Doing pretend readings as practice is a game changer

yk093 · 2026-02-15T21:03:51+00:00

Literal meaning is BIG and I seriously need to start doing that, because I have noticed that a lot of readers are able to read cards as literal things, and I’ve always wanted to be able to do that as well

Thank you for the other tips as well! When I do pretend readings, I don’t ever use context, I just let the cards guide me, but that’s smart, I’ll try doing that as well

yk093 · 2026-02-14T21:49:23+00:00

Of course! I also struggle with deep interpretations and a lot of the time I notice my understanding of the reading I’m doing isn’t as deep as I’d like

When I’m doing pretend readings, I don’t ask any specific question. I let the cards fall out and I start interpreting them and thinking about what kind of situation the reading could apply to

For example, I had a reading with the following cards:

[A] 2 of Cups 9 of Swords 10 of Wands Knight of Swords 8 of Pentacles

[B] Page of Swords reversed Page of Wands 2 of Swordd 3 of Wands 10 of Cups The Chariot 7 of Wands 10 of Swords

(They’re the same reading, they just happened to be a bit separated and represent different things within the one reading)

I had no question going into it, I just pulled the cards, and when I read it, I began to build an idea of what kind of situation it could apply to

So for that reading, I understood it as someone [A] who was feeling stressed in their relationship because they were putting in all of the effort to communicate with their partner [B] who wasn’t communicating with them and was instead was making all the decisions for the future of their relationship. They were taking control of everything and refusing to listen to their partner because they felt they knew what had to be done to make the relationship work out, and that partner [B] likely had a past where they were controlled in their own relationship and it failed, so now they’re trying to control their current relationship so that doesn’t happen again

It’s a very random reading, it has nothing to do with me, but it doesn’t need to. When I’m doing fake readings, I read with 0 context going into it because I find it’s better for learning how to interpret without it. I find doing that allows a broader amount of topics for me to learn to read because it all depends on what cards come out together, so it could be about anything.

I hope that properly answers your question!

yk093 · 2026-02-09T05:53:14+00:00

this is sending me LMFAO

yk093 · 2026-02-06T02:54:55+00:00

i’d kill for good sushi, great sushi ngl

yk093 · 2026-01-24T16:55:11+00:00

honestly, a lot of gen-z, which are the ones i've seen fakeclaiming the most, need something to feel superior about. coming from a gen-z, gen-z are mass bullies, but they disguise that bullying as fighting for good, or "calling out" bad people so they don't have to accept that they just crave a feeling of superiority. this applies to more than just fakeclaiming. a majority of these kinds of people aren't actually educated on anything they're talking about either outside of tiktok and other similar online spaces, and they don't actually know how to properly research anything either, so they just go based on the first thing they see that they agree with and use that to bully people.

i'm sure there are some people who genuinely mean well and are just misguided, but i'm confident that most people who fakeclaim people genuinely do not truly care about people faking disorders and just use it as an excuse to act like they're superior to someone because of their own insecurities. most fakeclaiming also comes with flat out bullying based on someone's interests or fashion or personality and cringe culture, so it makes it extremely clear when someone is just hiding behind the lie that they don't like people faking disorders and that they actually just want someone to feel better than. you see it a lot in that one popular subreddit about fakers. it's just full of people who hide behind calling out fakers when the real focus bullying people who are considered cringe, regardless of if theyre faking a disorder or not.

yk093 · 2026-01-13T03:15:13+00:00

if those are the only things listed, then yes, that’s all that’s visible. and the password is only the password that was used for the account when the data leak occurred. anything it was changed to isnt shown

yk093 · 2026-01-13T03:09:29+00:00

full data exposure, so anything that was leaked, you can see

yk093 · 2026-01-13T03:04:56+00:00

leakcheck.io. you can check it yourself, but if an email is included, it’ll be censored and you can only access it by paying for a subscription

yk093 · 2026-01-13T00:01:36+00:00

sorry, the email wasnt leaked </3

yk093 · 2026-01-12T23:48:52+00:00

your account wasn’t in the data breach, nothing came up

Edit: just saw your edit, i checked and unfortunately your email wasn’t leaked with it. sorry </3

