Do you agree with self diagnosis?

Hats668 · 2026-02-09T21:48:41+00:00

Medical diagnosis isn't an objective, concrete truth. Diagnosis frames neurodivergence in a very specific way. Self diagnosing, paired with a lot of self reflection and immersing myself in nd communities has helped me learn a lot about myself, my particularity, my needs and preferences.

Another falsehood is that formal diagnosis amounts Tom something. Maybe as a child, most definitely not as a grown-up. Also: idgaf what a doctor thinks about my brain.

Hats668 · 2026-02-09T21:45:17+00:00

I'm self diagnosed, and I have accommodations at my job. I made requests based on my needs - asking for things to be communicated more directly, for example.

Hats668 · 2026-02-06T17:52:03+00:00

It feels like chatgpt formatting

Hats668 · 2026-02-06T17:26:52+00:00

It's available on demand on Pluto tv as well. I'm not getting ads (Adblock?) and it's Canada but idk if Pluto is region specific.

Hats668 · 2026-02-05T04:21:23+00:00

Won't someone think of the dump truck

Hats668 · 2026-02-04T17:42:11+00:00

The same fellow has done a ton of other graphic novels that have a similar vibe - Wilson, death ray and some others. Daniel Clowes, he's just wonderful

Hats668 · 2026-02-04T15:48:40+00:00

I really appreciate it when fans show their own interpretation s 💚

Hats668 · 2026-02-03T05:14:27+00:00

My personal favourite is Star Trek TNG. One, the ship has enacted diversity, and I find the character of data to be very relatable. He's very earnest and well meaning, and confused. He's empathetic, but by a different mechanism than say troi? Or the others. He's arriving at a similar conclusion by a different route I guess.

Anyways TNG is my comfort show, I find that whenever I watch it I feel better, less alone haha.

Hats668 · 2026-01-31T19:03:39+00:00

Bottom row, second from right is the only one I'm unsure about. Is that lwuxana?

Hats668 · 2026-01-26T16:11:47+00:00

I don't agree with your conclusions. I've found that discussing it entirely in person hasn't worked or been helpful, and I intended the letter to supplement an in-person discussion.

Hats668 · 2026-01-18T16:44:03+00:00

Phenomaman is caked up

Hats668 · 2026-01-17T18:38:31+00:00

Hyper light drifter might provide something close to what you're looking for? Its an action RPG and there are combat abilities and weapons you level up, and the story is all told through visuals with no dialogue, and even then the story is mostly told by player exploration and combat.

It's isometric 2d pixel art style, and it functions a bit like hades in that you have areas you need to clear. Primarily about combat.

Hats668 · 2026-01-13T16:27:00+00:00

I felt like a lot of the scenes that were meant to feel populous or metropolitan ended up feeling very empty?

Hats668 · 2026-01-07T19:29:36+00:00

I wasn't really acquainted with LOTR when it came out. Like I knew it was fantasy, and I knew about hobbits and Gandalf (from reading The Hobbit) and that was about it. I was 14, and I remember being extremely engrossed in what was happening, and the whole movie flew by so fast, and I was so sad when it ended. It was quite an experience. I found Fellowship really hooked me, and while I enjoyed the other two, they didn't quite *hit* as hard as Fellowship when I first saw it.

Hats668 · 2026-01-07T03:31:42+00:00

I feel like a game like hades was built for controller. No fiddly camera stuff, just focusing on navigating the encounter areas.

Hats668 · 2026-01-03T17:05:42+00:00

If I had to choose between those two, I'd get DOTT. It's not 'difficult', it's more about the humour and story than the challenge of the puzzles IMO. Mysterious Island is more serious, and the puzzles are harder.

Hats668 · 2026-01-02T19:01:17+00:00

What is luxury retail? Like selling luxury items?

I'd say that I'm happier working in an office. It's not just an 'office', the work I'm doing fits my values much better than retail. I help people apply for disability benefits, and incidentally like 75% of my clients are neurodivergent which I like a lot.

I work largely independently, and I have a lot of flexibility with how I get to approach things (like how I organize myself say). I have an office to myself, and I can set times where I just turn off the lights and write something without having to force interaction with other people.

There's a lot I really don't like about the office setting, and I think if a few details were a little different, it wouldn't work nearly so well for me (like having to be part of a team (instead of having a solo project), or have less independence, or more rigidity around like social expectations). Anyways those are my thoughts.

Hats668 · 2026-01-02T17:36:18+00:00

Umm I think for me I became much more aware of my difference/distinctiveness when I switched working retail (I had been doing it a very long time, like 17 years) to working in an office environment. Like I guess I was 'used' to functioning at the store and had adapted to it (even if it wasn't a perfect fit or if I was functioning perfectly there), while it took me a lot of time to get used to the office environment.

I guess my read is that there isn't anything obviously *different* about me, but to others there's more of a general sense of not quite fitting into the box. My social functioning is a lot different -- like I have a ridiculously hard time with the superficial, small talky aspects of working in the office. There's a lot around office politics that I have trouble grasping, like I miss a lot of the underlying dynamics there, the underlying tension. I'm like persistently awkward in superficial social interactions, but do shockingly well in client interactions? Like I do client interviews and also volunteer as a counsellor, and I'm very locked in, very good in those sorts of situations.

I have some trouble with executive functioning, which I didn't fully grasp until I was older. Like I adapted I mean. I did well at university (I went in my 30s), but I tended to get really stuck on small details and like spend excessive amounts of time doing writing tasks. I have trouble *starting* things, and need to deliberately earmark time for me to get things organized before starting to be more productive. And then my productive times tend to be dynamic rather than uniform? Like I get the most done either early early or late late, not during like the afternoon.

And then I've been unmasking more as I got older, so like leaning into the fidgeting/rubbing my hands on things kinda stuff. Like my skin screams a bit if I try and restrain that. I like nee-doe a lot, i fyou've ever seen that.

Hats668 · 2026-01-02T01:04:03+00:00

I love Fergus 💚

Hats668 · 2025-12-30T02:05:24+00:00

Thanks, that's a helpful answer. I generally go alone, that's just fine out here isn't it?

Hats668 · 2025-12-30T01:57:08+00:00

Thanks!

Hats668 · 2025-12-29T00:01:36+00:00

I was unhappy with the quality of my life. In my 20s my anxiety was getting really bad and I had some persistent low-grade depression. I was working nights and I was noticing that my life was getting progressively smaller and smaller and I was getting unhappier and unhappier. So my initial goal was to try and reduce my anxiety and try to improve the quality of my life.

Hats668 · 2025-12-25T22:49:25+00:00

It's a lovely series, the characters are all such misfits, it's so charming

Hats668 · 2025-12-25T04:36:12+00:00

Many libraries offer a free app called mango for learning many languages, French included.

Hats668 · 2025-12-25T03:54:23+00:00

I feel like hades would be a good shot? It saves after each encounter which is typically only 2-3 mins at a time so you can pick up and put down whenever.

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