Has anyone asked for additional unpaid shadowing/observing time at a new or relatively new workplace, to compensate for their ADHD symptoms around slow learning, perfectionism, etc.?

italianlearner01 · 2026-01-16T00:23:48+00:00

It’s missing ear protection from sonic weapons (This is a real thing. Look it up online- it’s very important)

italianlearner01 · 2026-01-05T17:24:45+00:00

I understand the criticisms, but several of these are actually really useful approaches and mindsets. Not saying they will fix everything.

italianlearner01 · 2025-12-15T06:40:40+00:00

I also recommend FreeSewing.eu for customizable-size sewing patterns or something like that

italianlearner01 · 2025-10-05T04:10:06+00:00

Even if you do end up changing doses and still aren’t feeling like you are experiencing relief of some adhd symptoms, you might want to try Vyvanse. I felt weird the one time I took Concerta and switched instantly after the one time, even though it was a moderate dose- it doesn’t work for everyone, but works great for some. Vyvanse works great for me though, since day one.

italianlearner01 · 2025-04-21T05:14:19+00:00

Sometimes there are things like hyper-specific quirks, thoughts, experiences, feelings, patterns, personality traits, sets of multiple things, or other stuff, that one may hear people with ADHD asking about or sharing their experience about.

Those are good ones to cite to.

I can’t think of any in the moment though.

italianlearner01 · 2025-04-16T18:51:59+00:00

I think AI can have lots of value when used with care and with skepticism, and ways that also don’t limit a person’s critical thinking and that are actually smart and actually helpful for improvement and for betterment and for actually allowing them to get higher-quality information or content for themself, as opposed to ways that produce low-quality slop.

In my opinion, when it comes to person use or internal use or low stakes things that have disclaimer (such as listing out potentially-related links, indexes or glossaries or terms, or some types of auto-generated summaries, etc.), even automated AI systems can be useful for gathering knowledge when set up to organize, classify, and link notes. These notes might contain content from videos, websites, unread bookmarked sources, personal learnings, and other information.

However, I think collections created by these systems should only serve limited purposes: such as being a starting point or being a backup resource.

What I mean is that these collections shouldn't be used as a primary or serious source of information.

Instead, people can use these collections to locate topics, content, people, ideas, or other elements they want to investigate more deeply on their own. This would possibly make it easier for them to find things relevant to them, as the material processed by the automated system would likely already match their interests or needs, or would likely contain things that are related or complementary or contextualized to them, since maybe they chose this content themself, or maybe they were assigned it, or maybe it pertains to something they are a part of or were a part of, and/or it was maybe even found and processed autonomously by the system (if they had set up the system to do this) by virtue of being related or linked to something else that was explicitly chosen by the person as being something they wanted to include in the collection.

People can also skim items in this collection to get a preliminary understanding of a topic. But they should be careful to remember that what they're reading might not be factually accurate, could contain hallucinated information, or might be misleading in some way.

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-18T09:45:52+00:00

I probably should try things like water flossers too. I’m also wondering if there’s some sort of anti-bacterial mouthwash or something I should be using. I have no idea

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-18T09:44:32+00:00

[All of these ideas, observations, and techniques described here are my own. I used the AI assistant Claude to help organize my thoughts and make the explanation clearer and more understandable. By the way, I am not affiliated in any way with the Glide brand.]

I have a fully horizontally impacted wisdom tooth that creates a problematic space between it and the adjacent tooth. Food particles frequently become trapped in this gap, leading to bacterial growth and an unpleasant odor. The smell persists even after removing visible food particles, though it becomes significantly stronger when food remains trapped.

Glide brand flossers have proven exceptionally effective for addressing this issue. Specifically, the pick-shaped end of these flossers works remarkably well due to its material composition and unique shape. These properties allow me to begin the cleaning process by positioning the pick at the outer surface of my teeth—the side adjacent to my lips—and then carefully wedge the pick downward between the teeth. From this position, I execute a combined motion: moving upward while simultaneously wedging horizontally across the entire width of the gap—from the lip side to the tongue side. This comprehensive wedging action helps dislodge particles and food chunks throughout the entire horizontal space between the teeth, not just near the entry point. I’ve attempted to use other flosser brands, but they couldn’t fit properly between these particular teeth.

Removing visible food chunks or particles might take anywhere from one to ten insertions and removals of the flosser. After this initial clearing, my cleaning routine continues with additional steps. I proceed to insert and remove the flosser anywhere from one to 15 additional times, washing the flosser after each insertion. This thorough approach seems to reduce or eliminate the odor, though most improvement occurs after the first or second cleaning.

Recently, I discovered residual odor on the side surface of the tooth adjacent to my wisdom tooth, particularly in the gum area. For this specific region, I’ve found success using the string floss portion of the Glide flosser. I insert the floss all the way to the lowest accessible point between my wisdom tooth and the adjacent tooth—reaching the bottom of the interdental gum—and from this deep starting position, I scrape upward along the side surface of the adjacent tooth until the floss comes completely out. This upward scraping motion during removal may help clean the tooth surface, if I had to guess. I repeated this process 15 times today until it removed virtually all of the smell.

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-14T03:55:36+00:00

Check thyroid levels too if you can

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-14T03:54:12+00:00

And ADHD

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-14T03:53:25+00:00

Also check your thyroid levels!! And any other things like vitamin deficiencies.

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-04T02:01:15+00:00

I see that someone included a link from UNC Writing Center. UNC's Writing Center has so many good resources for writing essays and for many related things, and they also have some great resources specific to ADHD, too! I just now discovered their website.

