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i was at my doctor yesterday getting my meds adjusted and he was like hay, why don'tya take this here ADD/ADHD self-assement and i'm like, ok sure. it's the sort of thing where if you score 20 or higher, you should go in for an actual assessment, as you may in fact be ADD - i scored 59, so i'm like, ok, my life up to now makes a wee bit more sense, so i SMS my gf to tell her this bit of news and she was like, i could have told you that for FREE. yeah, maybe i should have done that... she also thinks i am on the high end of the autism spectrum, which is a whole 'nother thing. thinking about going to a neuro guy to take a full battery of tests.
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How could ADHD and autism occur together? It's in some parts the exact opposite of each other, I always wonder why somebody who is a bit strange gets labeled with everything at the same time
(he must be ADHD, autistic, gay and whatever).
Those tests aren't worth that much when you are already older and have adapted to certain problems with coping mechanisms and developed certain oddities, all it says is, that you are strange but which one it was initially is hard to say at that age.
Be careful with those labels, they often make things even more complicated than just accepting neurodiversity as a whole and are mostly used to sell and apply partly legal hard drugs.
Don't get me wrong, it sure helped me (crystal clear autism diagnosis with 20), but you have to be careful about this stuff.
If your life works with how you live it now, don't change anything and don't give yourself into the hands of doctors.
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High-end autism sounds much more extravagant than budget autism. How am i meant to compete?
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I read once that people who are Schizophrenic have an abnormal balance of gut bacteria when tested. All human beings have a diverse amount of microbiome in their intestines which cleaves and processes food(or if unbalanced, wreak havoc and cause inflammation to the host's tissues). The brain, and any maladies of it, through pathways could be affected by what a person eats or doesn't eat, as toxins and lack of key nutrients due to poor absorption or synthesis over the course of years could literally starve and damage a person into at first irritability and later instability.
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Ok so my shoulder got looked at on the weekend and it was a mix of good news and bad news.
The good news is that it is healing fairly quickly and I didn't damage the rotator cuff,.
The bad news is I damaged the cartilage. If you don't know cartilage can be terrible to damage because of how slowly it heals but luckily mine seems to be healing quickly.
The other bad news is categorically no weights for a month minimum. So I have decided to start dieting and hitting the cardio and lose some of the excess weight I gained bulking. Figured I am going to lose that much strength anyway I might as well get my figure decent so I can have a nice new start and hopefully my muscle memory allows me to bounce back quickly.
On the other bad news since I am dieting and doing a lot of cardio I am bloody hungry
The good news is that it is healing fairly quickly and I didn't damage the rotator cuff,.
The bad news is I damaged the cartilage. If you don't know cartilage can be terrible to damage because of how slowly it heals but luckily mine seems to be healing quickly.
The other bad news is categorically no weights for a month minimum. So I have decided to start dieting and hitting the cardio and lose some of the excess weight I gained bulking. Figured I am going to lose that much strength anyway I might as well get my figure decent so I can have a nice new start and hopefully my muscle memory allows me to bounce back quickly.
On the other bad news since I am dieting and doing a lot of cardio I am bloody hungry
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Today, I experienced, that yet another unique person I really appreciated was more or less completely assimilated by the herd in the last year.
He has mostly the same opinions as his whole "scene" now and is just not really anything special anymore, doing the same stuff, thinking the same as all the people who never tolerated his unpopular opinions and life-style.
Stuff like this makes me really sad, I've seen so many great personalities go down the drain (ex GFs and best friends included) because they couldn't stand being different anymore and there is hardly anyone left.
It feels, like all people I knew well and/or for a very long time have been zombified and I'm the last one there is left.
Maybe they just went with the time and I think it's bullshit and I'm the one clinging to ideals of a past nobody remembers anymore.
He has mostly the same opinions as his whole "scene" now and is just not really anything special anymore, doing the same stuff, thinking the same as all the people who never tolerated his unpopular opinions and life-style.
Stuff like this makes me really sad, I've seen so many great personalities go down the drain (ex GFs and best friends included) because they couldn't stand being different anymore and there is hardly anyone left.
It feels, like all people I knew well and/or for a very long time have been zombified and I'm the last one there is left.
Maybe they just went with the time and I think it's bullshit and I'm the one clinging to ideals of a past nobody remembers anymore.
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@Klumpen: seems to me that most of the people I see in this forum are not following so much the masses, so well there's always someone "different" around...
anyway I know the feeling, I still remember a crazy girl I knew that was awesome, then she started to follow a company of friends, and became "normal" ... I felt myself empty when one day she told the phrase "people are watching us, what will they think ?!"... she never had those problems before, she was able to suddenly scream in an elevator full of people just to laught at the reactions...
anyway I know the feeling, I still remember a crazy girl I knew that was awesome, then she started to follow a company of friends, and became "normal" ... I felt myself empty when one day she told the phrase "people are watching us, what will they think ?!"... she never had those problems before, she was able to suddenly scream in an elevator full of people just to laught at the reactions...
Call it old-fashioned, but I can't compare people somewhere with ones you can actually meet on a regular basis.
People in the same city for example.
Yes, in puberty some people develop this "I don't care" attitude towards social norms but very few keep it and develop it into something more stable.
The worst thing about this is, that I actually refered to far left circles that think, they would go against any norm while riding the local current in every possible way and sacrificing all their deviating traits for being one of a crowd.
The assimilation is very strong in this crowd atm.
I'm not crazy, I just don't aggree with everything one particular group says is "right" or "the truth" and never will, no matter which group.
My friends always had an opposite opinion to some topics and this was never a problem, but today everyone wants to be part of some herd and real individuals are worth nothing anymore and so is real friendship.
It feels like how I imagine 1932/1933 in detail all over again but with different banners. Persons are just becoming unrecognizable people.
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Although I would say it belongs to the more "stable" attitude you mentioned not to do that /all/ the time. For example I always argue for my opinion (in a pretty persistent way which tends to annoy the hell out of people who don't like discussions and have opinions which differ from mine) and my opinion is often "controversial" and I don't care about the people who think I should shut up. But when it's 5°C outside and I have to choose between two trousers, short ones and long ones, then I'll choose the long ones although I don't have a problem with the temperature because it's just kind of weird wearing short trousers in winter and I don't have a real reason to choose the short one. You need to find a good balance.Screaming in the elevator to freak out people may be fun, I don't know, but to me it seems to be an example of something you really don't need to do, because: why? Just to be different is no reason, there is no inherent good in being different. There is just inherent good in being yourself, no matter whether "yourself" is relatively mainstream or completely crazy.
(of course I don't think there are too many people who are really mainstream, there are just lots of people who don't stand up for their opinions)
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This was really enjoyable, empowering. He made a few annoying examples and demonstrations, a few irrelevant things or bad examples of how to approach something that you don't take seriously, but, well, I don't remember where I was going with that. I think the only overexaggerations he made were still reasonable possibilities. I completely agree with his priorities, and I would like everybody to take the fact of factory farming into consideration, by which I do not mean pondering it for a moment and them moving on according to base instincts.
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For fun... those simple moments that you will remember forever, without hurting anyone.
How can you act as "yourself" if you mind so much what the other people will think of you ?
(Actually were the crazy girls that took me out from the "I can't be myself because of the others" mentality, and now I feel so better that I find very sad "loosing" one of them...)
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