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  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comHOW?!
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    29 days ago

    Of course they are your own thoughs, well at least I hope so. It’s just not the thoughts you want to follow now, and that takes a huge amount of energy to do so. Because they are all the same “volume”. Not only that, the thoughts get mashed together and it can be impossible to distinguish between them.

    So you sooner or later inevitably start following the wrong thought which spawns a dozen other seemingly random thoughts (but they are not random for you) and then you get yelled at because you’re slow and made a lot of errors and hear once again “just focus on the task” or “why don’t you just concentrate on what you’re doing”.

    So if neurotypicals can simply focus by ignoring or by putting aside other thoughts, for neurodiverse this is “silence”. Not in the meditative “empty your head, let all thoughts go” way, that’s another huge step.


  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comHOW?!
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    29 days ago

    I don’t think that this is what the person in the picture means, but the ability to focus on one thing while ignoring/put aside all the noise in your head. With ADHD the inside of your head sounds like being in the center of a fun fair, where it’s almost impossible to hear your “own” thoughts.







  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldGeo-distributed Jellyfin
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    1 month ago

    Maybe we don’t talk about the same. The uplink at OPs router isn’t the problem, there is enough upload speed so that others in Europe can stream. Users in Asia don’t have enough bandwidth, so there’s a bottleneck somewhere in between.

    And yes, a VPN could help by routing the traffic through other hops, but chances are that it doesn’t help or even make it worse, but it’s worth trying.



  • In addition, board members will be investigated by FBI director Kash Patel for possible ties to the Chinese government.

    Evidence of such ties may include a board member’s abnormal frequenting of Chinese restaurants, an unusual preoccupation with karaoke singing, or large amounts of made-in-China toys and appliances discovered through FBI search-and-seizure operations of board members’ homes.

    “We will evaluate the evidence,” said Patel, “and never rush to judgment unless examples must be made.”

    WTF, this is a direct threat to any board member. Everybody has “made in china” things at home.






  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoADHD@lemmy.worldADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought
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    2 months ago

    What exactly is new here?

    Their findings suggest that these medications primarily affect brain systems involved in reward and wakefulness rather than the networks traditionally linked to attention.

    I’m in my 40s and got diagnosed 2 years ago. One of the first things I learned is that ADHD has to do with dopamine deficit and that the stimulants either slow down the reduction of available dopamine or increase it’s release. And dopamine is a neurotransmitter directly connected with the reward center. And that’s one of the reason our attention changes focus all the time, because we’re looking for something new as the current task doesn’t release dopamine anymore. Yaddayadda you know the drill.

    Plus I sleep better when taking meds so I don’t think stimulants work the same way for ADHDers as they do for neurotypicals.

    Or is there something I completely missed?