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I’m a 36m British writer, designer, gaymer, lefty snowflake, and AuDHDer. I never shut up about Ace Attorney, and I collect Tamagotchis. Trying to learn Japanese, currently N4-ish.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It’s from African-American English, from the 1930s! And it’s always had more or less the same meaning – originally “being awake to (aware of) racial discrimination”, but now it’s obviously grown to cover discrimination and inequalities in general.

    Would that imply that things that are not “woke” or are “anti-woke” are “asleep”?

    Yep! 👍 But don’t forget, these people are also against Antifa, i.e. “anti anti-fascist”. They don’t care how bad the labels sound, as long as they’re making people’s lives miserable.






  • Neurotypical person:

    • May procrastinate, but can still “decide” to do the task if they put their mind to it
    • Maybe some guilt about the procrastinating
    • Does the task
    • Gets a hit of dopamine, so they feel good and think, “why did I put it off?”
    • Remembers that next time there’s a task

    ADHDer:

    • Get up. Get up now. Please get up and do the task. Why can’t I get up and do the task? I hate myself so much. I’m letting everyone down… Seriously, just do the task, I’m begging you…
    • Major guilt spiral, RSD, feels bad man
    • Does the task
    • Doesn’t get a hit of dopamine, so they feel the same and think, “ugh, why did I bother?”
    • Remembers that next time there’s a task