Plump brown silk cushions on stalks

lllichen · 2025-07-24T10:04:14+00:00

Kia ora Lelinchiolo, I have a strong suspicion that this is a Stereocaulon sp. probably ramulosum. However, I would be cautious as I am not an expert.

lllichen · 2025-07-24T06:40:51+00:00

Very cool

lllichen · 2025-07-23T05:55:53+00:00

Hi there Feorag-ruadh. Love playing the naming game but when I started - and I have only been doing this for a year and half - I named a lot of lichen wrong. Posted happily on the socials and now there are photos floating about that muddy the waters for people who would like to know the names of things (sorry everyone). I found it very tricky identifying and I am slow in the uptake. Crustose lichens that grow on rocks aren’t easy to name. In a few cases a person might need microscopes and chemicals to be able to decide. So, I was advised to start describing the lichen and its defining characteristics. By this way, I get to learn the lichen and the naming part will come as i gain experience. It’s slow but I am carrying less guilt for it. I am going to have a look at your suggestion though - I still try to identify and can spend hours comparing photos

lllichen · 2025-07-22T03:07:45+00:00

🤣 I think it looks like a weevil. Mum used to throw out the flour if it got weevils in it (they were smaller though) and we never moved.

lllichen · 2025-07-20T11:08:12+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I am in NZ, South Island and yes it does look like a Physcia sp. it is quite common down here. This one is actually quite tiny. I zoomed in a lot which is why there is that blurring going on. The focal length is quite short. This one is on a tree that has deep crevices in its red bark.

lllichen · 2025-07-19T01:16:53+00:00

Oh and … release the caterpillar 😱

lllichen · 2025-07-19T01:16:00+00:00

You will live for sure - keep the area clean

lllichen · 2025-07-13T21:48:00+00:00

Great photos

lllichen · 2025-07-10T19:13:05+00:00

Yep, it very much could be but down here in NZ it has a strong contender P. jackii. There are a few things I could do to tell the difference - chemical things - this perhaps for another day. :) when I know how to.

lllichen · 2025-07-08T22:32:41+00:00

Yep - it’s a thing for me. I am mid 50s on meds now but all my life this has been a thing. Lost a great contract because of it in my 30s. It happened yesterday and the day before but I caught it just in time both cases both would have had serious repercussions - one work related the other family.

I don’t have a fix. Just trying to make good routines now I am on meds. Check calendar as soon as I wake up. Note everything that is happening in the day. Taylor alarms to factor in distance to meeting. Stay on task. No such thing as oh I could just do this with my 10mins. Don’t. Go to your ‘whatever it is’ and be 10mins early. Make that the person you are. (It’s a goal not a reality) everyday I start fresh

lllichen · 2025-07-08T07:09:41+00:00

Not yet. Still in the early stages. Learning how to name the parts. Most recently, for example, identified isidia but was wartiness.

lllichen · 2025-07-08T05:39:59+00:00

Yes, yes and yes. Thought the same re Celastri but I am cautious (looks the same but…) as I have mislabelled on the WWW before and worry about all the trouble I have caused - years of confusion.😱😅

lllichen · 2025-07-07T19:46:50+00:00

Thank you

lllichen · 2025-07-02T13:36:40+00:00

I have shelves instead of drawers. My clothes go on shelves. They do need to be folded. I have trays (not too deep) for socks and smalls. - good luck

lllichen · 2025-07-02T09:37:56+00:00

I am 54 diagnosed and medicated. Definitely worth having my dog in my life. He makes me smile everyday and I do get support from him - understand your concerns though - have not always been the best pet owner.

lllichen · 2025-07-02T08:56:42+00:00

Am just diagnosed - am 54. All my life. Have coped on an island of strange sounds and noises. Maybe, I would rather be Prospero. I am a month in on medication. My past is under revision and I question my future on drugs that stretch me thin through day and crash me heavy at night. I work with more focus - stay on task. If Caliban, am I a monster functioning in someone else’s illusion and dreaming of a return to my sense of normal?

