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So, I was looking up clones in the DC universe for my Clone Queen Elle dp x dc AU thing, and I only got as far as the first one because I started with that clone of Damian that killed him, and I got completely derailed because -
What do you MEAN he was BORN in a WHALE??? What? WHAT?
WHY DID TALIA PUT HIM IN A WHALE? HOW??? WHY?!?
Was the whale alive?? Was it like a surrogate thing? I know I asked this already but really why a WHALE? Like what the actual fuck???
Like I'm sure there's context I'm missing because I just looked at the wiki and I know I should just read the comic to get my answers and I will eventually but I just gotta get this out of my system first because of all the things I could have possibly expected to read there was no way I could have been ready for that
#batman#damian wayne#the heritic dc#what the fuck Talia#what the fuck DC#a WHALE#like the dude probably didn’t have much of a chance to begin with#but his first moments of life being spent having to bust his way out of a fucking WHALE could NOT have helped#like can you even IMAGINE
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Danny sort of not being down for this when he learns what it entails, so Jason gets down on one knee and Clockwork knights him with the sword while Danny protests
Jason just casually teasing Danny that he can’t tell him what to do, Danny didn’t knight him so he’s gonna protect his king how he wants
Danny sulking cuz yeah, when he specifically as the king knights Jason he would get extra cool powers vs Clockwork as his regent, but what if that means Jason is more controlled by the title??
Danny holding off cuz he wants Jason to have as much free will as possible
Jason trying to patiently explain he still has absolutely all of his will, watch this, “go fuck yourself my liege” and sure he feels the new protective urges, but he got used to ignoring the pit so he could fight them if he wanted to
But it’s never been anything he doesn’t want
And then some fight happens, Danny can’t get personally involved for plot reasons so Jason’s kicking ass but can’t last forever
Danny gives in and knights Jason personally and ooooh the power surge blasts everything away from him
Cuz another thing the Fright Knight gets when the king chooses him is access to a part of the king’s power
And holy shit Jason had no fucking clue Danny had this much power??? He’s such a twink he never uses even a tiny bit of it???
And Danny’s just twiddling his thumbs like “listen it’s not like I need all that okay I’m doing fine”
Also
JASON FINISHING SCHOOL ALONG WITH DANNY CUZ I DUNNO IF HE GRADUATED AFTER HE DIED
JASON AND DANNY IN THE SAME CLASS AT AN ADULT LEARNING CENTER
So, I got this idea a while ago but I'm generally a slow writer so while I plan to do something with it, I thought I'd share it to see if anyone else liked the idea and wanted to play with it, too.
What if Fright Knight isn't the name of a specific ghost, but rather the position of body guard/General for the Ghost King? The one we meet in the show is who Pariah Dark chose.
I don't see Danny being ok with using the same Fright Knight as Pariah Dark. At all. So, in typical teen fashion, he ignores it and hopes he just won't have to deal with it. (He's also ignoring Clockwork's increasingly persistent demands he gets crowned.)
Flash forward and he's in Gotham. This could be part of a standard he gets adopted by Bruce Wayne fic. Maybe he and the bats know each other's secrets, maybe they don't. But Danny meets Jason for the first time and is all: "What the fuck brought you back to life?" This can be in front of the others for comedy or maybe he chases Jason down after the first meeting and does it in private for angst. Dealers choice.
Well, he drags Jason to the Far Frozen with half-baked explanations so Frostbite can fix his corrupted ectoplasm issue. And while there Jason gets a crash course in ghost biology.
With Danny in the Ghost Zone, Clockwork comes up and tries to force the coronation to happen. Takes one look at Jason and offers him the position of Fright Knight. Bribes him with the cool sword it comes with.
Jason accepts.
When they return to Gotham, Jason is super over protective of Danny. Mostly because he cured his pit rage, but also because it's his literal job now. He starts referring to Danny as King Brat or My Liege at all times.
If you like, he can also be all "Hey, dad" (some of his father issues went away with the pit rage) "So, I'm the general of an inter-dimensional army of beings that the US government has declared war on. I'm gonna have to fight on their side. So if we don't want an all out war waged on US soil, can we get the Justice League in on this to straighten things out?"
And Danny's like "No! No wars! I don't support this!"
And Jason is all "Sorry, My Liege, but my job is to keep you safe. And the US government attacked first. I don't need your permission to defend you and your people."
And everyone's just super confused until they all sit down with the League to go over the Anti-ecto laws.
Extra, extra bonus points. Jason helps create a study plan for Danny to learn the politics and history of the Ghost Zone along with finishing his normal schooling.
