Recently had my wife do a sleep study. We’re vacillating between getting her into a CPAP machine and doing a weight loss program to help with the sleep apnea. She’s just the same, constantly at a lower level of energy and life quality, it has limited her in a lot of ways in recent years.
Yeah nah. I thought it looked fake, but haven’t looked at a real one in at least 15 years so I couldn’t figure out why. Goddamn…
It’s a messy picture with cops, too because that job so strongly attracts cluster B personality types. You’re not just working a job that is institutionally trying to drive you crazy (Killology seminars and all), but the job itself is highly attractive to the most unstable people in society.
What does better mean? The whole Franken thing was a deliberate stitch-up job, just like what happened to Corbyn. A centre right party expunging its left-leaning components on the pretense of lies so tenuous that only a billionaire-owned media could fail to report on them.
Mens mental health is already a disaster, but in the airline industry it’s made worse by the fact that you can lose your piloting license just by seeking help. This is a tragic story. I’ve joked about this story elsewhere, but I’ve learned more about it since then.
Same… There should be ice cream trucks that sell things people really want, like frozen Reese’s cups and blended margaritas.
Is 6 a real It’s-It, or is it some bullshit knock-off?
Fuck this world
Only because they really wanted to already. Boo
Yeah I see what you see. This is good old fashioned bad editing
Exactly, it’s only cancelled if they’ve been made commercially nonviable - and in a corporate/political landscape that is openly fascistic, that is a much blurrier line. Like when Ben Kissel got taken off Last Podcast, he has been pretty much fully cancelled. Full stop, career over. I just wish it was always so cut and dried.
Funny how they’re trying so hard to catch pedos not won’t arrest a single motherfucker in the Epstein files
Why is Nero still emperor? Wake the fuck up, Romans!
Thank you so, so much. Especially for the offer to talk about this stuff. I’m dreading the upcoming summer holiday. My mother is in town for most of it, and she’s useless at any kind of control, routine, or discipline. Every time family stays with us it’s great - free childcare - but also, all routines and hard-won norms go out the window for at least a month after they’re long-gone.
Something I said to him last night after thinking about what you told me was explaining about how rules should be generalized. I told him “rules exist for reasons, and those reasons are the real rules.” I went through a few examples, and he seemed to vaguely get it. I know I’ll have to explain this again at least a few more times, but if I can get him pilled on the idea that rules have conceptual depth, maybe that will help him with compliance and masking somewhat. Have you ever tried anything like that? I feel like the more self-aware he is, the more he cooperates with measures taken to mitigate the things he’s not good at. He is a sweetheart, but that always shines through best when he feels like we’re on the same side.
Shit, I’m gonna have to read that too. Lemmy recs have never led me astray
This is like an item from Dungeon Crawler Carl lmao
Thanks for the novel - seriously. There have been times when I felt like my kid is just an asshole too, reading that was oddly healing. If I wasn’t his loving father, I could easily write him off as no good. I see the good though, and I’ve worked to make him self-aware about the things he struggles with. He definitely knows he’s time-blind.
Recently he told me he thinks I’m unreasonable, and I explained that it’s now how I prefer to treat him, and that sometimes he’s so unreasonable himself that being unreasonable is the only possible response. He seemed to understand. He knows we love him.
He’s more ADHD than spectrum (according to the expensive private assessment we ended up getting after years of waiting). But I definitely see him completely failing to generalize rules. He seems to do better when he knows the reasons for things, but he will still struggle with any frustration, distraction, understimulation - basically executive dysfunction.
I can’t imagine him even attempting to stick with a task for six hours, even in a completely dissatisfactory way. He would sooner fall asleep on the kitchen floor than even pretend to try to do dishes. So at least yours had that much going for her!
I appreciate the validation about ruling with an iron fist (as often as possible with a really soft glove on it, right?). I used to be the most easygoing one in the room, but dad life with AuDHD has turned me into a stereotypical stern-faced patriarch and I often struggle with the role self not matching my true self.
I do need to get him mixing with kids more often in clubs and what-not. He’s a social sponge, and the more time he spends gently being asked not to act like shit by people who aren’t me, the better for everyone in the long run.
I wish there was a silver bullet for the mess that gets caused when we let them off the hook one single time. I don’t like being strict, it takes a toll.
I’m going through it with my 8yo AuDHD boy. I wouldn’t so much mind needing to constantly remind him things if the reminders didn’t anger him. Any wisdom you may have any how to manage them would be like manna from heaven.
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Oh shit. Maybe caffeine is secretly the problem? Maybe it’s depression? Maybe you need iron? There are a lot of things it could be, I’m just listing things off the top of my head. Sorry though, I do know how much chronic fatigue sucks.