Some Links You Might Like 5
New week new links!
Michelle Starr: Mammals Have Evolved Into Anteaters at Least 12 Times Since The Dinosaurs
Have you heard the news? Eating ants is the next big thing in animals!
Patricia Taxxon: mental health update
I'm just going to soapbox for a second. You might have DID without knowing it. It's far more mundane and common than you think it is. You don't need to hear voices in your head or wake up in random places without knowing how you got there. It can be a kind of depression that makes your memory spotty. A sense that something terrible has happened to you, but that feels like it happened to someone else, leaving you suspiciously unscathed.
This is genuinely just a mental health update from a youtuber I follow, but there's a lot of really good bits in here. I have rewatched it a handful of times, which is impressive when it's only two days old, just to hear the specific ways she phrases stuff. I think that it's a mark of a good writer when even the functional writing sticks with you.
Dr. Devon Price: Is Your Fear of Gender Transition Really the Fear of Aging?
Even the fear of transition regret is a resistance to the irreversibility of time. Life’s options inevitably winn…