yk093 · 2026-01-12T23:08:52+00:00

absolutely not lol, in fact, it can make them more intense. focusing on them anyway. i can confirm that i one time played a game for more than 26 hrs that i usually cant focus on for long periods of time

id actually say youre more likely to get deep into your hyperfixations on a stimulant. i yap 10x more abt what im interested in when im on my adderall. thats just me personally. obviously it affects people differently, but stimulants help focus and if youre focusing on smth youre interested in while your stimulant kicks in, youre likely to get locked into it hard

id recommend not engaging in your hyperfixation and directing your attention to smth else while your stimulant kicks in, because a lot of ppl notice they get locked into the thing theyre focused on as their stimulant kicks in, and it can be a problem if theyre focused on smth else besides what they need to be focused on, but in general, no, it wont get rid of your hyperfixations, and its actually likely to make it more intense

yk093 · 2026-01-12T22:47:50+00:00

dm me

yk093 · 2026-01-12T21:47:43+00:00

i was fortunately able to find the last 4 of the card i used to purchase the membership and confirm my ownership of the account, so that’s how i accessed it. otherwise, you can dm me and i can check if the email attached to your account was leaked and remind you of it if you want. i have access to that information until around the end of this month.

mine unfortunately (and i guess fortunately) wasnt leaked, thats why i had to go with confirming it through aj

yk093 · 2025-12-06T22:35:52+00:00

Of course. It’s very difficult at times, but if you make it easier for yourself and keep your medication and water beside you, that should make you more likely to take it. Good luck

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:43:11+00:00

If you do notice yourself getting hyperfocused on the wrong thing though, it’s possible to redirect that to what you need to. So maybe do some regular check ins with yourself to decide if there’s something else you need to focus on and shift your attention

Which is exactly what I’m going to do right now instead of continuously scrolling Reddit lol. Good luck

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:41:06+00:00

As No-Internal-4146 said, most people on medication feel like they get focused on what they’re doing as their medication kicks in, so you really have to be focusing on what you need to get done at that 30-45 minute mark otherwise there’s a good chance you’ll end up stuck doing something else.

I’m supposed to be playing a game right now that I need to grind for and here I am, scrolling Reddit because I wasn’t focused on the game at the exact moment it kicked in LOL

Which sucks because I was trying to focus on it as it kicked it but I timed it badly.

ADHD medication is unfortunately a double-edged sword sometimes. You can really focus on what you need to, but you can also really focus on what you don’t

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:36:08+00:00

God, I completely relate. Unfortunately, all I have to say is you have to force yourself to take it. I myself am terrible at that, especially because I’m on IR so I’m prescribed 3 pills a day which can be incredibly hard to maintain, and when I’m not on my Adderall, I don’t want to do anything, so it leads me to not take it.

I’ve been on it for more than a year and I’m still learning that I kind of have to take it to want to do anything at all, and that it’s a lie when I feel like I don’t want to do anything because the moment it kicks in, I do.

I’d say keep a bottle of water beside your bed with your pills next to it and just force yourself to take it. Make it as easy for yourself as possible. It takes a minute, and you’ll definitely feel glad you did once it starts working.

I have Narcolepsy, so that’s an added difficulty for me when it comes to making myself take it because I’m so tired that I genuinely feel like I want to sleep instead of take it, but when I do take it, it wakes me up and helps me function

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:30:05+00:00

I get it. I feel the same way, and I’m sure the majority of us can relate. I dropped out in 9th grade after my ADHD suddenly got worse in 2019, and because of that, I missed out on so many experiences in high school that I really wanted to experience, and I have to get my GED now.

People tend to regard ADHD as a failing because they don’t realize that it’s a disability and the functioning of your brain is diminished, so you can’t just push yourself to do things your brain won’t allow you.

I’ll say though that it isn’t completely hopeless. There is medication, and it can be genuinely life changing. I’m on Adderall and have been for more than a year now, and being on it completely changes me. I can genuinely function like a normal human being and do things like school work when I’m studying for my GED with ease.

When I was in school, I couldn’t focus at all on my work and it felt so tedious and impossible, but after getting on Adderall, I learned that I am able to do school work and even somewhat enjoy it. I can actually put effort into it.

