OpenStars

I think my main problem was caring about the work that I had done. If only I could convert myself into a robot that would do everything as asked perfectly, then ~~nothing would ever get done right~~ everything would be perfect!

Context: I get yelled at for... get this, bringing up work inside work meetings!:-P Btw if anyone wants to turn this reply into an impromptu ~~therapy~~ session offering me tips on how to survive meetings, I could use some!? :-D

That's not "fair"! Such an unbalanced relationship.

Life is pain. Sometimes the sex is real.

As always, Dems are hoping that fear of what the other side would do if they won will drive its base to the polls. But as all the comments here show, I worry that that will not be the case.

e.g. people recall how Biden "slapped" the train workers - not so much forgetting as never even knowing in the first place that Biden stayed with the situation for months to help them get a good proportion of what they had asked for.

If facts do not matter so much to conservatives, who are in possession rather of "alternative facts" and then vote with their hearts rather than heads, so now too it seems that liberals are likewise receiving possibly a different set of "alternative facts", and may also (e.g. the Gaza situation) vote with their hearts rather than heads.

I dunno - don't underestimate just how jaw-dropping shockingly unintelligent many of them are.

I will say this again down below but I like it so much that I want to repeat it to start out with as well, if you do not mind: Thank you for your kind words:-).

I tend to think of ADHD & autism as more chemical, whereas for me it is my trauma and decisions that have created this. I could be making stuff up and it is all that way. The brain is weird, and trauma is a bitch, on steroids:-P.

Moreover, I think everything that is an advantage is also a disadvantage, and vice versa. It is like the game rock-paper-scissors: nothing is "best", only good in certain contexts, but you never know what the next round will bring.

The ability to "shut out the world" and just CREATE - it can literally change the world, and also at the same time get you fired. It did for Steve Jobs, and then weirdly enough they brought him back! The execs reportedly hated that they had to do that, yet needed him b/c otherwise they could not create money out of thin air. It must have been so humiliating to them, to have to bow before the laws of economics and touch reality so directly, rather than simply impose their will and have everyone immediately say "yes!". Anyway I am proud to be neurodivergent, and went looking for ways to further break out of the mold. But then likewise after I left my last position, I am also looking to reign that in too, so that I can maintain a steady income as well as create:-P.

You too are getting better at that I see - and that's definitely a good thing:-). Whether we are ever truly the masters of our own fate or not, we can at least step up and attempt to grab the reigns, and I think that's a good thing (otherwise, the reigns wouldn't even need to be there?:-D).

I've said this to others too, and I will say it again: I prefer thoughtful replies. I reply to enough common stuff all across the Fediverse that I'm solid on the "banter", but it is so rare to have the TRULY thoughtful ones. Like cooking, it is worth the wait for the preparation time:-).

And I believe you about the trauma causing you to feel "anxiety" for not responding sooner. I... well let's just say that I ABSOLUTELY understand that (yes, you guessed it: I am the same way, and like you I fight that).

Thank you for your kind words:-).

The problem is: they don't care one bit. :-(

I never... don't do that!:-P

Yes I a...

The hero we NEED. Now, can it tighten its own bolts? :-P