#medicate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #medicate, aggregated by home.social.
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"I was talking to my close #family, and we're as neurodiverse as hell. And I was talking to, I think it was probably my grandson, and also my daughter. We were talking about how apparently neurotypical people favor vertical/ hierarchical social arrangements. They feel more comfortable if there are people above them and people below them, and they know where they are.
#Neurodiverse people tend to favor more #horizontal social arrangements.
So I was thinking about this, and I came up with what I think is a brilliant solution: that we should #medicate the #neurotypical. [Douglas: "Exactly!!"] Because it's them causing all the problems, you know."
#AlanMoore in conversation with Douglas @rushkoff.com about #Art & #Magic. -
"Zoopharmacognosy is a #behaviour in which non-human #animals self #medicate by selecting and ingesting or topically applying #plants soils and insects with #medicinal properties, to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens, toxins, and even other animals…"
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#Elephants Might Be Able To Self #Medicate To Induce #Labor
https://gizmodo.com/elephants-might-be-able-to-self-medicate-to-induce-labo-1611904103
#smart and lovely creatures 💓
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10. Indeed, #drugs should be liberated from the coercive diagnostic practices that medicalise not only human beings and behaviours, but also drugs that should be widely available. Instead, capitalist apparatuses forcibly #medicate some oppressed people, while criminalising and incarcerating (AND medicating) others, ensuring that oppressed people will be managed, supervised, and silenced one way or another. And Big Pharma benefits either way.
