Because the vast majority of people do not argue based on information but on their personal feelings, relying heavily on fallacy in an attempt to reaffirm their own perspectives rather than come to an understanding. This is just how human minds are predisposed to function with our internal logic due to inherent flaws of human psychology. Most people never bother with the practice of introspection to correct these internal biases because they don’t even know that they exist. They think their logic is sound, and it is your job to “prove them wrong”.

Taking classes in college around how to design, essentially, political propaganda to influence people into supporting your legislation (I went to school for wildlife conservation and a lot of that degree is fucking with politics to get legislation passed) really opened my eyes to this.

YES!

Wish I could remember their name but there is an adorable black woman somewhere who makes TikTok videos about foraging and forgotten staples that we humans used to use from the land we live on. Very solar punk vibe. She did an entire video on acorns.

Acorn and nutmeg cookies fucking slap.

Hi. It me. (I have both)

Nah, Neurodivergence has always existed but the structure of our society and the degradation of our communal nature in favor of hyper-individualist, rugged capitalism has destroyed what alternatives we used to have access to that allowed us to live our lives without unnecessary burden. Our day-to-day lives in this era are so controlled by arbitrary, outside forces in such a way that doesn’t allow for any wiggle room anymore that those of us who struggle to fall in line are unduly punished by the strict adherence to the system.

The structure of life was fundamentally different during pre-modern times; they had access to communal resources (i.e. the Commons) that just don’t exist today. They could structure their lives in ways that weren’t hindered by their neurodivergence; they could take an alternative to reach the same goal. In feudal times, the ruling authorities just kinda let communities run things how they wished with little oversight so long as the towns were more or less were not breaking any laws set by the ruling authority and were paying their taxes. There wasn’t tech or corporatized structure to micromanage every individual action of the people under their purview. There was wiggle room at the interpersonal level that allowed people to work out how to solve disputes and strike deals between themselves without needing to involve a higher authority for permission to do things the way they were most comfortable doing it.

Feudal life was a lot more complex and intricate than people give it credit for. It wasn’t perfect, there was definitely overt oppression happening during those times, but it did have its benefits, not from the system itself but from how that system wasn’t as controlling over our day-to-day as our current, corporatized society.

This isn’t even to mention other, non-European societies and their fundamentally different structures that sadly were wiped from the map due to imperialist conquest.

This. It never works for me. They always happen at an inopportune time and I just swipe it away. 10 seconds later I forget I even swiped away something, so I don’t even get to reschedule it.

If I stop to reschedule it, I lose my flow of whatever else I was doing and then that doesn’t get done because the momentum is gone.

So I guess AuADHD just doesn’t exist to you then, huh? You have no clue about proper mental health and the challenges people experience.

Seriously, shut the fuck up.

As someone with a family who absolutely doesn’t give a single shit about the difficulty of living with ADHD and just tells me to “get over it and stop being so lazy”… yes, they most likely didn’t have anyone willing to lend a hand and help them in the way they needed help because regular people don’t tend to think of the things we struggle with as being challenging enough to warrant needing assistance with.

Having a supportive community is a privilege that so many take for granted.

My issue is a lot of people explain their reason before they get to the point, but their reasoning is based on incorrect assumptions or misinformation they have taken as truth.

So you have to sit there and try to remember their argument and why it’s wrong while they are continuing on with faulty logic that you already know is misinformed. It should be entirely acceptable to break someone’s chain of thought to correct someone on something they are misunderstanding.

I swear, I’ll finish Baldur’s Gate 3 eventually… and Dragon’s Dogma 2… and Cyberpunk… and Pillars of Eternity… and Planescape… and Death Stranding…

Yea, the “im just trying to help” line is bs.

They aren’t trying to actually help, they are stroking their own egos by giving someone else advice on something they know absolutely nothing about. That’s why if you tell them the advice isn’t useful, they get angry at you for disagreeing. Because they don’t actually care about the advice being helpful, they care about you listening to them and making them feel like they did something.

these literary devices were noticed and defined much later on

If you take any college level course in literature or drama you learn that this is exactly what it is. The “Hero’s Journey” is a recognized pattern in popular storytelling across history, all the way back to Greek Theater, which has appeared across numerous different cultures.

It wasn’t done on purpose. It’s just a recognized trend that is so popular and pervasive it has gained a title and academic studies into its existence.

Yea, it’s all about the themes, allegories, or other messages presented in a story that makes them phenomenal or not. I’d go further into detail but it’s been a few years since my college literature courses and my memory ain’t the best anymore.

But, out simply, it isn’t the ending that makes a story but the journey to it.

This is just called “having media literacy”.

I appreciate the advice but I also have neuropathy that has affected my hands pretty bad. So writing is a struggle for me.

I tend to use a note app. Miss having a Samsung Note for the pen and had a Surface book from when I went to college that I used to take notes in class with the touch screen and pen but sadly the phone broke and couldn’t get a replacement while the laptop I need to find money for the charger which I lost in moving around a lot. Being able to copy paste and move things around was such a boon for me.

Also the devices had good writing-to-text features which made the notes legible, lol

It’s something about the act of going to get a pen and paper / pulling up the app and making a note that, by the time I’ve done it, I’ve lost the train of thought that was giving me the idea.

they make Vivance and other AuADHD medications for a reason, lol.

Brain: *has awesome idea*

Me: *goes to write it down*

Brain, as soon as pencil hits paper: *crickets*

Love having a family that doesn’t even try to understand this, no matter how much I explain it.

To them I’m still just a “lazy good for nothing who never tries at anything (despite years of proof of me trying my hardest to just survive on my own without any support and still achieving things)”

Yeah, only if you can afford the respec fees or absolutely ruin years of your life with grinding.

What a miserable existence to force people to go through. If life was a game, I’d be getting a refund.