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submitted 4 days ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca

I've previously seen people describe dating a person with ADHD as "Microdosing Wikipedia" and I thought that was a fun idea so I figured I would make a community dedicated to that specifically.

The idea is to post either random or interesting articles you find on any wiki (Doesn't actually have to be wikipedia so a games/fandoms wiki would also be included) and people can discuss the content or the subject of the article.

It's just a small space for people to learn about stuff that they have no reason to learn about otherwise.

Links:

https://lemmy.zip/c/wikidose

!wikidose@lemmy.zip

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I love information dumps.

I also seem to be the rare internet user who does not hate small talk. I've never really seen a problem with it and now thanks to the internet the one problem I see is "unpopular amongst internet users, may make them unhappy." Wonder if this is an internet/real life split, or if everyone but me hates it but smiles and pretends in real life so I think more people are fine with it than actually are. I guess I interpret it as a person sharing their genuine thoughts. Sometimes I look outside and think "it's a nice day!" so why wouldn't other people vocalize their thoughts amongst the same lines? I guess I see it as a common shared experience and attempt to connect over something "easy" like that since a lot of people will agree that yes, it is a nice day. (If you don't, some might take offense but I'd love to hear why you disagree—invites more discussion!) Then again, I'm also an extrovert, so I'm just like "Yes! Social interaction!!!"

Stuff like this, not sharing in a lot of common complaints about neurotypical interaction, makes me feel too neurotypical for the neurodivergents, but I also do have ADHD and autism and my fair share of social struggles so I'm also too neurodivergent for the neurotypicals. For what it's worth if I know you don't like small talk I'll try to remember and accommodate that.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Honestly I think it's perfectly fine and I don't think it makes you more/less neurotypical at all. I just think there's different folks and they like different strokes, y'know?

I'm not coming at it from "hating" small talk, everything is so insanely intense these days, whenever I talk about anything critically people assume I "hate" it, but I don't, I'm actually just curious about it. I think it would be cool if I could learn to appreciate small talk for instance, but for that I'd need to actually understand what it's about. But I suppose it's just not for me because I just don't really have those thoughts like "nice day today" and such.

I suppose I'm coming from being 12 and seeing very reposted images with text about "I hate small talk, can't we talk about something meaningful" on tumblr and Instagram, and from when I did still follow ADHD and autism communities on the internet, and when I browsed Reddit in general, and saw rants about small talk… used to seeing the word "hate" in conjunction with it. Sorry.

I also agree, different strokes for different folks :) It's okay to not enjoy small talk, and it is also okay for me to enjoy it.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

You are literally 12?

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