If you think your mom isn’t on the internet, have I got a hot URL for you.

She might as well have a mall ninja sword strapped to her back.

If we get nothing else from this shitshow, let it be this.

Clearly you haven’t met Brewster.

It’s an amazingly simple device. An idiot can operate it, and indeed many do.

Good move bailing on that therapist. When their only tool is a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

I’m one of those lucky folks that has classic anxiety. And severe depression. And a handful of other things, all filtered through AuDHD. And it’s really fucking hard to tease out one of those threads because the knot just pulls tighter. A knot soaked in lived experience, seasoned with copious amounts of self-reflection. Sometimes I know what’s coming and actively avoid it, sometimes to the point of dissociation. Sometimes I don’t know what’s coming, and my brain goes haywire with possible scenarios, most of which are awful and self-spiraling but induce anxiety regardless. But it’s all intertwined, feeding off of each other and everything else to create that Gordian knot.

I feel like I got really lucky finding my current therapist/clinic, because that was the first place that wasn’t completely useless. That said, there are still periods of frustration. As knowledgeable as he is, he still struggles to grasp the extent of things. And because I’m “high functioning” (we both hate that phrase but it was agreed that it would be used as a placeholder for “lived my entire life being intelligent enough to mask my way through most situations until the mask fails and I go into a tailspin”), the mask gets taken for granted sometimes, as if it’s an outside support structure I can lean on as opposed to something I dedicate great effort (and lots of mental duct tape) into maintaining.

It can be difficult finding the correct fit for therapy. The more layers people have, the harder it gets to find someone that can handle all of them. That said, take this as a learning experience. Bring this knowledge to the next therapist and be upfront about it. The process sucks. But for most of us, it’s all we can do.

Best of luck to you, truly. You’re not alone.

If I’m trying to work through a problem, then yes, a call is better. It lets the thoughts flow and you’ve got someone else there to help fill in any blanks.

It also takes me forever to write emails. That said, if I’m discussing something work related with someone higher on the crab bucket, I am 100% going the email route. All that time and effort I’m putting into exact wording and tone? That’s gonna be on record, and it’s gonna be to my benefit. As are the vague one-sentence replies (if any) by management. I’m sorry, you’re asking why project X is on fire? Here’s 6 months and 5000 words of documentation, of which your contribution was, “ok.”

Believe me, I totally get where you’re coming from. I just had to learn the hard way that I needed to weaponize my literary elephantitis as a way of self defense.

Natural selection gonna naturally select

Elon/Trump stand there pressing the flapper over and over hoping for a better outcome.

Okay, that one got me good. “Better outcome.” Hoooo boy.

That sounds like the kind of thing I’d reply, “Oh, no thanks, I don’t like bowling” to.

…Minecraft has Vegemite???

Uh oh. Vegemite is on the no-no list.

I appreciate that this is a figure of speech, but I really think that humanity would be better off if said skin was painstakingly investigated and its thinness verified throughout. For science.

As someone who didn’t vote for this and is currently struggling to get basic needs met, fuck you. Sincerely.

I don’t disagree. But I would say that making sure you have the funds if they come calling falls under “bothering with it.” CYA is a good policy.

Because the funds for tracking down errant plebs will always be there.

And it was raining!

My old company solved that problem by making everything high priority by default, with efforts directed by the whims of the CTO.

It’s frustrating how so many people don’t understand this.

Me: eagerly digs through a box of old AV cables to see if he has a GameCube component cable

Me only finding SVideo: ☹️

I recognized the album cover so I took the click bait. “Huh, what BOC song is this person talking about?” Cities on Flame. It’s a great tune. You’re gonna need to connect the dots for me OP. I’m not seeing the connection.