noooooooooooooooo I missed it goshdarnit I think I misread the time and set a reminder for exactly two hours late, so it's already too late to join :(((
better luck to me next time
I'm not sure it's not AI, but DeepL has been around for a while, it's at least older than this modern concept of AI, so I think it's a different model. I like it a lot.
OH GOD HE'S EATING WASHINGTON DC, RUN
holy shit this is the funniest possible outcome for Alex Jones' asset liquidation, this is fucking incredible lmao
It absolutely is! And thanks again for your kind and insightful comments!
Of course he did. Good on him. It was very inconsiderate of Trump to pick him as Attorney General when he's supposed to be the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills:
Thanks! I had read your comment before, but read it again. I do think that I'm having some initial euphoria as per #5, particularly in the hours shortly after taking the medicine. Part of it might be a physical reaction to the medicine itself, but I'm sure that a considerable fraction of it is simply how happy I am feeling! I take it early in the morning and I think the way I feel later in the afternoon is probably closer to how I hope I'll be feeling long-term, calm and more collected, which is a very good thing indeed.
Your list is very helpful, and I think that the item that now catches my eye the most is #10, because it's exactly what I noticed potentially happening to me. I feel like I'm more focused, but I've already noticed that I'm essentially the same person, which means I do run the risk of spending too much time reading up on 40k lore rather than doing something useful. It is, however, much, much easier for me to redirect my attention now. The medicine gives me a greater ability to focus, sure, but I find that the most relevant part is how it allows me to redirect said focus.
I spent a ton of time reading organization tips and "life hack" type advice that was utterly useless to me before starting my medicine. I'm going to give it another go, because I'm sure they'll work much better for me now.
It sucks, comrade. I was lucky enough to find one that actually listens to me, and I hope you find one soon.
CW: ridiculous ableism
On that note, I have a friend who told me about a friend of hers who had the test results and a written statement by a professional saying that she is autistic. She had to change providers and talked to a new "mental health professional" who told her "you're not autistic and I don't care about this statement. I can just as easily write another statement saying that you're not autistic, so what?"
I've always had an axe to grind with psychiatrists. This has literally been the first time I've been listened to. I may or may not have cried a little when the doctor took out his prescription pad and said he would prescribe the meds I need.
the ad campaign you can buy for $1billion:
Folks, this is it.
After more than six months on Wellbutrin, being the unfocused mess I've always been, and being treated like a criminal and/or child by the most condescending, inconsiderate psychiatrist I've ever had the displeasure of seeing, I decided to say fuck it and find another professional.
For six months, I've been made to wait by my health insurance provider for an ADHD test that never came. I'm on a mysterious waiting list that moves forward at a pace that is known only to the Nether Gods and in all likelihood I'll never get to do this test anyways. All of this because apparently a psychiatrist does not have the authority to say "hey, I think you have ADHD, let's try a first-line treatment and see if it works for you." Silly me, thinking a psychiatrist would be able to diagnose a psychiatric disorder.
Well, my new psychiatrist decided to try a new approach: I've been on Lithium before, because a GP thought I might be bipolar. It didn't work, because... I'm not bipolar. So let's try ADHD medicine and if it works, then, well... in all likelihood, I truly do have ADHD.
Folks, it seems I do have ADHD. Vyvanse (actually Lisvenx, same medication, different name) works a treat. A goddamn treat, I say.
Yesterday felt like the first day of the rest of my life. Cheesy cliché, I know, but holy fucking shit it feels like an entirely new world has been opened to me. I taught five lessons without feeling like I was going to fall asleep for even a single moment. My mind is focused, and my internal monologue is only one audio track instead of four.
I have energy, I don't feel my eyes trying to shut on their own. I can simply get up and fucking do things. Easy things are easy to do. Difficult things are difficult to do for the correct reasons. I defeated the Fromsoft ADHD field boss: I folded all my laundry and put it away.
How did I spend more than 30 years of my life not feeling like this? How many opportunities did I lose, how many things did I abandon because I felt like I wasn't capable of doing them, not because of my lack of competence, but rather because there was an invisible wall of inability between me and even the simplest task? I now realize how much of a fucking legit disability ADHD is.
This is only my second day on this medication so I'm afraid that things might not always be like this from now on. I'm afraid that this effect may only be an initial honeymoon phase and I'll eventually go back to how I was before. If that ever does happen, though, I'll know that that disorganized mess of a human being is not all that I can be.
I can be better. There is hope.
This has been a life-changing experience for sure, and I hope that every single person who needs ADHD medication does get the opportunity to at least try it once, if only to realize that a better life is, in fact, possible.
Hey! Turns out I won't be able to join you folks, this hangout sesh would be at 5:30am in Brazil lol thanks again for the ping and good on you for doing this but I won't be joining you all unfortunately :(
That's great, it def helps a lot, thanks!
I spent the whole day at my workshop, making sawdust, logged off and enjoying a local holiday. I arrive home and see that at long last the cheeto is fired and then I decide to go over my daily allowance of Twitter just to check out what's going on.
My feed is full of the most radioactive shitty excuses for human beings, one after the other. I just opened it right now to check it again, and here's what I got, in this order:
Ann Coulter, Mike Pompeo, Kyle Rittenhouse, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Mike Lee, Jim Jordan, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., Josh Hawley, Lauren Boebert, Donald J Trump Posts from Truth Social, Greg Abbot.
To what do I owe the pleasure of being presented with this absolute eldritch nightmare of a blunt rotation? Is this happening to anybody else? This is on my phone's Firefox browser, because I've reached the daily app time allowance, same as on my PC's browser.
To the aliens in the ocean, I have one thing to say to you
spoiler
ayy lmao