Accommodations exist for everyone, they just cater to abled/neurotypical people instead. Once I finally admitted to myself I was disabled and stopped trying to live my life like I am 100% able bodied improved my life A LOT.

And disabled/chronically ill/neurodivergent people DO face a lot of discrimination regardless of if you want to admit it or not. We should be fighting for improvement in treatment, acknowledging people treat you like less of a person doesn’t mean you actually are less of a person. ESPECIALLY in the current political climate… once LGBT+ people are dehumanized sufficiently disabled people are going to be next.

I don’t disagree that neurodivergent people would have a way better time if people/society took them into consideration more. But I am low support needs and still consider it a disorder. My boyfriend has ADHD and agrees. While there are a lot of things that would be fixed by having sensory friendly environments for example, there are still a lot of things about being autistic that hinder me that I wish would go away regardless of what accommodations exist.

Median rent right now is $2k. Rule of thumb is 1/3 or less of income spent on housing. So that’s $6k a month. With comes out to 72k a year, pretty close.

All these articles act like workers have become so uppity and demanding but all they want is to live reasonably.

I would consider a new dentist, and probably a sedation dentist if you have issues with numbing.

Depending on what you are having done, there is also laser dentistry. And my dentist has some special drill where he has done shallow cavities for me with no novacaine and I didn’t feel shit except the usual drilling/pressure feeling.

This dentist just sounds shitty. Yes you were tensing up but you already told them a bunch of times you were in pain. They should have had a plan in place that y’all had agreed upon for dealing with a situation where the lidocaine wears off. Or maybe schedule you at a time where there are no other patients so they could go as fast as possible with no interruptions. Maybe I am expecting too much here but my dentist is the bomb and would easily do that for someone.

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Pretty similar experience to what others have mentioned, so mostly echoing what they said.

With a shutdown I “hit the wall” so to speak. I could have been fine when things started out but I have reached the point where whatever it is has built up and I have reached my limit of overstimulation. I will stop participating in conversation, if it’s really bad I won’t even move much or be paying attention.

Because I grew up with “you’re not autistic you’re just high maintenance” parents I learned to “save” my meltdowns. I may have short responses or act annoyed when I’m around others. Inside I am raging. And I know I’m raging for no reason aside from the environment, but I can’t help it. Which makes me more mad lol. Overstimulation is not just “wow it’s loud in here” it’s physically painful to me to continue to exist in that environment. Once I get home I rage cry.

Another thing that can make me shutdown or have meltdowns is plans changing, not only overstimulation. When I have plans it is like my entire life leading up to that point is built on the fact that I will be doing X at Y time. I have spent the time to mentally prepare myself to do X at Y time. If those things change, everything feels fucked up.

Recognizing when I am becoming overstimulated helps me a lot now that I actually understand what is happening. If I get to take a break and go for a walk or go somewhere quiet it usually prevents me from having a full on meltdown later. Also just… Admitting what is happening. Like “I am angry because the time changed from 3pm to 5pm and I was not mentally prepared for that.” But some situations are just too much and it ends up happening anyway.

And people where the microphone just fucking hates you. It always gets what I am saying wrong so I just use the keyboard

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Yikes, I hope these people’s entire family has some sort of protection. It’s normal for them to attempt to kill anyone they don’t like.

Thank you! I thought park of work reform was making the current system work for you to get the most for the least amount of work. Now suddenly that’s not ok and it makes you “mediocre”?

I can be a bomb ass employee, if you give me bomb ass pay and benefits. Yes I am going to dance around you highlighting all my accomplishments cause I’m not about to do extra shit for free just cause you didn’t notice.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Silently raging instead of participating isn’t hurting the company, they get to pay you less.

Still not worth using slurs

Uhhhh this is exactly how you are supposed to work? I learned that early on. Your boss isn’t sitting there watching your every move. You could save the company a trillion dollars and no one would give a fuck if you never tell anyone.

No one is getting a raise or promoted cause they worked 60 hours a week. Working on high visibility projects that are easy is the secret. And if you can’t get added to a high visibility project, make your projects high visibility.

Fix the work culture if you don’t like it Price. Otherwise go fuck yourself.

Damned if you do damned if you don’t

If you always wanted to leak your ID to a bunch of hackers thanks to poor security practices, this is a great opportunity for you to do so

Very true. Ok updated sentiment

So he couldn’t present the evidence after the election and needed to break the law instead, but it magically appears after the fact for a press conference when he goes to trial

I don’t disagree. Income inequality is an overarching issue in the US. As is charging monetary damages that will never be paid out. My mom was injured in a car accident by someone driving under the influence, and she had to cover all her medical bills out of pocket despite winning in court because the dude wasn’t even working and had no money to garnish.

I was more talking about how it fits in with the current system, as flawed as it may be. I don’t have a good solution aside from overhauling the massive income inequality in this country. People working minimum wage jobs (which are usually jobs we need for society to function!) should not be living the same lifestyle as this dude.

I mean we do multiple life sentences or life + so many years so I don’t see why the same logic wouldn’t apply when the penalty is monetary. It’s a super high number to ensure he’s paying the rest of his life, even if he suddenly comes into a bunch of money. It’s intended as a warning.

I mean how much money can you put on the price of someone’s life, safety, or missed future potential earnings? I think it was just a huge number to “ruin the rest of his life” as he attempted to do.

For example, the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit. The coffee was so hot it melted that lady’s skin together. And this was an ongoing issue that McDonald’s had been warned of several times and didn’t listen. So while the lady was just trying to get her medical costs covered, the jury awarded an additional $2.7m in punitive damages because McDonald’s didn’t listen. Punitive damages are literally money as punishment.

Man fuck these comments. He explicitly said he wanted to ruin the rest of her life. He intentionally posted them with her full name and address, endangering her. And to ruin her chance at getting/keeping a job. Dude does deserve to have his wages garnished for the rest of his life, at least there’s a cap on UNLIKE WHAT HE TRIED TO DO TO HER!