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  • “that didn’t land right, go back and fix it”

    Yes, I engaged in this a bit when I was pre-teen, but fortunately the thoughts disappeared once I started ignoring them. My brother has a really extreme, debillitating version of this where he gets stuck on almost anything and it ends up taking him 5x as long as a normal person.

    • Keeps tightening his seatbelt in the car
    • Closes the door several times
    • Tries to place food perfectly in his mouth to eat it
    • Placing pencils/cutlery down just right (the noise of this gets really annnoying)
    • Repeats sitting down to land just right
    • After brushing teeth, needs to drink from the tap in just the right way, tap ends up running for 5 minutes
    • Used to have auditory ticks that satisfy this sensation (I used to have these too so I know what it feels like)

    Poor guy doesn’t have the mental strength or mindfulness to push back against it. My country is backwards on mental health and doctors haven’t been able to tell us what it is but we suspect it’s some form of OCD. I on the other hand seem(?) to be lightly AuDHD.





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    Goodness, I’m so sorry to hear how heavy your ED is. ED is the worst.

    Tango because it’s exhausting to have to … execute it in sync to the music.

    This is interesting – for me music is great for my ADHD because moving to beat harmonizes my otherwise completely discooridmated body. I can feel how movjng to a rythm extinguishes the restless inside me.












  • That’s the problem, since open source projects have no stable income and no profit incentive, there’s no one person to make tactical, executive decisions for the good of the project like these. I’m saying this because if open source ever wants to become a serious, competitive alternative (ie. have people turn to it out of convenience (90% of ppl) and not ideology or foresight (10% of ppl)), this is a weakness it’s going to have to engineer a solution to. I genuinely think you have to play the game to beat the game.