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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • legally it depends on local laws.

    Yeah nah. Romeo & Juliet laws don’t cover this because 14 and 20 is too far apart. And you can not legally consent if you’re under 18 in almost all developed countries. There is no legal debate for these countries.

    There definitely are some 14-year-olds that are mature enough to consent.

    Hard disagree. Some will say or act like they consent but at 14 your brain is not fully developed. They might find out how bad of a decision that was only 10 years later. Consent does not only mean verbal or physical agreement, but also to be absolutely sure someone has a full understanding of all actions and consequences, and at 14 you can not presume that. There’s a reason the age of consent is 18. Almost everyone has developed a grasp of these things at 18yo and above.

    He is not a Jeffrey Epstein, but holy shit call it what it is.











  • Yeah both ADHD and autism is harder to diagnose in girls and women because for a good bit there was an assumption that they can’t get it, because their symptoms usually present very different. Now it has been recognized in the DSM-5 for a while but psychology is kind of playing catch up with them, so it takes time for actual therapists to learn to isolate those new diagnoses.

    I personally believe that one of the reasons this is so hard is that girls culturally tend to value social interaction way higher than boys, giving them more experience, which leads to better masking skills, and all these skills do is hide the symptoms. Thus it also becomes harder to diagnose. I asked a group of peers who had autism if they ever tried or considered to withdraw from society or social interactions. The 2 men said they considered it but ultimately it wasn’t feasible, the 2 women said they never even considered it, which kind of supports that hypothesis, although it’s all anecdotal.

    But yeah, we’ve come a long way to finally diagnose and treat women appropriately as well.