@anubis2814 Now I don't feel so bad. I had almost the same experience with my last job -- inconstant part-time hours, declining erratically over many months until finally "we don't see a role for you, moving forward" (despite me seeing at least a couple of roles that nobody else was filling).
I think even teenage-me, heavily steeped in hard SF, would have looked at that cartoon and thought something along the lines of "uh, wut?" ...like, what is that even trying to represent?
This explains why we are always doing things for The Time Being.
(...which in turn explains why tasks are always larger once you get into them than they appeared from the outside.)
@darkling I'm of half a mind to do exactly that.
(...I think*; I have to wait until it comes back.)
(*"I think I think, therefore I think I am... I think." -- The Moody Blues)
@rnd I believe that would be the smallest possible change, if I remember my calculus correctly. (Pro-tip: I probably do not remember my calculus correctly.)
@rnd ...or they could go full-metal-ADHD-stim on it, and add an indicator for each operation currently underway. (...with, of course, a right-click option to view the more detailed log available in most major browsers.)
@polltracker2024 Why doesn't he change his name to Donald America. ...and then bribe someone to give him an honorary pilot's license (there is no such thing, but that's never stopped him) so he can be Captain America.
...and then he can make AI videos of himself flying in and rescuing people from woke.
(I'd be worried about accidentally giving him ideas if it weren't for the fact that he'd probably do less harm to the world if he just retreated into his bunker and spent all day doing exactly that... and maybe watching Captain America movies and pretending it's a documentary series about his life.)
@meljoann This overlaps with my own interests! I have a fair amount of information about various indie artists (including a bunch in Athens, GA in the 1990s), but no sustainable way to organize it.
That's not a you-deficit, though.
It's a problem in that it leaves you isolated, but it's not the sort of problem that means you're inadequate or broken. It's a format-compatibility issue, which is something many/most of us neuroweirdos have to deal with... if that wasn't obvious.
"Feeling disconnected" has been a frequent topic of discussion in my therapy-sessions, fwiw. My partner has these weekly meet-ups with her fiber-arts (aka knitting-and-stuff-like-that) group, who are pretty much all really smart neurodivergent women who I'd be friends with in a heartbeat -- but their interests are generally not my interests, even though we have a lot of overlapping oddities (e.g. I can make science or math jokes, and enough people will get them for it to be worthwhile), so I still can't start babbling about my problems with the design of process-derived-I/O-stream management classes in PHP and expect any eyes to not glaze over.
So whatza girl to do? Still working on that...
@researchbuzz It's not that it's not good enough; that is [I want to say "objectively" but I think a generic intensity-amplifier adverb would be more accurate] ridiculous.
It's just a little specialized for most folks. It is nonetheless very good and I am rather in awe at times. ...partly because a lot of it is over my ADHD head; I might be able to take it in properly if it were the only thing I was focusing on... but right now I have my own special-interest-children* to attempt (and often fail) to focus on... while the rest of my idea-children sit starving in the backroom, waiting for me to have time for them...
...speaking of feelings of inadequacy 😅
(* metaphorical children -- although the ex-children living here to whom'st I was a co-parent are also AuDHD and have their own special interests as well, so the phrase is also true in that respect.)
@clarfonthey This seems related: normally OTC painkillers don't work for my headaches, and I have to take sumatriptan (which is specifically for migraines) -- but I've noticed lately that sometimes the headaches are of a different quality, and on those occasions naproxen has worked better than sumatriptan.
This is based on a very small number of data-points, but the difference was pretty stark. I won't say I'm looking forward to collecting more data, but I'm sure it will happen.