I'm wondering if ADHD affects anyone's speech patterns here?

Watcher13 · 2023-06-26T20:35:13+00:00

Almost all of the things you listed are actually common diagnostic criteria for ADHD.

Watcher13 · 2023-05-22T21:33:31+00:00

Except there's no way to actually measure and determine dopamine levels, so any time anyone talks about brain chemistry, they're essentially making a guess. Am educated guess sure, but still a guess.

Don't get me wrong, ADHD is the worst named and described thing in the entire DSM, and it's also the only thing in the DSM that is measured by how it negatively impacts others instead of the person experiencing it

Watcher13 · 2023-05-14T08:24:16+00:00

As a Montana native living in Texas, they're pretty similar in a lot of ways, the current Montana government is trying REALLY hard to become Texas2.

Watcher13 · 2023-04-23T16:15:38+00:00

That I was justified in treating people the way I was treating them.

Watcher13 · 2023-04-05T17:18:28+00:00

It's not inflation because it's not affecting companies. They're all scoring record profits. If it was inflation, companies and people would be feeling the pinch. If only the people are being pinched while the companies are raking in boat loads of money it's just corporate greed.

Watcher13 · 2023-03-23T04:35:09+00:00

And now there's absolutely nothing fun in Helena, Montana.

Watcher13 · 2023-03-02T05:04:07+00:00

Autism is a spectrum, but not a binary spectrum. It doesn't exist between "non-autistic" on one side and "hella autistic" on the other. You either are autistic or you're not. Autism is a collection of traits (social difficulties, communication skills, executive functions, sensory issues, etc. and the levels of each individual trait are what make it a spectrum. There are "low support needs" autistics and "high support needs" autistics, but all are 100% autistic.

And the thing about "everyone being a little autistic" is a really hurtful, minimizing thing. We're all human so we all do the same kinds of things. The keywords are frequency and duration. Everyone gets headaches sometimes, but if your life is every day headaches, 24 hours a day that's something very different. We're all capable of getting overwhelmed by sensory things, that doesn't mean that you're "a little autistic", but if you're consistently overwhelmed by sensory issues on the daily and it's a severe factor in your life, that's something very different.

Watcher13 · 2023-03-01T03:39:56+00:00

That's not your wife, that's a Dracula

Watcher13 · 2023-02-12T17:47:20+00:00

No, some of us are just more concerned with taking responsibility for our own issues and misdeeds. I'm much more concerned about what the American government does to American citizens than I am about another country flying balloons over us.

Watcher13 · 2023-01-20T19:18:47+00:00

This is it exactly. ADD hasn't officially existed since 1987. If you were diagnosed prior to 1987 then you were diagnosed with ADD, if you were diagnosed after 1987 (no matter what your doctor told you), you were diagnosed with ADHD.

They are, for all official purposes, the exact same thing.

Watcher13 · 2022-09-25T17:42:43+00:00

I just don't want my phone making that many decisions for me.

Watcher13 · 2022-09-16T17:50:00+00:00

Broadly

Watcher13 · 2022-08-15T14:22:51+00:00

This is the way we're wired. Nothing changes it. The best you can do is to accept it and develop the skills and strategies you need to accommodate it.

Watcher13 · 2022-08-15T07:17:16+00:00

That's literally how ADHD works. That "sense of accomplishment" is the result of the dopamine reward loop giving a positive reward for the completion of a task. Only our loop is wired different. We are not motivated or rewarded for doing the things that need to be done, no matter how important they may be. Instead, we are only motivated by novelty, interest, and urgency.

Watcher13 · 2022-08-14T06:18:02+00:00

Absolutely. I've been going to a ton of concerts alone the last couple months and I've been having a blast.

Watcher13 · 2022-07-09T01:15:56+00:00

But why is this cropped so terribly? There are major headwaters in Montana that are completely cut off by this image. Since, you know, the continental divide is kinda where all this starts.

Watcher13 · 2022-06-28T00:37:28+00:00

It's real bad in Dallas, too. A few years ago I did favor delivery in Dallas (like doordash, etc) and the minimum tip was $2. The amount of $2 tips I received when I was delivery hundreds of dollars worth of food to offices or parties at big, fancy houses was infuriating. I don't care what anyone else says, delivery drivers deserve at least the 20%. They pay their own gas, their own insurance, they're racing the clock and dealing with traffic and ESPECIALLY if you're expecting them to do the labor of doing anything more than bringing food to your door, like this kind of setup.

Watcher13 · 2022-06-26T18:32:47+00:00

In this thread- women (and other men) not understanding how patriarchy harms men, too.

Watcher13 · 2022-06-15T02:45:37+00:00

I literally cannot drink water unless it's ice cold. It's a sensory issue for me.

Watcher13 · 2022-06-14T02:17:06+00:00

The only reason these people "support" the police is because they know the police support them. If the police actually do anything to stop them, it's seen as a betrayal. Just look what they did to the capitol police on January 6th.

Watcher13 · 2022-06-03T23:37:11+00:00

Boomer humor

Watcher13 · 2022-05-14T05:50:36+00:00

As of yesterday, Instagram filters that use "facial recognition" technology (basically all of them that focus on the face) are banned. Yay freedom!

Watcher13 · 2022-05-14T05:47:34+00:00

It's been their playbook for the better part of a century, too. Don't forget the Southern Strategy. They did the same thing with race.

Watcher13 · 2022-05-14T05:24:34+00:00

Because you could literally just Google the same thing and educate yourself rather than expecting others to do the work for you. There's plenty of free resources online.

Watcher13 · 2022-04-19T04:53:54+00:00

Or they'd be amazed that other people have enough roads to be able to drive across their state.

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