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Captain Monkey posted:Counseling, specifically CBT, is intensely useful. Good luck weird brain buddy. Its like 1:30 - 1:20 brains. It's more weird to have the cilantro soap genes. We're not that weird. We just live in a society that's perfectly happy doing the same loving thing at the same time every day forever and that is hell for people whose entire genetic code is wired to ask "what the gently caress is this and what happens if I gently caress with it? Let me think about all the other poo poo I noticed about it..." Not taken that way! Sorry my wife is trying to get me to not say poo poo like stupid or crazy about myself and by extension I've been a little more reactive when I hear stuff like that from other Brains, because I want a future where people learn about their differences positively. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 10:00 on May 14, 2021 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Its like 1:30 - 1:20 brains. Sure, it wasn't intended as a slam. Just a shared issue camaraderie type deal.
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I just want to thank this thread for reminding me that I needed to contact the MH facility I was referred to so that I could get an appointment for an ADD evaluation. And to add to the chorus, a really big percentage of my depression and anxiety is related to "why can't I focus on anything long enough to get something done?".
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I just want to thank this thread for reminding me that I needed to contact the MH facility I was referred to so that I could get an appointment for an ADD evaluation. Good luck!
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anyway, this is a bit weird: we have a word in most of the continental germanic languages, spygat which literally means "spew-hole". in Denmark we use it for the tube/hole that lets water run off the deck of a ship, i guess the specific word for that in english is "scupper". but it strikes me as very similar to the english word spigot, but dictionaries talk about latin and occitan, but completly ignore the north sea! wtf?
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Carthag Tuek posted:
It is very similar in spelling! But weirdly, it genuinely does seem to be completely different; in English, the word originally meant "something that plugs a hole", and it was only in Appalachian English - which later spread to the rest of the US, and then the UK and further abroad - that it started to mean "something that plugs a hole and that you can use to control the flow". English "spigot" - which is often pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "spicket" - is actually quite closely related to "spike".
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I only figured out the ADD thing when I hit grad school and just couldn't focus on my thesis to an extent that scared me, until I started taking way too much claritin D (with nice stimulating sudafed) to treat an undiagnosed red meat allergy and noticed I suddenly had no problem initializing work. It made an awful lot of things make an awful lot more sense in hindsight, like why I always felt constantly of the loop on basic logistical information at school or my almost-crippling messiness. Also why my dad and great uncles both have many of the same struggles*. Now I'm self employed and make my own hours which helps a bit. *one great uncle who is a professor once got an urgent call from a new colleague that his office had been ransacked. When he got there it was just the way he'd left it.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:It is very similar in spelling! But weirdly, it genuinely does seem to be completely different; in English, the word originally meant "something that plugs a hole", and it was only in Appalachian English - which later spread to the rest of the US, and then the UK and further abroad - that it started to mean "something that plugs a hole and that you can use to control the flow". English "spigot" - which is often pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "spicket" - is actually quite closely related to "spike". the english etymology is weak as hell, it only accounts for half of the word to add: my butt is a gat, and i will spew via my gat into the dictionary
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Therapy is great, can very much recommend. Meditation also helped me a lot, as training in how to just calm down and not think about everything all the time. And if you've got meds that are working for you: hell yeah! Also Len posted:I'm hoping this screws with my ability to multitask and they cut my workload back to two people. I really hate that after x years of my account being two people they went "Len can do both halves on his own!" 
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Hyper Len X
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Captain Monkey posted:Hyper Len X Haha, that's actually pretty good!
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ITT: people claim to post ellipses… but actually post three periods...
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Platystemon posted:ITT: people claim to post ellipses… There is an ongoing stylistic debate on that, if I recall when I looked it up earlier.
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When you post three periods, you have to follow it with six spaces... That’s just science.
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I am fat... and sassy!
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Platystemon posted:When you post three periods, you have to follow it with six spaces... That’s just science. Four periods and seven spaces.... whatcha gonna do about it? 
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Platystemon posted:When you post three periods, you have to follow it with six spaces... That’s just science. Actually. . . shouldn't each period have two spaces individually?
