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Obviously the real solution is never talking to anyone ever again, instead living as a hermit in remote mountains with your only friend being a bear that tries to eat you several times a year

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My autistic ass feels called out! :)

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The trick is to tell no one until you have something substantial worth sharing :)

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This is actually really, really good advice for adhd people. Telling people your goals gives you a dopamine hit like actually completing the goal does, so it makes your brain less likely to continue since it already got it’s fix.

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My lack of self-confidence means I will tell no one then

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Exactly. Or never at all because you know eventually the obsession will fizzle out.

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Or you’ll have to explain and realize you don’t know

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Everyone has some of the traits, but they don’t have ADHD unless it has enough negative impact to be a disorder.

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The problem being a lot of people with it might think the negative impact is a personal failing.

Plus it raises the question of people who would otherwise be said to have it but have developed successful coping mechanisms independently, but what else are you going to do for something you can’t physically test for?

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Same. I was diagnosed with OCD decades ago but yet I seem to have these sorts of tendencies as well.

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@Spurton there’s a lot of overlap of symptoms between OCD and ADHD! Worth looking into but your psychiatrist can give you the official word, of course

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No, we know everyone else do these things sometimes. The humor is acknowledging how often it happens to us and our inability to manage them without assistance or medication because we have a disorder.

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Yeah like when I made a binder full of geothermal information and half baked ideas that probably already existed, only to never touch it again 2 months later…

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3 years ago I decided to try making a SpaceX DVD (for fun) with most important milestones. I just needed to add end chapters for proper behavior on DVD players and 1 video. Also fix colors on one titleset menu.
I gave up on it. It’s mostly finished, but I gave up. It is the only reason I still keep the dusty Windows 10 installation on my laptop. I didn’t know DVDStyler also works on Linux, and migrating the files would be too much hassle.
But maybe, later…

Edit: Fixed the date. Apparently 2020 was 3 years ago…

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Same with a little game I made with unity. Only need to fix a couple of stuff and do a nice UI.

Well now I would need to redo it with Godot.

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Why does energy go away when you more need it to finish what you have started, dammit.

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Because telling people about your goals gives you a similar dopamine hit as actually completing them, so it makes you less motivated to finish.

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Or making a joke that implies knowledge of a subject. Then everyone thinks it’s your passion when it was just a prior obsession.

I SWEAR I DONT LIKE DND GUYS I JUST KNOW THE RULESET Explaining that is borderline impossible lol

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