Why Are You Like This

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.

Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here

Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions

I got the idea that the struggle was the point but ☝️ looking at that list, I was rawdogging the "executive functioning deficits" with panic and anxiety.

Fuck me. Help with Managing my Time, help with Organizing/Planning/Prioritizing (exactly what I never learned to to at school or home)?

I grieve our misused, misdirected, underutilized potential.

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

sorry to put your tags on blast on this insane breach containment post I have since muted, but you're right and you should say it.

Frappé started gaining traction in the '70s, and by the '80s it had replaced turkish coffee (also known locally as greek coffee, or just coffee) as THE standard coffee, at least for young people. Old people don't change habits that easily.

But over the next decades, it lost the throne. We got some new local inventions, this time with Italian names: "freddo espresso" and "freddo cappuccino". (Italians who taste them are typically appalled, though usually they're thrown off by the name and outraged at the price, the coffee itself is alright. Possibly.)

Freddo espresso (or just freddo) is made with a double shot of espresso, which is aggressively iced (pour in a shaker with a bunch of ice cubes and shake aggressively; there are also power tools machines for mixing), and strained in a glass with a straw and even more ice cubes.

Freddo cappuccino is not a real cappuccino (hence all those baffled and outraged Italians). It's a freddo espresso with milk foam on top, where you can optionally sprinkle cinnamon or cocoa powder.

The rationale behind all this is that, unlike the whole point of espresso (drink fast and go go go!), the ideal coffee for greek climate and culture is:

cold: we got an 9-month summer over here, we're not trying to keep warm.

long: it's gotta last. the point is not to chug it, it's to slowly drink it (like turkish coffee is meant to be sipped in the Traditional Coffeeshop™), over like an hour, while you hang out and talk with your friends, or while you work or scroll on your phone or whatever.

quick to make: I'm sure that cold brew coffee is great, but NOBODY here can be arsed to wait a day to have a damn coffee; hardly anyone can be arsed to wait 5 minutes!