• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    This is what it felt like to finally get an ADHD diagnosis in my 30s after raw dogging life on hard mode, and assuming I just sucked at life compared to everyone else

    “Is this what things have been like for you this whole time?

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      I got diagnosed with severe complex sleep apnea (central and obstructive). I spent a few weeks with a CPAP but not dialed into the correct pressure but after my first night of sleeping with a CPAP in the lab to get the pressure correct I woke up and went to work.

      I was confused because I felt odd, it took me 10-15 minutes standing on a forklift trying to figure out what the fuck was happening. I finally realized that I was experiencing what being awake was for the first time in my life at 32. I reintroduced myself to coworkers I had worked with for a few years because I had been in a haze for most of my life.

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        Was also in my 30s when I got diagnosed. Identical experience, I was shocked I’ve gone this long as a zombie.

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      Gods this was basically what trying gender neutral pronouns was like. Figured I would give them a try, how much difference can they make?

      Wow, why does every friendship suddenly feel closer and more real? Huh, I actually can spend time with people and not feel drained? Why is my long-term skin and inflammation problems suddenly and inexplicably clear up?

      Oh wait… These health problems can be caused by stress! What else can be caused by stress (reads list)

      Oh shit. Yeah that also stopped being a problem… And this one… Wait, I don’t have joint problems as much either…

      oh shiiiiiiiit

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          wait, we don’t want to tell people to refer to us by plural pronouns, we’re weird enough.

          Get that you’re just being silly and irreverent and all and I see you… But not exactly great to imply that plural pronouns are a problem that makes you implicitly odd to other people? Just… Sayin.

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            But not exactly great to imply that plural pronouns are a problem that makes you implicitly odd to other people? Just… Sayin.

            why shouldn’t we imply that we would get the exact response that we get for hinting at our identity were we to legitimately assume it instead of dance around it and let people assume we’re joking?

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      I am almost 70 and my GP says I have undiagnosed ADHD and autism. Now I cannot afford to pay for the actual testing to prove it and document it. Ironic, back when it would have been free or cheap I was the “weird kid” and later “uncle nutsy” and there were no diagnoses.

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    Things that also give you this sort of motivation:

    • Labelling machines;
    • New drill;
    • Air fryers;
    • Pressure washers;;
    • Chainsaws
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    I didn’t realize scissors were ‘handed’. My right-handed privilege is showing.

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      Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.

      Coffee mugs with logos have in mind which hand you hold them with.

      Insulated bottles with handles and sip lids assume righthandedness.

      One improvement has been smart watches since the screen can flip over if you switch wrists.

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        Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.

        Right-handed people writing right-to-left languages (there are a lot of them) can sympathize, I guess

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        When I got my smart watch the first thing I wanted to do was add a watch face like the old Goofy lefty watches that went anti-clockwise. Thus far I have not found one.

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      I’m a lefty who made it almost half a century on this earth without realizing I could just go out and buy left handed scissors, so don’t feel too bad.

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        i have a few pair of “good” scissors. the duck scissors. the curved creepy looking scissors. those ones are mine. the righties can use the other ones. those two pair are mine, since i can actually cut with them.

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      I don’t want to try and take away your privilege but You can buy scissors that are “hand neutral.”

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        No you cannot, though some manufacturers like to say so.

        The grips are neutral, but the blades are righty.

        Pick up some scissors and open them like you’re cutting something. You’ll see the top blade on the right and the bottom on the left. Because you’re holding them in your right hand the bottom/left blade is closer to you. This gives you a clear view of the cutting line of whatever you’re cutting. Even if you flip them it’s still true.

        For a lefty this line is blocked by the top blade.

        Lefty scissors have the blades reversed. Try a pair sometime. It’s doable but not pleasant.

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        "Hand neutral " scissors are still right handed scissors that do not have molded finger holes for righties. They still are built backwards for a lefty. All in all they work in a pinch, but generally are garbage.

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            Hold your scissors like you’re cutting something. The top blade should be on the right side and the bottom edge that whatever you’re cutting rests on will be on the left facing you. This is true even if flipped.

            It would be reversed on left handed scissors. This is the important difference. It’s more common nowadays for the grips to be ambidextrous, but the blade is still an issue. Of course lefties CAN cut things with righty scissors. But try out a lefty pair sometime. You’ll find the blade blocks your view of what you’re doing. You can’t easily see the line that you’re cutting.

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              Interesting, hadn’t thought of anything but the grip affecting ambidextricity. I guess part of it is I don’t do precise cutting that requires me to pay attention to the blade.

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                Even when you do not need to see exactly what you are cutting, physics of the blade orientation, and your hand movements, pull the blades apart when you use right-handed scissors in your left hand.

                As you can see, the blades on my left-handed scissors are mirrored to yours, so when I cut my hand movements push the blades together.

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          It’s not possible. The really important part is which blade is on which side. The grips can work for both hands but the blades are righty.

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        We should all work towards ending the horrors of handedness and the implied moral violence inherent in the system.

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        Yeah I got a pair of these. Even as a righty, it’s nice to not have to figure out which orientation is correct before you pick it up.

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        A couple weeks ago, after more than three decades on this earth, I discovered for the first time that if I slice the butter from the other end of the stick, I can get a nice clean, straight, vertical cut. Because the butter knife is only beveled on one side.

        All my life, I’ve been slicing butter from the wrong end, and the knife has slipped off a third of the way down every time…

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    For me it was the opposite. Elementary school had old and dull left hand scissors. I never understood how the manufacturers could screw them up so badly, lol.

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    We’ve come a long way from the days of teachers hitting left-handed kids with rulers when they tried to write with the dominant hand.

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      Growing up I always had the green left handed ones for elementary, not even sure I’ve noticed in 30+ years besides when the Xmas wrapping paper was on awkward side that I’m now just used to using right handed ones. Some issues with wrapping this recent season …

      I always played some sports different handed though was never good at either side so didn’t seem to make much of a difference but say golf clubs feel way better right handed, baseball I can never remember which one I want to throw with.

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    Left handed rulers are also a thing, and surprisingly helpful even if you’re right handed. The scale runs from the right to the left, so if you hold it with your left hand the zero is on the stick out to the right.

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    A lefty that doesn’t know how to clench the blades is no lefty I want to associate with.

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      They’re life changing for us lefties. Blades are meant to be squeezed together with the force from your thumb but right handed blades are backwards for lefties, meaning will pull the blades apart when we squeeze. Not saying you don’t know this but someone might learn it!

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    Once bought a left handed scissor, did not know up until then there was such a thing, as a right handed how the fuck do you cut stuff, it was the crappiest cut ever

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      The same way I use a computer mouse, suboptimally with my off hand, but it was the only option when I was learning as a child and now I’m stuck because it works well enough. I think most lefties have decent capability with their right hand because it’s occasionally unavoidable to use it for something.

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        I started using my left hand for the mouse due to carpel tunnel syndrome. Never bothered with changing the settings to left handed so I guess I’m using it sub-optimally.

        Because of my less than optimal grip I prefer mice that are for either hand. They are not always easy to find.

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      as a right handed how the fuck do you cut stuff, it was the crappiest cut ever

      That is how us lefties feel using right-handed scissors.