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Post-Canon Kleinsen AU fic

I don't own DEH, these are not my characters/lh

According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.

Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.

However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.

When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.

I don't fully remember it's contents, but in it, I was watching the revival and on one of the final episodes. In it, Doofenshmirtz was getting ready to fire up an inator--he had fired up two before it and successfully got them to work, and now he was getting ready to complete the last part of his plan with the last inator, which was made to split the timeline into two. The whole Tri-State Area had gotten involved in the problem by now, including Phineas & Ferb and company, and Perry was stuck, tied up by the inator. Doof was of course giving his evil monologue, fully aware that he was winning, but as the clock for the inator's activation as ticking down, he slowly went from smug to giddy. He couldn't believe it, he was actually winning!!! He started posing and yelling out cheers (stuff along the lines of "THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! WOO!") until at one point, as the timer had 15 seconds left, he bent down and scooped up a dreary looking Perry.

"You know Perry the Platypus, I wouldn't be able to have done this without someone there with me for every screwup. Platypuses can be such troublesome critters, but some apples from rotten trees fall really far. Like you! I like you. :)"

And then he proceeded to give Perry a big kiss right on the beak, in front of the whole tri-state area. And it wasn't one of those cartoony mocking smooches you'd see in cartoons, it was a little kiss on the beak that latest a full 5 seconds, during which the camera panned to the various baffled and horrified reactions of the cast. As Doof finally pulled away from an utterly dumbstruck Perry, he proceeded to carelessly drop him on the ground (Perry hit the ground with a comedic, pronounced "thump") as the inator roared to life and much of the crowd was forced to take cover from the sheer force of its activation (the unlikely ones who couldn't hide were blown back like they were hit by a hurricane, especially Perry, who hit the wall).

The timeline was thus split in two, and from then on the next few episodes had the usual "double episode" thing going for them except each episode was of the same day as it was in the different timelines. So episode 1 consisted of two versions of day 1, episode 2 consisted of two versions of day 2, and so on and so forth. The episodes only stopped doing that until Phineas and Ferb found a way to reverse the affect, even though it cost them the rest of their summer.

All Tumblr was going batshit INSANE. The certain subset of the Phineas and Ferb Fandom was VIBRATING. Both avid fans and nostalgic people/people just familiar with pop culture were actively losing their minds. Twitter was raging. TikTok was laughing. Tumblr was giggling. Perryshmirtz was confirmed and it was in the funniest way possible. People started making those "when he says ily but ___ said _____" memes with what Doof said before kissing Perry, and people started redrawing the kiss. The show got unnecessarily complicated afterwards and of course Tumblr laughed at that. The moment became one of the most simultaneously famous and infamous pop culture history.

And this was all in the dream I had last night while doped up on Tylenol for pain.

Well, that was fun, huh?

like yeah, sometimes i will ignore the people i love and care about for days on end cause im so focused on my special interest. sometimes i will say the wrong thing, come off as “robotic”, or be an asshole accidentally. sometimes i can’t think outside myself. autism is a disability. it is disabling and the unpleasant parts deserve to be shown just as much as the pleasant parts

mr fantastic, to me, shows off the unpleasant parts of being disabled while also showing us that at the end of the day, we are still heroes. we are disabled and are impacted by our disability, yet despite that we are good people at heart. that is why he’s authentic

As if we don't have two canonical episodes of Phineas and Ferb where the literal basis of the plot is that Candace watches a movie and then becomes convinced that she is living out the plot of said movie.

And we also have canonical confirmation that this isn't an out of the ordinary reaction for Candace to have about the movies she watches.

In the episode where Candace is convinced she's a vampire, Jeremy says to Stacy, "You just had to take her to see the vampire movie, didn't you?"

Like Candace is the kind of kid over protective parents were worried about being influenced by the old slapstick cartoons.

it's just so disturbing to realise that no palestinian has emerged from this unscathed. everyone has a family member they lost, a friend they miss dearly, a home they long to return to but cannot because it no longer exists.

a very huge part of gaza is rubble. the recent ceasefire has allowed people the chance to attempt to rebuild their lost homes. my friend alaa is one of them. she wants her children to live under a proper roof. please consider helping her out. her fundraiser is verified.