Connor Franta 4real, depresh, anxo, college gun armories, and Kate Moe
Also, let's replace a word that people keep getting wrong
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Me trying to get it
I'm working very hard on understanding the phenomenon of YouTube celebrity vloggers. I know it's a legit art form, I don't look down on it, but I'm not native to the art form the way I am with, say, television. Or books.
Not that it should be hard to get because certainly the concept of the memoirist goes back a long, long way. And the notion of being a diarist is nothing new, either. Maybe it’s the video thing that makes me feel like it’s all foreign, the idea of this head inside a screen sharing all their thoughts and feelings. Even though! Even! Though! Alls I do all the time is share thoughts and feelings and solicit thoughts and feelings from others in an AUDIO format. Which is similar to video in so many ways!
I was not all that familiar with Connor Franta’s work even though he has over 5 MILLION YT subscribers, sells a ton of books, and is very famous. I think part of the reason for my unfamiliarity with Connor’s work is that it wasn’t made for me, it was made for people much younger. It was made for people in his own demographic and younger.
My 19yo daughter Kate knew all about Connor so this episode features an intro where she explains Connor and his appeal. We did it all in one take and I love how it turned out. She explains what an “influencer” is, which I already sort of knew, and the new meaning of “relatable”, which I did not know.
When I talked to Connor and thought about him on YouTube…
I’m afraid I did often think about another Connor.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is one of my favorite movies. Another clip? Oh okay.
Movement to ditch the word “schizophrenia”
It’s a hundred-year-old term that a lot of people have learned incorrectly long before they learn what the disorder actually is. Now some folks in Massachusetts are trying to get it changed to something better.
“That term over time has become so associated with hopelessness, with dangerousness, with volatile and erratic behavior that doctors are afraid to use that term,” said Raquelle Mesholam-Gateley, a Harvard psychologist who helped lead the survey, which was published in the journal Schizophrenia Research.
Mesholam-Gately said people often confuse schizophrenia with dissociative identity disorder, which used to be called multiple personalities.
I think this is a great idea. Seems unfair that people who deal with the reality of this disorder and the people who work with them shouldn’t have to go around correcting everyone in the world who uses the term poorly. Give it a new name. We do this all the time, especially with mental health.
Larson, 74, is among those advocating for a new name for schizophrenia. In fact, she came up with one while sitting with friends at a café. She was trying to explain what it was like to live with the psychotic illness for decades.
“And I said it's like altered perception. Your perception doesn't read the way other people do. It's altered by the illness,” she said.
So, “altered perception syndrome” became one of nine alternative names suggested by a group Larson is involved with, called the Consumer Advisory Board. It’s part of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, based at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Most LGBTQ report poorer mental health as a result of anti-trans legislation
Many state governments are going after trans people, either out of an effort to scare political points off bigotry or just out of bigotry itself. It sucks.
And it’s having a huge negative effect on some of the most vulnerable and at-risk people in our society, according to a new poll by the Trevor Project.
Two-thirds of LGBTQ youth report that the recent debates about state laws restricting the rights of transgender people has impacted their mental health negatively. This impact is even more dramatic among transgender and/or non-binary youth where more than four in five of them (85%) report it has impacted their mental health negatively.
Three in five LGBTQ+ youth report feeling scared about the future while nearly half report feeling anxiety about in-person learning amidst the pandemic. LGBTQ+ youth reported feeling mostly stressed and nervous about the 2021-2022 academic school year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Axios gives some more context:
What we're watching: Just days into the 2022 legislative session, bills have been introduced in six states — Missouri, Indiana, Arizona, South Carolina, Kentucky and South Dakota — that would "prohibit access to sports for trans and non binary youth," Casey Pick, senior fellow for advocacy and government affairs for the Trevor Project, told Axios.
In three other states — Alabama, Arizona and Ohio — other pieces of legislation that have been filed "would ban doctors for providing best practice health care for trans and non-binary youth," Pick added.
Anti-trans legislation was signed into law in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
If you don’t laugh out loud about this then I just don’t know.
Proud to live in Minnesota.