You do what you can. Doing something, no matter how small, is better than doing nothing.

You do what you can, and no more. Don’t burn yourself out or work yourself into an early grave. Show compassion to yourself.

Ally with people who share your concerns. It’s easier to get things done as a group, and you’ll have support that way. You keep talking to people who don’t care, and that’s ruining your morale. Find people who do care.

Oh shit yeah. Fuck all of that.

Then asking them to clean their dishes and having them argue with you…

It’s more like having only one pair of shoes. There isn’t usually a compelling reason to change them frequently, so you only need one.

And then sell you the cure.

My favorite was the boss who told me that I just had to put myself out there. This after blaming me for not being at a meeting which no one had told me about. So, I guess if you’re being kept out of the loop on important work stuff, it’s your own fault because you have a bad attitude.

The way I heard it described is that your brain, just like any other organ, has a function, and that is to produce thoughts. Just like you can’t stop your heart or quit breathing, you can’t stop your brain from thinking. Just like you can do things to speed up or slow down your heartbeat, or breathe more or less air, you can do things that influence your thoughts. But you can’t shut it off entirely.

What is an ADHD assessment like?

I think it’s fascinating that Richard Stallman wrote a free software manifesto and Bill Gates wrote a proprietary software manifesto. I knew about the former for a long time before I heard about the latter.

Linux porn sceenshots. I wanted to have a cool cyberpunk desktop and be Hackerman.

So, you’re just gonna live with the symptoms? Okay then.

Adderall works for me, but Vyvanse doesn’t work at all (even though they’re chemically similar). Weird how that works.

Getting good mental health is difficult, at least in the country I live in. It took me about 15 years to get an ADHD diagnosis, because for most of my life I’ve had lousy health insurance and I couldn’t afford to see a good therapist or psychiatrist.

The best response I heard to this is “Everybody pees, too, but if you’re doing it 60 times a day, then you have a problem”.

Neurotypicals have difficulty with mindfulness; for folks with ADHD, it’s extremely difficult. You have to sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, which is a pretty heavy lift for somebody with an attention deficit. But it does help, yes.

One method that I’ve had success with is to work my way up. I do meditation for 1 minute; the next day 2, then 3, until I get to 20, and then I try to stay there. That’s because the most important part is building the habit. Also, doing short sprints frequently is more effective than doing a marathon. 5 minutes a day for 12 days is better than 60 minutes in one day.

What makes somebody’s sexual orientation political?

A male chicken?

So, you don’t know what accessibility standards are. You’re just using a term, “accessibility”, to mean “the way that I want it to work”.

Which accessibility standards does Mastodon break?

Serious question: why not? What’s bad about that?

I can ssh in with Krusader and edit from Krusader’s GUI editor. I would probably still do it from the terminal because it’s faster, but it’s good to have more than one way to do things.