I have adhd and work from home downstairs and like to listen to music. My (also adhd) wife seems to think that she should have the ability to yell down and have me hear her at all times.
I wonder if I could just rig up a cheap mic to flash a light when it hears her yell. Easier to work with the existing habits.
Hello fellow Longmonster! Nextlight is life!
My cat recently passed away, and I get these dreams all the time. It's always like I'm going about my normal day, and then suddenly he's there, and my dream self knows he's gone but I start freaking out. He's usually in bad shape in the dream and I start feeling really guilty, then I wake up.
For real. It's so frustrating how someone will just text "let's hang out" or "let's play games tonight" and it's always me who has to go the extra step of "OK sure how about 7?"
Obviously the team that won had better people who were praying even harder.
The point is that there are better and more kind ways to get the desired outcome (the end of the topic or conversation) than vocally blaming the boredom that you're feeling on the other person.
If I'm talking to someone, they interrupt me, tell me I'm boring, and then leave, that kinda feels awful. Yes, I do want the feedback, and someone straight up telling me that is probably better than pretending or looking at their phone, but I'd rather they tease me with a "get to the point".
I mean, there are absolutely things that you should do just to improve your approachability. Good hygiene, to start.
Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don't know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.
It's super interesting that a nicely formatted, bulleted and quoted comment like yours was immediately accused of being Ai. I know that AI generally use a similar format when summarizing, but that's just because it's been trained on lots of people writing real summaries.
I'm worried that the new keyboard warriors of the internet are just going to be harassing people with AI accusations. I've seen gamedevs accused of having their store page text written by AI, artists who've had incredible and personal works doubted, and authors having organized harassment campaigns over false Ai suspicions. People are getting really overzealous about being anti AI and it's getting a bit irrational.
I'd really love it if, instead of them suffering, we could just get everyone to stop suffering.
We focus way too much on the "people getting what they deserve" aspect of politics and then it consumes our rhetoric to a point where we overcorrect and put more effort towards punishing bad things than building good things.
Sorry, but this sounds exactly like what male privilege is. Assuming that it doesn't happen near you because you haven't noticed it.
Ask your female friends what sorts of sexism they genuinely face regularly and I think you'll learn a lot.
Didn't Juliette grow up down in maintenance? It might have been long enough to develop a slight different accent...