lets just nuke this comment chain

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edited my original comment, is that helpful or should i just nuke it?

sorry I was just trying to clarify what I understood the admin meant to mohammed, not comment on truthfulness of that statement.

Right but I still have ADD. It didn't cure my depression, it didn't make me the perfect NT workerdrone and sometimes the side effects are worse than if I hadn't taken it and I need to pause so my nerves can reabsorb the dopamine.

Having chronic depression sucks and it's not "great" if it's caused by ADD because "there's a pill for that" because actually there is no pill for that. There are pills that help with some aspects in your life where being more like non-ADD person would improve your quality of life. But it's not "great" and there is no magic pill.

edit: also how the fuck do they link all those causalities together, like with what authority? What reasoning? Oh yeah you likely are ND (Why do you think this?). Which caused burnout. Not "can cause", it "caused" it. This "caused" that, that "caused" some other thing. This person is make sweeping statements about another users mental health based on two paragraphs??

Oh also they hope OP has ADD because then they can take the pill "for that". Fuck them.

edit2: Just to be superclear on why I have such an issue with this. It's very patronizing. They immediately figured out what was wrong with OP, wow such an easy problem to solve! It trivializes the struggle even if what they said is correct, which I'm very very doubtful about.

edit3: Luckily there is a pill for that and its called "Humility"

edit4 because I can't help myself (wow where's that impulse control I was promised): Taking a pill is the least impactful thing in my life and how I navigate it with ADD. The most impactful thing is stuff like a strict routine for every little fucking thing. It takes ages to find a routine that works, longer still to practice it until it sticks and forcing myself to interrupt what I was doing because the circle with the two dials says so still feels like I'm being cruel to myself even if I can do The Thing^TM completely on auto-pilot.

I think her intention is to go against what she believes to be some privileged pickme's on this site. Like when a privileged person shares the horrid takes they hear with a marginalized person in order to flash their "I'm not like them" credentials and collect brownie points for not being actively harmful. Except that means the marginalised person has to hear the horrid takes which already can cause harm.

That's how I understand it anyway.

Idk, what broke me into leftism was "Wage Labour and Capital" and what sealed the deal was "Socialism: From Utopian to Scientific". It wasn't the freshness of the ideas that blew me away but how solid and rigorous the foundations are.

Before that I thought lefties just turn the "social programs" dial to 11 and the infighting was about how to best turn that dial and how social programs should work. To see such a rigorous approach to politics blew my socks off and broke with all my preconceived notions.

Not having ADD even though "there's a pill for that"

Could be trauma, could be depression getting worse, could be burn-out from being ND, it could be a lot of not mutually exclusive things.

What would you like to change? Would knowing if you have a disorder and which it is help? For instance having ADD diagnosed helped me by putting a name to what I felt was my "chronic failure disorder" and access to medications for it. But some others might say "So I went through all this trouble only to know I have x. How does that help me in any way? The only difference to before is that I learned the medical term for what's causing me issues"

It's also possible that it's not a disorder at all but a normal reaction to living in hellworld. I felt very similarly until I met my wife and got on the "hell yeah I want a family and kids" track. That kind of outlooked fundamentally changed how I approached things and having such a big goal to work towards makes previously unimprotant things important.

NO! Theres no "pill for that" WTF?

the beginning of the redemption arc? I hear every anarchist mention "The Conquest of Bread" by Kropotkin, it's gotta be good I just haven't gotten around to reading it.

post 'em all and let mods sort it out

we should remove that emoji of them then

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remember the US president can legally order hits. sooo bye-bye [redacted]

You're welcome 😌

oooooh exciting!!