Or if it's a complete program for a profession like nursing or medicine, you wake up when the professors damn well say you do.

I actually had a super chill vegan patient the other day who was aging remarkably gracefully into trailer-trash (my own cultural roots), complete with 40 pack-year smoker's voice and skin that belongs in a cancer PSA. They told me they aren't completely married to the idea but that they do their best and would like to be able to read the labels on what they get if possible. They pointed out that their breakfast tray arrived with biscuits and sugar and commented that the biscuits were almost certainly made with eggs and butter, and that the sugar was probably bleached using animal products (not sure about that one). I definitely didn't have anything decent to say about the biscuit thing. For them it was definitely more about the animal welfare thing than the chemical thing. They were pretty frank about not being too fussy about the chemicals that went into their body.

Morrowind.

Honestly neither The Veldt nor All Summer in a Day shocked me much at all as a kid and in retrospect that says a LOT about my childhood.

Wish I could upvote you twice.

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They really had me in the first half.

Bruh most people don't even realize how much of modern healthcare still runs on fax machines. I didn't even grow up with fax machines but I had to learn how to use them when I started my career. Most of our interactions with the government and pseudo government agencies for our involuntary / committed Psych patients is done by fax. The cops forgot to give us one of the pages we need when they dropped off a patient a few weeks ago and I found the NonEmerg line for their county and spamcalled their Dispatch at 2am until they faxed it to us.

This is all to say that nurses as a whole are extremely tech illiterate. Most healthcare workers are; they've spent a lot of time learning anatomy and physiology and have had very little time left in their schooling to learn tech stuff. I grew up using CL Linux so I do most of the 2am tech support for everything that doesn't explicitly require IT credentials. The wildest thing to me was watching both older nurses AND younger nurses hunt and peck to type. I grew up using AIM to talk to my friends as a teenager and nothing will increase your fluency with something more than most of your teenage communication that way.

But it also means that I still have to go back to reddit to find people to properly empathize with me. As the OP says, a lot of these people can't even empathize with the fact that I can't find people here to empathize with. They just blame my fellow healthcare workers for not keeping up with technology. Like, cool, but I also just wanna be able to talk to them!

I've reconciled within myself that I'm not much of a fighter anyway, but I would like to help strengthen the people who are!

damn u really are adhd too tho

I consistently have coworkers ask how my brain works as fast as it does and I just as consistently tell them that getting going and keeping going are just it's natural state, it's getting it to shut the fuck up that's the problem. I never even realized how much I mutter to myself until one of the security guards was orienting a new one to our Psych unit and I overheard "oh no she's always talking to herself that's normal." It's not internal stimuli it doesn't sound real to me it's just my own internal thoughts running like a little hamster on a wheel (did you know even wild hamsters will do that if you just put a wheel out in their natural habitat?)