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[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Sometimes I'm too tired to unmask.

[-] 0p3r470r@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Mask at work and chaos at home!

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 hours ago

fuck.
we can just say cuss words.
fuck

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago

After years and years of hard work and therapy, I'm now a hilarious mix of the two.

You might ask, "How is your sink so empty and your kitchen so clean, but your clean laundry is piled so high that this is probably your entire wardrobe here on the floor next to the dryer?"

Well, I would answer, "How did you get in my house and would you like something to eat?"

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago
[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

...You didn't even offer me a snack for the road! What kind of host are you?

Also I brought tea bags. They're quite nice.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

A good one for those invited! But I'll cut you some slack since you brought tea.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

I'm the second until i am stressed enough to start disassociating, then i become the first one :)

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I do Uber in a tourist area during peak times. And I feel this comment.

Weekdays it's silence other than the NPR radio talking points. Friday to Sunday it's chatter that I submit to in fear of losing out on the seldom tip.

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

I've learned to appreciate my chaos for life's spice. I'm an Absurdist. I like to be the reason others do things. All that to say i rather enjoy the freedoms of peace and everyone should add a bit of flower magic to their life.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

I found out I'm different from the populace in college when a colleague told me that I reminded them of the main character from the bullet storm game. It took me until my twenties to realize I'm different. I legit thought everyone was "pro-good stuff" until then. I have been losing faith in my fellow countrymen ever since. Sometimes I think I would've been better being left in the dark.

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 9 hours ago

I had to set up a project management software to manage my housework. That's normal, and not a coping mechanism.

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

As someone with severe ADHD this sounds like a great idea. Management is talking about moving me up into a project management role so I've been studying the concept and tools, I can totally see how this could help. Thanks for the idea!

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Goddamnit, another thing I do to cope. I keep asking my doc how to get diagnosed, I just keep getting antidepressants prescribed which do not help.

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

So here's some important facts I've learned from my doctors over recent years. Keep in mind, I'm not a doctor, and this information might be out of date (but I don't think it is).

People with ADHD are often comorbid with depression, so if a doctor doesn't treat the depression first, and gives the person with ADHD the medication to focus, it can result in the person with ADHD having enough focus to successfully make an attempt on their own life.

Fact two: many persons with ADHD doesn't make enough seratonin on their own to function, which means if you're being prescribed SSRIs, you don't have enough seratonin to selectively reuptake inhibit.

But since the antidepressants for ADHD are a different class of drugs, many doctors will run through the 'standard' list before they get to the stuff that helps ADHDers. And then once they've done that, and ruled out all the things, they'll move to "unconventional" treatment. Partly, this is because the process of trying different antidepressants can rule out things other than ADHD, and partly because they seem to want to rule out every other possible thing in addition to ADHD, before treating the ADHD. And if I were to guess, it's because giving a person ADHD medication who has a secret something else (like bipolar as an example) even though the person has ADHD, the ADHD medication can worsen the other condition to such a condition that it's better not to give ADHD medication at all.

This is why the process takes so fuckin long. And a couple years ago, I would've said it was stupid and a massive waste of time and harmful to the person with ADHD. But a year ago a friend of mine with bipolar was prescribed stimulant medication and his life absolutely went off the rails as a result, and seeing that first hand... I'd rather low and slow and not have to experience something like that.

Sorry for the word wall. I hope this helps!

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 9 minutes ago

This does help, and thank you. In truth, I don’t even want medication, I’m middle aged and this is the brain I’m used to. Would just be nice to understand myself a little better and maybe start getting some better strategies in place.

It’s just grating that every time I ask, I’m redirected. Maybe they just think I’m pill seeking.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago

How the fuck do you get enough energy to use project management software to manage your housework?

[-] childOfMagenta@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago
[-] Schorsch@feddit.org 70 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

FUCK

You can say fuck on the Internet!
For fucks sake.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Filtering swear words is a dark path the masses are willfully following. It's a subtle way to see if they can use AI to force us to change how we speak to align with a worldview. People need to fucking resist it.

[-] Schorsch@feddit.org 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Interesting take. Care to elaborate what role AI plays in this context? Recognizing swear words in image files, I guess?

Also I'm willfully using more swear words on Lemmy if it means they won't farm my comments for training their fucking piss shit AI without my goddamn consent. Horsefuckers!

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

The underlying tech doesn't care about swear words. But, from what I hear, the "AI" models and interfaces that are be marketed for general use have been intentionally trained not to emit such words, and may even be blinded to those words by their creators. I haven't verified it, but supposedly adding "fucking" to your Google / Bing search query will completely disable their "AI" generated results, e.g.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 31 points 12 hours ago

no u cant the lemmy cuss brigade will arrest u, my uncle said so and he works at nintendo

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

My Nintendo works for U.N.C.L.E.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 10 hours ago

idk if working at nintendo is a fitting punishment for saying fuck

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[-] Tigrafale@programming.dev 12 points 11 hours ago

Don't fucking say that word please

[-] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 49 points 11 hours ago

There's also the type that constantly has extra (possibly clarifying) thoughts in the middle of their typed sentences. So, they use parentheses to add those clarifications because having to retype the sentence would derail their train of thought and they'd then completely fail to convey anything.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I absolutely detest that kind (the kind who writes a giant parenthetical in the middle if their sentence before one or two words at the end. Just put the fucking parenthetical after the sentence! jfc) of person.

[-] ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 hours ago

So, so much. Then realizing you typed two paragraphs replying to a text. Then spend 30 minutes on full re-edits until your self doubt makes you eventually delete it all and simply respond “ok” where normal people only take 10 seconds to type that and yet you get annoyed by their lack of communication. And thus the self hatred spiral continues, as ever.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 10 points 9 hours ago

I use dashes - like this - and feel called out.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 hours ago

Use m-dashes and no spaces, and you'll be doing it right. The m-dash—which look like this—is the appropiate punctuation for this purpose.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 8 hours ago

Listen there is nothing wrong with having used both commas, dashes and parentheses in the same comment. It's perfectly normal.

Right?

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Don't forget to add brackets along with the parenthesis so you can have a clarifying thought during your clarifying thought

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Some try to compensate for that by editing sentences to remove it, but then only change like half the sentence, breaking it without realizing.

[-] justsquigglez@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago

I don't appreciate being attacked like this.

[-] whysteria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

got that built in bottom text

[-] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 hours ago

I'm held together by anxiety, caffeine and an unhealthy amount of self hate.

I also have 7 list, a board, 3 reminder app and leave sticky notes everywhere but I least I'm productive ( please help )

[-] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm like one in public but the other in private.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

There's the "I'm 60 and I don't realize I have it and it annoys the fuck out of my colleagues" type that I had to deal with...

[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I'm type 2 and a joke, can confirm.

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 4 points 12 hours ago
[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 22 points 11 hours ago

Are you asking what the term means? Masking is basically wearing an imaginary mask to hide whatever about you isn't deemed "normal" by society. Some typical examples are people with ADHD focussing very hard on noticing when it's their turn to speak, people with autism forcing themselves to make eye contact, people with depression putting on a happy face. Normal Person cosplay.

[-] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 12 points 8 hours ago

"Normal people cosplay."

I was sorely lacking this definition in my vocabulary. Thank you for the correction.

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the explanation!

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