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Cool, a new way to indicate {tangents|my unending autistic} without breaking up the flow of the sentence.

Oh cool, I didn’t know there was Markdown for that.

they didn't see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation

If that were true (it absolutely isn’t), they’d be the dumbest statesmen on the planet. That’s the excuse they’re going with, “we’re extremely stupid”.

just taking stereotypes of black people and having other characters assign them to the Cavemen

Weird, it’s not like if we don’t have unique stereotypes for cavemen already, that’s what the ads were about. I can definitely see where there would be some overlap from the general sentiment of the target group being “inferior”, but the unique cavemen stereotypes would already be the natural thing to focus on.

Possibly, but it would basically have to be about the thousands of years of discrimination and oppression by Homo sapiens that they would have inevitably faced. Maybe a good metaphor for racism or even ableism, but also maybe not so fun.

I can see why your GP went with tweaking existing meds for anxiety and depression, because both of those can really mess with focus, but that’s still frustrating

It was a psychiatrist. Literally on the first appointment he pushed that shit on me. He knew next to nothing about me, basically just my existing diagnoses and the list of ADHD symptoms I gave him.

Do you know if you had those kinds of challenges growing up?

It’s difficult to tell for various reasons. For one me being autistic was missed until I was 19, and even then it was only because a close family member was minoring in psychology. But looking back it should have been extremely obvious but 19 years of various mental health professionals never said a thing about it. And because of the overlap in symptoms plenty of things could be dismissed as being from autism. The biggest thing I can think of while I was under 13 was just being bored of school most of the time. But I paid attention and got good grades (and was in a “gifted and talented” program) and wasn’t chatty. And like I said, the tea might have lessened my symptoms.

So yeah, the focus on childhood instead of what I’m actually experiencing at this moment makes things harder.

They tried to make a sitcom out of that.

However, the show earned an extremely negative reception, becoming regarded as one of the worst television shows of all time.

Don’t I need a diagnosis from a psych to get a proscription?

sleep hours, daily exercise

Those are the kind of self care things I have trouble with.

I never really feel anything from coffee, I only drink it occasionally for the taste. I used to drink sweet tea like it was water. I didn’t think it had much of an effect (besides making me fat), but maybe it helped me stay “functional” through high school. But “functional” isn’t good enough.

I saw something about ephedrine, but I didn’t look much in to it. I think I might try that. I have kind of low risk aversion most of the time due to my depression, so I’m willing to try something like that. Is caffeine a requirement or just a little extra boost?

What are good options for self medication of undiagnosed ADHD (other than illegally purchasing proscription drugs)?

(Except by continuing to send weapons.)

Isn’t “Iran is arming Hamas” western propaganda? They’re trying to paint Iran as the evil puppet master of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, and the likes.