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- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 day ago:
- Mechanics hate Engineers
- Comment on Love me a good BLT 2 days ago:
All I have is $21, can you cut a broke fella a break?
- Comment on Love me a good BLT 2 days ago:
Sounds good to me.
Is that still $3.99?
- Comment on Love me a good BLT 2 days ago:
That works too, is that still $3.99?
- Comment on Love me a good BLT 2 days ago:
Baguette, Lamb, and Tabasco?
Works for me, I’m hungry now.
- Comment on Shrinkflation 2 days ago:
This has got to be the most underrated comment here!
😂🤣
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 days ago:
The existing terms I tend to hear are ‘brain fog’, CRS (can’t remember shit), and for those with a few more braincells still intact, ‘CRAFT’, or Can’t Remember A Fucking Thing.
Yes, I gather that basically any doctor worth their weight in salt should interpret those sort of terms as the patient has brain/memory issues, but isn’t there some easier and less self-insulting term than CRAFT?
- Comment on Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site 2 days ago:
Are you a bot? 🤖
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 days ago:
Thanks AI!
Pronunciation of Dementia
The word “dementia” is pronounced as follows: Phonetic Spelling
dih-MEN-shuhSo where the hell did the T in dementia come from in the first place, when in place of the T it’s pronounced with the SH sound? Yet another unnecessarily confusing word. Sigh, English is fun like that huh?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 days ago:
I never said to change the existing words, I’m just suggesting to do like almost every other word or phrase and have a shorthand, easier to remember/communicate acronym or something.
Imagine actually being a person suffering with brain/memory issues. You know you have a condition, but you can’t remember what the hell the doctor called it to save your life.
That’s fucking embarrassing to them, I’ve seen that firsthand more than once. ☹️
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Guess you never had both your mental doctors die huh?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
How is “dementia” more difficult than other words?
Dementia is never even pronounced right.
It’s spelled that way, but it’s pronounced “demenshia”
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
You’re missing the whole point.
The disabled patient should be able to memorize the name of their own condition, if at all possible at least. Disabled people don’t 100% of the time have people available to help.
- Comment on Shrinkflation 3 days ago:
LOL!
Neither are legal tender actually.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
No shit, I already stated that most medical terms have Latin roots.
What sane person you know that speaks Latin?
What mentally handicapped people speak Latin?..
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Yes, it’s easy for most people to say and spell dementia. Except for some of the people actually suffering from brain/memory disorders…
- Comment on Shrinkflation 3 days ago:
You spotted that Motion Picture $20 behind the obvious fake $1?
If so, good spotting! Because yes indeed, both bills are fake.
The fake $20 is the banana for scale…
- Comment on Shrinkflation 3 days ago:
Cold water cycle and air dry, obviously.
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- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Also, the fewer syllables that people suffering brain/memory issues, the easier it is for them to communicate.
Nobody expects a person with brain problems to remember the entire medical encyclopedia, but it would make it quite a bit easier to shorten the most common brain disorders, where the suffering person might be able to remember and say it on their own.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
No, not specifically Alzheimer’s anyways.
But for almost the past decade, I’ve been helping care for people that have had stroke, partly paralyzed, have brain damage, mute and unable to speak from birth, etc.
Thank you for asking though. I actually do have genuine care for disabled people. Even if I’m not a complete expert in the field, I do what I can. They don’t have many people actually willing to help.
Does it hurt to think about ways to help better? Like what if something happens, and I can no longer help?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
The only thing more well known across the world is LOL, and nobody standardized that, it just came to be as the internet grew.
Is it that difficult to give brain damaged people a simple three letter acronym like FTD that’s easy to remember if they have to talk with emergency services or other doctors?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that if a patient came in slurring their words and all they could basically remember to say was ‘I can’t remember much, but my last doctor said I have FTD’, then if the acronym was standardized, every doctor would know what they mean.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Yeah I get you, ROTFLMFAO!
Oh, I meant LOL…
The internet has no shortage of creative yet simple three letter acronyms, what makes brain issues any different? If anything, people suffering brain issues should be the first to get simplified terminology.
Like, what if Mr. Willis was just an average everyday person, same issues, but wanting a second opinion from another doctor? Not saying the second opinion would or would not be any different, but how would a patient with brain/memory issues even explain him/herself privately?
Not everyone with brain issues even has anyone to help them properly.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
You do make a bit of a point there, it really does seem like a ‘no-win’ scenario…
Sigh, just brainstorming a thought towards trying to assist disabled people a little better. 🤷
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Yes, the medical term is clearly more descriptive. For medical professionals.
That doesn’t make it any easier for the patients suffering brain/memory problems to remember or explain their own condition.
We’ve made acronyms for everything else under the sun …LMFAO…
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Hey, I can spell sexdaily!
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
My elders call that CRAFT…
Can’t Remember A Fucking Thing
Sad chuckles…
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Ok, honestly I wasn’t aware either way.
Do you suffer dendrophilia by chance?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 days ago:
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of such a condition.
Thank you for sharing 👍
