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British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry
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People can have severe forms of ADHD. It's typical to not be able to use a calendar.
so somehow said people can pick up their phone, unlock it, open an app, go through sone shitty ui, and enter information through a touch screen.
But they cant put a mark on a piece of paper?
Yes because the piece of paper doesn't give me a visual reminder when I forgot to make an entry.
I can tell you what would happen if I'd use such a calendar because of ADHD:
Pens will get lost.
When it's time to replace the paper for a new month or year, I would procrastinate on that. Potentially for a very long time.
I could also not use that paper calendar for anything else because I can't manage my appointments and schedules on paper (frequent corrections, reminders, paper doesn't have backups and copies, ...).
I can't take the paper calendar with me so I wouldn't have my appointments on the go. Having two calenders would exponentially grow the problems described above.
They're just selfish lazy cowards making excuses for not changing their behavior, that's all.
They want their perfect little world handed to them by someone else and they're mad that the world has agency of its own they have to actively compete with to get what they want, which does not allow them to live the passive and risk-free lifestyle they want.
Laugh at them, for they bring their suffering onto themselves.
So if I have ADHD and I can use a calendar just fine, my way is irrelevant because other people with ADHD can't?
ETA: if your ADHD is so bad that you can't make a dot on a calendar then enlist your caretaker to do it for you.
Final edit: JFC. The point of the edit was this: back in the day.people still had ADHD. Somehow, perhaps by some miracle, those women/menstruating persons WERE able to record their periods successfully. Smart phones and App (this will be shocking to a lot of you smooth brains in the comments) didn't always exist. Holy shit
Most adults with ADHD don't have 'caretakers' and have to find their own strategies that meet their own needs. Yours works for you, great, other people have different needs though.
Someone says they can't handle a paper calendar because of their ADHD.
You said although you have ADHD you can use a paper calendar.
I said most people with ADHD can't use one.
Your conclusion is I said your way of using a paper calendar is irrelevant?!
Yeah, have you tried just... being @rosymind@leminal.space ? Their experience is obviously superior, why would you want to be anybody else? /s