Reminds me of Gopher / Lynx from back in the day.
Readit Newsddmf commented on Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum 0x00.cl/blog/2025/occ-202... · Posted by u/0x00cl
I am AuDHD and this is 80% my experience. I saw this post in the morning pondering if I call in sick or work because of insomnia and being unable to have the energy.
I commute to work by train and even though I have great headphones and listen to music on Spotify some mornings it just crackles in my ears. The audio is fine, but I'm extra sensitive sometimes.
At the office people are sometimes very loud. They are excited and having fun but when it goes over my sensory limit (which varies a lot) I become unable to do anything. Ears crackling with headphones means I can't shut their noise out either. And we're supposed to be social at the office but they talk about stuff I don't know what to say about.
When I get home I am beyond exhausted. Can't sleep because of anxiety or adrenaline or something. I just zombie out streaming series or movies while reading Hacker News, Reddit or Bluesky. I promise myself I'll go to sleep early but if I do I can't fall asleep until 2-4am. If I stay up until 1am I have better chance of falling asleep faster.
Weekends are spent catching up with sleep, wanting to tidy up and do side projects as well as gaming but most times I spend half the day in bed and then stay up gaming or something because it is my time and I want to do the fun stuff. Rince and repeat unless I get lucky and catch 10 to 12 hours of sleep.
I'm a 47 year old female principal engineer. I feel like I'm just drifting through the days and months. But I do live my work, the people and challenges. I just wish I could deal with everything better.
Thanks for making this game.
I'm Audhd, 50, and my experience mirrors yours, although I can fall asleep earlier, but it's a die throw whether I wake around 3am or sleep fully until 7am.
The worst aspect is that I seem to procrastinate fun things now - like gaming, or making music.
Hope you can find something to help you recharge :)
This happened like 5-10 years ago didn't it? What changed?
I was diagnosed with aspergers just as this happened - basically new information came out showing he'd sent the higher support need autistic kids off for experimentation so they'd leave him alone with his lower support needs autistic kids.
Way too much information, brain wouldn't let me read it.
ddmf commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I sympathize with this point of view but I disagree. I’m not sure if I’m ADHD, but I’m autistic. I’ve been diagnosed as ADHD in the past, I’m just not sure how useful it is as a diagnosis for me. I have enormous problems with focus and executive functioning. For large portions of my life I’ve been seriously disabled, unable to work or support myself. There are times where I’m unable to talk. And I still don’t see autism as inherently dysfunctional.
If you put me in a village in Europe 5000 years ago, I’d be fine. I’d be better than fine. I’d be the guy in the hunting part who could smell the fresh scat from 50 yards away. I’d be the guy who could remember all the fucking barks and plants and mushrooms that are good for what ails ya. I’d be the guy who knew the story of every god and goddess and why they’re important. Most social situations would involve people I knew very well or people in the same culture, where I could depend on knowing the rules of the culture.
The modern world is full of random noise and stifling bureaucracy. I love being autistic. But it’s awful, truly awful to have this nervous system in this society. The endless stress breaks you down day after day, year after year, and system teaches you to see yourself as inherently broken, when it’s the system that has broken you.
Maybe you’re disabled, but maybe it’s the system that did it to you.
I'm diagnosed autistic and ADHD.
A lot of my autistic issues are caused by society because they are mostly sensory - bright lights, random noise, synthetic smells.
The social model of disability doesn't cover all my symptoms and issues though, I am very much disabled. Pre diagnosis and medication my rejection sensitive dysphoria would cause me to perceive sleights and fly off the handle very easily.
5000 years ago I would have had a rock to the head.
ddmf commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
A friend raised what I consider a very valid point, that ad blockers are assistive technology for people with ADHD. They prevent the web from being an unusable mess of shiny distraction. And as such, in America, blocking ad blockers is a violation of the ADA.
I’m being completely serious here and so is he. I can barely use the web without ad blockers. They make it possible for me to participate in online life. Remove them and you largely remove me. An attack on ad blockers is a direct attack on even the slightly neurodivergent, and should be treated as such.
I concur, some websites are so unusable now with the tiny portion of content surrounded by adverts.
ddmf commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
I too have tried many things over the years and the only thing that truly works for me and my adhd (diagnosed) brain are post it notes and calendar alarms, unless of course I forget and accidentally put my phone on DND where it can stay for many days.
I will delete a ticket if it has a full thread copied in and "see below" - I don't have time to work out what you want or need, make an effort and ask me / tell me what you need, and be ambiguous about it.
ddmf commented on Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/ulrischa
> These will probably give you more motivation, which you'll need because the time you used to waste on the phone now needs to be occupied by a real hobby, and here comes language learning, chess, music, etc.
Man, that "probably" is doing a ton of heavy lifting.
Misread chess as cheese and I'm down with that as a new special interest.
That's exactly it, and why I prefer it be called an executive function disorder rather than any kind of focus disorder.
I can focus just fine. Too well, actually, to the detriment of all else, including physical needs like eating and sleeping. But I can't control it. I don't get to choose when I'm productive or when I'm not, let alone what I actually focus or work on. I could go weeks at a time where absolutely nothing is interesting enough, everything is painfully boring, and I'm so task paralyzed I just can't do anything. Likewise, I might give into a project for 48 hours straight non stop.
It's amazing I have a job at all, to be honest. I am also autistic, and it is a special kind of hell at times.