I’m old enough to know how to use a rotary phone and a paper map

I totally relate to being caught on the backfoot by sudden loss of competence. For me the loss of competence feels like a loss of value. And oof the overwhelm at simple to-do lists. I absolutely lost my shit yesterday, about how life is just doing tasks until you die.

I am a 38-year-old adult and I love Tamagotchis. Also Pokemon, anime, comic books, stickers, sitting on the floor, and using the shower wand as a microphone.

I have ADHD (extra-spicy type) and this is a super normal symptom for me. Also happens with movies and tv.

I pretend to be my cat, and I only engage with other people who are also pretending to be their cats.

I mostly use my fountain pens for my Hobonichi planner, snail mail penpalling, and a little journaling now and then. I also prefer them for general use like making quick notes, but in that case I’ll write on and with whatever I can grab before the thought escapes.

I started about 6-7 years ago because I saw some pixel blankets on Pinterest and wanted to make one. Then I received an amigurumi kit as a gift and started making lots of little Star Wars characters. Now amigurumi is what I’m best at, but I also want to learn how to make useful things too.

I don't know about sourcing the finished product, but growing my own turned out to be less work than I expected. I was working long hours at OldJob and pretty burned out, but once the grow got to the point of needing daily attention it was less than five minutes morning and evening to mist and fan my grow tub, and I ran the food dehydrator overnight as needed. YMMV but, for me personally, it was doable during a time when I was dragging myself through every day.

Huh. That explains the sudden tendency to get back-of-the-hand eczema, and why putting a little OTC bi-est cream on the backs of my hands cleared it up better than cortisone cream did.

1. If I make a spelling, grammar, or word choice error, or am unable to find a noun and have to describe the thing, then my entire point is invalidated. If I fail to accurately translate my shapeless, interwoven web of thought-color-shape-idea into paragraphs the other party can understand, they now have reason to regard everyone who holds my position as too stupid to be allowed to speak.

2. Insisting on a debate can be sometimes (but not always) a tactic used by people who want to wear out the other side.

3. The same reason I block, mute, and ignore advertisements: I get to decide how to spend my attention.

Accurate, and part of why quitting cigarettes was so difficult. Shamble downstairs to the parking lot, inhale that sweet sweet stimulant into my ADHD brain, then reenact panels 3 and 4.

Yet another Reddit refugee checking in. I find much of the modern social internet overwhelming and exhausting (looking at you, Discord...) so I was glad to find out about Beehaw. I have entirely too many interests and hobbies, which I tend to rotate through as the whim strikes me. At the moment, it's mostly Gunpla kits, Nintendo Switch (I am the filthiest of casuals), and container gardening (50/50 chance I lose interest before I get a single vegetable).

I started learning Japanese in early 2020, and gave up on Duolingo a couple months ago because of changes that made it a bit less helpful to me.

Otherwise your method seems pretty similar to mine: a couple sources for grammar points, Anki for vocab, and J-dramas and YouTube for listening practice.

I also try to write a little bit every day, even just a sentence or two to fill up blank space in my planner. (I can barely speak, but I have word-finding problems in my native English too, so I suppose there's not much to be done about it.)

Soaked overnight and cooked the next afternoon while I'm finishing up work, since the texture of canned beans weirds me out a little. My favorite bean dish, which I just had tonight, is black beans + rice + onions + worcestershire sauce. During the cool seasons I make a lot of bean soups in the slow cooker, but currently it's "hoard the parmesan rinds in the freezer until it's soup season" season.

What? How is it short and simplified??Can you explain what you mean? I answered your question, using more words than your original post did.

My main floor has real hardwood (oak, I guess?). It’s OK, but as I look at replacing the carpets in other parts of the house, I’m leaning heavily toward bamboo. The oak (or whatever it is) floor hasn’t been a good value for what we spent on it. I like to go barefoot at home, and I’ve never felt a synthetic floor that didn’t make my skin crawl. Bamboo seems to be much sturdier than regular hardwood, and the samples I’ve touched have felt pleasant against my bare feet. The only thing holding me back is choosing a color that’ll transition well to the existing floor.

Contacts. I use daily disposables because I can’t feel them at all. “14-day” contacts were more like 3 days of comfort, 4 days of feeling noticeable, and 7 days of feeling like a rock in my eye. (I cleaned and soaked them daily as directed with many different types of solution, asked the optometrist for instructions, and followed their instructions exactly.) With contacts, I actually have peripheral vision. The feeling of looking past the frame/rim always gave me eye strain, and even rimless glasses couldn’t change how the blur around the edges was a constant distraction.

I have glasses for just in case, and wear them in the evening after washing my face (which gets the contacts wet and crispy no matter how tightly I squeeze my eyes shut). But I really can’t stand glasses for more than an hour or two a day. Every pair I’ve ever worn has two modes: tight enough to stay on but give me a pressure headache, or loose enough to avoid headaches but I tense my scalp and face to keep them on and they still fall off when I look down or turn my head too quickly.

I started with a set of disposable fountain pens, but I don't remember why. I was active on a snail-mail site and I think maybe some people were talking about pens. Anyway, I wanted a cheap test drive and they got the job done for a few months until I graduated to a Lamy. I now have several different pens for several different purposes, and chronically inky paws.

Nah I used the PF tek which was a fair bit more complicated. Wish I'd known about uncle ben's last time I grew. I kept the grow tub on top of my dresser, so not too much space.

Just a couple of health-related subs that haven’t fully migrated. I don’t particularly want to use Reddit, but I get more value from lore passed down woman-to-woman than I do from doctors who want to attribute everything to hysteria anxiety and depression.