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SaddieTheMad

SaddieTheMad@lemmy.world
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I uninstalled old Sync some weeks ago and I’ve been missing it a lot. I am so excited for the new Sync!

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Learning philosophy (and sciences, arts, etc.) is great. I think their real problem is to be dogmatic or arrogant, which is ironic.

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You are right about that. I would add that non-human lives are also valuable. I especially believe animal suffering is terrible, ours and others. We are enough to help humankind and also repair injustices to and help other beings.

What I wanted to comment is that I felt this image intensely because it is kind of symbolic. It represents the beauty we are capable of, the way we can be brought together by beliefs and dreams, all destroyed by greediness, selfishness, and unnecessary violence. It is tragic. It is not the value of the building itself, which is debatable, but this I explained.

Sorry if my English is weird.

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I am disliking this sentiment. I am on the Fediverse because Sync’s developer and many others were betrayed by Reddit and I wanted to show solidarity and to ‘punish’ Reddit by leaving. The Fediverse’s values are admirable, but I do not share them all. I believe in supporting good projects, even some that are private if they don’t pose a risk of destroying something bigger, and Sync is a good project that can be easily abandoned without consequences if something goes wrong.

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Here: https://github.com/XargsUK/awesome-adhd

My personal choices are…

• Russell Barkley, phD
• Dr. Tracey Marks
• How to ADHD
• ADHD ReWired
• ADHD Experts

And you asked for sources, but these tools are great…

Apps

MyTherapy Pill Reminder: Notifications are annoying enough for me to take my pills.

Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers: I am not a heavy sleeper. I use it as my default alarm because it is highly customizable and it lets me snooze whatever time I need to snooze from a list of options I decide. Also, you can have alarms with different behaviors.

Bitwarden Password Manager: It’s impossible to remember all your passwords nowadays…

Everyday objects

Clever Fox Pocket Weekly Planner: Before, I had reminders and to-dos everywhere (phone notes, post-its, to-do app, alarms…). Now I only use this notebook. Everything is here, from “do laundry” to “Friend’s birthday”. It’s been very helpful.

Fidget cube from Antsy Labs: It’s the original one! It’s nice.

Loop Experience Plus Earplugs: Expensive, but effective and comfortable.

This, and a minimalist lifestyle are helping me. I share it, just in case.

⚠️ By the way, learning about ADHD is chaotic because people have different takes on it. There’s the “I am a researcher, an expert, and all my years of study have let me to conclude that ADHD is not what the DSM tells us but something different, similar but different” (e.g. professor Russel Barkley). There’s the “ADHD is what the DSM says because that’s the experts’ consensus. If we discover something new via sufficient evidence, it will appear in future editions of the DSM. Of course there are other things to say about the disorder, but they are too new and need more research” (e.g. Dr. Tracey Marks). And then there’s the “ADHD is not even a disorder, it is just a brain that’s different from the average brain. ADHD is therefore not understood by psychiatrists but by people who live with it, and we say that it resembles the description from the psychiatrists but it has additional traits” (e.g. the neurodiversity movement).

Sorry for the long answer! I hope it helps.

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*Social anxiety intensifies*

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Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. ‘Females’, read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.

It’s easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that ‘h’. Vowels do not change their sound.

That’s a horrible explanation, right? Here. That’s how you always pronounce the vowels.

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No, attention issues can be caused by depression, anxiety, stress, bad sleep hygiene or problems like sleep apnea, and many other things.

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I don’t know. When I was younger, caffeine made me sleepy. Nowadays, it makes me focus.

It’s great to finish activities, but I cannot take it frequently as it affects my mood if I do so (bipolar disorder). It’s only my emergency focus 🪄.

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Get the “How to ADHD” book. The YouTube channel is good, but the book is an incredible guide for both the person with ADHD and their loved ones.

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