I felt the same way my whole life and then two years ago I discovered I just had ADHD. It explained everything and I found community with others who had a similar experience. I’ve never been happier. Last night, for example, I had a meal with a bunch of people who also have ADHD. We hired a private, quiet, comfortably lit dining room in a countryside Inn, took all our masks off, broke out a bunch of fidget toys and chatted. It was amazing, it always is. Find your community 😁

So basically the Beverage Goblin song?

If you replace “houses” with “beginning of songs I started to write” that is very much my situation. I thought it was just because I lacked discipline or just couldn’t get my head around song structure until I found out about ADHD.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

Douglas Adams absolutely predicted this :)

Thank God for Trello. Since I started using it about a year ago, anything I put in there gets done. Also I found out that if you put a Party Popper (🎉) emoji in the title of a list, then whenever you pick up a task and move it to the next stage it blows confetti all over the screen. Yay! pat on the head dopamine 😁 Who’s a good boy? I’m a good boy that’s who!

ADHD is falling down a rabbit hole trying to find an answer to this question and realising that there IS actually a definitive answer, which turns out to be that it’s a “half empty glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was removed, but it’s a “half full glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was added, BUT you also have to factor in evaporation which is happening constantly, so really every glass that contains an amount of liquid that corresponds to half of it’s containment ability is actually “half empty” except for the few seconds after water was added to it, in which case it is, briefly, half full, then describing your findings in a single, insanely long sentence.

Yes, and the tabs are all nuts 🥜 and the brain monkeys 🐒 are after them! Get away from my thoughts naughty monkeys 🤨

It’s interesting because you can kind of tell whoever made that 4 panel thing must not have a clue about memes. There’s literally nothing left of the “Gru’s Plan Meme” format. It’s just 4 panels with a punchline. In fact I think it’s literally just borrowing arms from Gru 🤣

See, this is why I keep struggling when I’m telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit

“No… it was on erm… well… it’s this other place. It’s not reddit… thank God it’s not reddit but it’s called erm… well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I’m on fedia.io but actually it’s lemmy… but it’s part of the fediverse… I think? it’s… yeah it’s like reddit basically but it’s not… anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here’s a live youtube page that’s tracking it” 🤣

Wow, I had a look around on Google maps for “solar panels in NW China’s Qinghai Province”… it’s incredible and so vast and there’s so many other massive solar and wind farms everywhere as well. How do they keep them clean? Surely output must degrade over time no? There’s even one where they made it into the shape of a giant horse. I guess that must be the logo of the energy company? Amazing…

P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney

Yep

1 - Squeeze paste into mouth so you can sense exactly how much you’re using. 2 - Wet toothbrush (because everyone knows that magically removes anything nasty in the bristles). 3 - Put in mouth and spread paste around and only then switch toothbrush on. 4 - Divide mouth into 8 segments and brush 2 segments at a time till the brush signals 30 second mark. 5 - Get really bored at how long this is taking. 6 - Either tough it out to the 4 stop/starts signalling the end of 2 minutes or give up half way through and brush everything really hard for 5 seconds.

It’s like some switch is just flicked off. I’ve had it happen mid bite! Nom nom… click… done with this forever.

This is so accurate. I also get the feeling that the memory is removed even faster if I cared in any way about it.

Oh, a couple of nights ago I saw this YT short about how you can just scrunch up some tinfoil and rub it on your metal taps and shower heads and it removes all the limescale. Tried it immediately and it worked! However, then everything went blurry and in a fever dream state I cleaned my whole house till 3:30am…

If you have half a brain

Maybe it’s my age (its definitely my age) but although I used to think Neuschwanstein was magical, now I just think of all the steps you must have to climb to get to anywhere in there.

Thanks for that. It’s only a big deal for me to switch because Windows is all I’ve ever known so there’s some ingrained inertia there. I am genuinely curious though.

I can’t believe I’m asking this but why?