Wait, so puberty blockers aren’t actually started until puberty starts? Because I was given the impression by some that they were started earlier.
As long as you pass a basic civics test to be eligible to vote (and run for office).
Maybe take the “puberty blockers” argument to its own thread?
My daughter was fully in the midst of puberty when he was prescribed blockers at the age of 16.
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Don’t worry; I’m done. I regret ever posting here.
Edit: I could destroy you all at arm wrestling.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but can you take your argument about gender fluidity (apologies if I’m using the wrong terms, I’ve been skipping through those posts) to a different place?
That’s a pretty popular opinion.
I did my homework, and it still took three tries to find the right PT. The first two did nisht for my back whatsoever. I asked my doctor to send me to a surgeon. She said try PT one more time, with a more “out of the box” therapist. If I didn’t get any back pain relief after six weeks, she’d refer me to a surgeon. Well, the third person was a miracle worker. I don’t know how I couldn’t have hooked up with her the first time, except that maybe she had a waiting list, and my doctor pulled some strings. I had back pain so bad I couldn’t walk a block without feeling like I wanted to throw up. Now I can go on hikes again.
Being a parent is hard. We are wrestling with several issues with our son now. He is 10 & 1/2, and 5’2. That puts him over the 100th percentile for height. He is in the 95th percentile for weight. His BMI is good, so no worries there. His projected adult height based on his growth rate and his height at 2 & 1/2 is 6’7. That’s tall enough to develop some health problems. His doctor told us we could consider inducing puberty early, so he would be 6’0 or 6’1. Then, as luck would have it, he seems to be entering puberty now. That means if he has a growth spurt, he will be between 5’10 & 6’0. There is the possibility he will not have a growth spurt, because his father did not have one. His father was overly tall (although not as tall as the boychik), and just kept growing a couple of inches a year during high school, while everyone else caught up with him, but he had normal puberty-- 15 or so. The precocious puberty comes from me. I had a bra in the fifth grade, and my period when I was barely 11.
If the boychik doesn’t have a growth spurt, he could be 5’6.
Now, 5’6 is not horribly short. It’s still taller than I am.
But precocious puberty can have other problems, some physical, some social, some academic (teachers expect more from kids who look older, and we’ve butted our heads up against that enough just with his height-- he’s looked about two years older than he is since he was 5).
We are considering having some x-rays done to find out what his actual growth potential is. If he really is destined to be 6’7, then we will probably let puberty continue, so he can be 6’0 instead. But if precocious puberty will make him 5’6, we might delay it, and let him get to be 5’10 or so. I just know if we don’t, he’s going to end up with a crush on a girl who is 5’7, and he’ll be mad at us.
I mean, my father was 5’8, and did just fine, and the boychik is not athletic. He’s probably going to be a professor or an engineer, or something, but still, I know that taller people have an edge everywhere. Not necessarily 6’7 people, but 5’10 and over.
Hell, even the law allows “permanent vegetative state” and now, “6 months or less remaining”.
How many celebrities have to go through a true Hell before the great and good people of Earth realize that, in some cases, senseless prolonging of life is not only useless, it becomes counter-productive?
I have kidney failure and osteoarthritis - one will kill, the other will make you wish for death.
Robin Williams could have benefited from a quick study on ways to die.
Robin Williams was discovered at autopsy to have Lewy Body Dementia, which is like a cross between Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and far worse than either. One of its primary symptoms is extreme paranoia, which is probably why he chose to expedite his death.
This has been kicked around so many times on these boards, BUT:
You know, with ABSOLUTE (no “can’t be certain” BS this time, OK?) certainty, that you will be “locked in” (thank you Blinky) - unable to move any muscle except the eyeballs and their lids.
Now what?
Forget the 90 day death sentence of certain brain cancers, this is real and it is happening to YOU this time around.
I kicked this and various other scenarios back in puberty.
I have to believe I am not unique in that experience.
Again - see threads 1 to infinity re. deliberate death for self or loved one - this is presented solely as rhetorical.
My family knows of my determination to exit in peace. I hope/expect the reaction would be a quiet smile and comfort that I am no longer suffering.
For those who really believe they have a moral right to interfere: Cram, Ram, and Rotate. You are not my god. My god is at peace with my life to date.
So far I have been true to my gods. I am determined to remain so for whatever time I have remaining.
As long as the death came despite best efforts, we deem Death as a Blessing.
Change the death to “died by own hand” and it is now despicable?
WRONG. Ninjas aren’t linguistic. They’re silent.
Kind of. I play Playstation games while drinking. My hand eye co-ordination is not effected at all as far as I can tell after three or four standard drinks. It is effected after more drinks than that though.
Back when I lived in Australia and it was legal, I would often drive after a few drinks, and because I knew I had had a few drinks I was more careful driving than I otherwise would have been - radio off, obey speed limits to a fault, wait for a big gap in traffic before pulling out, not taking passangers etc. etc.
They don’t factor that into “scientific testing”- being more careful than usual because you have had a few. But it is significant.
I also have a license to drive in Japan, but they have a zero alcohol limit here. Which is probably a good thing given Japanese traffic. 
Oh my…
Are you by any chance the creator of the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrak, Isamu Ohira? When I saw your name before opening the thread, It brought me back to GT4.
If so, you’re work is really good. Still listening to the tunes a decade later.
I believe all this fuss about “eating the right things” is utterly boring at best and a crock at worst. 50% of how long a person lives is determined by genetics. And stressing out every day about what you are going to eat is going to kill you quicker than a “bad” diet.
I do not want to hear about what you eat, and stop criticizing my food choices.
Sorry, no, I’m not. But keep on gaming!
No kidding!
I have little sympathy for people who are so determined to keep their spouse and/or parent out of a nursing home that they take on 24/7 caregiving with no support system or respite, and then wonder why it’s so exhausting.
This is not about people who have a support network and take advantage of various community resources to help out, and can admit it when it’s become too difficult.
My dogs are more important than your dogs.
says the man named “catfish”
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No on cares if you’re alive just that you’re not dead.
Personally I’ve learned from experience that if you want to end it all…**don’t **tell anyone you don’t trust.
I have never understood though how people who have high suicidal ideation and are in a ‘competent’ enough state fail to kill themselves in the US. You guy have firearms, explosives, comprehensive list of poisons etc… available to the public which even some liberal European countries can’t match.
I suppose if you’re successful in suicide then you won’t really be reporting back. :rolleyes: