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OwenEverbinde
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Yeah, in modern American schools, the students are the product and billionaires are the customers.
Carmex lip balm as well.
That's a lot of the reason why Neosporin or any other antibiotic ointments help you heal faster. There's petrolatum in all those products.
This particular post isn't very... polite toward neurotypical people.
Like you say, there's a key difference between "making a behavior into the default" and "consistently managing to do something."
But I think we can both understand that this is likely to offend the neurotypical folks wandering onto this page. Especially because we're all pretty new to Lemmy (NTs and NDs alike) and I can guarantee you most of us still don't know where to find the "block community" button on the sidebar. Meaning they literally don't know how to avoid this kind of content popping up on their "all" and "local" feeds.
To put this in real-life terms, this lemmit is like an ADHD support group... but there's a young, inexperienced sommelier standing outside on the street offering free pizza and beer to random strangers saying, "come on in! This place is bumping!"
... and then, the neurotypical people he has invited in (along with neurodivergents and everything in between), after sitting down in a circle with the rest of us -- not sure why there's no disco lights or dance music -- proceed to immediately receive complaints about how much easier their life is than ours.
It wouldn't feel great being in their shoes right now.
Thank you. I appreciate the politeness.
We can indeed "get the fuck out of here." But you're going to have to perform a few tasks for us to do that.
- visit this community's homepage: !adhd@lemmy.world
- find the sidebar
- click "block community"
Done. After following these three steps, none of our posts will show up on your "all" feed or on your "local" feed. Then you won't have to see this particular group of people complaining about how hard life is.
I think both the duration and intensity are important. I've seen ADHDers online describing their brief spurts of focus and productivity as the "Hour of Power"
Which is a bit of a misnomer. I know we're all time blind and it feels like fifteen minutes, but that spurt can occasionally go four or five hours.
Alternately, we can have a few slightly productive weeks where everything is easier. I'm undiagnosed, pretty sure I'm ADHD, but I do occasionally have two-week productive cycles. Getting up early, completing tasks, maintaining a routine involving eating, exercising, and showering.
And then when it all comes crashing down, I never do any of those things on time again (or at least until years later, when stress put me in another two-week cycle).
Manic episodes, on the other hand, regularly last over a week at full intensity. From what I hear, the person feels like a god while the episode is going on. They make plans that are downright hubristic, because literally nothing feels insurmountable to them.
Can an ADHD person have two weeks of suddenly being able to maintain routines? Yeah. Sure. Two hours of nothing seeming impossible? Absolutely. But unless the two are combined, it's not a manic episode.
Not me. I think even on Lemmy, my neurodivergent brain will have forgotten your name by the time I'm done writing this comment. Farewell, @mayo@lemmy.world: every one of the five seconds I knew you was a goddamn honor.
Like a lot of people are saying, if reddit comes up in a search result, I'm clicking it. You know that's your best shot at finding the answer you're looking for.
But opening the app? Scrolling and socializing? I checked my comment history just now, and since joining Lemmy on July 1st, I have commented 5 reddit comments; 1 of them was a reply to someone replying to me. 4 of them were specifically about ActivityPub social networks.
In that same thirteen days, I left 33 comments on Lemmy.
... and car manufacturers, and oil companies, and tire companies, and the fast food franchises lining every freeway exit...
Well, anyone right of Richard Spencer these days is typically called, "Communist", "liberal", "globalist", "leftist", "BLM terrorist", "Antifa", and "far left extremist" interchangeably by the side that's been working very hard to make sure words don't mean anything anymore.
But to leftists, the distinction is still important: leftists believe in Marx's idea of a class struggle. Most other Democrats, on the other hand, don't even know what that is.
The class struggle goes like this: what's good for the miner will never be good for the mine owner. What's good for the line cook will never be good for the restaurant owner. What's good for the actor will never be good for the studio executive. And so on and so forth.
The reason these two sides are inherently at odds is because every penny paid to workers is a penny NOT made in profit. And likewise every penny made in profit is a penny NOT paid to workers. If workers score by stealing points from bosses, and bosses score by stealing points from workers, then workers and bosses are on different teams.
Bernie makes allusions to this notion constantly by heavily using the phrase "working class". Plus his proposals are pretty anti-capitalist (cancelling student loan debt, Medicare for all). So leftists flocked to his banner, elated.