I mean..... Correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, I'm not sure.
MystikIncarnate
joined 1 year ago
This is more common than you'd expect.
For the record, I didn't see your post, but from the replies from people that did, it doesn't sound like it should have been a problem.
My advice is to block the whole instance from your profile. I did this and I'm much happier for it.
I just ignore that instance in its entirety, and ignore the fact that it even exists. Not worth my time.
This. 100%
They gaslight pretty much everyone that posts there. I only had limited, occasional interactions with that instance and almost every time it was negative. I started to wonder what I was doing that was making me so misunderstood, which was getting me into all kinds of discussions...
Once I figured it out and blocked the entire instance from my profile, I've had a lot of interactions on Lemmy and I'm no longer walking on eggshells every time I post a comment.
I'm just grateful that the asshats all converged into a few instances so I can just block the entire instance and have a great time on Lemmy.
So. I've kind of had two eye opening moments with meds.
I first started with concerta, and it was like stepping into the light. The problems were certainly not gone, but they were at least manageable. I could break out of mental loops that were not productive, and focus on stuff I actually needed to do. I still had a bit of an obsession with being as near-perfect as I could, but I could focus those efforts into things that were actually useful, instead of my mind going in circles.
It improved my emotional state. I was kind of in a long term funk of "everything is meh", and I found myself smiling so much it hurt my face. A lot of that diminished over time, but it hasn't gone away, it's just less intense.
Recently I started on an NDRI, Wellbutrin, which had more subtle positive effects. Immediately I noticed the negative side effects, dry mouth, some GI issues. I stuck with it for a week and most of that has subsided. I dunno if the negatives made the positives more shrouded, or if the positives are just minor in comparison, but I find my emotional state and attitude is more on the positive side rather than sitting fairly firmly in the middle.
As for my usual ADHD symptoms, with the combination of the concerta and Wellbutrin, I have little or no difficulty doing the little routine things that I always had to push myself to do before. The phrase "super easy, barely an inconvenience" applies to all the little trivial tasks I do daily, when before it was always some level of mental effort to get myself to do things.
I feel more "normal" now than I ever have before.
I must say, if this is how non-ADHD (and/or non-executive function disorder) people are, then I get why they don't understand us. This is an easy, quick, and trivial task, it takes no time or effort to do.... But when you have an executive function disorder, the task might as well be "climb Mount Everest" not "fold laundry".
With the most recent news about arm, I wouldn't be surprised if RISC-V got a push from larger fabs.
Bluntly, we've been computing under proprietary/licensed architectures for so long, it's time for a change. Make CPUs open source. Make them cheap.
I'm far too verbose all the time.
I don't even want to read everything I write most of the time.
Oh god, we need to do something.
WE NEED TO SAVE THE BOOBIES!
Hey, I was going to say that.
Good intentions, easily taken wrong.
Look everyone, the corporations are trying to be inclusive!
..... No? Nobody cares? Okay. That seems right. They don't care about us unless we're going to buy their shit, so that seems fair to me.
Eat the rich.
I take it that's not your kink?
.... Not that there would be anything wrong with it, if it were.
He is old.