As someone who struggles on an every-waking-minute basis with #ADHD, I think I have an especially white-hot rage for the trend of replacing passwords with single-use email messages
This requires a context switch away from what I'm doing to my distraction-filled email, find the special message, then context switch back. Any context switch is an opportunity for me to get derailed and not return to the task
For my brain, compared to Command+\ to fill email & password, this is like Homer's Odyssey
Would like to bring the CD changer downstairs from my WFH space. Realized I need to bring all the CDs down, too. Looked at the current optical media space and realized a) I need to re-arrange something and b) I've still got the broken Vifa speakers there, taking up space. The Bose AM4 cubes are just sitting on top and they do take up way less space, but if I remove the Vifas, then they need to be in mid-air.
Then I remember they have mounting holes. And stands exist. But they're expensive. Wait! I can make my own! Ooh noice... Bunnings sell aluminium channel the right sort of length and it's already black. So I just have to 3D print a base and a mounting adapter.
It appears I have things to do today.
CD changer hasn't come downstairs yet. That may still happen. I did start to move things out of the way so I could pull out the entertainment cabinet to do that.
@dansup I have LOADS of Pixelfed posts iny feed that are stills taken from a YouTube video and a link to it (quite prevalent when I search for the tag #ADHD or #Audhd. If I wanted a link to a video I'd go somewhere else and I understand it's someone quite well meaning, but Pixelfed is primarily for image sharing, not link sharing.
Is anybody aware of an existing word in English or any other language for the intense pain of being misunderstood?
We're thinking specifically about the kinda of pain that neurospicy folks often feel from being constantly misunderstood by others, but particularly by non-neurospicy folks.
It's usually a cumulative pain that builds up over years or even decades, and factors into neurodivergent experiences like Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) :AutismInfinitySymbol: :ADHD_Butterfly:
How my day goes: pie chart shows most of the day is overthinking and doing nothing (red) with a small portion of overthinking and doing nothing in blue.
mam tu jakieś swiftciary? ktoś chce mi wytłumaczyć ten burdel w temacie ORMow i query builderów? że jest vaporowy Fluent który jest tak naprawdę Fluent-kitem (chyba, bo docsy składają się z jednego paragrafu i odnośnika do docsow Vapora), który jest SQL-kitem, który to kit ma drivera do Postgresa (Postgres-Kit), który to driver conformuje z protokołem SqlDatabase tylko jeśli go używać tak jak mówią żeby go nie używać, który to kit jest pod spodem PostgresNIO i tak dalej i jprdl? oraz, że jedyna alternatywa z commitami późniejszymi niż 5 lat wstecz mało się nie zesra z przechwałek żeby 5 paragrafów niżej po cichu wspomnieć, że wspiera tylko SqlLite i po cichu nie wspierać Linuxa? da się czegoś w ogóle używać, czy mam wracać do Rusta? #Swift#programming#ADHD typing
Nice messenger chat with my 'boy'.
He had an ADHD assessment this week and reports a very positive outcome in feeling 'validated and seen' and now is getting medication to help him.
He says just a few days in, everything is 'clearer and easier, and productivity has shot up'.
Really happy for him.
Makes me feel like I should have a go at it myself now (as I'm probably responsible), but as I'm nearly sixty, mostly retired, and it doesn't really matter any more I'm not on the greasy pole, I think I might cope as I am and I have been.
I've started keeping a notebook where for every day I write down every 'task' I've done; anything that's a chore, that cost me spoons, or that could in some other way be considered 'productive'. The exact criteria don't matter for this purpose, if it mentally registers as a chore or task then that means that it would've functioned like one to my brain, so it qualifies.
And however weird it sounds, as expected, the lists end up being a lot bigger than I expected them to be.
I very much recommend doing this if you feel like you can't ever get anything done.
Screenshot of social media post. Author is ExistentialMemes.
How To Do A Task (TM):
1. Think about The Task (TM).
2. Think vividly about doing The Task (TM).
3. Eat snacks while thinking about The Task (TM).
4. Do every task that isn't The Task (TM).
5. (question mark question mark question mark question mark question mark)
6. Oh damn, you just didn't do The Task (TM).
7. Promise yourself that Tomorrow you'll do The Task (TM) for real, this time you mean it.
Ile kosztuje #ADHD? Np. 3000 rocznie w kosztach serwera, którym od lat nie miałem uwagi, żeby się zająć.
Powoli zaczynam rozwiązywać zagadkę, gdzie mi cała kasa znika. Wyłączyłem już jeden inny, który kasował parę dych miesięcznie mimo, że był niepotrzebny do niczego, ale to jest przegięcie...
Text on plain background: ME: I will start work right after my morning coffee. ALSO ME: Okay, I will start after lunch and work all afternoon. ALSO: I will get to it this evening. ALSO: I should start first thing tomorrow when I am fresh.
The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.
These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.
As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."
If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.
in classic adhd style, i've made a plan of action for the day and then one thought has pushed everything off the executive function workbench, and won't rest til I post here. So i'm asking any uk based adhd/autism people who are self employed, have you gotten help from access to work? Initially i thought, boy could i use one of those therapy lights I wonder if the government would buy me one. But now i'm like, can I get work coaching? Illustration specific work coaching? #ActuallyAutistic#adhd
POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.
Koniec żartu.
badum-tsssssss
(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)