I've learned to appreciate my chaos for life's spice. I'm an Absurdist. I like to be the reason others do things. All that to say i rather enjoy the freedoms of peace and everyone should add a bit of flower magic to their life.
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After years and years of hard work and therapy, I'm now a hilarious mix of the two.
You might ask, "How is your sink so empty and your kitchen so clean, but your clean laundry is piled so high that this is probably your entire wardrobe here on the floor next to the dryer?"
Well, I would answer, "How did you get in my house and would you like something to eat?"
Get out of my house!
...You didn't even offer me a snack for the road! What kind of host are you?
Also I brought tea bags. They're quite nice.
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I'm the second until i am stressed enough to start disassociating, then i become the first one :)
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There's the "I'm 60 and I don't realize I have it and it annoys the fuck out of my colleagues" type that I had to deal with...
I'm like one in public but the other in private.
I'm held together by anxiety, caffeine and an unhealthy amount of self hate.
I also have 7 list, a board, 3 reminder app and leave sticky notes everywhere but I least I'm productive ( please help )
I had to set up a project management software to manage my housework. That's normal, and not a coping mechanism.
Goddamnit, another thing I do to cope. I keep asking my doc how to get diagnosed, I just keep getting antidepressants prescribed which do not help.
So here's some important facts I've learned from my doctors over recent years. Keep in mind, I'm not a doctor, and this information might be out of date (but I don't think it is).
People with ADHD are often comorbid with depression, so if a doctor doesn't treat the depression first, and gives the person with ADHD the medication to focus, it can result in the person with ADHD having enough focus to successfully make an attempt on their own life.
Fact two: many persons with ADHD doesn't make enough seratonin on their own to function, which means if you're being prescribed SSRIs, you don't have enough seratonin to selectively reuptake inhibit.
But since the antidepressants for ADHD are a different class of drugs, many doctors will run through the 'standard' list before they get to the stuff that helps ADHDers. And then once they've done that, and ruled out all the things, they'll move to "unconventional" treatment. Partly, this is because the process of trying different antidepressants can rule out things other than ADHD, and partly because they seem to want to rule out every other possible thing in addition to ADHD, before treating the ADHD. And if I were to guess, it's because giving a person ADHD medication who has a secret something else (like bipolar as an example) even though the person has ADHD, the ADHD medication can worsen the other condition to such a condition that it's better not to give ADHD medication at all.
This is why the process takes so fuckin long. And a couple years ago, I would've said it was stupid and a massive waste of time and harmful to the person with ADHD. But a year ago a friend of mine with bipolar was prescribed stimulant medication and his life absolutely went off the rails as a result, and seeing that first hand... I'd rather low and slow and not have to experience something like that.
Sorry for the word wall. I hope this helps!
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How the fuck do you get enough energy to use project management software to manage your housework?
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(No, it (really) isn't.)
I'm type 2 and a joke, can confirm.
There's also the type that constantly has extra (possibly clarifying) thoughts in the middle of their typed sentences. So, they use parentheses to add those clarifications because having to retype the sentence would derail their train of thought and they'd then completely fail to convey anything.
Some try to compensate for that by editing sentences to remove it, but then only change like half the sentence, breaking it without realizing.
So, so much. Then realizing you typed two paragraphs replying to a text. Then spend 30 minutes on full re-edits until your self doubt makes you eventually delete it all and simply respond “ok” where normal people only take 10 seconds to type that and yet you get annoyed by their lack of communication. And thus the self hatred spiral continues, as ever.
I use dashes - like this - and feel called out.
Listen there is nothing wrong with having used both commas, dashes and parentheses in the same comment. It's perfectly normal.
Right?
Don't forget to add brackets along with the parenthesis so you can have a clarifying thought during your clarifying thought
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got that built in bottom text
I don't appreciate being attacked like this.
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Mask?
Are you asking what the term means? Masking is basically wearing an imaginary mask to hide whatever about you isn't deemed "normal" by society. Some typical examples are people with ADHD focussing very hard on noticing when it's their turn to speak, people with autism forcing themselves to make eye contact, people with depression putting on a happy face. Normal Person cosplay.
Thanks for the explanation!
"Normal people cosplay."
I was sorely lacking this definition in my vocabulary. Thank you for the correction.
FUCK
You can say fuck on the Internet!
For fucks sake.
Filtering swear words is a dark path the masses are willfully following. It's a subtle way to see if they can use AI to force us to change how we speak to align with a worldview. People need to fucking resist it.
Interesting take. Care to elaborate what role AI plays in this context? Recognizing swear words in image files, I guess?
Also I'm willfully using more swear words on Lemmy if it means they won't farm my comments for training their fucking piss shit AI without my goddamn consent. Horsefuckers!
The underlying tech doesn't care about swear words. But, from what I hear, the "AI" models and interfaces that are being marketed for general use have been intentionally trained not to emit such words, and may even be blinded to those words by their creators. I haven't verified it, but supposedly adding "fucking" to your Google / Bing search query will completely disable their "AI" generated results, e.g.
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Don't fucking say that word please
no u cant the lemmy cuss brigade will arrest u, my uncle said so and he works at nintendo
My Nintendo works for U.N.C.L.E.
idk if working at nintendo is a fitting punishment for saying fuck
Joke's into him: I'm into it.
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I went from the 2nd type to the 1st type and I don't regret it. My life is fun now.
It's too relatable to be a joke.