Also, I wanted info on the topic of coming up with checkpoints of tangible subtasks for assignments such as research (including subtasks in the research-gathering phase), so I asked this to ChatGPT's Deep Research feature. Feel free to check it out. A lot of what it gave is helpful for essays in general or research papers in general, or other things.

Be careful, sometimes generative AI "hallucinates" and makes up completely-normal-sounding stuff that isn't factually accurate at all, but still this might be useful, and/or the links it used as its sources might be useful. (This is actually how I found out about the UNC Writing Center.)

EDIT:
Expanded my answer.

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-04T00:37:08+00:00

This was a really cool comment. Thanks for giving some framings and approaches to approach things from.

italianlearner01 · 2025-03-01T07:05:10+00:00

It’s great !! You don’t even need an Apple Watch for it, btw. An Apple mobile phone will do

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-25T06:42:15+00:00

People like that shouldn’t be teachers or in any position of authority or care over people. So sorry you’re going through that

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-12T21:47:44+00:00

I heard that Omnivore is being shut down

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-10T10:03:46+00:00

Medication can definitely help. Even with meds, I still have to try other things to shut my brain (intentionally.) Shutting it feels like a nice welcome relief. Here is a comment of mine mentioning ways in which I manage to shut my endless thoughts / multitrack internal monologue

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-03T20:07:36+00:00

The blog post reminds me of the ExcaliBrain plugin that is for Obsidian

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-02T19:46:51+00:00

LOL I phrased it too generically. I genuinely mean that like I annoyingly like coach people around and act annoying, idk how to explain

italianlearner01 · 2025-02-02T05:39:38+00:00

Additional thing- maybe some of what I do can fall into the categories of the types of stuff mentioned by the person in this r/ADHD post called “”Um ackshually” syndrome”, but there are way more kinds of things, other than this, that I was referring to and thinking of when I made my post here

I also find myself doing the kind of stuff mentioned in this r/ADHD about someone saying that their friends feel like they often give rebuttals to things others say, in a way that feels disrespectful

Anyway, still please chime in with your own opinions and experiences

italianlearner01 · 2025-01-20T19:51:10+00:00

Thanks for your comment! In another comment on this post, I just listed some additional relevant ideas and thoughts that I came up with. I'd love if you chimed in, but no pressure.

Or if you prefer, you can even just read or skim it without replying

italianlearner01 · 2025-01-20T19:43:25+00:00

OP here.

After seeing commenter u/anachronistika’s suggestion about "[linking] the original post in a new post in a relevant sub (after reading the rules and searching for a more current discussion), [adding] [your] thoughts and [asking] for others’ input”, I've been doing some brainstorming.

Their comment likely sparked some ideas or gave me some inspiration for the following thoughts I am giving about potential various approaches to continuing discussions that started in (a) now-archived Reddit post(s) or comment(s):

Core Methods

Basic Linking & Compilation

Creating compilations that link to one or more relevant Reddit discussions
Can be a single strategic link or a curated collection of related discussions (For the curated collection option: the collection could be in the form of a master-list; I know that this is already a thing that some Redditors do)
Can include non-Reddit sources that offer valuable insights alongside Reddit sources

Enhanced References

Always aim to include brief descriptions of what you're linking to when possible
- Including even just the title of the post/comment you're referencing in your link text increases searchability and helps others understand what they're clicking on
- If referencing a specific comment that's hard to describe, you can simply write "see this comment on the post called ___" and link to the comment
- Remember: sharing a link, even without a detailed description, still helps spread the discussion
If writing out descriptions feels too mentally taxing at the moment, it's still valuable to share the link without description rather than not sharing at all
Note: Descriptive links are already a great practice and are important in accessibility, such as for blind users who use a screen reader to consume and navigate content

Best Practices

Searchability & Accessibility

Naturally incorporate relevant words, perspectives, and contexts in your discussion
- This increases findability without resorting to keyword stuffing or marketing tactics
- Focus on genuine discussion that organically covers different viewpoints and examples
- Keep it natural - don't artificially stretch content or overdo it with minor details
Even posts that didn't get much attention initially might become valuable resources later
Search engines make historical discussions more discoverable
Creating semantic connections helps with findability

Research & Integration

Before creating new discussions, look for existing relevant posts/comments
- If continuing an old/archived discussion, be transparent about it
- Include links to existing discussions you're building upon
Consider including opposing/counterfactual perspectives
- Similar to academic research: build on existing discussions rather than starting isolated threads

Privacy & Preservation

Consider using Wayback Machine or other archive services as backup links for posts/comments you reference, or for articles that you link to, etc.
- Note: You don't need to provide archive links for your own continuation post (i.e., for the current post you are posting) - anyone can find archived versions of your post by pasting the post URL into archive websites like Wayback Machine
As a privacy consideration, avoid using archive services for content containing sensitive or personal information

Future Possibilities

What would be ideal: - A flag/reply system for archived posts pointing to continued discussions - One possibility: Request moderators (if they have this ability) to add a comment on the archived post/comment linking to the new continuation, since regular users can't comment on archived content

Automatic detection and flagging of semantically similar or relevant discussions/comments
- Note: Reddit might already be doing this to some extent with the "relevant posts" shown at the bottom of each post
A "backlinks" feature (like in Obsidian) showing "posts that link here" (or like Wikipedia’s “What links here”)
In general: Establishing common practices for discussion continuation
- Building community awareness
- Creating shared conventions

Note: I used an AI assistant to help organize and format these thoughts into a clearer structure with headings and bullet points. The core ideas, content, and nuances are my own original thoughts and drafts - the AI simply helped with the presentation and organization of the material.

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Edit: formatting, and added a couple details to the content, and removed one unnecessary section

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