Ooooooo I enjoy your funky little mind thoughts sm.
Jason becoming Danny’s Fright Knight is something I dont think I’ve ever seen explored before. This is super cool.
It’d be neat to see the Fright Knight title slightly change Jason.
He’s now stronger, faster, able to think quicker, higher endurance, anything that could benefit him in martial or long range combat to protect his king? He gets a slight buff of said abilities. The title is something granted to one chosen person by the Ghost King, that position has a bit of ghost magic bullshittery tacked onto it.
Jason is much more alert and aware of Danny at all times, almost like a second sense. He’s extra protective because the title requires him to be but he also is extra protective because the Fright Knight title MAKES him protective. It’s an ingrained sense info his entire being now. Its his sworn duty to protect the King.
#dp x dc#dpxdc#fright knight as a heritable title tho#the rest of the bats big jelly they wanna be fright knights they all died too#right until they learn jason would be their superior officer
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Protean, Yexhul
"Naga" © Igor Klymenko, accessed at his ArtStation here
[This monster is picking up a plot thread I laid down years ago: how to introduce slaadi into the Pathfinder cosmology. It also continues me use of anagrams as the namesakes of proteans. This one is fairly short, so I suspect it's going to be one of the more solvable ones.]
Protean, Yexhul CR 16 CN Outsider (extraplanar) This serpentine creature has four arms, each ending in a clawed hand. Instead of a single head, a riot of dozens of small necks and heads grow from its shoulders like the branches of a great tree. The scales of its chest have eyespots, like the feathers of a peacock.
Yexhuls are the proteans that observe and meddle with animal evolution. Yexhuls push animals in new directions, both by introducing organisms into new habitats and by physically altering organisms, taking what is typically a slow and orderly process and interjecting sometimes bizarre flights of fancy. The touch of a yexhil can alter the abilities of an organism permanently, and the transformations they imbue are heritable. A number of the magical beasts found on Material worlds, especially those that are incongruous hybrids of two animals, are yexhul creations.
No two fights with a yexhul are likely to progress the same way, as these creatures can alter their bodies on the fly. They also have an experimental approach to violence, changing their abilities in different ways for different fights, and summoning different animals to assist them in combat. Although they have many heads, a yexhul can only bite a single target at once, striking with all of their jaws simultaneously (unless it gives itself more bite attacks with its acclimation ability). If their enemies are gaining the upper hand, a yexhul will turn them into something harmless with baleful polymorph, or use primal regression to disable their ability to cast spells.
Most other types of proteans distrust yexhuls, as they were the creators of the Spawning Stone. That continent-sized chunk of reality brought to the Maelstrom was an enormous experiment in the survival of the fittest, and its “fittest”, the slaadi, swiftly escaped the Spawning Stone and eventually the Maelstrom entirely, running amok through the planes. Yexhuls, for their part, consider the slaadi a resounding success, and they are among the proteans more likely to work with slaadi than against them. Annunaki are a species that have a great dislike for yexhuls, and try to exterminate them when their paths cross.
One of the great philosophical debates among yexhuls concerns domestication. Some yexhuls consider it a natural outgrowth of evolution, and use their abilities to make unusual species more likely to associate with humanoids and start the process of becoming domesticated. Other yexhuls consider artificial selection by any hands other than their own to be a grave insult. Some even “un-domesticate” animals, rendering livestock and pets aggressive and uncontrollable or helping feral populations adapt better to the wild. Other proteans encourage this infighting, as it keeps the yexhuls from conducting any more experiments as far-reaching as the Spawning Stone.
