I haven’t had it for years and I don’t miss it at all, either. Only social media I use is Lemmy and Youtube

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Damn. Well, I hope it’s something as simple and easily fixed at least!

Random question, but do hot showers help? I noticed a while back that you mentioned weed on some comment or other. I once lived with this family who had a woman in her late 50’s who was a chronic (and I mean CHRONIC) user. She was struggling with nausea that was only alieviated by hot showers (idk why she told me this we weren’t close). Turns out there’s a condition:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664574/

I’m actually worried about you, and your dry-heaving. Lemmy wouldn’t be the same without you so don’t die

I want this so badly!

Maybe Nolan wanted to watch them do the thing? But…Probably to show how uncomfortable both Oppenheimer and his wife were in those moments, by making the audience uncomfortable as well.

I’m pretty liberal about nudity and I’m not puritanical in my views at all, but I’m also not a fan of raunchy scenes in movies. Watching something like that alone or with my husband? Fine. Watching something like that with blood relatives or friends? Yeah. Not fine

You sound like you’re way smarter than I am, but I can absolutely relate to bordom=pain.

I’m constantly learning new things, or delving deeper into subjects I’m already familiar with. I can’t help it. My brain won’t have it any other way (otherwise I get destructive)

For sure.

I didnt really realize how different my family was from other people for a long time. I don’t know most of them well enough to know what the prevelance of neurodiversion is. It’s just too hard to say why each of them went where they did… but at least with my dad, his behaviours and mine are alike enough that I can guess I got my ADHD from him. He died a long while back so I can’t know for sure… but he was always all over the place. He even died in a different country on vacation!

That was my thought as well. I’ve seen what some homeless people are capable of. (Not trying to dump on unhoused people, here, but there are some seriously ill people left out on the streets). This glass needs to be nearly unbreakable for it to work

Yup.

To clarify I have ADHD, my dad definitely also had it, and my mother has neurodivergent signs as well. My whole family is scattered across the continents, though. My dad was a novelty seeker (as am I) but our reasons for leaving are due to a change in political climate (and the uncertainty that caused)

My sister lives in the origin country, but all of her children have left, each one having gone to a different country (and not where I ended up)

Third edit: one example of why I think my mother shows neurodivergent signs: she won’t eat salad in the winter. She thinks you’re not supposed to. (She grew up where leafy greens were not available during the winter time, but has internalized that as a rule even though she lives somewhere that lettuce is available year round)

I think that lil’ kick some of us get is what divides people with adhd into the successful and unsucessful groups. Both suck, both are not our faults, but I’m glad to be able to eventually get stuff done even if it feels like I’m shortening my lifespan

I have a close friend who has inattentive adhd and he has a baaaaad time at life. He “lets” all the deadlines fly by and falls into depressions because of it. Got kicked out of school, ended up homeless for a while, finally recovered but then couldn’t deal with credit cards, managed to get on his feet again and find a woman who supported him, but then she dumped him because he forgot to get her from the hospital. He’s finally kind of ok, has a job and lives with his mom (at 40). I keep trying to get him to get back on meds but he says he can’t afford the visit. He can’t get through the paperwork for disability, either. He isn’t stupid, we have great in-depth conversations and he’s witty af. He just really… can’t

I mention all that to illustrate what I mean by successful vs unsucessful. I’ve asked him if he gets the: ShitIHaveToDoThisAllRightNow! kick and he doesn’t. Task pressure just paralyzes him

Sometimes I need a break just turning on the computer. Or putting dishes in the dishwasher. Or moving the laundry from the drier to the bed.

I’m a lot “better” at doing tasks than most people that I know with unmedicated adhd, but some days are just… nope, I showered and brushed my teeth so imma spend the rest of the day doing whatever random thing captures my attention for more than 5 minutes

Usually need a few days like that in a week. I just let my brain off it’s leash until the anxiety and guilt kicks in and then I get everything done is a fury

Consider that kids develop habits in childhood that will carry into adulthood. It benefits the kid to understand the basic rules of politeness. Otherwise, they might wonder why someone else got that promotion, even though they work just as hard. Or why that one co-worker won’t talk to them. Or why that girl/guy they were interested in suddenly isn’t interested in them anymore

Being polite is a way of signaling that you are willing to follow certain social rules. This is important so that communication can happen. If I follow different rules than you do, it could result in conflict, confusion and misunderstanding

I suspect my husband is autistic. He’s in his late 30’s and I’ve finally got him to understand why saying “please” and “thank you” is important, even if he isn’t feeling like saying it at the time. Sometimes he still doesn’t, but he does say it when he remembers to (unless he’s focused on something else in which case it’s “yes” “no” or silence if I ask if he would like something from the kitchen)

I think it’s helped with his work relationships as well.

I think you’re doing the right thing

There are laws against breaking into people’s houses, but it still happens. Just because someone proclaims something illegal doesn’t mean it just stops happening. That’s just not how the world works

Seriously?

What nation goes: “Hey neighbor, you wanna kill a bunch of each other’s soldiers and use a bunch of resources and pollute the earth? Maybe we can also kill some innocent babies while bombing hospitals for funsies?”

Wars are usually fought because one nation (or group) wants what the other has. If a side could get exactly what they want, there wouldn’t be a war over it.

Wars are about taking: land, people, resources, revenge.

There’s nothing consensual about it

We all have those days, friend

It’s based on a webcomic where someone’s partner has a miscarriage in a hospital setting

And yet, somehow, your life just wouldn’t be the same without him

(Better, maybe, but not the same)