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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • This is one of the things that smart phones have done for me.

    I may not remember I wrote it down, but I will remember where because it’s in the notes app on my smart phone.

    That being said, this obviously still doesn’t really solve anything if I don’t even remember there was something to be written down.

    And it creates a brand new problem if I do remember because then I get caught up scrolling through notes trying to figure out what they mean, if I still need them, and lamenting that I didn’t remember to check notes for these other things back then.




  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comYup. Not fun.
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    I understand your fears. I live in the US. My son is autistic. My youngest brother is autistic. Both I and my youngest sister have ADHD.

    We were all diagnosed as children and my parents could only afford to help the worse off of us (my youngest brother) so that’s where their time, effort, and money went.

    I struggled for years. My sister struggled for years. Because there was no support for us.

    But I want you to understand that (as someone who suspects they also have Autism), the support for children with autism and ADHD far outweighs what is available for adults, and it might be more beneficial to him to give him support now than to allow him to suffer in some aspects without it.

    The support he’s already getting likely won’t cover everything.

    I would fight for your son and my son and all the others who could likely be affected by the current regime. Others will too. There’s so many more of us than people think and there’s power in that.

    At the end of the day your child and his care is your business. I’m sure you’ve thought this through a million times.

    I just wanted to express that there’s a downside to it.


  • This subject is always confusing for me and I’m not sure I’m not somewhere in between. I can “see images” but it’s not like watching a movie screen for me. The images aren’t… Crisp or clear or anything. And they move around (my brain only really fills in the bits and pieces I concentrate on), so parts of the image are fuzzy.

    As a kid, I always lamented that images in my head wouldn’t stay still long enough for me to draw them out.

    I can also just close my eyes and wee plain blackness. So it feels like neither description is one I fit into.






  • I think you’re missing the point. The number of people in America who believe in young earth creationism is rising pretty steadily.

    Some of that has to do with things like poor education (the education system deliberately being undermined).

    Some of it has to do with environmental factors like lead in paint or gasoline.

    Some of it has to do with religious nut but jobs grifting.

    Some of it (maybe a lot of it at the source) has to do with capitalism.

    But my comment was sarcastic. As in, I know there’s other reasons, but I’m sure that at least some of these young earth creationists are ate paint chips as kids.