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writingdead:

Stupid question but can you un-add authors?

If you mean deleting them from the story then yes. Just click the Manage Authors link. There should be a little box that will allow you to delete them.

I've tried searching all over the internet for this, but does anyone know if people can die from consuming DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)---it's an insecticide that I think has been banned in the US.

I promise this is for story purposes only. I'm not trying to kill anyone, I swear :P

i saw sparks:

^ It depends. If you're applying for early decision, applications are generally due at the beginning of senior year, usually around November, then you hear back from the college sometime in January. For regular decision, applications aren't due until December or January, and you hear back from the college in March or April.

Thank you! :)

rains.in.spain:

I've tried searching all over the internet for this, but does anyone know if people can die from consuming DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)---it's an insecticide that I think has been banned in the US.

I promise this is for story purposes only. I'm not trying to kill anyone, I swear :P

At concentration above 236 mg DDT per kg of body weight, you'll die.

I guess you can. I found it from this useful website.

Hello, .

I'm trying to find a list of jobs that were common in Finland during the 1960's (preferably ones that were common for 25 year old males). After spending almost a half an hour looking online I haven't found anything that was helpful. Wikipedia said Agriculture, Manufacturing, Services and Trade. I know very little about Finland so that isn't specific enough for me. So, could anyone help me with this? The information is needed for one of my characters. The story itself will take place in the States so this information is mainly for character development. Also, I want to include some of the language as well. Is there a place other than Google Translate that can list phrases and words for me? I want to be as accurate as possible.

^^ Till after WWII, Finland's economy was mainly based on agriculture, but later industries started to develop.

I can imagine a young male in Helsinki working with shipbuilding as a craftman (carpenter, electrician, etc), for example. Or if he lived in the countryside, with timber harvesting, wood and paper industry was very important at that time in Finland.

I found this one
There are some phrases in English with two translations in Finnish, one formal and the other informal, so wich one you'll use depends on the context and on the person you're talking to.

^ I feel like I should have known all of this before I posted but I was drawing a blank. Thank you though! That actually helps a lot.

Anybody live in or around Mobile, Alabama? Just needing to know basic things, little things to make the city more accurate. Where the suburbs are, what's a bad part of town, the Gulf. Beaches too. The story takes place in the 1950's, but anything regarding the basic geography would be helpful.

I'm not sure if this question exactly belongs here but I couldn't think of any other thread it would fit in, so I'm sorry. :/

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here spoke Spanish? Preferably as a first language but as long as you're fluent I don't care. In a story I'm writing, two of the main characters are Spanish-speaking, one Colombian-Dominican and the other Mexican. I have a decent grasp on Spanish but not perfect at all. If anyone would be willing to help me out by letting me PM them whenever I need a translation that would be amazing because I really hate online translators and Spanish dictionaries can get me only so far. Like I said, I speak Spanish fairly well so it wouldn't be all that often, and it would never be huge paragraphs or anything, just a couple sentences or words here and there.

If anyone could help me out I would be so, so, so grateful and I'd recommend all your stories and advertise them in my author's notes if you'd like. xDD

@ chai latte
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Two not really at all related questions!

Common diseases associated with rats that isn't the bubonic plague? I checked my usual illness website and it basically said, all of them. Forever. ALL THE DISEASES, which you know a little too vague for me.

And second, is there a way that you could reverse engineer an (exact numerical) weight? I feel as though there should be a formula for this or something. Tall people are confusing.

Katlight Sparkle:

Two not really at all related questions!

Common diseases associated with rats that isn't the bubonic plague? I checked my usual illness website and it basically said, all of them. Forever. ALL THE DISEASES, which you know a little too vague for me.

Hrm. Fleas would be an issue. Perhaps various virii such as the flu (probably the big bad flues, like the Asian flu or Bird flu), respiratory problems and the like.

I found this in a quick search. Also, Google the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and see what they have to say.

Aightball:

Hrm. Fleas would be an issue. Perhaps various virii such as the flu (probably the big bad flues, like the Asian flu or Bird flu), respiratory problems and the like.

I found this in a quick search. Also, Google the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and see what they have to say.

Perfect link is perfect. I couldn't for the life of me think of the word 'Typhus.'

I’m looking for some information on children in foster homes. The main thing I need to know is if it’s possible for a child to be put in a foster home for a considerably long amount of time without being accurately diagnosed as to whether they have something wrong mentally or if it’s just a behaviour disorder. So say they’ve been in care for seven years, and they’ve had plenty of tests and councillors, but nobody has correctly worked out what their symptoms mean.

And if that were possible, what would be the reason? Does anybody know which sort of problems are the most difficult to diagnose, such as ones with symptoms similar to lots of other disorders but much rarer than a common behaviour one?

And one last thing-
Usually in books the author talks about how the child has caused so much trouble that they’ve been moved from foster home to foster home constantly throughout their life. Is this actually possible? Or do foster homes try hard to look after the child for a long period of time before sending them on to another home?

