Basic Glitch

This is a great answer.

•Speed as in processing/performance speed= From a normal person’s perspective, I can perform certain tasks at an annoyingly slow or bizarrely fast pace, but be completely oblivious the whole time.

•Speed as in the drug= A party drug from a normal person’s perspective somehow alleviates my anxiety, turns the volume down on the constant bombardment and chaos of external stimuli, and allows me to focus on the most salient piece of incoming information so I don’t constantly feel like this:

•Speed as in perception of an external object’s velocity=distance/time, for ADHD vs neurotypical brains is the only one I don’t really get off hand, but I am interested in understanding. It could be that once I hear an example it will click.

I can’t sit down and read a whole book to save my life, but audiobooks are my best friend. Especially when I need to do something boring and repetitive for a long time but can’t find any podcasts or music to hold my attention.

feeling speed differently than others as well?

Can you elaborate on this? Like the speed you perform a task or the speed of motion? Both?

Public accountability for the plebs and not the oligarchs is standard operating procedure for these people.

Recent examples:

After promising transparency, RFK guts public records teams at HHS

Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws

Interestingly enough, even though healthcare didn’t make the cut for the current budget, it does appear there is still somehow money for transportation projects under this administration:

U.S. Department of Transportation and Amtrak Unveil Timeline for NewYork Penn Station Transformation Project

Lol what a crazy coincidence. Heritage was pumped to have this guy confirmed back in Jan.

I’m all for public transit, but I will mention for the sake of honesty, Paul Weyrich, the creator of the Heritage Foundation had a bizarre fixation on trains from an early age.

Government funding for basically anything else related to common public good was forbidden, but for some reason trains were like his one “thing” he believed the government should fund.

Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation

So I’m all for public transit, but I would still demand public accountability. We deserve to know exactly who is profiting from any publicly funded projects.

Edit: He wrote a lot, and frequently found a way to sneak something about his public transportation fetish in just about everything he wrote (even somehow in a blog post shitting on New Orleans days after Katrina), but this is probably one of my favorite takes:

Bring Back the Streetcars! A Conservative Vision of Tomorrow’s Urban Transportation

What’s Right with This Picture?

Everything. It is a fine summer day in New Westminster, British Columbia, in the year 1909. Car 39 has stopped briefly on Park Row on its way into town. It carries its passengers through a world that is ordered, serene, at peace. Their eyes feast upon the glories of Queen Anne architecture. They hear the birds and the trolley wire sing a duet in an ether as yet unpolluted by engine noise or boom boxes. Their poised servants, the motorman and conductor of the car, stand as visible assurances of responsibility and reliability. God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world.

🤣 This would be so hilarious if we weren’t all watching the U.S. being torn apart as a direct result of his life’s work.

When I went back to work after maternity leave, I found myself trying to multitask while pumping at work in a little back room. I was trying to type at the same time before eventually spilling everything all over my work laptop. I had wasted like 45 minutes and lost everything I had pumped, but no use crying over spilt milk. My keyboard was also fucked, but I tried to stay calm. I told myself I can just hook up an external keyboard and use it like that. “This is fine.”

For a few weeks that worked. I walked around with an ancient Mac laptop and a loose bulky Microsoft keyboard hooked up by USB. But, I kept having issues with parts of the Mac keyboard that still functioned randomly turning on and interfering while I was working.

Finally I got frustrated and found a recommendation on an old Apple forum from someone on how I could just completely disable the Mac keyboard. So I just went for it. I had no idea what I was doing, but I ended up absolutely just fucking up the whole laptop, and it wouldn’t even turn on without crashing.

I panicked and tried asking somebody who at least knew a little more than me about tech for help. They were like “it’s probably not a big deal as long as you didn’t go into the terminal or something, haha.” I didn’t even really understand what that was at the time, but that’s exactly what I had done.

I didn’t want to have to explain everything with the pumping, and the breast milk, and the external keyboard, and the terminal to my boss, so I tried going to a Mac store in a mall way out in the suburbs. I fucking hate the mall and I hate the suburbs, but I went.

They couldn’t fix it, but they gave me the card of some guy in California who maybe could. I was seriously going to ship this absolutely fucked almost 10 year old laptop across the country to fix it, when finally I just went to our IT person and she was like “Why are you trying to fix this? This thing is ridiculously old, let’s just get you a new used laptop and move everything to an external hard drive…” Thank God for that lady.

Anyway, that was how, in my early 30s, I finally decided to seek treatment for my lifelong ADHD.

And even once I did that, it was still like a 6 months uphill battle before the psychiatrist I was seeing finally accepted I wasn’t “faking it.” Or at least before he finally accepted that I wasn’t going to just go away without getting treatment.

And then when you do it in front of them they’re like, “well, then just don’t do that right now. I’m not doing it.”

I think I’ve tried to go to happy hour after work like less than 3xs, bc every time I just end up feeling like this panicked wolf when I try to have a conversation: