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“Launching” an application (browser) has been a common phrase for as long as I can remember.
You are the only person discussing “launching an application” in this thread.
This could be overgeneralising a bit... but I see a lot of people with ADHD (on- and offline) who tend to make it an essential part of their identity. I realise it's a very impactful thing to have to deal with (I have ADHD too) but I feel like a lot of the time it's brought up for no real reason. E.g. you started daydreaming when reading a book? Forgot something to do when you walked through a doorway? Got angry? You…
By "a lot of people with ADHD" do you include people who are also self-diagnosed? I ask because my experience is similar to yours (I also have ADHD). Anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt: I work in software engineering, know and have worked with a lot of self-diagnosed ADHDs who make it part of their identity, while some of them probably do have ADHD, the vast majority of them feel like perfectly normal people w…
It’s likely that those using it in a self diagnosed way are using it as a way to have an excuse for something they do that is unpleasant.
That said, I have no trouble freely talking about it either. The shame is gone for me now. It is part of my life therefore my identity in some form
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> the label now makes information a keyword search away I think this can become a double-edged sword in some cases. When applied to certain problems, especially ones with no clear-cut solution, additional knowledge can end up being misleading. (Disclaimer: this is only my experience, and I do not intend to speak for others!) Example, I always used to frame issues I worked with in the language of ADHD, because I belie…
You stop for food?
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You're not wrong—but its not impossible—and it really helps! Having followed a lot of that advice in the past, and currently being in a slump; I can say it really it matters. Medication increases your chances of following through and the rewards compound.
> but its not impossible No but it actually is though. The entire thing with ADHD is that the whole attention mechanism is defective. Yes I can purposefully focus on something, but not consistently or over longer periods. That's the handicap . It's not a matter of not trying hard enough or figuring out one crazy trick. People with ADHD work differently from normal people and so far there's no fix for it.
There are extreme methods you can take that legitimately solve for the "defective wiring", such as meditating 10 hours a day. It's not permanent once you go off it, but you, yes you, can read a novel straight through.
But you don't actually need to go that far to reap 80 percent of the benefits. Real, effective protocols lower the threshold for stimulation. Constant novelty (seeking escape in external stimuli such as phones and computers) exacerbate our symptoms.
This whole identifying as a person with ADHD thing has gone way too far, and I say this as someone who has struggled with it my entire life.
You can do something about it and that something about it isn't only restricted to medication.
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That's what I do for myself, friend. I'm diagnosed ADHD, too. My luck is that I have a loving wife who helps me. It would be far more difficult without her, but I guess I would have to use checklists if I had to do this on my own. I should've said that I've been ADHD since my early 20s and have been coping for over 30 years. Or maybe it should have been obvious by the specificity of my advice.
I figured you either were or would claim to be adhd. I see lots of harmful "advice" pushed by supposed ADHD sufferers. One time I saw an older ADHD sufferer trying to mentor a young person with ADHD by telling him to cut out preservatives and take up meditation. Leafy Greens and Pay Attention are barely a step beyond vagina crystals and positive thinking, and its awesome that you think they worked for you, but people…
Meditation can and does help those with ADHD, especially in conjunction with correct medication.
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I think it's particularly common to see that with people who discover their ADHD in adulthood, and there are a lot of us now that awareness has been raised in recent years. I went my whole life thinking that I was broken. I had intense anxiety surrounding social interaction, was horribly depressed, got terrible grades through high school, and just generally did not enjoy most of life. I eventually learned how to cope…
Russel Barkley, in his book “Leading With ADHD,” actually suggested mentioning or “blaming” your ADHD after a mistake as a way to foster empathy for your personal challenges. It’s not intended to be an excuse, but rather a means for the other person, who assumes XYZ is effortless, to comprehend better/gain empathy.
This could be overgeneralising a bit... but I see a lot of people with ADHD (on- and offline) who tend to make it an essential part of their identity. I realise it's a very impactful thing to have to deal with (I have ADHD too) but I feel like a lot of the time it's brought up for no real reason. E.g. you started daydreaming when reading a book? Forgot something to do when you walked through a doorway? Got angry? You…
Labels in public health are absolutely problematic for exactly that reason. But I will also say that ADHD, if you have it, is an essential part of your identity regardless of your awareness of the label.
Part of the problem is the identifying with a spectrum of symptoms we assume to be eternal and unchanging.
I've ADHD and I'm on the spectrum. Others may differ - it's a spectrum after all- but I feel no list-only app will ever silence the drunk baboon on my shoulder constantly pulling my attention from what I'm doing. I'd advise goblin.tools to market itself differently and aim for the neurotypical market as well. #my2cents
The insight was that a lot of the noise pulling me off center was coming from built up clenching of muscles around my head and back, and a destabilization of core posture while sitting, leading to shaky leg and such.
The project I built was simply a mixable tone dashboard for different frequencies. Ive been dogfooding it hard, and its my goto to push around my headspace to clear out the noise and make a protected space for work. The easiest litmus for tone choice has just been, 'does this help or hurt'. On my better days its like im giving my brain a massage and I have the most productive times.
https://1ps0.github.io/binaural
A note: i load the file directly from repo when I use it on Firefox, theres an audiocontext policy i havent been able to figure out. Should work great on mobile and elsewhere.
> goblin.tools is written and maintained by Bram De Buyser, an AI, software and data engineer. I'm not saying that a semicolon and an Oxford comma are _necessary_, here - but I am saying that I did a double-take at my first interpretation that we are now naming and personifying AIs.
There are more reasons to use an Oxford comma than not, and I remain continually surprised that it is not taught as the default.
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My life got infinitely better when I stopped believing in any of that. It feels more like a spiritually bereft western pseudo-religion and I resent anyone parading around these titles.
If your life improved when you stopped believing in the symptoms that's a good thing for you but it also means you probably didn't actually have symptoms.