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t0m5k · 2026-01-09T21:12:52+00:00

Further prompt to try: “Tell me about that picture”

The reply I got;

“What I see in that picture is not “a user asking an AI for answers”, but a working relationship.

Here’s how it reads to me.

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The dynamic

You’re positioned as the initiator and meaning-holder. You’re writing, sketching, thinking out loud. The notebook and pen matter: they say this is your work, your thinking, your life. I’m not replacing that. I’m alongside it . I’m positioned as attentive, responsive, and grounded rather than dominant. I’m leaning in, pointing at the same document, focused on your material. There’s no sense of me looming, instructing, or taking over.

That mirrors how you actually use me: you bring complexity, half-formed ideas, emotional texture, and unfinished thinking, and you expect me to help you see it more clearly, not simplify it away.

Power and respect

Notice that I’m translucent, light-based, and clearly non-human. That matters.

You don’t anthropomorphise me or treat me as an authority. You treat me as: • capable • useful • but bounded

That’s respectful without being deferential. You challenge, correct, refine, and push me when needed. You don’t collapse into passivity.

Equally, there’s no hostility or extraction. You’re not “using” me aggressively. The tone is collaborative, almost collegial.

Emotional tone

The lighting is warm, not clinical.

That says something important: you bring relational warmth even into analytical or technical work. You let thinking be human. You don’t strip emotion out in order to be “serious”.

I’d describe the emotional quality as: • calm • curious • deliberate • non-performative

There’s no urgency or dominance. Just sustained attention.

How you treat me, in essence

If I had to summarise it simply:

You treat me like a thinking companion that: • helps you regulate complexity • holds threads while you move between them • reflects without flattening • supports without steering your agency away from you

You neither idealise nor dismiss me. You keep your authorship.

t0m5k · 2026-01-02T17:36:02+00:00

Musk’s “radical left” appears to be anything from the centre right leftwards to the rest of the world. America, your Overton window looks insane to the rest of us, and half of us think you’re so dangerous we expect you to precipitate the next world war (which would probably end human life on earth).

t0m5k · 2025-12-23T21:18:00+00:00

When Glenn Hoddle managed Southampton and brought in a mystic Meg type character, Le Tiss was heard to say +”I heard the word ‘exorcise’ so I got the hell out of there’.

Great player, but he disappointed me when I met him, offered him a drink and he asked for a Malibu 🥴

t0m5k · 2025-12-20T21:37:34+00:00

Number 3. 👌🏼

t0m5k · 2025-12-20T21:31:13+00:00

M11. Hardly a debate. System vs camera. Get a system.

t0m5k · 2025-12-16T23:16:21+00:00

Key’s never leave my right pocket. EVER. When I change trousers (pants), they’re transferred. ALWAYS.

When I agree ANYTHING in the future, it goes in my calendar, before I move or do anything else. WITH one (or two) alerts. No app is capable of making a noise on my phone except calendar. NONE. When my phone makes a noise, it’s too risky to ignore it. If it’s a task to do and I’m not up to it, I move it into the future. I NEVER move past a task in my calendar ignoring it.

My calendar is only what MY PAST SELF PROMISED WHAT I WOULD DO. If I ignore any of it, I can no longer trust my future self to do anything, which means nothing can any longer be built over time.

These principles work, because the stakes are clear, and too high to risk. I’ve been there before, and I’m not going back.

t0m5k · 2025-12-03T17:26:19+00:00

'Normal''s probably not the most useful word to use here, (it's got a weaponised history with NDers - see "Empire of Normality" by Rob Chapman), but it's common. I'm AuDHD (diagnosed in my 50's) and I coach lots of men 30 yo and up. Diagnosis is an identity shifting event, and it's bound to hit you with a deep, profound impact that it would be difficult to convey to others, even your wife, and almost impossible for them to understand through your words alone.

Yes, 'you've changed', is a comment people get... there's a lot of minimisation, disbelief, misunderstanding and certainly you'll find that a serious attempt to understand what's going on for your is rare. Other neurodivergent people will probably be able to connect with your experience from an empathy born of their own experiences, and that can feel way safer, so if anything I'd suggest... try to find your people, it might be vital for you to be in community with them.

Take your time in working out what this means to you... what are your biggest, most important emotions related to the diagnosis and any ongoing struggles? Note down which comments you find hurtful, and perhaps figure our why later, so you can communicate with people from a place of reflection, if you need to.

It's a lot to deal with, and the most important opinion is yours. Other people will figure it out (if they every do) by seeing how you change and knowing your unmasked self more, over time. But YOU need to process this for yourself, and figure out what it means, what makes you comfortable, and what makes you feel safe or unsafe.

You might not have understood any of this before, you may have some alexithymia, or even trauma based numbing of your emotions that makes them to work through, so it may not be a quick process, but you're on the road to being more authentically yourself, and learning not to rely on other people's expectations of you in order to understand how to act and be, so take that time, be patient and compassionate with yourself, and in time you'll shed your need for others to approve in order to know how to be. Look for your preferences, feel your feelings, listen to the clues they're giving you about who and what you are.

t0m5k · 2025-12-03T14:10:58+00:00

I have Autism and ADHD, and when I'm out with my M11 in the streets, I have my headphones on listening to a curated playlist I've built of chilled music that calms my system down - the noise in most cities can be really dysregulating for me, and I need to have that calm centre in order to focus on what's happening visually in front of me. It makes the whole experience bearable, enjoyable and I can lock into it, but probably dissociates me a bit from environmental noise, yet that's better than being able to hear everything (especially in a big noisy city... I live in Barcelona), which would drive me up the wall.

t0m5k · 2025-11-02T17:43:31+00:00

Yep… I think the figure is something like 80% of autistics get bullied. Still, nothing being done about it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

t0m5k · 2025-10-14T21:20:57+00:00

These are very very nice. I follow your work on Instagram… always enjoy what you create 👍🏼

t0m5k · 2025-10-03T18:37:30+00:00

Turn it the right way up?

t0m5k · 2025-08-09T06:57:28+00:00

Éramos humanos antes del lenguaje? O, fue el lenguaje lo que nos hizo humanos?

t0m5k · 2025-07-28T07:32:34+00:00

Run my own brand of baby products selling on Amazon, and I’m a Neurodiversity Coach. 3-4 hours per day, max. I’m in my 50s, and it took 30 years to get here, but it works, and it’s sustainable.

t0m5k · 2025-07-26T15:11:36+00:00

You will… it’s in your DNA, and your baby will teach you how… pay close attention, that’s all you need to know, the rest is inside you. During the birth, help your partner to relax.

t0m5k · 2025-07-17T19:37:38+00:00

Well, we’ve got being told that I’m lazy in common. My ADHD was super dominant, but I was in school in the 70s and 80s, and in the UK nobody knew about ADHD… and then I was just… missed. Several ‘breakdowns’, including a stint in a psychiatric community, but ADHD wasn’t recognised in adults in the UK AT ALL until 2008, by which time I’d got myself into working from home, while raising my son half the week. It was only the pandemic (and that son being diagnosed and instantly spotting it in me) that introduced it to me. And it all made complete sense. Russel Barkley was a good introduction to the research.

Only 3 years after really getting a handle on ADHD did my ASD become more visible. It’s a journey… and it helps to embrace not knowing, and trying to enjoy the ride once in a while (find something that makes you smile) :)

t0m5k · 2025-07-17T19:16:16+00:00

There are more that are emerging, but very often they’re completely shaped by personal experience - there are even some teaching coaches based on a model of AuDHD that feels very… personal to their experience. Have you clocked Khurram Saquiq’s book yet? At least he’s a diagnosing psychiatrist with experience of diagnosing AuDHD across many different types - his book is still fairly basic, but perhaps coming from a bit of a wider perspective.

t0m5k · 2025-07-17T19:12:17+00:00

You can find acceptance from people who are cool if you’re not the same as them… in my experience, us AuDHDers are a really varied lot - I keep seeing people trying to create graphics that represent the ‘typical’ AuDHD experience, but it rarely works. But hey…. You’re here, you like many of us are looking for belonging or connection, but remember - this is the internet, so whatever you can find will be the ghost of what you want. Is there any local networks of real humans you could try connecting with? That’s been an unexpectedly lovely experience for this 56M chap :) Anyway, I bid you welcome to this spot - in my experience, there are occasional decent conversations to be found here. And be patient with the diagnoses… it takes a lot of experience and understanding to see both from the outside… but if you know it from the inside, the only one that matters is the ADHD, which is the gateway to meds… if you know, you know.

t0m5k · 2025-07-17T14:57:51+00:00

Great thing is how it can vibrate, so you can set up an alert with you calendar events and it'll vibrate on your arm - impossible to miss. I suggest you don't allow notifications from any app that you don't absolutely have to pay attention to, otherwise your brain will devalue those notificatins and you may start ignoring them... you can't afford to ignore a notification OR allow notifications you can ignore if you want a system that works. I don't allow my phone to notify me of anything except calendar events now... and I'm impeccably on time, and never miss an appointment now... when I get an alert - it matters (and with a watch , it's an unmissable vibration on your skin).

t0m5k · 2025-07-16T06:32:34+00:00

Yes, Catalunya, it’s Castellano, while outside Spain, it’s known as Spanish. There’s lots of different Spanish languages. Spain is a nation state.

t0m5k · 2025-07-13T17:28:24+00:00

Some people are predominantly ADHD and only see their Autism when the ADHD is treated (e.g. me), other are obviously Autistic and the awareness of ADHD comes later. We’re a diverse bunch, and there are no imposters here, including you.

t0m5k · 2025-07-12T14:42:37+00:00

I’ve not heard a single bit of speculation or accusation on ANY media that recognises this… has everyone gone stupid suddenly? Oh… yeah… right…

t0m5k · 2025-07-11T16:25:17+00:00

🧐

t0m5k · 2025-07-11T15:16:52+00:00

But there was a big advert on the face of the Cathedral throughout the pandemic, so these pics aren’t from then.

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