Eeeeew I feel like this really diminishes both ADHD and autism.

Especially since it’s so damn difficult to actually get a diagnosis if you have it.

Neurotypical people: Can’t wait to party!

flicker: The laundry ain’t gonna do itself and I’m not allowed to do it without drugs soooo…

Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.

Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.

I once said to an employee, “Have a peaceful rest of your shift!” And he said, “You, too,” and I didn’t turn away fast enough and I watched his soul leave his body.

Well I’m glad you have a good reason not to! But if it gets difficult, I’ll be here. ♥

I hope that you’re not feeling genuinely suicidal currently. I’ve had to explain to people in the past that having a “way out” can be comforting enough to keep depressed folks from being suicidal, but if it ever gets to be too much, I’m here for you. You can shoot me a DM.

That’s awesome! I tried doing that and it went to trying to sign me up for a lem.ee account, which was annoying.

Dbzer0 is the instance that I’m on, just like you’re on lemmy.world.

Some apps allow people to sign in on them, but only for certain servers.

Voyager doesn’t allow users on dbzer0 which is such a disappointment.

You might enjoy knowing that we have an anarchist instance at dbzer0. (It’s the one I’m on.)

That’s the problem with racist bullshit. They scrape the racism off and peddle it everywhere until it’s widely accepted and not tied to it’s roots anymore.

I agree with literally every point you’ve made (especially the ‘had to be there’ notes, it’s so hard trying to explain that) but one.

Here comes a billion words on how I love Sun and Moon. Feel free to skip them, I’m just trying to add to the conversation.

Sun and Moon is on my list of faves because of the slow island vibes, the sun and moon motif… Oh. Let me take a moment and say, as a grass type trainer, I have gotten absolutely effed with starter choices. I love plants, I love flowers, and… It’s insane how often the grass-type starter is the weakest in design. So let me say when Rowlet hit the scene, I fell in love. This precious little floof who turns his head all the way around to look at me in battle, and then turns into a moody teenager when he becomes Datrix (if you’re petting him after battle, and you touch the feather in front of his face he gets so MAD!), finally turning into the extremely badass Decidueye? Grass/Ghost? Hell. Yes. After watching water and fire get bangers of starters for ages, only occasionally getting a starter that felt like it was “good enough” rarely, finally getting my owl was like a sword-in-the-stone moment.

I hear you on Z-Moves but I do really love the idea of doing a little Hawaiian-style dance with your Pokemon to power them up. It feels more like I’m contributing than pointing a rock at something. I actually enjoy that some of the dances look really stupid because you have to ask yourself, “Do I want to look cool right now, or do I want to look a little silly and absolutely destroy my enemies?” There’s also something excellent in facing a friend in battle, and watching them choose to do a dumb pose with mounting horror. “Hahaha, Chris is doing a dance and the background is pink and oh god no he’s chosen to destroy me.”

If I ever embrace my fate as a lonely housewife book author, I’m going to have a rough time, because the kind of people who would forever love me for producing my books and sharing them as free (with the option to donate) and the kind of people who buy lonely housewife books are two completely different circles and I wouldn’t be able to spend all the time necessary to ‘market’ myself online to get the books in the hands of people who want them, if I’m trying to spend that time writing.

Maybe what we need is an apparatus. A website where authors can share full-size books, users can vote on them, and if you like them enough you can give money to those writers.

I just don’t know how we’d get that, be able to allow any author to share their book, and still have quality control.

I haven’t looked at or held or otherwise directly perceived a kindle in many years now, but when I did it was insanely easy to just pop any old file into a converter and slip that onto the kindle and pirate and read as you like. Did they put a stop to that with some proprietary nonsense?

This’ll only work if they also buy everyone else who sells the solution, and shut them down.

There’s also this thing that happens where, as a whole, we’ll just act capriciously.

I don’t know if it’s true of younger gamers but my generation seems to really choose at random whether we like your product or want you to die in a fire. Any fishy behavior can tip that scale pretty quickly, and if we already recognize a brand, and it’s not one of our arbitrarily Chosen Few, then we might not even give you a chance. Just because we know the name, and that’s already a strike against you.

I got that beat mercilessly as a little girl masking version of ADHD where my sink is never not empty but even if I didn’t, I understand it and I understand depression which is so often comorbid with untreated ADHD and we deserve to celebrate every success like this.

Now if I could go home after work today and sweep and mop my damn downstairs, that would be the kind of success that I can only dream of. We need ADHD collectives where I’ll come do your dishes (as long as you have gloves and a fresh sponge that doesn’t stink) and you can come do my stupid floor.

Every time I’ve ever mentioned that there’s people who do this, the reactions I get from people who have one are… not pleased.

Actually now that I think about it, I think it’s because most of those folks don’t want to see other people’s Johnsons. I guess there’s not as much overlap between people who have dingalings and people who want to see them as there could be.

Yessss! So glad I could help!

Ask and ye shall receive!

Uh, assuming this link works for you- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37483954