excited squeeing noises

Apple had to disable blood oxygen monitoring as a feature (lawsuit, stolen tech IIRC)

Its important work! The world needs more Yuri!

Lighting, cameras, automated gate/parking pass machines, etc.

Its not nothing.

It do be like that (or so ive heard. I am cursed with resting bitch face.)

There’s a few brands out there that make thick rugged laptops, but nothing quite like the older thinkpads

Half the recruitment is deeply ingrained multi generational “patriotism” (nationalism), the other half is desperation; the lack of social programs in the US is by design, to draw people to the benefits they’ll get from the military (education, healthcare, housing, etc).

To quote one of my favorite superheroes: “Drugs are great”. Good enough as a reason in this case 🤪

I opted to do the second one, except i actually went (and arrived early. Military brat upbringing yay, “early is on time, on time is late, late is unforgivable”) and then completely failed at coherently expressing the symptoms that make me feel like i have ADHD. Mind went completely blank and i spaced out.

I’m writing notes on my thoughts as i think of them now, its easier to compile my thoughts that way and if its written down i wont have forgotten absolutely everything like it’s the day of a test in school.

Once I’ve got enough notes I’m going to try another appointment and just… hand the psychologist the list of notes.

Ooh, dont think ive seen Grunge (the character) in these before

Por que no los dos?

Leg cramps usually hit me if i don’t eat for long enough, doesn’t necessarily stop the hyperfocus tho

I have in fact been to an optometrists office that had office kittens.

Thank you!! I could not for the life of me put into words the vibe i got from that appointment.

“You made it this far, you seem fine”

Hell, their site rules me out just for not having a degree (largely not relevant to my career, IT really should be recognized as a trade)

Once I stopped taking Ritalin in grade six because my mom decided I didn’t need it anymore, I started to just receive constant ableist abuse from everyone in my life. I was always made to feel that it was my fault I was this way, my personal fault that I couldn’t do group projects or get homework or projects done. I’d score poorly on everything I did in school despite being smart and capable of learning well on my own. This was always made out to be a personal failing of my own, and not a direct consequence of my untreated ADHD combined with a system wholly unsympathetic to my experience.

Perfectly summed up my experience. Parents took me off meds (straterra in my case) due to concerns about not eating enough, everything downhill from there for the exact same reasons.

Trying to get re-diagnosed as an adult (parents lost/shredded childhood records…) and got hit with a variation of “since you’re not trying, you must be happy as you are” from a psychologist that listed ADHD as a specialty…

Did “long periods of time” define itself as “it was daylight last i looked up from my book” hyperfocus? That’s what it was for me 😜

Y’all don’t seem to be openly planning actual fucking concentration camps, gathering lists of undesirables, or deporting people to places that do (although i think the Safe Third Country policy might count as that eventually) and bragging about the cruelty of it, so it still seems like an improvement over the current direction of the US.

🥺

That’s a goal for me :/ i have given up any hope of things getting better here. I no longer believe i can be happy and live in this country. I do not feel safe in any capacity; my own health (mental or physical) can be weaponised against me by my own government, i do not have any trust that medical records will remain confidential.

I don’t have any expectation of retirement or home ownership, but if i can get somewhere i can live as myself, have a reasonable life, and not be afraid of my own government, i would be happy.

Yeah, any locally owned businesses, there’s a good chance its the business owners second job for retirement, with their primary job being where i work, which would out me to family. Its kinda… stifling.

LGBTQ+ spaces also have family friends working at them, i don’t know that they’d out me, but im paranoid anyway.