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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's play youth football. CTE is even worse for children than adults, but hey sign this waiver for your kid.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

many intersex people had impromptu surgery performed on them after being born because the doctor determined that their genitalia did not conform to their standards of male or female. this typically happens with no parental support or consent, but even if the parents are made aware, it isnt exactly made apparent the ramifications of what will be done.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Then there's kids playing contact sports. Rugby is fucking brutal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Even career choices are altering people's lives. Even if I have my guitar, sometimes I regret putting so much time, energy, and money into it, partly because of a very depressive period in my life, partly because some potential medical conditions I have make bending strings upwards on the fretboard extremely painful as it feels like my nail wants to separate from my skin, partly because my taste in music shifted a lot away from metal music. I wish I was spending that on art or something else, IDK. Still I don't want to introduce a bill that would forbid people learning the guitar before the age of 25.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'd like to bring circumcision into this discussion.

Any Healthcare provider that performs this on a child should be arrested for child abuse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There are a number of reasons why one could be medically necessary. I agree that medically unnecessary surgical procedures to infant genitals for purely cosmetic or cultural reasons are pretty unjustifiable, but "any healthcare provider... Should be arrested" is either a bit ill informed, or a wildly extremist position.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

If we're banning purely cosmetic or cultural changes to a child's body, are we throwing out ear piercings and back braces and dental work, too? How about haircuts and hair dyes? How about vaccines, since these are now fully included in culture war politics? So much of this seems to boil down to a naturalist attitude towards children. "Just don't change ANYTHING! Changing things is wrong!"

And the fact that its coming from people - like Elon Musk - who paid top dollar for IVF doctors to guarantee his children conform to his consumer preferences (you'll notice he's exclusively had male infant children) is even more obnoxious.

It's very obviously just pot-stirring. Resent your parents for changing you. Resent your children for changing themselves. Medicalize resentment of everyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pay millions for IVF so you can have only boys ... wind up with a girl anyway. This just made me laugh. I knew Elon did thus, but it didn't really register until you mentioned it.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Invalidating ADHD doesn't make trans people feel better, it only perpetuates ableist and medically misinformed views on ADHD.

Particularly women, minorities, and non-binary people, who have historically been severely underdiagnosed and neglected as is. Girls are 16 times less likely than boys to receive an ADHD diagnosis and treatment.

Women who speak out about their ADHD are often dismissed on social media as ‘self diagnosed pick me girls’ just seeking attention. In reality, many are speaking up against the ongoing crisis of medical neglect.

Untreated ADHD can put already vulnerable people into higher risk of developing clinical depression and other comorbid mental health issues. ADHD medication can be life saving, and calling it meth only serves to stigmatize the mental health issues ADHD patients go through, as well as discourage them from getting the help and medication they need.

If you call yourself an ally to trans people, that includes trans people with ADHD. There is no need to add to their intersectional struggles when they already have so much on their plate.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Amphetamines is not the same as meth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No, but my Vyvanse does specifically say “Methamphetamine…” on the bottle sooo…

Of course the dose is different, and the context too, but still.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It should say lisdexamphetamine on it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Portion Makes The Poison

Almost as though there's some kind of merit to professionalization of pharmacology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In theory you could take small doses of street meth.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the same, but according to wikipedia it is also sometimes used to treat ADHD

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

Its literally the first sentence of the "use" section.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry i had no idea it was a thing in the US

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only reason I know this is, because one time I randomly read the wikipedia article about Meth. If it wouldn't be for this, I wouldn't have known this too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not, but there is an FDA-approved drug with Desoxyn.

I don't think the poster got that specifically, from my understanding that prescription is very rare compared to say Adderall which is an amphetamine but as you correctly point out not methamphetamine; but it can't be ruled out that they actually got prescription meth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't know you had that in the US. Here in france the only allowed adhd medication is methylphenidate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm German, but I do know about this from some years ago when I read up on drugs a bit.

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