No but you do say "I'm diabetic" which uses diabetes as sort of identity within the sentence structure.
Similarly "I'm a cancer survivor" and "I'm a cancer patient" are ways someone with cancer could structure a sentence to give weight to the way cancer and the experiences of cancer fundamentally change this person's personality and identity.
While "I am ADHD" isn't perfect, it's a very new use of language to try and create an identity form, and it will continue to evolve and sound more natural.
Personally I still find myself saying "I'm autistic and I have ADHD" in most situations, but if I know I won't have to explain the term too much, I do prefer "I'm AuDHD", because it's an identity first phrase, and it feels as natural as "I'm autistic" or "I'm diabetic".
But the difference grammatically between "I'm autistic" and "I'm ADHD" is minimal, yet I agree one sounds fine and the other just sounds stupid. And other than exposure, I can't place my finger on why.
At the end of the day, alcoholism, depression, and obesity, they are unhealthy states of being.
They are not something people choose, and while there are treatments, it's not something everyone can control.
That doesn't mean we should simply accept this state of being. People living with depression deserve better, people living with alcoholism deserve better than for us to say "it's out of their control, they can't help it, so we shouldn't judge, let them be" when what they need is better support and better treatment options.
Likewise, obese people deserve better than "eat less, move more, fatty!" but they also deserve more than "all bodies are beautiful, just let us be"
I say this as someone who was a fat kid, and a fat teen, and a fat adult. I had a BMI of 50 for a most of my life. In my mid 30s, I got it down to 28, and still going.
So I say all of this is as someone else who was fat, obese, and morbidly obese. Obesity should be viewed the same way we view depression and anxiety, though depression and anxiety also need some better PR.
Being obese may not not always be a choice, but the the ultimate end goal of how we view obesity as a state of being is to find ways we can all manage our weight. Because obesity is not healthy, for those who can't easily control their weight, life sucks, they are patients in need of treatment, not morally failing people, but also not "perfect plus sized activists who are healthy at every size"
Because while bodies and sizes vary and we can do healthy things at every size. Obesity is inherently unhealthy. Obviously being bullied won't solve anything, but neither will society politely ignoring how hard it is to live a full life while suffering from obesity.
Being black isn't an inherent health issue. It genuinely is just a different state of being. 99% of problems unique to black people are social issues, not medical issues... So the comparison between obesity and substance abuse issues is more helpful than trying to compare being obese to being BIPOC.
Lonnie is feminine where you live?
It's a typical "dad got me a job in the mailroom in '62, and I've been the mail room manager ever since" sheltered, working class old white guy who thinks he's middle class because he doesn't understand how rich the rich are, but he sure knows the poor aren't trying hard enough and kids these days eat too many avocados, but he doesn't bring it up unless you ask him directly.
He's a bit off with the fairies but he's only a little racist compared to mates his age, that old Lonnie.
That's alright, there will only be a handful of gen alpha even eligible to vote in a 2029 election, since they were born 2010-not even born yet
Yup, thyroid, adrenals, and gonads have been checked, both with blood work and untrasound.
I have dysautonomia due to a brain stem herniation, and temperature regulation is effected by that, but it's just been so weird that the way this symptom effects me was decades of not feeling the cold, then suddenly now I'm not feeling the heat.
I know which one I'd choose if I got to pick.... and it's the one where I don't need to go to a wound nurse for frost nip in February.
I'm pretty sure this is the actual etymology of news.
People asking each other "what new things?" becomes "what news", as well as usage like "that information is new to me" becoming "that is news to me"
I was a year round shorts guy, genuinely didn't feel the cold. Last year I suddenly became a year round thermal stockings, skivee, thermal gloves, jumper and woollen pants guy.
I can't get warm. It's like I'm catching up on 30+ years of never feeling the cold by feeling the cold all the time.
Generally millennials born after 1989 would fall into the "younger millennial" catagory.
The difference between old millennial and young millennial is how much of the 90s you actually remember because you were old enough to form memories, and not just the kind of made up memories you invent from looking back on old photos and trying to imagine the stories your parents told you about your childhood.
The way alot, aswell and noone are combining is expected given how many other words we don't bat an eye at went the same way. "another" is the perfect example, it's just "an other" combined.
It's sort of the reverse of what happened to words like apron and newt.
The division and bracketing of phrases changes over time.
"An apron" is the modern usage of the word "napron", and a newt was originally called an eute. The grammatical need for "a" and/or "an" resulted in the root word being rebracketed and changed.
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Is this common in American English? I don't think I've ever seen the word oriented double handled like that. Irregardless, it slew me
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