Fedifriends I need your help!
For an article, I need a quote from recognisable source about how you need to know your home before you travel. If one such exists. I have the Allende about seeing with new eyes and the Pratchett about not really having been anywhere till you've gone back home, but I need a beginning. Bonus points if relatable for neurodivergent peeps. Deadline today obvs #ADHD#WritersCoffeeClub#AmWriting#JournoRequest#Help
n. the state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your own behavior, as if you were some other person — noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort you put into something trifling, or an inexplicable weight on your shoulders that makes it difficult to get out of bed.
i should finally seek out #ADHD treatment (and diagnosis), but somehow people saying "there'll be a 3 year waiting time" really doesn't help me get motivated 😑…
I was reading an article about trying to do a daily schedule with an ADHD brain, and while reading that, I wondered what was in the sweetener I was pouring into my tea, and so launched a rabbit trail researching Truvia and erythritol… and five minutes later, I close the terminal I was wikipedia-ing on, only to find the same article I had started with staring at me.
I had completely forgotten what I was doing because…
@kamikat yes, but for me this is somehow only for tasks I don't like or I don't want to do. As soon as I am doing / get to do something I am passionate about, I am only doing that and can't really be distracted... (Also I am still not sure if this is AD(H)D or just humanness or something completely different :neocat_googly_woozy: )
It was a big eye opener for me when I learned that #ADHD paralysis exists. Indecisiveness in other people has always been incomprehensible to me, indeed, often deeply annoying. It seems that I am basically executive function on legs, which determines my perspective.
For all those people out there who still claim that we are getting our kids high by giving them Adderall:
I took my dose at 6:30 AM , went back to sleep, just getting up now 10 minutes before nine.
#ADHD brains are chemically different. Normal brains, get high or focused or whatever. I become slightly more able to find the thing I set down three seconds ago.
@masukomi SAME. It doesn’t wake me up, it means I don’t have to go back to the kitchen five times before I actually bring my coffee to the living room like I wanted to instead of the five other things I did instead.
@cferdinandi I strictly cycle through my t-shirts to not stress out about that (and also to load-balance the tear/wear across them). Additionally, I prepare the clothes for the next day in the evening, also for energy reasons.
This sometimes leads to fun combinations of shirt and day, like wearing a "I don't give a shit" - shirt for a retrospective.
@kronn Even new out of the package they "feel different" to me. The sensory issues are STRONG. I like that you have a cycling system, though. That's rad!
a while i go i asked why video controls looked so terrible in mastodon, and it turned out it was my "Video Speed Controller" plugin, which looks great everywhere EXCEPT mastodon. 🤷♀️
So, since i was already fixing things with #Tampermonkey I figured I'd fix this too.
1st pic after fix. 2nd pic before fix.
If any other #ADHD people are using this plugin & want the fix, just holler. ;)
Large animations can easily be highly distractive for folks with #ADHD. Being able to pause them individually doesn't make things much better, especially if reloading the page starts them all over again.
It's really disappointing to see a design-focused company like #Figma use that type of purely gratuitous graphics on their #Config conference website, and do so without offering a way to disable them all at once across the site.
That’s a sad lack of consideration for true #A11Y. 🙁🤨🤬
@jochenwolters I just checked https://config.figma.com/ using MacOS with the "Reduce motion" setting, and they have done it correctly -- the animations are gone. (At least by default, though they still happen if you hover, so they've got it half right lol)
@siljelb@cferdinandi I'm pretty certain that this phenomenon applies to everyone with a job description that doesn't include "spend your day in meetings"
@atlefren@siljelb yes, but neurotypical folks are often able to get some things done in those pockets of time between meetings, while folks with ADHD are not.
I think I might have some talent for teaching. Repeatedly now, the student I'm tutoring has remarked "Oh my god, it's that simple?" after explaining a computer science concept she was struggling with.
I think it's because I need to understand things quickly myself. If it's too complex, I lose patience. Explain to me like I'm five, please.
One disadvantage of being diligent is that a heavy workload doesn't bother you enough to stop and question it. I remember this from my brief period of taking #ADHD meds. I would be so concentrated on the task that I didn't pause to consider that maybe I should change my approach.
The benefit of impatience and procrastination is that they make you rethink things. "This is too hard. There must be a better way." And you procrastinate to see if there's an alternative. While you're putting it off, an alternative approach might emerge, or the problem might even solve itself.
Not great for completing tedious tasks right now, but great for coming up with new approaches and streamlining them later. If my entire programming career had looked like that, maybe I would've enjoyed my job. There's more demand for diligent workers who can churn through tedious tasks, but I'm pretty much useless in such roles.
Speaking of tedium. Me and a friend know a guy with #ASD and who was absolutely mental at tedious tasks. "Do this until we tell you to stop." and he'd just keep going. One of his favourite games was WoW because of all the grinding. He was also a great metal guitar player for the same reason. Relentless monotonous practice until perfection was accomplished.
Unthinkable for me. I have #ADHD, so I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I virtually never rehearse anything. I play the keyboard but I can't even play through a single song. There's just no patience. Certain keyboard techniques are inaccessible to me for that reason. They're just too tedious to learn.
Sometimes, I feel the Imposter syndrome about #adhd because I don't have an official diagnosis. But then I have experiences that show me that neurotypicals don't understand and their advice is not helpful, even when they are loving, compassionate human beings trying to be helpful.
Just heard from the head of my program. She's going to try to create a space for all the "neurospicey" students and teachers to chat and hopefully support each other.