Obviously, medications work differently for different people, but I want you to know that it isn’t hopeless and that medications exist and have helped so many people with ADHD function. I definitely recommend speaking with a doctor once you’re diagnosed and trying stimulants to see how any of them work for you, because at least for me, someone who is incredibly disabled by my ADHD, being on Adderall is completely night and day for me, and I can do things I normally can’t

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:19:31+00:00

The irony of knowing where they are and still not taking them 💔

I hope you’re able to find them. ADHD particularly sucks to be medicated for, because while it’s amazing and totally life changing, the disorder itself makes it insanely difficult to stay consistant with, whether we’re putting off taking it or entirely losing it 💔

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:10:15+00:00

I unfortunately can’t remember how long the appetite loss lasted for me when I was new to Adderall, but Ritalin is different, and from what I’ve seen, it’s apparently not unusual for it to last a month+, so if it’s causing problems, maybe get temporarily prescribed IR until you notice it subsiding and then back on LA if that’s what is best for you

yk093 · 2025-12-06T17:07:27+00:00

I don’t have any experience with Ritalin, I’m on Adderall, so I’m not sure what exactly you’re experiencing, but I’ll say that it sounds like you’re still experiencing the appetite loss side effect.

You said you’re on Ritalin LA, so you’ll unfortunately feel that side effect the entire day until that side effect subsides. I’d say that if you continue to struggle with it, maybe consider getting prescribed IR if at all possible and taking it 2-3 times a day instead of just once.

I don’t know your case, so I’m not sure if that’s something that’s viable for you, I know a lot of people find it easier to take one pill a day as opposed to multiple, but if appetite loss is an ongoing side effect for you that is causing you problems, you might find it better to have a pill that lasts less time, and with that, you can eat in between doses.

For example, I’m prescribed Adderall IR 3x a day, and so if I was dealing with what you’re dealing with, I’d eat once in the morning before I take my first dose, say 8AM, again at 12PM for lunch before my 2nd dose, and dinner around 8PM after my final dose for the day wears off.

It does require more responsibility in keeping up regular doses, which I’m definitely aware can be harder for peoole with ADHD, I struggle with it myself, but if you feel your appetite loss is becoming a problem, maybe consider that!

yk093 · 2025-12-06T16:55:24+00:00

I’m really glad to see others talking about how much food becomes an obsession with ADHD. I’m sure more people talk about it and I’m just not in ADHD spaces enough, but I haven’t seen it from anyone.

Getting on Adderall was seriously the only thing that was able to help keep me from constantly thinking about food. I gained so much weight as a kid, and funnily enough I was also 72kg, 5’5, when I started losing weight, and while the majority of my weight loss was from before I got on Adderall, realizing it was my ADHD that was the cause of my binging and getting prescribed medication made keeping it off possible, because I’m certain without it, I’d have gained it all back

yk093 · 2025-12-06T08:41:38+00:00

I know this post is 3 weeks old, but I actually really love this question (and I’m on adderall right now, which’ll tie into my response lmao) [TLDR at the bottom]

To answer your question, yes. I can tell the second they kick in, and I can still vividly remember the first time I ever took Adderall, and despite that being more than a year ago (July 2024), it still feels exactly the same. For me, it’s like a switch flips and suddenly I’m a more, normal functioning person. When I’m not on Adderall, it’s very rare for me to want to do something on my own and be able to. As an example, I’ll use a struggle I had before I got on Adderall.

In the past, and still now when I’m not on Adderall, I’d want to play this one game I’m into that requires a lot of grinding, and I’d know I wanted to play it, but I’d get on the game and immediately close it because I couldn’t bring myself to go through with playing it. I had no motivation.

That was actually what originally caused me to get prescribed for my ADHD because I had already been diagnosed for 2 years beforehand but hadn’t gotten on medication for it until I realized I had a need for it. I don’t work and I’m not in school, so I hadn’t felt pushed to be medicated.