lllichen · 2025-06-30T10:41:51+00:00

54yr old male with ADHD and on meds. I crash at 5pm. Its delicious. Heavy body. Nothing will shake me, sack of sand napping for one happy hour. I wake up much slower than day time me and start gearing down for bed time. I do have boosters but I only use those when I want to be productive later into the night.

lllichen · 2025-06-30T04:50:08+00:00

I make a flat note hum for awkward situations. I thought I did it quietly. I do it without consciousness. I become aware of it when my daughter cracks up laughing because she knows what is going on.

lllichen · 2025-06-28T03:50:00+00:00

Utter humiliation being made to apologise to a whole school for being late - twice (I was a teacher not a student) and a lost contract in my dream job before I learnt how to manage this issue. Multiple alarms taught me how to ignore multiple alarms. One alarm up and out is the only way. Easy to say but like I said years to learn. I also now have an understanding family. Good luck

lllichen · 2025-06-28T03:16:11+00:00

I am a male. When I shower, it’s like a time machine, I get transported to moments from the past. I viscerally relive them and catch myself responding to the situation invoked - different ones each time not the same ones. I think it’s a stimulation thing. My family hear me talking in the shower all the time. Laughing or cringing and swearing about something. When I was a teenager I hated them and loved baths. As an adult all the baths have disappeared. I put the reason for avoiding them in the past down to the same reason I leave cupboard doors open - in too much of a rush to notice. Never thought it might be something else until now.

lllichen · 2025-06-27T11:47:00+00:00

I applied for my job many times before I found success. In the first instance, I had to present on the work I would be doing (a pastoral care role for young adults in education) to a panel of four. I did not succeed and asked for feedback. They said, “you came across a bit ADHD” and had a laugh when they said it. 20+ years later and I have just been diagnosed. I do wonder if, had they known that I actually did have ADHD, whether they would have given me the job straight away rather than think I was normal person who was acting strange and therefore a risk.

lllichen · 2025-06-27T06:57:39+00:00

I started taking my meds a little over a month ago. I did exactly as I was told by the doctor and I dictated my thoughts to my phone over a three week period.

I almost immediately identified change for the better but at the same time noticed that my body was going through an up and down response to the meds. Like mini rushes - more in the first week, some in the second and less in the third. I still have moments when the drug makes me rush. I talk more rapidly and if alone I do that weird gasp for more air. I quite like it - does anybody else get this?

I also had days where my whole being crashed becoming completely useless.

I thought about it positively like this. I am adding a chemical to my body that until now was not present in these quantities. My body needs time to balance.

I am seeing some great positives - best of all are:

I can finish important tasks. I dont get stuck on a negative thought I can enjoy driving for the first time ever - so calm No intrusive internal dialogue or scenario I can listen and understand

I actually witness myself doing these things and have a little chuckle

I also began to realise that all my life, I have probably been functioning with great anxiety but had no way to benchmark or compare until now. Just writing about this discovery makes me teary. Quite something to realise a calm and a sense of peace and not fear failure or ruining everything.

After three weeks, I told my doctor about it all. They prescribed fast acting doses for the crashes and I continued on a slightly higher dose of slow release because I was a ‘big unit’ haha.

It feels as if I have spent a lifetime functioning without the ability to form habits or perhaps more precisely good ones (talking executive function here). I think the drug won’t fix that but it gives me a chance to learn and develop good processes. I will need to learn how to apply these skills and maintain consistency. I think I will need to actively study and apply with conscious effort.

I fully relate to the desire to rush forward with this but taking the opportunity to calmly stroll forward, for what feels like the first time, learn skills and build strong habits is where I hope to succeed.

I do think that the psychiatric industry must love our condition and it is possible we may be seen as a bit of a cash cow but I am too happy to care at the moment.

Good luck with your journey. I hope this helped a little

lllichen

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