idea: we do the whole leftist infighting thing after we win against the common enemy, deal?

it took me 3 different doctors to finally get a diagnosis. first two were neurotypical, the last one also had adhd himself. adhd is often misunderstood, and the metrics for diagnosing it completely ignore individuals that have figured out their own coping mechanisms or are more intelligent than most.

for example a big part of the diagnosis is a binary - did you have trouble at school? if you answer “well no i didn’t, but i also never studied or did homework, everything was just kind of easy. the subjects i disliked went very poorly though. i still passed but my range of grades went from highest to lowest yet still passing. i had some trouble with higher education when i was expected to study on my own though, i got my degree but seemed to struggle much more than my peers” all the non-neurodivergent doctor (or god forbid, a test) will hear will be “well no”

obviously i don’t know you personally, nor do i know what test you took or what doctor you went to. but if you still suspect you have adhd despite being told “nah” by one doctor, then i’d encourage you to seek a second opinion, ideally with a doctor who has adhd themself, so the diagnosis is a simple vibe check instead of mind numbing tests that only account for “well duh” kind of adhd

hi friend, it’s not laziness - it’s executive dysfunction. And it’s quite difficult, thought not impossible, to work against.

Step one is realising that executive dysfunction isn’t a choice - laziness is a choice, and it’s supposed to feel good - if you feel guilty the entire time you’re being “lazy” then that’s not being lazy.

Step two is creating systems not habits to work against it. Us adhd folks either have a very hard time creating habits, or are incapable of creating them at all.

What do i mean when i say systems, not habits? i mean reflections & procedures that help you realise you’re falling down an executive dysfunction hole, and then help you get out of it. The best metric i’ve found to understand how deep into that hole you are is figuing out how much guilt surrounds you - messy home, messy documents, unfinished projects, undone work etc. all those generate guilt, and the more guilty you feel the more overwhelemed you get.

Then you engage the systems that help you get out of it. Find your sources of energy that’ll get you through cleaning and organising. For me exercise works best, even if it’s just some stretching or light cardio (jumping jacks are the only thing that wakes me up when i’m tired for example lol). Address things one by one - first clean up your home, a passive source of guilt coming from your surroundings is going to be constantly dragging you down.

Once that’s out the way get to work on your projects. Realise that you can’t start at working 7h non-stop, but you can slowly work up your stamina for consecutive work. Push yourself to do a bit more every time, but not too hard or you’ll start getting the burn out meter going up.

What helps a lot is doing things for another person or having a body-double there to keep yourself feeling accountable. Even as little as being in a discord call with another person working can get your in a mindset to do things.

And speaking of mindsets to do things - another tactic is to create task specific environments and or outfits that you associate with doing something. Going to a library to study, putting on an outfit to clean etc. You can do that digitally as well - perhaps have a seperate system account for programming and working, that’ll help you keep the distractions just enough out of reach that on good days you’ll easily choose continuing to work instead of video games or watching youtube.

Things i wrote above work for me, they might not work for you though. You’ll need to discover and figure out what makes you tick. It might seem hard, and it can be, but it’s very much worth it

butbutbut… i’m gen z and i use most of these regularly. does that make me ancient as well?

video games take a lot of time and effort to make, and i’m not that interested in making them

i can live with physical pain if it saves me from mental anguish

2, all the other ones can go to hell holy shit i’d cry if i had to eat with them (yes, i’m neurodivergent hello)

is it then a double creampie or a sandwich pie?

do you mean two in two, or two in one?

man, i simply want a 3D non-anime non-light novel non-tits the size of my screen porn game from a submissive perspective. the only one i managed to find is in beta (Carnal Instinct) and has been for at least a year

what makes this combo be such a unicorn of porn games istg, is being horny an anime-fan exclusive in gaming?

honestly good, from what i’ve noticed adult games are waaaaaay more likely to become early access abandonware, i guess once the horniness runs out so does the motivation. and i’d like to finally play a game that’s horny, good, and finished. i may be into edging and denial but only consentually, ok?

we still wouldn’t get paid more if we converted to Euros, we’d just be paid in smaller looking numbers

it’s the devs/publishers yes

some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that

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at the ripe old age of prolly like 12 i have discovered that i hate pvp, now i simply do not that that thing under any circumstances (unless i think it’d be funny to lose, which i pretty much always do)

edit: i make too mant typos

is this loss?

he’s like 1/8 or 1/16 native, so despite being far removed from indigenous people and culture white americans have a tendency to see any claim to cultural heritage as valid, so the outrage wasn’t as big as normal

my best idea would be going old school with in person written & oral testing, since clearly nothing digital is of any help anymore. or perhaps require multiple digital WIP versions to be submitted? would also be getting the students into a good habit of making backups of their work. or maybe every essay should come with a director’s commentary (a more loose style reflective essay on the research and work done)

o.o holy shit- i mean that’s a valid move, using AI for a handwritten piece sounds like a pain in the ass, but so does just writing 10 pages by hand, AI or not!

i’m glad i got through my higher education marginally before the AI boom hit (i graduated 3 years ago). i only had Turnitin yell “PLAGIARISM???” at me when i used a common phrase that another student used at some point somewhere (think - “The research suggests…”, or sometimes even the page numbers), good times good times

sure maybe it was tested with data already known to the researchers, but that’s not a real world test, that’s still a fully controlled environment. and the researchers, being human, aren’t perfect, the data about what the AI was meant to predict could’ve slipped into the training data. using historic data to predict slightly less historic data is a good first step, and it’s of course exciting! but we’re not done here

nobody can read AI code after its been trained, so until all possibility of human error can be fully disspelled by continuous testing it in real time and having the AI actually predict events that come to be - it’s a could, not a can.