adam king @sabbatical@social.cleverlibre.org
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my adventures in being an idiot • journeyman webmaster • arranger of codes, pixels, phrases, tunes, hits
Joined Jun 2023
@anubis2814 @RadicalAnthro ahhhh… hadn’t gotten around to googling yet, so thanks!
@jeremiah @levisan i do think there’s prob a lot of folks experiencing adhd-like symptoms that have something else going on that’s causing some similar symptoms, and that the DSM framework for it needs updating, but how many of those folks are actually being diagnosed and treated w stimulant pharmaceuticals? no idea. but it’s not that easy for adults to get diagnosed in many places, from what i hear
@jeremiah @levisan yeah, could be a vector that pharma is happy about, but i doubt that’s the leading factor, bc 1) most folks leading the charge on normalization of broader autistic and adhd communities are also advocating mainly a non-medical, non-pharma paradigm for how it’s treated, 2) autism in particular isn’t particularly suited for pharmaceutical interventions. adhd fits your bill a bit better.
@jeremiah @levisan is it possible that could eventually happen, or that some doctors overdiagnose? for sure. but overall i think the removal of stigma is helpful, and the direction is towards helping more people live their lives more fully. i was diagnosed with adhd ~15yr ago, and regret not taking it seriously then. around 5yr ago i started learning how adhd works and using targeted strategies to better deal with it, and that has improved my life immensely.
@jeremiah @levisan well it def has changed, in that asperger’s (and now adhd) are increasingly seen as part of the same “spectrum” of neurological conditions. and of course there’s the pop understanding of the conditions too which is often nonsense. but i don’t think it’s a conspiracy to try to medicalize everything. we’ve seen demedicalization of it too — seeing them as neurotypes that can exist without needing treatment rather than as just disorders
@levisan i have a bad habit of sorta explaining my jokes after i make them (or hear them). “yeah, we got it” my wife says. i’m not fully sure why i do it. it’s not because i think others aren’t smart enough to get it. i think i’m trying to confirm whether what i got out of it is what other people did too, since i seem to perceive and communicate things differently so often
@levisan oh that’s funny!
@levisan couldn’t figure out what that emoji was at first, hah... thanks, man
@RadicalAnthro strange, that link is giving me an error!
@levisan this is the type of observation i find useful but that also makes me feel like maybe i am autistic because i find it useful
buried my friend and former bandmate michael nicholson on thursday. he had cancer back when we recorded the salvation navy, and was clear of it a decade ago. but it came back with a vengeance.
died last friday at hospice in brantford. left behind a wife and 9 year old child. brutal stuff.
here’s some old photos with both of us! (he’s in the red toque, hugging me from behind in the first one)
@RadicalAnthro what’s the significance of the watermelon?
@alan that’s pretty awful. i’ll have to inflict it on my kids next time we have croissants
in one of my dreams last night, i was talking about playlists with someone using spotify and they asked me if there was such a thing as "apple itunes music" anymore. so i gave a breakdown of spotify vs. apple music. i still remember the specific points i made too. yikes
adam king
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@Sabex because she doesn’t want to disrespect their flag by walking across it?
@thebishopgame hey if this allowed us to spend our waking hours free to do what we like and yet flush with cash, pretty sure a lot of us would be signing up
@alex quantum computing fixes this
@levisan “alive”? ha. they could only show the credits for that one
- Homepage
- https://aking.ca
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- maps, world-building, notion, songwriting + production, spec/sci-fi, weird vehicles/buildings/people, web tech history, mac/OS lore, craftsmanship, ancient history, emergent xianity, urban revival, eco-democratic systems, electoral reform, toons, type
my adventures in being an idiot • journeyman webmaster • arranger of codes, pixels, phrases, tunes, hits
Joined Jun 2023