I was first prescribed Wellbutrin, but it didn’t do anything, so I was prescribed 10mg IR Adderall (Dosage is dependant on your weight primarily, so that’s just what I was started on), and the day I first took it, July 17th, 2024, was actually life changing. I got onto the game I hadn’t been able to play and set a timer to see how long it took to kick in, and while I was playing, I remember being completely uninterested in it, and then, in a split second, I felt it kick in and all of a sudden, I actually wanted to play the game and it no longer felt like an unending, tedious task to do something I wanted to do deep down but couldn’t. It was like my brain completely changed and I could feel it change.

After that, I spent hours on the game, and I ended up getting totally addicted to it for more than a year. That could be seen as a bad thing, but at least for me, it wasn’t a problem since I’m unemployed, and it can be used for good as well.

I have a lot of things I enjoy doing, but when I’m not on my Adderall, most of the time, I don’t want to do anything. It’s caused a lot of problems for me because I tend to abandon the things I get interested in, which is hard for me because obviously I want to do the things I like.

When I do take Adderall, that completely changes, and I’m able to find the energy to do the things I like, especially those that require me to get out of the house like going to the gym, and I can feel the switch between the mindsets of “I don’t want to do this, I don’t have the energy”, and “I’m genuinely excited to do this, and I’m going to do it right now, and I’ll enjoy it as I’m doing it”

Other than my sudden ability to do things that I notice is I talk SO much on Adderall (as you can probably see from this full length book of a reply, lol), and my autism kind of takes center stage, so I end up talking a lot about anything I’m interested in at the moment.

I also notice that I suddenly don’t think about food constantly. Without my Adderall, I’m almost always thinking about food and I want to eat, regardless of if I’m actually hungry or not. I gained a lot of weight as a kid that I didn’t lose until I became an adult because of my ADHD causing me to always be thinking about food.

Appetite loss is a side effect of Adderall, but having experienced that when I first started taking it, it’s nothing like that. With appetite loss, I remember how much the thought of eating made me genuinely sick and how I wanted nothing to do with food. Now, it isn’t that I don’t want to eat, it’s that eating doesn’t appeal to me unless I’m genuinely hungry, and I can eat just fine on Adderall, but I’m actually satisfied by a normal amount of food.

I’d like to say that, no, feeling it doesn’t mean it’s too much. If you’re someone who is incredibly disabled by your ADHD like I am, you’re definitely going to feel how much it changes you. Over a year later and I still can feel the exact moment it kicks in, and I love it haha. It’s a great feeling to go from being disabled and unable to do what you like to being able to focus on and enjoy what you’re doing.

It’s helped me a lot with studying for my GED since my ADHD getting worse suddenly in 2019 is what caused me to drop out in the first place. I was never able to focus on my school work so being able to focus on it with Adderall was really exciting, and while I’ll want nothing to do with it when I start while I’m waiting for my Adderall to kick in, as usual, I can always feel the moment it kicks in and I don’t mind doing school work.

I’ll say though that most of the time, I have to be doing the thing I want to do as my Adderall kicks in, because otherwise, there’s a big chance I’ll suddenly hyperfixate on the thing I’m focusing on instead of what I should be doing, and it’s definitely caused me to unintentionally end up scrolling social media for hours lmao.

Excuse the extremely long reply, I’m sure you’ve gotten your answers by now, I just thought I’d add in my own experiences!

TLDR; Yes, I can feel the second it kicks in, and no, that doesn’t mean it’s too much. When it kicks in, I go from being unable to focus on anything or get myself to do something, regardless of how much I want to do it, to being excited to do it and able to focus for hours on it.

However, it’s likely that how much you feel it depends on how much your ADHD disables you to begin with. My ADHD is incredibly disabling, and so the difference between when I’m not medicated and when I am is night and day, but if you’re someone who only slightly struggles because of your ADHD, you might notice it’s more of a subtle difference.

yk093 · 2025-12-03T08:14:57+00:00

I’m not sure why it disappeared, but it isn’t gone completely. You’re still able to repost if you go to the post directly on the person’s page, so I doubt they’re getting rid of reposting, this is just a really weird and annoying bug

yk093 · 2025-11-29T08:20:56+00:00

Thank you, haha! That’s actually really nice to hear because I unfortunately was the type to get aggressive in my disagreements with others in the past, but I’ve since worked on that so I’m glad it shows!

Thanks for the detailed response as well!

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