Yexhul CR 16 XP 76,800 CN Large outsider (chaos, extraplanar, protean) Init +10; Senses all-around vision, blindsense 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., Perception +26
Defense AC 31, touch 15, flat-footed 25 (-1 size, +6 Dex, +16 natural) hp 241 (21d10+126) Fort +15, Ref +18, Will +17 DR 15/lawful; Immune acid, electricity, sonic; Resist cold 10; SR 27 Defensive Abilities amorphous anatomy, freedom of movement
Offense Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft. (perfect) Melee bite +27 (3d8+10 plus 1d6 cold), 4 claws +27 (1d6+7 plus 1d6 cold), tail slap +22 (1d12+3 plus 1d6 cold and grab) Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft. (15 ft. with tail) Special Attacks constrict (1d12+7),powerful blows (bite), probing bite, rend (2 claws, 1d6+10), specialization, trample (DC 27, 1d8+10) Spell-like Abilities CL 16th, concentration +22 (+26 casting defensively) Constant—speak with animals At will—atavism (DC 20), hold animal (DC 18), magic circle vs. law (DC 19), pup shape (DC 19) 3/day—animal growth, baleful polymorph (DC 21), quickened chaos hammer (DC 20), summon nature’s ally VII (animals only) 1/day—animal shapes, plane shift (DC 23), polymorph any object (DC 24), primeval regression (DC 23)
Statistics Str 25, Dex 23, Con 23, Int 24, Wis20, Cha 22 Base Atk +21; CMB +29 (+33 grappling); CMD 46 Feats Combat Casting,Dodge,Flyby Attack, Great Fortitude,Greater Vital Strike, Improved Initiative,Improved Vital Strike, Mobility, Power Attack, Quicken SLA (chaos hammer), Vital Strike Skills Acrobatics +24, Bluff +27, Climb +25, Fly +18, Handle Animal +27, Intimidate +27, Knowledge (arcana, religion) +25, Knowledge (nature, planes) +28, Perception +26, Spellcraft +25, Stealth +26, Survival +26, Swim +25 Languages Abyssal, Protean, speak with animals SQ acclimation (7 points, energy attacks (cold), reach (tail), rend, trample) change shape (animal or magical beast, beast shape IV), wild empathy +27
Ecology Environment any (Maelstrom) Organization solitary, pair or council (3-6) Treasure standard
Special Abilities Acclimation (Su) A yexhul can alter its physical traits on the fly. It has a number of evolution points equal to 1/3 its Hit Dice, which it can spend on any evolution as if it were a summoner’s eidolon. It may take any evolution legal for a serpentine shape, and treats its Hit Dice as its summoner level for the purpose of qualifying for evolutions. A yexhul can change its acclimations by taking 1 full round, and can carry them over into its alternate forms with change shape if it so desires. Change Shape (Su) A yexhul may change shape at will, but does not heal when it reverts to its normal form. Probing Bite (Ex) The many heads of a yexhul strike simultaneously, but reach around obstacles. A yexhul’s bite ignores any cover short of total cover, as well as ignoring shield bonuses to Armor Class. Specialization (Su) As a standard action, a yexhul may touch a creature to alter its ability scores. An unwilling creature can resist this with a DC 26 Fortitude save. The creature touched gains a +6 bonus to one of its ability scores, but a -2 penalty to two of its other ability scores, as chosen by the yexhul. This is an instantaneous effect, and can only be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, wish or miracle spell. This bonus is passed on to this creature’s offspring. If a creature’s Intelligence is raised above 3, it gains the ability to speak and understand one language of the yexhul’s choice (typically Protean). These penalties cannot lower a creature’s ability scores below 1. A creature that successfully saves is immune to the specialization of that yexhul for the next 24 hours. No creature can be specialized in this way more than once simultaneously. This is a polymorph effect, and the save DC is Charisma based. Wild Empathy (Ex) A yexhul can use wild empathy as a druid with a level equal to its Hit Dice.
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Ben and Lisa and Lisa's devastating pursuit of normal
Ben is on the nose. He's literally named "son," and he acts like adult!performing!Dean, rather than a nuaced 3D person at first. Like Ben doesn't act like a real child. In fact, Ben seems awkwardly, gleefully wrought, like a bad red herring. I mean, a kid loving AC/DC? Leather jacket? Not even Dean liked these things. He aped them from John. Kids from this time are into Spiderman. Ninja-Turtles. Ben is sketched obnoxiously, even by SPN writing standards.
Lisa's weird, impulsive clingy behavior is best explained by either thinking Dean's the father for real or needing him to be, in order to sell a lie to herself. There's some weird stuff about her. Lisa looks loaded, financially wise. There's family money or at least help on the downpayment. She rented a bounce house for a kids' party. That $100-200 even by today's standards. Yikes!
My girl was a young yoga instructor with an unexpected pregnancy...kinda hard to make things work without some help. We know her sister is in the picture, but is she estranged from her parents? The grandparents are nowhere to be seen. Something is off about her family life. There's no Ben-with-grandparents photos. Dean played golf, but not with his father-in-law? Weird. They look like a golf-with-granpa family. That looks like a golf-with-granpa house.
So, taking it further than that, Lisa looks like a gal who knows how to use BC and condoms, and she'd def use that with a rando stranger. Unless she couldn't afford BC, which means... hmm. So, how did she get pregnant? Coykd it have been potentially traumatic? Maybe she knows who the actusl father is. That's what the stammering blood test is about. She needs to convince herself that the real father...isn't. Because it's shameful. She'd rather it be Dean instead. Perhaps? It's an interesting thought.