Chaos Walking:

I’m looking for some information on children in foster homes. The main thing I need to know is if it’s possible for a child to be put in a foster home for a considerably long amount of time without being accurately diagnosed as to whether they have something wrong mentally or if it’s just a behaviour disorder. So say they’ve been in care for seven years, and they’ve had plenty of tests and councillors, but nobody has correctly worked out what their symptoms mean.

And if that were possible, what would be the reason? Does anybody know which sort of problems are the most difficult to diagnose, such as ones with symptoms similar to lots of other disorders but much rarer than a common behaviour one?

And one last thing-
Usually in books the author talks about how the child has caused so much trouble that they’ve been moved from foster home to foster home constantly throughout their life. Is this actually possible? Or do foster homes try hard to look after the child for a long period of time before sending them on to another home?

1.) Are you referring to personality disorders (e.g. Antisocial, Borderline, Paranoid, etc)? Because no mental health profession would give them a diagnosis before they reached the age of eighteen. Before that, they would attempt to change, challenge, and treat the resulting behavior.

2.) Depends on the foster home and depends on the trouble. However, a lot of foster parents and homes have other children (fostered or not) so they can't really give a troubled kid the one on one that they'd need, or they were making trouble that was potentially dangerous or just not something that foster parents are equipped to deal with.

@ Katlight Sparkle
I was diagnosed Bipolar II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder at sixteen and my sister was diagnosed with Bipolar I and Social Anxiety Disorder as a teen, so I'm not sure where you got the information on not diagnosing teens. They are wary to do it, but will do it if it's the answer. The again, I did have a family history that backed everything up and an orphan may not have that available.

@ Chaos Walking
It's highly possible for an undiagnosed individual to exist anywhere. Mental illnesses take a long, long time to diagnose and even some not mental illnesses take as long. (Narcolepsy takes, on average, nine years to diagnose.) The reason it might take longer is a teen in a trouble environment may display a lot of symptoms similar to a mental illness.

@ Katlight Sparkle
Yes, personality disorders is what I meant. I’m trying to work out an accurate disorder for my character to have, and be in foster care because of, but the disorder hasn’t been diagnosed by any of the doctors or therapists because of its similarities to many other more common problems (though not all the symptoms match up, which is why they are having such a difficult time figuring it out). I’ve yet to look at the sort of disorders that match this description, but for now I just need to know if it’s possible to be undiagnosed.

@ open dru’s mouth.
Thank you! That should help the story make more sense, since it needs to be a mixed up problem. The character won’t be too old either, so it should be a lot easier to make it believable when the facts match up.

@ Chaos Walking
It's also possible to be misdiagnosed. Within a 6 month period when I was in eighth grade, I was misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and "a spoiled brat" and put on and taken off up to 12 pills at a time.

open dru's mouth.:

I was diagnosed Bipolar II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder at sixteen and my sister was diagnosed with Bipolar I and Social Anxiety Disorder as a teen, so I'm not sure where you got the information on not diagnosing teens. They are wary to do it, but will do it if it's the answer. The again, I did have a family history that backed everything up and an orphan may not have that available..

Those are Axis I disorders, which are generally accepted to be treatable or even curable; personality disorders are Axis II, which are considered to be completely uncurable and basically untreatable. That's why they don't diagnose personality disorders before eighteen; it'd giving someone a permanent label before their brain is even fully developed. They want to be sure the patterns of behavior are a permanent part of their personality, which is much harder to know when someone's growing up. But there's a ton of controversy surrounding all of this because what is permanent what is personality what is illness etc. so yeah.

@ Chaos Walking
The DSM-IV (the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, basically a list of recognized mental illnesses and their symptoms) lists ten personality disorders (plus the catchall "personality disorder not otherwise specified" (although the DSM-V is coming out next May and I have no idea if/how it'll change). Wikapedia has a list. Mental illness is such a vague and sticky subject that you kind of have some room as long as you do your research and are sensitive about it, because like, there are definitely dysfunctional patterns of behavior seen in lots of different people, but then it's entirely possible for two people to have the same diagnosis but exhibit very different symptoms, and there's always weird "not otherwise specified" categories for people who don't completely fit a pattern and basically is a psychiatrist's way of saying "idek but it's probably something".

open dru's mouth.:

@ Katlight Sparkle
I was diagnosed Bipolar II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder at sixteen and my sister was diagnosed with Bipolar I and Social Anxiety Disorder as a teen, so I'm not sure where you got the information on not diagnosing teens. They are wary to do it, but will do it if it's the answer. The again, I did have a family history that backed everything up and an orphan may not have that available.

@ Chaos Walking
It's highly possible for an undiagnosed individual to exist anywhere. Mental illnesses take a long, long time to diagnose and even some not mental illnesses take as long. (Narcolepsy takes, on average, nine years to diagnose.) The reason it might take longer is a teen in a trouble environment may display a lot of symptoms similar to a mental illness.

Bipolar is a mood disorder, not personality, and anxiety is a behavioral disorder. Both of which are completely separate from personality disorders.