Okay so I checked that post and like… if more than a few people are celebrating that you’re not around anymore, maybe you need to do some self-reflection.

I have an Animaniacs song I’ve remembered almost my whole life just for that purpose!

Yep, it’s familial in a big way. Now you can choose to tell them, or not!

We need to mention laundry at least once on every post on this sub, because you just reminded me to flip the laundry I put in this morning.

I didn’t know about the dry skin! I already had insanely dry skin so maybe that was a blessing in disguise? If you need any help managing your dry skin, hit me up, I’m super knowledgeable (ricecake, and also anyone reading this).

The book thing is super smart. I’ve been taking the medicine and getting in bed and playing games on my phone, but specifically from this app I got with a ton of games (like hearts, solitaire, mancala, wordle, sudoku, uno, that kind of games). No more starting a Balatro run (“I can just stop playing when I get sleepy!” - lies I tell myself) or getting caught in a doom scroll.

The white-hot rage I felt, hahaha!

That post a while back where someone said they took their kitchen apart 2 years ago and now they just live with it like that was something I felt deep in my soul.

When unmedicated, I find myself suddenly rearranging the house or thinking I could drag out every scrap of clothing I own for sorting or donation and it should take “an afternoon tops.”

It took 4 days. Of like real ongoing effort! The worst kind!

When medicated, somehow I can dial in the time a project will take down to the minute. I seem to be able to anticipate every step.

Which goes hand in hand with how executive dysfunction absolutely fucks us. We can’t perceive the steps in a task. It’s just-

Step 1: Get clothes!
Steps 2 - 5: Sort and Clean!
Step ???: Done with task!

Versus medicine, where it’s like-

Step 1: Go upstairs to where clothes are
Step 2: Gather the clothes into either carryable piles or available laundry totes and take downstairs
Step 3: Sort for keep, donate, or trash

And so on.

I often wonder if neurotypicals can perceive these steps naturally. Keeping this in mind though, I will often make sure that I have a task list at work.

If I get stuck on Step 3, or overwhelmed, I can look at the task list and find Step 4 and I’ll be able to proceed.

Results may vary. Misplacing the list is also super easy. This is not an ad for medication, and there are massive downsides to medication, but for me the trouble sleeping and the sweating and the ease of overheating and the ease of dehydration are absolutely worth it for the ability to do more.

At least, for now.

TL;DR Time Blindness is a symptom of ADHD. If it’s an option for you, meds might help. They might also hinder. It’s a real mixed bag.

Welcome! We’ve been waiting for you!

I don’t love that you jumped to listing a bunch of terrible things you projected onto him. Famous dude like that probably did, but listing making out with an underage groupie as if it were just a cheeky thing is kind of awful.

I looked it up and apparently the photo is backstage at the International Hotel in 1969.

In 1973 he was apparently hospitalized for an addiction to pethidine (I had to look it up- Demerol) and when he died, they found several drugs in his system, so my guess is drugs.