#task-switching

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Why Task-switching is Difficult for ADHD Brains

ADDitude

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[return-of-the-queen-au]

Imagine you're like a butler or something, and you chat with the prince about serious kingdom stuff, right?

And he gets all fancy, uses BIGG words and is just really sophisticated in his movements and vocabulary.

Then he ends the phrase with "whatever I gotta go see ya later jimmy" and just storms off

[turns-out-its-adhd]

[smiggles]

Left handed people

What are all the things that make life different and/or dangerous for you because of your handedness

[heartcircus]

heard whispers of tubbo saying he wanted to do something purgatory-esque event or bounties on the realm... not to be a downer but those both sound like terrible nightmares i can't lie . bounties would only be fun if it was like a week max or something

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Task Switching

Future Grimm

[venomouslilith]

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[bookhobbit]

It has been one of those times where switching attention is especially hard and once again I am very grateful for The Phone. The Phone contains Activities that are not subject to completion and therefore do not trap me like a book or project traps me. Being able to do something that is engaging but doesn't pull me into deep focus is a great relief at the moment.

[tortilla-of-courage]

man. i miss The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Nintendo Wii (2011) and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD for the Nintendo Switch (2021)

[underthehedge]

I'm having A Thought about cultural assumptions and how people often conflate their own cultural quirks and patterns as being either universal or Obviously Logical, based on seeing a post with someone's lock screen, because I have ADHD.

It was a simple example but a very neat one, and it's about how we write and speak about dates (as in the measure of time, not the fruit of the date palm or an intimate meeting). Americans write dates backwards, by the standards of nearly every culture (inc. other English speaking cultures). They write them MM/DD/YY instead of DD/MM/YY, this is known.

But the thing is, ok there is a good reason most people write the day then month but none the less, what a culture decides on is still just a little bit arbitrary, the point is it's a cultural agreement that This Is How It's Done. Earlier I saw a post with someone's lock screen, an American, and it displayed something like "Wednesday, December 12" and that caught my eye because mine obviously reads "Thursday, 9 March", because I come from the UK, where we use DD/MM.

And I was reminded of an American once telling me how MM/DD obviously makes more sense though, because you see, that's how you say dates in English! You would say "March ninth", so you write the month then the day! Except, well, that's not how we say dates here, we say "the ninth of March". But this guy had assumed that the standard phrasing in his culture was just how all English speakers would say it, therefore the date format they used was clearly the more natural and intuitive way, and of course you think in terms of the month something is happening and then when in the month it is!

To me, however, this feels like someone earnestly and confidently explaining that naturally you put your socks on over your shoes.

Obviously there's a bunch of examples of this kind of thing, and many with far greater importance, but it just seemed like a really very telling and concise example of how people will see features of their culture that result from specific quirks as universalities that make more sense than any other system.

[turns-out-its-adhd]

I set so many alarms and reminders.

Alarms to get up. Alarms to tell me to go to bed. Alarms to time my lunch break. Alarms to remind me I'm making tea. Calendar reminders to put the bins out and to pay bills. A timer to go off to make me start a task. A timer to make me stop a task.

And yet I am still able to snooze them all.

[the-fictive-haven]

I need to do something I need to do something I need to do something I need to do something-

Scrolls Tumblr frantically with mounting anxiety

[galaxywarp]

trying to remember to give myself credit whenever I try something new because for years my main symptom of depression was the complete stagnation of all of my interests so I literally went over five years never playing anything new or watching anything new or listening to new music or trying any new activities etc…..and I remember how miserable that felt and how hard it’s been to shake myself out of that

so anyway I started playing Doom (2016) on a whim today. Beat a few levels! just destroyed some sort of tower and now im tracking down Olivia…. enjoying it :)

[notquiteaghost]

hey question

[the-punforgiven]

I am the sweatiest tryhard in the fucking world in Warframe but not in the actual gameplay or the combat or whatever I just spend hours on end sitting around in my orbiter like