On a strategical front, even Cas knew to use Claire against Jimmy. Michael would have absolutely jumped into Ben, rather than dig up Adam. Frankly, Dean and Cas erasing Ben's memories when he's a potential vessel would be strategical suicide, dooming Ben to live in a world as a vessel but without any warning/protection about avoiding angelic manipulation.
So that leaves options:
If you say yes, Ben is Dean's kid, you have to then consider that A, Michael is just stupid (unlikely), or B, he's kind and wouldn't use a kid (even more unlikely)
If you say Ben isn't, then either A, Lisa is tragically fixated on Dean (not unusual for cool!girl writing in SPN), B, Lisa is using Dean to cover her own trauma (thematically consistent), or Lisa and Ben were mind-whammied beforehand to fit a particular aesthetic for Dean (ick).
The second scenario looks more likely. I prefer option 2. And furthermore, if we're going to harp on AC/DC and leather jackets being "heritable," that's all Lisa. It's Ben who shares Lisa's tastes. She introduced him to leather jackets and AC/DC, because Lisa also apes what she looks for in a man. If a single weekend was her best after a near decade, and a year with a paranoid was that good for her, something's up with her life. She needs "normal" too much. Tldr; Lisa desperately wanted normal more than even Dean did because her life was already broken.
Maybe she needed a weekend where a man wanted her for her, not for money or whatever. Maybe it was the LACK of lindness in her life that made Dean sooooo special and the "best night of my life" shit is a smokescreen she uses to ward off this truth? Maybe it was she who desperately needed a normal apple pie family life w/o shame. Any man would do so long as they tried to make it work; so long as they were kind; anything to make Lisa appear normal.
That's a good argument as any why Lisa needed to play house so badly.
Being a cool!girl is an act. You put up with shit because you know it's the only way to get table scraps.
Lisa is the superior pretender, and Dean had no idea because he was young and perceived normal folks as "having all their shit together." Lisa's pretending is beaten only by Bela Talbot imho
P.S. Ben's not John's either for same angelic reasons as above. However, he might be Arthur Ketch's.
#well yes i am#lisa has daddy issues too you can't chsnge my mind#i don't think she was in a bela situation#but poor? doing sex work to get agead? yeah i can see that#it was esp dangerous at the time
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I was tryin’ to think of some possible futures for my baby boy Dami!!
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Superheroes are an established genre these days, but they (obviously) weren’t when Marvel, DC, etc were starting out. This means that they have one thing that most modern superhero settings don’t: Unique origin stories for each member of the cast. Superman is an alien, Wonder Woman is an Amazon, the Green Lantern found a ring, the Flash got stuck in a lab accident, Batman is rich and stubborn; together, They Fight Crime!
Contrast that with more recent superhero stories. In My Hero Academia, every hero and villain has a Quirk. In Worm and Ward, every cape is a parahuman. In Steelheart and its sequels, the Epics are all…it’s kinda like Worm, if it called its villains Epics and didn’t have any heroes or general term for “superpowered human”. In Kamen Rider and Big Hero Six (among others), everyone’s powers come from science. In Miraculous Ladybug, Steven Universe, and other series on the border between superhero and either magical girl or urban fantasy, it’s all magic. And so on.
That’s an interesting shift to look at.
Obviously, not all modern superhero stories fit this formula. Some, like Mutants & Masterminds, Sentinels of the Multiverse, and Dreadnought/Sovereign, give unique origin stories to every superpowered or Badass Normal member of the cast; aliens, rich inventors, and super-soldiers stand side by side with witches, martial artists, and people whose powers’ origin aren’t really explained.
But these are all deliberate throwbacks; Dreadnought and Sovereign are trying to give trans kids the same kind of power fantasy cis ones get from reading Spider-Man or Wonder Woman, Mutants & Masterminds is an RPG for playing classic-style superhero stories, and Sentinels of the Multiverse has a whole metafictional layer of fictional comic books and pubishing history behind its cards.
There are some kitchen-sink-origin stories which aren’t so obviously “just” riffing on classic superhero stories one way or another. One Punch Man is the example that comes to mind first for me; a lot of its monsters are eventually revealed to have a common origin, and most of its heroes are “just” Badass Normals, but it still has some espers, oracles, cyborgs, aliens, mad scientists, and so forth. And then there are series like Dragon Ball, which TV Tropes insists is a superhero story so don’t @ me, which is just set in a goofy world where anything goes because the author cares less about series continuity than dumb jokes. But by and large, the rule is that superpeople in recent media share an origin story with everyone else in their setting.
And a lot of the time—especially in non-serialized media—that origin isn’t really discussed. Sky High, for all its accidental eugenicsy/fascy undertones and general mediocrity, is a pretty good example I can trust at least some of y’all to know about. Superpowers are just a fact of life, and that’s all anyone needs to know before we launch into our story about how a random dude with no powers becomes the greatest hero (by inheriting both of his parents’ powers at plot-convenient moments). There are a couple off-hand mentions of toxic waste sometimes giving people superpowers, but this is both a joke and exceedingly uncommon in-universe. Superpowers have one origin, and it’s genetic.
Putting aside how Sky High handled that setting element, it serves as a decent template for how superpowers work in everything from The Incredibles to Strong Female Protagonist to Worm to My Hero Academia to Aberrant to Wild Cards to the Milestone Comics universe to—you get the idea. People have superpowers, for reasons that may be explained in detail, or handwaved with something about genetics, or just ignored. These powers, or at least the status of having powers,are almost always heritable to some extent; when they aren’t, the superpowers are usually a recent phenomenon. Different superpowers are as unique as they are in kitchen-sink universes, each following their own internal logic, but they might share some common weaknesses (e.g. can all be “turned off” by the same kind of power nullification cuffs/field/power). And so on.
It’s rare for these rules to be stated explicitly, except in stories that try to get detailed about how their power system works (hiya, Worm!) It’s just accepted that, for instance, everyone’s powers are different yet the same; we know that’s how superhero stories work, so we accept it. Which would be normal genre stuff, if it wasn’t for the fact that there are a lot of high-profile superhero stories which don’t work that way! Anything that falls under the Marvel and DC umbrellas, for instance. Some rules apply to individual heroes—for instance, we can expect the kids of Superman, Zatanna, and Batman to inherit at least some of their parent’s powers—but they don’t apply to everyone and can’t be assumed.
That said, I’m pretty sure the genesis of this “standard superhero ruleset” comes from Marvel, specifically the X-Men. Marvel mutants all have a common, handwavey origin, with shared weaknesses (anything that removes or suppresses mutant abilities), but each mutant has their own unique powers. And so on. Aside from existing in a kitchen-sink universe, with lots of weird one-off power sources and the like, it’s just like the modern superpower system I’ve been describing.
I dunno if this is meaningful or anything, but I think it’s interesting, and I hope some other people do too. If you’ve read this far and you’re not one of them…I’m sorry.
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My outline was:
Marinette is in class
She suddenly manifests [insert true heritage related here]
When her parents come to check on her, Sabine goes “what? no it can’t be…….unless?” before realizing what’s going on
She fills Tom on everything she knows
And the first chapter concludes with a fluff scene between the two.
I still no idea on who the father will be.
(Maybe the hellsite couldn’t handle it because the text was close to the character limit?)
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Ok so judging by this, you want the father to have some sort of superhuman powers I’m guessing? Something that can be easily identified as coming from the father and not the mother, so something where it’s definitely heritable. Or if it’s not a power, at least a trait that regular humans don’t have. So that’s a good starting point I think. Off the top of my head, Avatar: the Last Airbender and Harry Potter could both fit into this, though with HP statue of secrecy could be an issue. Marvel has mutants and DC has metahumans which could both theoretically fit the role, but there are issues with that since powers aren’t necessarily consistent between parent and child and non-superpowered individuals may have kids with superpowers.
My Hero Academia may also work somewhat? Though how heritable powers are can differ. If you’re ok with it being a possible nudge towards alternate parentage, rather than practically guaranteed that this other guy is the father, it could work as well.
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any idea what the bbrae babies would look like
Oh, anon, do I have many.
One thing that I absolutely love about bbrae babies; there’s so many different possibilities.
They could have green skin, or grey skin, or regular, pale colored skin. They could have green hair, purple hair, black hair, etc. It sort of depends on where exactly you’re getting the inspiration from, and what genes they inherit as a result.
Like for instance, comic book Raven typically has blue eyes, black hair, and pale skin. While Beast Boy is green, though he possesses traits for blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. (Something in his genetic code was overwritten to provide the green phenotypic traits he possesses in canon, which occurred when he was bitten and received the “vaccine”. I’d guess it was a mutation, possibly combined with an epigenetic shift in his DNA structure, which overrode his natural phenotype. This would be heritable.)
So, if the kid does not get the mutation BB has, they’d probably have pale skin, black hair (as it’s dominant), and blue eyes. If they got the mutation, they’d probably be green. Whether or not they can alter their appearance depends on how much their powers would mutate due to the cross between two powered individuals, and that’s up to interpretation! ^_^
Now if we’re going by the animated series’ interpretation, it’s a similar thing on BB’s side, Raven just has purple hair, purple eyes, and grey skin. Since none of that is seen in nature (aside from the very rare purple eyes), how those traits are inherited is up to interpretation. Typically, darker colored traits are more dominant, so I’d say the purple hair and grey skin would be more dominant than the blonde hair and pale skin. So if the kid didn’t get the mutation, they’d have higher chances of getting those traits.
So that’s sorta my idea. There’s a lot that can be interpreted and changed to one’s fancy, just because of how unique these two are in what traits they possess! And me being a science nerd, I’m incredibly fascinated by it all. XD
Now if DC could just give us a bbrae baby already…
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Since I am now submitting content to Timebound, I figured that I should explain what my comics are about.
Obviously, if you read them, they are about superheroes. From 2007-2014 whey were about Kane Heriter, who was known as Hale Kane. Since then, it has been about his son, KJ. During their times, they have energy beam powers and face dilemmas that I would expect superheroes to go through. There are usually bad guys, but there are comics where there are no bad guys.
I like to think that the path of Marvel and DC is one to avoid. They did basically everything that could possibly be done and it got to the point of being ridiculous. I don’t want that for my comics. I like to be realistic.
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Girls are closing one gender gap we don’t want: diagnoses of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Between 2003 and 2011, parents reported an increase of ADHD diagnoses of 55% for girls, compared to 40% for boys, according to a 2015 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
And yet girls continue to be misdiagnosed in spades, with alarming consequences, Dr. Ellen Littman, clinical psychologist and co-author of Understanding Girls with AD/HD, tells Quartz. “The outcomes for girls are horrendously negative compared to boys,” she says.
ADHD materializes dramatically differently in girls.
“Anxiety and depression turn into low self-esteem and self-loathing, and the risk for self-harm and suicide attempts is four-to-five times that of girls without ADHD,” 2012 research shows.
“This is not about having trouble with their homework,” Littman says.
Unlike boys, many of whom show hyperactivity, girls’ symptoms veer more toward inattentiveness and disorganization. Girls tend to develop ADHD later than boys. They frequently mask it in an attempt to conform to society’s expectation that they be on the ball and organized. And while some ADHD symptoms can become less intense for boys after they pass through puberty, for many girls, it gets worse.
“I think we have a lost generation of women who are diagnosed with ADHD later in life, who have had to manage the condition on their own and deal with it on their own for the majority of their lives,” Michelle Frank, a clinical psychologist and ADHD expert, tells Quartz. “The diagnosis is a blessing and a curse: it’s a great relief, but they wonder what could have been different if they had only known.”
ADHD is harder to recognize in girls
In Understanding Girls with AD/HD, Littman and her co-authors explain that ADHD was first diagnosed in young, white boys, with a key indicator being hyperactivity. As a result, guidelines were written around how it manifests in boys, and research is almost exclusively focused on boys (1% is specific to girls, Littman says).
It also materializes much later in girls, which was problematic when the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnosis criteria called for symptoms to be visible by age 7. It recently changed the age (pdf) to 12, allowing more girls to be captured.
Dr. Patricia Quinn, one of Littman’s co-authors on the book and a pediatrician in Washington, DC, who founded the National Center For Girls and Women With ADHD, told HuffPo Parents that girls’ symptoms include:
a tendency toward daydreaming
trouble following instructions
making careless mistakes on homework and tests.
ADHD is a chronic neurobiological disorder which affects the brain structurally and chemically, as well as the ways in which various parts of the brain communicate with one another. It is highly heritable, says Frank.
Pressure to perform means many girls internalize their symptoms—disorganization or carelessness—as personal flaws rather than medical issues to be treated through medicine and therapy.
Girls with ADHD are significantly more likely to experience major depression, anxiety, and eating disorders than girls without. “They tend to have few friendships,” Littman says. “As a result of their low self-esteem, they often choose unhealthy relationships in which they may accept punitive criticism and or abuse.”
Teachers and parents often miss the warning signs because feeling disorganized or unfocused often leads to depression and anxiety. Failing to properly diagnose the condition, girls miss out on critical academic services and accommodations, as well as therapy and medication. Many girls end up misdiagnosed and treated with anti-anxiety or depression drugs, some of which exacerbate the effects of ADHD.
The numbers
Progress is being made. Not long ago, the ratio of diagnosed boys vs. girls with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder was 10 to 1. Today, it is somewhere between 4 to 1 and 2 to 1, Littman says.
According to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry study, ADHD affected 7.3% of girls in 2011, compared to 16.5% for boys. Oddly, as awareness grows about ADHD in girls, there is evidence that boys are being wildly over-diagnosed with ADHD, including 17-year-old-boys who want extra time to complete the SAT for college applications.
“There’s no question it is both under-diagnosed and over-diagnosed,” Littman says.
This is not to say that millions of boys and men don’t have ADHD or suffer from the consequences of it.
“It’s important to remember that while we have to focus on increasing awareness and services to girls and women, boys and men are also profoundly affected by ADHD. We have a long way to go in addressing the immense stigma and gross misunderstanding that surrounds this diagnosis,” says Frank.
But Littman says the myths around ADHD and girls remain pervasive and she is deluged daily by people who are seeking help. “Girls are being told still by pediatricians and primary care doctors that ‘you are a girl, you can’t get ADD.” (ADHD includes the symptom of physical hyperactivity while ADD does not).
Women and ADHD
Other pernicious myths around ADHD include the perception that adult women, including successful professionals, can’t have ADHD.
Just the opposite. When the structure of school and college make way for the anarchy of balancing work and maybe having children, keeping ADHD at bay becomes harder.
Littman works with, and has studied, the impact of ADHD on high-IQ men and women, many of whom spent years masking their symptoms with their high abilities. As she tries to target if ADHD is the issue, she asks whether they are “constantly in a state of being overwhelmed and frantic about coping with day-to-day basic things?” Most burst into tears. “These are the people least likely to be acknowledged and because of the shame of feeling smart, they don’t feel they are entitled to help.”
Not surprisingly, she says, there are as many female as male patients in adult clinics. One study of ADHD medication showed women were the fast-growing population. Between 2008 and 2012, the number of Americans using medication to treat ADHD rose 36%; among women aged 26 to 34, the figure rose 85%.
Frank says even those who were diagnosed, though perhaps late, face serious longer-term consequences. “You can treat ADHD, you can get support and strategies, but the self-esteem challenges are going to be left over and you have to work at that for a lot longer.”
Personal stories have helped to raise awareness about the fact that girls can have ADHD, and that it presents itself differently. Maria Yagoda wrote in the Atlantic about being diagnosed as a junior at Yale:
My peers were also confused, and rather certain my psychiatrist was misguided. “Of course you don’t have ADHD. You’re smart,” a friend told me, definitively, before switching to the far more compelling topic: medication.“So are you going to take Adderall and become super skinny?” “Are you going to sell it?” “Are you going to snort it?”
The answer, clearly, was no.
“Medication is certainly not a cure-all, but when paired with the awareness granted by a diagnosis, it has rendered my symptoms more bearable—less unknown, less shameful,” she wrote.
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Use Yoga To Beat Social Anxiety In five Minutes Flat
Social phobia is equally widespread in men and girls and is found across different cultures. Around 3% of the population suffers from social phobia. A certain type of psychological counselling, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), has been shown to support treat social anxiety disorder. Typically your doctor will advocate counselling 1st, and add medicine if necessary. But your remedy plan will rely on what you and your medical professional determine is greatest for you.
Agoraphobia: It occurs when a person fears of an anticipated scenario or going to a location (where h/she suffered panic attacks). People suffering from this sort of phobia create worry and anxiety in closed or open spaces, in a crowd or when alone (outdoors their house).
Despite the fact that alcohol may ease symptoms in the brief term, never be fooled that drinking assists to remedy anxiety. In the long run, it does not. Drinking alcohol to 'calm nerves' can lead to difficulty drinking and may make difficulties with anxiety and depression worse in the extended term. See a doctor if you are drinking alcohol (or taking street drugs) to ease anxiety.
Adam Heenan, a Ph.D. from Queen's University identified that relaxation activities alter the perception so that they view the environment in a significantly less threatening, less unfavorable way. For people with mood and anxiety problems, this is an critical breakthrough.
Admit it. You are addicted to the net. It gives you the exact same rush, the same heady higher of that 1st cigarette of the day. Admission is the first step to rehabilitation. This applies to any kind of addiction. Actor Salman Khan did one of his most widely acclaimed roles in the film ‘Tere Naam'. In the movie he essayed the role of a schizophrenic. His interpretation of the situation was precise, but not all schizophrenics have to be in an asylum!
About for Experts Pros helps schools, well being specialists and assistance workers help young men and women with their mental well being and wellbeing. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Problems. (5th Edition). Washington, DC.
