I like putting spaces around dashes — it looks nicer.

You’re probably thinking of Guanfacine, it’s used off-label for ADHD because it seems to help some people but the mechanism is unknown.

If you’re in Australia like me, they recently passed a law that makes it so your GP can finally prescribe ADHD medication… So it might be worth asking again. Just a guess though because not many places are this brutal for diagnosing or treating our condition.

Also I had similar pill anxiety. I didn’t like how the meds affected my heart or mood, it felt like I was slowly dying. In my case even though I stopped the meds, I’ve had a taste of what being “normal” is like, and can feel the shape of ADHD and how to adjust for it if that makes sense. I also found a job which is more suited to my condition and less reliant on memory and task management.

I’m in the same boat. I found that I just had to buy and play a bunch of games I didn’t like. I only buy games on 70% discount or more for that reason.

For example, I love City management games, so I thought I’d like Against the Storm… But the roguelike elements completely ruined that game for me and I hate it. As a counter point I usually hate logic puzzle games, but I loved Artisan of Glimmith because it has a “check your work” hint system that doesn’t feel too much like cheating. You really can’t tell if you’ll like a game before you try it unfortunately.

I finally am playing DOOM Eternal this week. Really good game actually. It’s a bit exhausting though so I’m chipping away at it one mission at a time.

Honestly the best example I can think of is to secretly record a conversation between you and someone else, and listen to it later. Voice is good, video is better. You’ll notice all kinds of things you don’t in the moment. Tone, timing, stutters, body language, etc. Then really meditate on who you are and how you want to present to others.

Remember that you can’t always change everything… Sometimes you have to accept certain aspects of yourself and work with what you can actually change. Personally I never tried to change anything like that, I’d rather just be authentic, but understand what that actually means and that not everybody will like me.

Something interesting and anecdotal. We get a lot of Indian immigrants in my area, and they’re primarily vegetarian. But as soon as they move here, they become anaemic, because the lentils etc grown in our soil doesn’t have enough nutrients for survival. They have to start taking supplements. I’m not sure why that is, but it makes me wonder if people would be more willing to be vegetarian here if it was actually viable nutritionally.

I noticed a bunch of my comments staying at 1 view forever because some keyword tripped an A.I. to shadow ban it indefinitely… I was so mad

I feel called out lol

I got banned for accidentally using “far right extremist terminology” lol. I’m still not entirely sure what I did wrong

I’m a recent refugee and it just continued to get worse and worse. This week I was just like fuck it, I’m done. I looked up “Reddit alternative” and StumbledUpon the fediverse. Loving it so far. Actually communicating with real humans is something I didn’t realise I missed so much.

Back in my era

Automations haiku’d

Bots corrected links

And we liked it (most didn’t)

You are right that in modern society it’s much harder to make and maintain friends. Really you have to think of it in terms of “closeness” or intimacy. Have you talked about only good things with these people? Or have you opened up about maybe some deeper or darker topics? Have you been to each other’s house? Have you helped each other do something important and difficult? Being a friend is almost like an imposition. You need to be able to rely on and support each other.

Same here… I already have a “steam machine”. I have a gaming PC connected to my TV via sunshine/moonlight (previously steam link). Heck you could even go HDMI cable, but I wanted to keep my PC in my office so I can use it as a work computer as well. If I didn’t build my own gaming PC a few years ago I’d strongly consider it, though.

It sounds like maybe just letting them know how important they are to you is a good first step.

I keep getting fraud alerts and having to sooth my bank account into permitting my groceries. You’d think after the 20th time on the same day with the same price they’d stop flagging my groceries.

Yeah the whole thing feels a bit… Messy? Like it feels like when you get the tail end CC of a 40+ reply email chain at work and you need to figure out what’s going on. In many ways it feels like email to me, actually. The text based stuff anyway. Searching is God awful, there’s like 100–1000 messages per day you cannot possibly keep up with… But people are using it as a replacement for their entire community, which is just bad. I had to submit a bug report on a game’s Discord once, it was even worse than doing the same through Twitter.

I like the voice chat functionality though. Wish that screen sharing / streaming worked on Linux.

Yeah I had the problem of my mouse randomly registering 0.1mm of movement from a dust particles moving and turning the PC on randomly. I just use shut down, everything else is too annoying.

Yeah especially if you have a titchy laptop with 256GB SSD and 32GB RAM… that’s a huge relative percentage of storage wasted on a hiberfil.

I use Linux now, but when I did use Windows, I always turned off hibernate. It had it’s time in WinXP or 95 era, when hard drives took so long to spin up that you could leave and make a whole coffee and it would almost be done by the time you get back. We don’t need it anymore!

Always give your computer 8 hours sleep per night to keep it healthy