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My sis is in her 30s and still whiplash lean.

What exactly is wrong, if you don't mind me asking?

Same here. I don't put on weight easily despite eating a shit ton of sugar and fat, so I assumed it was because of a fast metabolism.

That's unfair. It kind of prevents people from making good on past mistakes - say they were like ennui described, and weren't really motivated until they were older?

Sometimes if I've been sitting still too long or just feel tense, I have involuntary movements, my head jerks from side to side a little. My hair stands up on end too. Does anyone know what causes those?

I am find it hard to believe that as a general group women react to stress by being social and looking after each other. Purely anecdotally, when most women I know are stressed, they tend to get pissed off at each other more easily, same as men. They may have more of a tendency to use long term solutions and act as a unit, but I would not go so far as to accept that fight or flight = male, tend and befriend = female.

Yes I do. I could be wrong, though. Like you said, people react differently to a different stressor. I'd imagine that you get a continuum in both sexes, ranging from the very phlegmatic people to the ones with a hair-trigger SNS.

I seriously doubt any animal would confuse the sexes. Males and females smell different.

No, I meant: I'll roundhouse kick them in the head, as Milla Jovovich did in the Resident Evil movies. Clearer?

Yeah that was what I thought too. I'm only an ignorant 18 year old, but I would have thought that all people, male or female, would help each other out/take action as a group (a.k.a tend and befriend) to alleviate a stressful situation. I don't think it takes high estrogen levels to do that. Also, I think she's talking shit when she says that fleeing or fighting is not productive when you have children with you. If you're faced with an enemy, you don't sit and maintain your social relationships, you fight said enemy or you grab your child and run.

I thought you had a nerve that went directly to your adrenal medulla, and the substances released caused all the SNS effects?

Isn't it adrenaline that stimulates the SNS during fight or flight, though? I know women have testosterone, but only a tiny amount... If you don't mind me asking, why were you removing nerves from a corpse?

Just completed that. My pseudonym was "Addison". just so you know, I was in the 'never used cannabis' category

**** that's really cool! How do salamanders deal with bleeding, then?

How come under certain conditions like if you're hyperactive or out walking in the cold, your skin can be cold on the surface but you still feel overheated? Is it just that the blood withdraws from the skin?

taken from the text of an email: That doesn't make sense to me, everyone has a fight or flight mechanism, it's induced by adrenaline, not testosterone. Also, don't men also work as a unit in dangerous times?

I'll roundhouse kick them in the head just like Milla Jovovich.

I totally agree. Even if he did actually inhale some dope, so what. Who got hurt or violated there? No one. Who suffered in any way? No one. Calling that a crime makes a mockery of real crimes. We are indeed. It's one thing to expect your kids to model themselves on his dedication to his sport. It is quite another to expect him to go about every aspect of his life in a manner in which people want their kids to look up to. As an Olympic swimmer he is society's creature. As a human being, he is his own. Lol!

Sorry, I don't understand....I thought he was just using metaphor to make it easier to get his point across...?

Yay!

Hahahaha! I enjoyed that.

Hydrofluoric acid. Not a lovely molecule..

He was talking in metaphor, and what he said sounds accurate. People's perceptions of something often override the objective reality.

What everyone else said. Don't rush him. It sounds like he's already doing well at science, so no need to push him.

I don't agree with this. Most LGBT people I know about just go about their lives like every other normal person, and keep themselves to themselves. It's others who feel the need to bother them.