I don’t know whether any particular medication helps, but you can get into the habit of setting an alarm for X duration and just allowing yourself to enjoy an activity until the timer goes off. A lot of managing ADHD is setting rules and a schedule and doing your best to stick to it. It’s not something you can just wake up and do, but it is something you can get better at over time. It’s important to not be discouraged by failure, which is also a challenge in itself.

It’s not strictly an ADHD thing (is anything?), but it’s a product of poor time management and anxiety, which are common with ADHD.

You possibly feel like a lazy pos most of the time because society is shitty, regardless of your ADHD-having.

Your own reference explains how the AI responses are more than just random words put together nicely, and I can and have fact-checked it. It’s not a trustworthy tool for many things, but it is useful for language-based pursuits, because language is precisely what it’s designed to work with.

For example, I’ve recently been watching a Chinese period drama and asked ChatGPT what various words were by transcribing how I heard them and explaining the context. It gave me accurate hanzi, pinyin, and definitions as confirmed by dictionary sites. It’s been a very valuable tool to me for language learning.

But you can’t always use a dictionary to understand the use of words or phrases in novel contexts. For instance, maybe a phrase contains meaning not in its literal text, but in its resemblance to a quotation from another work, or to a previous quotation within the same work.

I’ve taken a classic Swedish poem (“Bron” by Erik Lindorm), and I can’t seem to find an explanation of what it means via traditional searching. But when I paste it into ChatGPT and ask what it means, it gives a detailed interpretation.

A human could do the same, but it’s unreasonable to expect every learner has a human on standby to cater to their every educational whim at all hours of the day.

Users can highlight any text and ask AI models questions about it, receiving explanations, context, or summaries on the spot.

I can see this being particularly useful for autistic people who don’t understand a very poetic section, or for people reading a text which is not their first language.

Based on the replies you’ve gotten so far I suspect this may be a joke I’m not getting, but I’m choosing to react as if it’s a genuine question anyway.

A coelacanth is a super old fish that everyone thought was extinct, and then one day we just happened to find them alive! They’re a “living fossil” animal in that they haven’t changed much in a very long time and give us a window into the past. Here’s a picture I stole:

Recently my therapist asked how my symptoms affect my studies and I told her they don’t really, because I like school and I find it easy to pour hours into studying. And then that very day I had to read a page that wasn’t super interesting, but it did have a very cute slug on it, and I spent a long time thinking about holding it and how it would feel rasping at my skin.

Slug tax:

That name is a big part what’s kept me from getting help, because until very recently I drastically misunderstood what ADHD was. “I can’t have this thing. I’m so good at paying attention that I don’t eat or pee all day.”

I think they may be referencing how an ND diagnosis in the States may soon get you sent to a camp or oppressed in some other fun way. It may unfortunately be safer to not seek help, and to mask as much as possible.

I only very casually like Star Trek and have never been confused when watching any series from the first episode.* I don’t know about all these fancy new Treks, but TOS, TNG, and DS9 were intentionally designed to be picked up during any random episode because that was how TV worked at the time. If you found a show during its fifth episode, you had no means of going back to the first four unless you happened to know someone who recorded them on VHS.

Lower Decks was also completely enjoyable to me even though my knowledge of the franchise is limited.

* I think it was Discovery we tried watching somewhat recently (not 100% sure on the title) where I was confused from the first episode, but it was in a “What the fuck are these creative choices?” and “Do people like this?” way.

Let me gift you with this little gem ~

https://youtu.be/LgwCVQdW1HM

I think that’d turn out roughly as successfully as trying to change the police from the inside. They’re just going to make you go away.

Isn’t it nicer with pills though? I don’t know anything about estrogen options. Is it only once in a while like with testosterone, so you don’t have to remember?

I don’t understand why two people shouldn’t help each other with their medication. It’s sweet to take care of each other, whether they’re partners or just friends.

Me trying to read instructions.

The worry is the common problem, not the actual spiders.

Interesting design from the 80’s I found:

https://youtu.be/V-QudmjSPnY

He demonstrates the flush handle at about 3:50.

I’m curious what the failure rate of these were, but I’m guessing they can’t be too terrible if folks are still using the same car some 40 years later.

What I like about it is that you don’t have to worry about a spider being under it.

I’m not familiar with this, so I watched a video. It shows that after pressing to lever the handle out of the way of the key hole you have to wedge the key cover (or any object, I assume) into the gap to prevent it from closing itself again. Is that right? Because it sounds annoying for me and impossible for some disabilities/injuries.

Edit: The Ioniq 5 video shows the demonstrator using both hands to unlock the door: one to hold the handle in the open position and the other to do the key. How is a one-handed person meant to operate this vehicle?

I’m not sure what you mean. If I die of thirst in the desert or cold in the far north, the cactus and conifer will continue living happily without my interference.