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Thanks. I’m going to get out of bed and socialize poorly tonight because of this.
Maybe I’ll report back tomorrow how poorly it went.
I just got back! It went well. I felt awkward half the time, but I got to have some real conversations with some old and new friends.
I have some new friends that I’ve only interacted with in really busy contexts, and it was nice to chat with them in a calmer space. I woulda missed the chance if I didn’t give it a shot tonight.
Happy for you partner!
Good job!
My psychotherapist often say to me (paraphrased) : What is worth doing is worth being done badly.
A thing done imperfectly is better than doing nothing at all.
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If only we applied ourselves.
No, trying harder doesn’t work for us.
I think that's the joke. I heard this a lot growing up and it obviously didn't help.
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I feel like if only I had worked up to my potential, my life wouldn't be a shambling corpse-to-be.
As it turns out, our potential is really high in a select few categories, and that makes it look to authority figures like we’re good at everything.
me explaining to my family that the only thing I actually know is how to formulate a proper search query
I used to feel that was one thing I was good at. But then the algorithms changed as well as the internet. Now I rarely find what I'm looking for and I die a little each time.
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For me it was hiding my emotions while dying of anxiety inside. I thought it was normal for people to have multiple streams of thought at once and to wake up with your mind immediately racing til bed. I did it though, college, kids, house, corporate IT career, until I couldn't handle the grind of daily life and burned out hardcore, several times. Also drank excessively for 20 years.
Thankfully, you can get treated for depression and anxiety for decades, then spend thousands of dollars to get an official ADHD diagnosis, maybe. And the stimulants make my anxiety and depression so much better, and they are super easy to get. Also, no one will question if you really have ADHD, support all the way. Then, back to the grind which you'll run right into with a smile everyday. I love it! It's the best!
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Isn't it strange that we have a government-ran education system that seems to identify those with significant potential for social change/upheaval and then manages to turn them into aimless mental health cases without the necessary learned skills such as how to study, how to overcome challenge, etc? Surely that couldn't be by design to maintain the status quo and weed out or disenfranchise potential challengers to it before said challengers had a chance to inspire action, could it?
Honestly, I don't think your thinking is correctly placed.
I do not think people with ADHD or other neurodivergencies are by design thought of, in first hand, as opposition Opposition that will be oppressors of the system. If anything, it's a second hand thought. Of course the surpressed will attempt to revolt on a personal or collective plane sooner or later. But really, I don't think people with ADHD are pre-identified as rebels by the system. I think it's more historicallly sensible that people with ADHD are just trouble inside school. They ask too much and remembers too little. It doesn't fit the practice of teaching. That's it.
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They called us 'gifted' to justify our separation from others.
I'll go for the "Don't get diagnosed" and "Kill yourself in your 30s" strat.
Edit: For anybody actually trying to unassigned variable themselves, please be adviced. There are CEOs on your way out and be carefully NOT to take any of them with you. That would be AWFULL and HIGHLY illegal. We ABSOLUTELY DESPERATELY need those CEOs, so please be carefull with them.
Same, thou I'm not sure I can wait out the last couple years to 30. Might be fun to have my birthday be my deathday tho
You uh...ok? It does not sound fun to have your birthday be your death day :(.
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I'll be honest this makes me feel so much less alone. I should have completed my engineering degree by now, but honestly not blaming COVID itself but the situations around it and the isolation among other things sent me down a never ending spiral to the bottom. I come to learn I barely holding on by a thread most of my life and it started to unravel at 21-22. Getting ADHD takes forever in the UK, I just hope I can survive or find something to hold me up until that. I went from potential family top earner to a lost loser who is anxious when seeing people nowadays.
I've yet to get the official diagnosis. But im on track.
Don’t give up, it took me eight years from my suspicions to actually getting a diagnosis. The hardest part was finding psychiatrists, making appointments, going to the first appointment, and then going to the following appointments.
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I'm my case it was an autism diagnosis but otherwise yes.
For anyone reading this who may not be aware, there's a lot of overlap between the two diagnoses, and there's a chance you may have both.
ADHD may actually be a spectrum disorder. I've seen a few studies over the last few years that suggest this.
It does "feel" like that to me. Some days it helps me do my job better, some days it takes an hour between deciding to brush my teeth and actually doing it.
Sooo.. where do we go after stage 3? The meds just make me nap a lot :(
Work with a therapist to improve coping strategies and improve your sleep hygiene. If the meds are making you nap, chances are it's because they're allowing you to relax enough to actually rest. Developing habits that help you to sleep better may help (I'm pretty terribad at it myself).
living out in the woods, getting dirt on your hands, and learning to work well with feelings again.
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Serious questions. If I think this is me, is there any benefit to getting an official diagnosis? And if so, what’s the best/least scammy way to go about it?
Maybe some type of med would improve your quality of life, and they are only available over the counter to folks with diagnosis+prescription. Having a diagnosis might give you a mental framework to to 'get to work' on improving the least fun things about it :) , like self help tips n tricks, or maybe working with a psychologist to see what might help you the most.
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I'm now one further in the "incapacitated for years" state
The funniest part is I had the diagnosis as a kid but no one did anything about it. They were just trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I got rediagnosed as an adult and got on medication.
I guess knowing about it meant I didn't have to spend years trying to figure out why I was considered gifted but couldn't get shit done.
I got told because I was good as a kid I couldn't have it. Our system is terrible at actually dealing with the issue.
Crazy part was I only started wondering if I had it after getting prescribed double Sudafed for bad cold/congestion and could suddenly focus
Wtf .. is this real?
I got diagnosed recently and don't want my job back. Freelancing is the way to go. Stay away from corporate culture, stay strong.
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Holy shit it's my life
I didn't realize I was under surveillance
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