I’m 42, diagnosed recently with ASD, not yet tried for an ADHD diagnosis (but I suspect I am). I can really relate to what you’re going through.

Getting diagnosed has this extra hurdle of needing to be honest about your natural state but not honest about how you are presently. In my case, that meant answering the survey questions by evaluating how I was, thought and felt as a youth and not as the adult I am now with the years of life experience and the adaptations that came with that (which naturally exhaust the fuck out of me).

Just because you don’t cleanly fit the DSM V criteria (which is very outdated now), that doesn’t mean you don’t have ASD, ADHD or both.

Doctors were so unhelpful for me that you’d swear they serve Satan himself. I had to identify my own problems and seek the diagnosis on my own. I’m fortunate that my mother was able to also answer questions about my childhood behaviors because her observations lined up with my own.

I’m sorry you’re where you’re at right now, but try not to lose hope. Maybe consider the context of your honesty when answering those vague and ambiguous survey questions. AND don’t be afraid to unmask and stim during your in-person evaluation.

Oh my favorite: inconsistent rules or inconsistent enforcement!

Their last good album IMO

I really did want to like both of those, but I just don’t.

Find an attorney in your local area and consult with them. That initial consultation will almost certainly be free.

Honestly, you might need more than just general legal advice here.

Initial consultations with lawyers are free (in my experience as a citizen of the USA). These sorts of questions are best not left to internet strangers

You rang?

My phone app makes it incredibly easy to vote the wrong way, and I assume that I’m not alone in that. So for those errant downvotes on otherwise ok comments, I just assume it was an accident.

Plus, there are a lot of stupid, illiterate, angry people out there who feel nothing about doling out downvotes over nothing. I try to reserve my downvotes for good reasons.

Some say that Mike Johnson and the Republicans are going to attempt to deny seating the newly-elected Democrats for whatever thin excuse they’ll come up with after the election.

IMO, that is not beyond the tactics of the Republicans and has been seen before during Mike Johnson’s tenure as Speaker.

If that should happen, then our democracy is well and truly cooked. The No Kings protests aren’t effective. We will need an ongoing national strike.

Because failing that, what else do we have other than violence and civil war? Things are going to be tense.

Excellent! Should we invite them to setup shop here?

Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft

Is this the same Scott Adams of Dilbert fame? He's been a political weirdo for years and years, so naturally he'd allow himself this cognitive dissonance.

Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.

Windows free since XP

This is the traditional rejection outfit women on Naboo wear. You should see the outfit they wear for romantic acceptance!

The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

It’s painfully obvious that IPO means the death of quality. Once there are shareholders, the sociopaths move in to horde wealth in any and every way possible as though destroying good things is some kind of sport.

Assuming someone or some group of people are actually putting these in mailboxes to try to trick people, this is multiple federal felonies. It’s election fraud, and it’s a felony to tamper with a mailbox, mail fraud, I would guess conspiracy to commit fraud, and perhaps more.

If true, I sincerely hope someone’s doorbell camera catches them in the act.

The only problem is that “knock off” brands are the only ones making products in at least some instances that used to be filled by the “brand names”.

This is the result of globalizing manufacturing. Eventually the brands that could pay for advertising stopped making things, and the void was filled by these “knock offs” (I don’t care for that term as it was applied in this article. These aren’t fake designer hand bags, they’re just products that don’t have a recognized brand name).

True to the OnlyFans stereotype, most of the chats were overtly sexual. I had to wade into several prosaic fantasies about babysitters and office blowjobs, some of which included laughably florid professions of love for me. I couldn’t help but ponder how disappointed these men would be if they could somehow see me sitting in my home office, sipping hibiscus tea as I typed out commands for them to manipulate their genitalia or deposit their semen on certain parts of my body. The most surreal moment came as I noticed the faint sounds of my daughter and her puppy watching Bluey together down the hall, right as a subscriber was waxing poetic about how much he wanted to eat a macaron from between my ass cheeks; the juxtaposition made me question the entire course of my life.

Well, I'm stretching the truth just a little here. It has been reported that they're censoring any links or mentions of the Fediverse (just like Twitter did with Mastodon), but they are engaging in gaslighting about the protests.

Most recently the subs that voted to become NSFW in protest marked themselves as such (thus self-filtering for anyone not wanting to see NSFW content), however the admins removed that designation from those subs... without removing the NSFW content first! They then sent the mods of those subs threatening messages about how the mods showed NSFW content to everyone without the proper filters in place!