An instance of an instance may possibly be that of an employee presenting to their co-workers. For the duration of the presentation, the particular person may possibly stutter a word, upon which he or she may possibly worry that other men and women considerably noticed and believe that their perceptions of him or her as a presenter have been tarnished. This cognitive thought propels additional anxiety which compounds with additional stuttering, sweating, and, potentially, a panic attack.
Even though researchers are unraveling a lot more clues, they agree that both genetics and atmosphere play a function. Since anxiety issues often run in households, it may be inherited. But scientists don't but totally know how a lot of this heritability is due to genes or discovered behavior.
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ARE YOU BORN TO WIN?
With direct-to-consumer genetic testing for athletic performance going mainstream, are we heading for a world where elite sports people are identified at birth?
“Now thanks to the latest breakthroughs in genetic testing you can find out what type of exercises and sports you are genetically built for.”
So goes the promotional blurb for one of the many companies now offering Direct-to-Consumer (DCS) genetic testing for athletic performance. These companies typically promise that knowing more about your genes will help you personalize your training, take advantage of your inherent strengths and overcome your limitations. They even promise to show parents their children’s pre-determined aptitudes.
It’s temptingly easy; the tests will be mailed out to you, and all you need do is send back a swab of saliva.
There’s no doubt this will appeal to conscientious and competitively-minded parents keen to direct their children towards the sports they might excel at. Coaches and sports teams seeking a performance advantage over the competition might be interested. And anyone hoping to find out about their inner Usain Bolt or Katie Ledecky can’t help but be tempted.
So is it scientifically valid?
Sort of. We all carry the same 20,000 genes or so, but different people often carry different variations of those genes. The two gene variants have been most consistently related to athletic performance are ACE I/D and ACTN3 R577X, which have been associated with endurance and power-related performance respectively. (You could say there is a “talented” and “untalented” version of each variant.) Around 200 genes have been linked to athletic performance, so far, but experts say that none of them have been linked strongly enough to suggest they can be used to predict athletic success or reveal enough to direct people toward different sports.
A position paper published in the BMJ in 2015, signed by a group of experts in genomics, exercise, sport medicine, disease, injury and anti-doping, said: “The general consensus among sport and exercise genetics researchers is that genetic tests have no role to play in talent identification or the individualized prescription of training to maximize performance.”
The authors also point out that half of the companies that offer genetic screening for athletic performance don’t publicly state which genetic markers they screen for. “The reasons for such apparent secrecy are presumably commercial sensitivity in part, although it is tempting to conclude that failing to publicize the tests conducted is a tacit admission that the scientific evidence supporting the genetic variants chosen is weak.” In short, the information such tests provide is unlikely to be useful, and possibly misleading.
We do know, however, that genes can influence personality and even intelligence. The cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author Steven Pinker has said that whatever we measure, “Identical twins (who share all their genes) are more similar than fraternal twins (who share half their genes that vary among people). Biological siblings (who share half those genes too) are more similar than adopted siblings (who share no more genes than do strangers). And identical twins separated at birth and raised in different adoptive homes (who share their genes but not their environments) are uncannily similar.”
But even he notes that while genetics is a fascinating area of research (which is conducted across populations rather than in individuals), much of what your personal genome currently reveals can be better found out though old-fashioned methods. If you want to know your cholesterol level, then get a cholesterol test. If you want to know whether you are good at math, take a math test. Similarly, if you want to find out how good you are at running, run a race!
Of course evolution hasn’t produced a level playing field. You don’t need to be a genetic scientist to know that height and body composition have a huge influence on athletic performance and what sports people are likely to be good at. These are highly heritable traits. It’s estimated that:
60 to 80 percent of the difference in height between individuals is determined by genetic factors (20 to 40 percent can be put down to environmental effects, particularly nutrition).
Aerobic endurance has a heritability of about 50 percent.
Muscular strength has a heritability factor of anywhere between 30 and 80 percent.
A study by British researchers in 2007, which looked at 700 pairs of twins, showed that 66 percent of the differences in our sporting abilities could be put down to genetic differences.
But it is not a simple relationship. Hundreds of genes are likely to be involved, or variations of genes, with many of them yet to be identified. And while scientists have learned a lot about the connection between genes and sporting talent in the last decade, they’d be the first to say they don’t know enough to use that information to predict sporting talent or to guide people in their choice of sports.
This much we all know; genes are part of the equation (one you can’t do that much about), but so are training, nutrition, psychology and technique. At this stage at least, it might be better to concentrate on those aspects of athletic performance you know you can really do something about.
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Written by Margo White
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017
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