A place for those that got both Autism and ADHD, those confirmed as one and are suspecting they got the other as well, and also everyone who is neither and just genuinely curious.
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0/10, would not achieve again. ๐ฉ
I feel this deep in my bones. Troubleshooting complex issues for multiple days, and when the problem is finally resolved...
Nothing.
Just more work, just as boring and useless, probably even more so.
I don't look forward to two or three more decades of this.
Troubleshooting a complex issue is one the few things that actually do trigger the dopamine for me. But it has to be a unique problem - not one that can be summarised as "404 - Customer brain not found"
Hey look it's me.
I always thought it was just because of how I was raised: perfection is adequacy and anything less is a moral failure.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just a symptom of depression, isn't it?
Yes, you're wrong. It's also a symptom of depression, but not exclusively.
Also a very common mistake that leads to unnecessary harm when doctors rather cycle through all the available depression meds before even considering that they might have been wrong from the start.
Never occurred to me that that was a thing of its own, just figure life long depression is doing its part!
It is the depression. Many people don't realize they're depressed.
That's over-simplifying for our brains.
Probably has to do with a more root cause in society like this: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-people-pointless-meaningless-jobs.html
Don't disagree that capitalism is heavily involved in many mental health illnesses, but that specifically talks about work, and my depression has nothing to do with that (started long before working age and continues despite my inability to be part of a workforce) so it isn't entirely relevant (not saying it's a bad article or point, it just doesn't fit in this instance).
Fair point
Oh, ok. I wanna say cool? but it's not really lol
Think that's a mental illness my zoomer friends