• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Lol I can’t even find my firearm. I know it’s around here somewhere. Somewhere really stupidly obvious. I just set it down like two seconds ago. 🤔

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      4 days ago

      Months later you remember that it’s in the gun safe in a drawer you don’t use.

      Just have to find the key now…

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        4 days ago

        And pray you don’t move out and forget it (i lost a fairly nice set of silverware doing that)

      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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        Probably better at this point to pick up a new hobby like lock picking/bypassing to be able to open it up and once you get the tools for the job and learn the basics. Wait why did we bother learning to lock? Probably was just for fun. Then you can abandon the hobby, lose the tools and eventually maybe you’ll realize you haven’t seen your gun in a long time. Wherever could it be?

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    4 days ago

    Yeah, you’re the guy on the left, for a few months… Then it becomes normal, and then you up your dosage, until you hit 70mg of Vyvanse daily, and need to take drug holidays just so they work well enough, not to look like the guy on the right.

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    I didn’t get diagnosed until I was in my early 60’s. I was so used to masking and using my bag of tricks that meds totally fucked my life up.

    Had to stop after about 6 weeks of hell.

    Sometimes I wish I’d been born later or born a boy cause either of those could/would have helped a lot.

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      I think girls and women are often overlooked and failed by the system when it comes to ADHD and Autism. Girls and women are taught by society to fit in and not rock the boat. I think that’s why they’re better at masking; it’s a social necessity. That and the very different neurochemical makeups across the gender spectrum. Because these disorders continue to be viewed through the erroneous paradigm of ‘How well does this child fit in? How well do they perform in a classroom?’ – something which is evident in the very name of ADHD – boys and men are more likely to get caught by the system early on. Girls and women are often failed by it.

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    4 days ago

    Funny meme, sure.

    But meds don’t solve all problems and make you neurotypical or something.

    (To a certain degree I think that’s a good thing. I don’t want to be boring.)

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      The implication is that on meds they’re super-focused and goal-oriented. Without they’re having fun and trying new ideas. Neither is good or bad, right or wrong. Rings true for me.

      Meds aren’t going to make anyone neurotypical – they just help them harness their awesomely chaotic mind so they can do something more productive with it.

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    Whatever works, it’s not the fancy coz we want to be fancy, it’s a survival necessity/tactic

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    And here I am 30 years after my diagnosis and have never been on meds. I did do 2 to 3 years of neurofeedback training though.