Zarobi

Yeah exactly. Village life is much different than modern life.

I grew up in a "village". Oh fuck did I feed the cows? Angry mooing in the background. The animals let you know your mistake. Loudly. The consistent routine also makes it easy to become instinct. You do the same thing every day for months, you don't need an app anymore. You walk past the shed, oh yeah I forgot to fix that roof, and you fix it right there. You see something, you fix it. It's all automatic in a way. Oh yeah the eggs, you go get the eggs and eat them.

Compare that to modern life. If you forget to send that email to your boss, nothing happens until 3 days later, you get in trouble, and that interrupts your current task, causing a failure cascade. You have to remember a million things every day that changes. But I bet you don't forget which bus or how to drive to work, right? And you always do the same things after work too without forgetting?

Edit: also of course the community. You have extended family and the rest of the village to help you and you help them. It all gives life structure. You work together on bigger jobs, and it just kind of happens. You don't need a planner, you just do it.

I'd say people with ADHD are actually really good at farm life. Just in modern life the cows changes buildings every week, the chickens lay eggs on a rotating schedule, you have to carefully schedule and co-ordinate roof fixes with a multidisciplinary team, and you have to constantly consult the calendar to remember what your actual job is today.

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You're probably thinking of Guanfacine, it's used off-label for ADHD because it seems to help some people but the mechanism is unknown.

If you're in Australia like me, they recently passed a law that makes it so your GP can finally prescribe ADHD medication... So it might be worth asking again. Just a guess though because not many places are this brutal for diagnosing or treating our condition.

Also I had similar pill anxiety. I didn't like how the meds affected my heart or mood, it felt like I was slowly dying. In my case even though I stopped the meds, I've had a taste of what being "normal" is like, and can feel the shape of ADHD and how to adjust for it if that makes sense. I also found a job which is more suited to my condition and less reliant on memory and task management.

I'm in the same boat. I found that I just had to buy and play a bunch of games I didn't like. I only buy games on 70% discount or more for that reason.

For example, I love City management games, so I thought I'd like Against the Storm... But the roguelike elements completely ruined that game for me and I hate it. As a counter point I usually hate logic puzzle games, but I loved Artisan of Glimmith because it has a "check your work" hint system that doesn't feel too much like cheating. You really can't tell if you'll like a game before you try it unfortunately.

I finally am playing DOOM Eternal this week. Really good game actually. It's a bit exhausting though so I'm chipping away at it one mission at a time.

Honestly the best example I can think of is to secretly record a conversation between you and someone else, and listen to it later. Voice is good, video is better. You'll notice all kinds of things you don't in the moment. Tone, timing, stutters, body language, etc. Then really meditate on who you are and how you want to present to others.

Remember that you can't always change everything... Sometimes you have to accept certain aspects of yourself and work with what you can actually change. Personally I never tried to change anything like that, I'd rather just be authentic, but understand what that actually means and that not everybody will like me.

Something interesting and anecdotal. We get a lot of Indian immigrants in my area, and they're primarily vegetarian. But as soon as they move here, they become anaemic, because the lentils etc grown in our soil doesn't have enough nutrients for survival. They have to start taking supplements. I'm not sure why that is, but it makes me wonder if people would be more willing to be vegetarian here if it was actually viable nutritionally.

I noticed a bunch of my comments staying at 1 view forever because some keyword tripped an A.I. to shadow ban it indefinitely... I was so mad

I feel called out lol

I got banned for accidentally using "far right extremist terminology" lol. I'm still not entirely sure what I did wrong

I'm a recent refugee and it just continued to get worse and worse. This week I was just like fuck it, I'm done. I looked up "Reddit alternative" and StumbledUpon the fediverse. Loving it so far. Actually communicating with real humans is something I didn't realise I missed so much.

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