u/doom_ponderer

My inheritance is being frittered away on organic nonsense. I am livid. I had to stop my father from buying a branded vegetable oil that cost more than five times the own-brand version, it's not like it's a speciality olive oil you might save for finishing salads, it's literally the same product in a nicer bottle.

We constantly hear about gambling ruining poor families, what about the lesser evil of well meaning middle class parents feeling obliged to buy organic strawberries and fair trade chocolate?

But almost none of them have actually watched it. The program deals with a typically hyperactive boy, and the dilemma his mother faces about medication. The medication makes him able to focus at school, but he doesn't like the way it makes him feel. They trial a program of increased outdoor activity, reduced sugar and screens, and surprise surprise, his symptoms improve, he still struggles with school but they decided it is better to accept this rather than continue with the meds.

Also in the program, the presenter talks to various experts, who reiterate there is no neurological evidence for an "ADHD brain", and the presenter himself gets a private ADHD diagnosis, based off evidence like he doesn't like waiting in queues and sometimes loses his phone. The implication is clear: we can't all have ADHD.

I find it very odd that middle aged professionals with private diagnoses, who had successful careers before and after medication, would get so worked up at the suggestion that their condition is not as inherent as they would like. I don't begrudge them their private prescriptions, I would consider getting on them myself, but I do find it a bit distasteful that they would get so offended by the program comparing ADHD meds to "slow release cocaine" (literally what they are), as if they want them to keep drugging children so that their drug use is legitimised.

Interesting the Guardian gave it 4 stars.

Nicola Sturgeon, the pride of Scottish independence, somehow did not notice her husband embezzling £400,000 between 2010 and 2022 while he was the CEO of the SNP.

What I find so funny about it is how bad the purchases were, for example in 2014, 2017 and 2019 he bought different bean-to-cup coffee machines for £1.3k, £1.9k, and £2.6k. Why did he need three of them? Did they just keep breaking, or did he want to upgrade? He also bought a manual espresso maker and a bunch of instant coffee. Make up your mind man.

Amazing how quickly you can go through £400k on bullshit, he's going to jail when he could have got exactly the same stuff on his regular salary if he had done a bit of research and got some things second hand. I could have made that money go so much further.

Everyone was very nice and patient with me, and I kept making excuses like "Oh this bookshelf is very interesting to me" or "I have restless eye syndrome", but as time went on it became increasingly clear that I had Autism and was in denial about it.