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It's like when something feels wrong. The English equivalent would probably be "I smell a rat."

Haha, those are great!

We say someone is "out biking" if they're talking nonsense or doing something the completely wrong way.

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Because the parents decide to recognize their child's gender dysphoria, take them to a doctor, go through with treatment. I believe the hormone treatment requires parental consent, though that may be different in different countries.

Well the only cases I've heard of where someone later regretted taking puberty-blocking hormones were exclusively children with autism, which is a whole different can of worms. And for neurotypical trans kids, not going through puberty can potentially save their lives. Ultimately, it's the parents and doctors, not the kids, who make the final decision.

Sorry if my comment came off that way. I'm obviously not suggesting starting hormone treatments on a 3 year old. I was trying to say that trans kids, by the time they're about to start puberty have potentially been feeling intensely "wrong" for 6-8 years. So in that way, they're not too young to make that decision, because at 10 or 11 feeling wrong is all they can remember.

Kids understand gender from a very early age (around 3) and trans kids display very obvious signs that they were born in the wrong body. I'd argue that getting them on puberty blockers at 10 or 11 may even save these kids' lives, when you look at the rates of suicide, bullying, and assault among trans teens. And obviously these kids aren't getting put on drugs on a whim, it's a process with consultations with physicians and psychologists and such. So when you think of it like these kids have been seeing the wrong body in the mirror every day for 6+ years, they don't seem too young for this decision at all.

For the record, in this case we did try a number of other options first, and the lavender spray was the only treatment that allowed him to maintain a semi-normal sleep schedule. If the only factor was relaxation, then one of the other treatments (medication, sound machine, meditation, massage) should have worked the same as the lavender, but none of them were nearly as effective.

Oh I see what you mean now. I work in a research facility so I hear a lot of ideas get tossed around like "meditation can heal brain tumors" and such, and while I think that'd be brilliant I don't think we can put too much stock in that kind of thing yet. But I use a lot of those kind of radical therapies and they have a wide range of capabilities for treatment.

I am a trained professional - unless having a PhD and being a licensed psychologist isn't enough training for you. I can tell you from my work that these kinds of "alternative" treatments in conjunction with cognitive therapy are more effective at improving quality of life than traditional psychotropic medication.

There are many ways of imaging the brain: fMRI, CT, PET, EEG, MEG, NIRS. If we're doing a scan that measures activity levels, the patient is usually doing a task (i.e. math problems, recalling word lists). So the different "normal" brains are due to different imaging techniques and different tasks being performed.

A lot of the time the smallest things can seem like huge hurdles. But take your meds, take a shower, make some tea, eat something delicious - because you are worth it and you deserve to feel good.

Maybe they had kids, or elderly parents they needed to help out. Or maybe the fire blocked the way to the kitten. It's easy to see something like this and think "I'd do everything right in an emergency!" but you never know until you're in that situation.

IDK, I live in Sweden and keep finding funny, relatable stuff.

The archaeological evidence from the workers' village (Heit el-Ghurab) suggests that these people were very well taken care of, eating the best meats and even having access to medical care (as evidenced by skeletons found with healed bones). If they were slaves, it probably would've been easier to mistreat them until they die and then replace them. But building the pyramids was, relatively, a cushy job and would've drawn many volunteers out of their villages to join the project.

There's evidence that suggests the pyramid builders were volunteers (as it was a great honour to work on a structure showing glory to the pharaoh). They also appear to have been well-fed, since they found bread and beer making equipment in their residential village. Most interestingly, archaeologists found cattle bones among their rubbish, including young cattle, indicating that the workers ate a good amount of veal! (Which is surprising because in that time only the elites could afford to eat cows, poor people ate mostly bread and sometimes pigs).

I think it's meant to imply that the parent thinks they have some control over the teacher and what/how they teach because of taxes.

These rovers are built very well but Mars is tricky - a little dirt where it shouldn't be or a tiny computer glitch and it's toast. For instance Opportunity's sister rover got stuck in 2009. So I imagine NASA expected the rovers to last longer than 90 days and were prepared for that, but it's also a bit of a coin toss whether the machinery will last 3 weeks or 13 years.