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That trans woman doesn't go outside? She's chronically online? Hmm I wonder if there's a reason she doesn't feel safe or comfortable in the outside world... Nah, she's just a loser and we should all make fun of her.

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Oh wow... While I can't specifically relate to the homework folder bit (I was diagnosed in my 30s, but I've realized several other fun things going on as a kid), the adult bits sound so familiar it hurts.

That being said, the idea of setting alarms to remind you to do things, that become useless after sometimes as little as day two, are infuriating. I've had reminders on my calendar for over a year to do normal things that I manage to ignore every time they come up, regardless of additional steps like leaving the alert in my notification list so I keep seeing it over and over again.

It's why I switched to using an app specifically for medication tracking from my original calendar reminders option. The app has an alert that pops up with the ability to log the meds for that time of day, and it goes off again a few times if you don't either mark them as taken or skipped, and it's set to start going off just before I have to leave for work in the morning, meaning if I haven't taken them yet, I get the ping, but if I have, I can flag that, and then later I'm not worried about whether or not I took things. That being said, I also had it set up to remind me about supplements I should take at bed time, but my bed time is so inconsistent (or stupidly late) that it would go off well beforehand, and I would ignore those every single time for like 2 years straight until finally just disabling that one.

My ex and I had similar ADHD couple fun as well. We regularly played that game of "I can hear your alarms when you can't", but also "I spent 5 minutes looking for the thing you've been searching for all day and noticed it immediately because it's not part of my mental snapshot of the house".

When I was a kid I kept failing classes because I'd lose my homework. I'd finish it, but between the dining room table and the classroom it would just walk away. Sometimes it ended up in my backpack, sometimes it didn't; sometimes I finished the homework at school and it got home in my backpack but wasn't there the next day.

To attempt to address this, my parents got me a neon orange folder to put in my backpack; it was my homework folder, all homework was to go into that folder and that folder only, and it was to only come out of that folder when it was being worked on. I was to put homework in the homework folder as soon as it was assigned and if I'd worked on it, put it back in the folder as soon as it was finished. The logic here was that using the folder was supposed to be automatic, and you wanted a bright color so it wouldn't get lost in the depths of a backpack.

I think I lost about eight of those before my parents stopped buying orange folders.

So it was very frustrating to search "how to be organized at work as an adult with ADHD" only to get a list that said "set alarms and write things down and try to make friends with a more organized person" which was immediately followed by tips to help your ADHD child stay organized and the one right at the top was to put their homework in a bright folder so they couldn't lose it.

If you have been harmed by the ADHD Tips Industrial Complex you may be entitled to a packet of fun-dip and a cactus cooler as consolation for losing your homework folder again.

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When I was a kid I kept failing classes because I'd lose my homework. I'd finish it, but between the dining room table and the classroom it would just walk away. Sometimes it ended up in my backpack, sometimes it didn't; sometimes I finished the homework at school and it got home in my backpack but wasn't there the next day.

To attempt to address this, my parents got me a neon orange folder to put in my backpack; it was my homework folder, all homework was to go into that folder and that folder only, and it was to only come out of that folder when it was being worked on. I was to put homework in the homework folder as soon as it was assigned and if I'd worked on it, put it back in the folder as soon as it was finished. The logic here was that using the folder was supposed to be automatic, and you wanted a bright color so it wouldn't get lost in the depths of a backpack.

I think I lost about eight of those before my parents stopped buying orange folders.

So it was very frustrating to search "how to be organized at work as an adult with ADHD" only to get a list that said "set alarms and write things down and try to make friends with a more organized person" which was immediately followed by tips to help your ADHD child stay organized and the one right at the top was to put their homework in a bright folder so they couldn't lose it.

If you have been harmed by the ADHD Tips Industrial Complex you may be entitled to a packet of fun-dip and a cactus cooler as consolation for losing your homework folder again.

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Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.

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the idea of in urban fantasy just obliterating some mythical creature with a kia sorento is so funny to me, like you're driving along and there's a loud thunk as you slam into something and half your car caves in like you slammed into a moose, and then you get out of your car and post on some social media like "hey, I just hit some big animal, can anyone tell me what exactly I just hit?" and then you get told you killed the guardian of the forbidden mountains who only comes down once a century and is invulnerable to all weapons forged by man

unfortunately for it the kia sorento was forged by demons

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I referred to something as a "real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment" in conversation with someone who has never seen TNG, and let me tell you, that was a real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment

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(image description: a three panel drawing with very simple sketched lines and only a little quick coloration. it depicts a woman sitting at a desk, with a computer keyboard, musing aloud; "sometimes I wish my creative works would just make themselves...", after which she is startled by the arrival of a stick figure with a square head labeled "generative AI," which replies; "I can do that." the final panel is the only one with detailed color and lighting, showing the artist whipping out a pencil-shaped laser gun and exploding the AI entity. end description.)

had a conversation in a writing server, decided to make a meme about it.

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I must not reply. Replying is the mind killer. Replying is the little death that brings total annihilation. I will let people have their wrong opinions. And I will permit people to comment them on my posts. Their wrongness will pass over me and through me. When it is gone only I will remain. And I will not reply.

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Voting as Fire Extinguisher

by Kyle Tran Myhre

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember: there are children inside.

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Voting as Fire Extinguisher

by Kyle Tran Myhre

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember: there are children inside.

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LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST LET'S GET THIS FUCKER EXPLODEDED

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nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends