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Cake day: August 14th, 2025

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  • I love em dashes. My colleagues had asked me to remove them because “it doesn’t exist in the wild, it makes your text look AI generated.” No! AI has taken soo much already from creative humanity, it won’t take yet another method of personal literary expression—my personal expression—as well.

    Besides, I’m all over the place—hardly concise. Anyone who thinks I’m using AI just by using em dashes should really reevaluate how they spot AI in the wild, as well as read a book—it’s where you’ll find all the em dashes in the wild.


  • Oh, I would break down my tickets into tiny baby steps, to the point it’s so utterly ridiculous from the outside looking in that my colleagues and manager would comment on my “work journal” and are concerned about the “way overcommitted wasted effort.”

    It of course, helps a whole lot despite the amount of additional added hours I would put into that. Each little checkbox is a much needed dopamine trickle to keep me on task, and the whole thing seems far less daunting once I’ve been able to sit down and break things down into atomic subtasks—checkpoints—that I could stop at and still be able to come back later on without losing track of where I’m at mid-ticket. And not ending up debugging myself round and round in circles as I forget what I already did before.

    I didn’t use to do that though, nor did most of my systems even exist in any tangible form really. They were the products of my brainstorming and research on how to get around my ADHD and not things that I would’ve naturally settled on on my own. So, if I’m understanding what (this aspect of) autism is correctly. I’m only ADHD as well, at least on this (and many other so far) aspect.

    Edit: reading comprehension failure. Um, I haven’t been using AI for the breaking down of. Maybe it’s something I could try?



  • Vyvanse is the really the best (for me). It is absolutely amazing, literal magic in a little pink pill in fact. My very first dose was a life changing moment for me. If I could stay on Vyvanse 30mg, I would’ve. It had never really lost its magic all this time after all. Problem is, my heart rate is a bit high on it, and my psychiatrist would rather I try out Ritalin LA, Medikinet, and Concerta first before she would attempt any heart rate lowering medications.

    I went from barely clocking 2 hours (sometimes less than 1) to regularly clocking over 6 hours of focused work a day.