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Platystemon posted:ITT: people claim to post ellipses… I'm Canadian, "three periods" is my cultural heritage
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I just want to thank this thread for reminding me that I needed to contact the MH facility I was referred to so that I could get an appointment for an ADD evaluation. Same here, bud. I got wicked depression and anxiety but have just enough coping mechanisms to make me seem normal, if kinda weird. The central issue I have with myself is that I can hold down a job just fine (because if I don't I will die) but can't do much else. No reading, no drawing, nothing that enriches myself. Video games are all I sink my time in to because it's the only thing that will shut my brain mostly off. My therapist doesn't think I have AD(H)D but she and a few people in my life has wondered out loud if I'm autistic. I don't really give a poo poo at this point. I'm surviving and ten years ago I thought that would be impossible.
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Phy posted:I'm Canadian, "three periods" is my cultural heritage Also, to comply with quebecois regulations: les punctums trois
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Warcraft II had a secret song that I somehow had never heard until today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jQ36ixLeq8
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drat you're lucky that song's great
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Garrand posted:Warcraft II had a secret song that I somehow had never heard until today It's a remix of an existing track in the game. Sounds suspicious....  Haha, holy crap!
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StarCraft also has one
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Not a proper secret, but 90% of the people I know that played Worms: Armageddon never sat on the title screen long enough to hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWJsY4FoSZ8&t=135s
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Wasabi the J posted:Its like 1:30 - 1:20 brains. Yeah certain people always complain that pills are over-prescribed and the pharmaceutical industry and blah blah blah, but personally I think the main reason that so many people are on some sort of medication or another, especially for anxiety and depression, is that we live in a world that's so wholly unlike the one that we evolved for that our brains just can't handle it well. There's too much uncertainty, there's too many things going on, there's too much information, too many distractions, too many possible choices. We're not wired for this, and the people who naturally are are in the minority.
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I've heard the argument that things like ADHD and autism are more maladaptive in modern society than they would have been even a few hundred years ago. "John's a bit funny, can't look you in the eyes and he gets stressed when it's noisy, but he's a great shepherd and he's very happy sitting in a field all day," that sort of thing. It's hard to know how much of that is wishful primitivism, though. Modern society can be actively hostile to the neurodivergent because it's stressful enough for the neurotypical that we see an increase in anxiety and depression in the general population. (Tear it down, start over, etc.) My only official diagnosis is generalized anxiety, but I'm also weird, I've always been weird in a very distinct way, and autism is astonishingly underdiagnosed in little girls, which I was once, so. I dunno, I'm already on medication that got me through a degree, which I couldn't do before, so not sure what I'd gain by pushing for an assessment.
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There's more ADHD in indigenous people the further down from North to South America you go from the former Bering land bridge. If it is a potential driving factor in ancient migrations, there might be further links to neurodivergency and social groups and cultural developments. Additionally, ADHD and spectrum disorders in young girls were and still are under diagnosed, as social bias leads to trying to "fix" the emotional regulation aspects, instead of the executive disorder. Often girls are "diagnosed" with bipolar disorder or something like that. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 17:11 on May 15, 2021 |
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I've seen a lot...of old people...who write like...this... presumably because they...only recently began using...the internet...and hadn't written or read anything...since leaving school... decades ago... and just don't know... how anything works...
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FreudianSlippers posted:I've seen a lot...of old people...who write like...this... presumably because they...only recently began using...the internet...and hadn't written or read anything...since leaving school... decades ago... and just don't know... how anything works... One if my coworkers leaves me written notes like that. I'll come in to a stack of poo poo left on my desk with ellipses everywhere
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Len posted:One if my coworkers leaves me written notes like that. I'll come in to a stack of poo poo left on my desk with ellipses everywhere Might just be old person shaky hands
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At least 40% of people over 60 are functionally illiterate and only have a vague idea how to construct a sentence and literally no reading comprehension. Which is the reason for all those Fw:Fw:Fw: emails back in the day. Let's not forget that until like 30 years ago there was lead in everything so anyone born before that probably has at least some lead induced brain damage. An obvious solution is to just shoot everyone in the face on theirs 30th birthday.
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And how is your relationship with your mother?
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A bold approach threatening this forum's main demo
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May 15, 2021 21:10
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What, y'all never saw Logan's Run?
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Wasabi the J posted:What, y'all never saw Logan's Run? Logan's Run would have been killed half a lifetime ago.
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My body started falling apart at 30 and now every day hurts so I'm good with that
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Up yours, I'm forty and feeling fabulous. Also, i am protected by powerful but incredibly stupid magic so just try sandmanning me, bitches
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I could sing you into a bog. Which is very powerful magic but is somewhat hampered by its reliance of a bog being there.
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