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To be fair, Internet grumblings on Reddit were actually a good starting point for me. The first, most important step, was learning that ADHD existed as something much more than just the wild child that’s bouncing off the walls.
Then I started seeking out people with ADHD sharing their experiences (and, of course, memes), and I was shaken by how much some of them resonated with me. There were habits, fidgets, quirks I had that I had never seen or heard of anyone else doing that turned out to be common with ADHD.
To your point, yes, there were and still are plenty of people recklessly and inappropriately linking everything to ADHD or promoting harmful misinformation, which is why I purposely stuck with reading personal perspectives and not “authoritative” statements. Even so, I kept seeing more and more things that perfectly described me and I finally felt seen. Which led me to looking into professional research about ADHD that ended up explaining even more of my entire life, in turn pushing me to finally seek a diagnosis.
All that to say there are some good resources on the US side. You just have to be willing to dig through mountains of dog shit–and recognize that it’s dog shit in the first place–to find the occasional nugget.
I’m waiting for Ol’ Pete to lay down a policy directive determining that those of us on stimulants, anxiety meds, antidepressants, etc. are unfit for military service. I’ll gladly take medical retirement with full benefits for life because of some Adderall. Good luck manning Cyber and Intel.
Are we missing out on anything important or particularly valuable? (actual question, I’m not familiar with Beehaw)
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Best Auto Subtitle Software (and where/how to get)English
4·11 months agoWhat are some good free providers besides OpenSubtitles? I recently migrated my library and I’m hitting my daily limit filling in what I’m missing.
I’m choosing to interpret this as the human being the patient and that (harmlessly) forking pot-bellied pigs is therapeutic for us.
Hit me. I love evolutionary fun facts.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Palworld Modders Are Restoring Mechanics Pocketpair Was Forced to Patch Out Due to Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s Patent Lawsuit - IGNEnglish
11·1 year agoIt’s finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won’t be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there’s no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won’t brick my device if I hurt their feelings.
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Science@mander.xyz•NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesEnglish
37·1 year agoI had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.
We also kept having to explain that just because there’s some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn’t mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn’t some “the government” conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that’s good old capitalism, baby!)
AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it’s not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that’s how it’s supposed to work.
AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of “every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge” is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they’re a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.
All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Neutronium would like a word.English
921·1 year agoBut sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town’s nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon
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Anime@ani.social•Pikachu Becomes Viral Symbol of Resistance During Anti-Erdoğan Protest In TurkeyEnglish
5·1 year agoStarFox, but it’s a couple of rogue F-22 pilots. Or fuck it, Star Wolf.
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gamingEnglish
3·1 year agoI agree, but I think Valve has said a Steam Deck 2 isn’t coming anytime soon. I was wanting to hold out for an announcement, but I might just go ahead and pull the trigger.
Don’t even need a warhead. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) just threw the probe itself at an asteroid hard enough to affect its orbit.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The government doesn't use SQLEnglish
6·1 year agoHalf of your secret key pair is just out there for any one in the public to see! Which enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!
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Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?English
2·1 year agoThey gave it away on almost every platform when it came out, but I still haven’t gotten around to it.
So as someone who isn’t too familiar with Warhammer, why are Nazis drawn to it? I know a few people that are alt-right, headed toward Neo-Nazi territory, that are all deeply into Warhammer. Is it like another Punisher situation?




Oh, you can do PieFed on Voyager?