• yrnttm@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Not neuro divergent. If you turn the lights on when I am sitting in the dark you will officially be on my shit list. It is entitled behavior and you should be punished.

  • Routhinator@startrek.website
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    7 months ago

    I identify with this because of my ADHD.

    But also, because ADHD, I spent about 15 minutes in a “does not compute” loop because bats can see perfectly well in the dark, so using them as an analogy involving something being lost and helping them by turning the lights on is just not making sense to me.

    I’ve broken out of the loop, but I still am not sure why “bats”

  • Xhieron@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Thanks to this post I now identify as a lost bat. I consider it a marked improvement.

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    7 months ago

    Not related to ADHD but similar none the less. I’m eating some leftovers (literally fork in mouth) and my mom asks me if I want to heat it up. I said if I wanted it heated up I’d have put it in the microwave. I’m 37.

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      7 months ago

      I used to get that question a lot when I was a kid. I always politely said “no thanks”.

      It turns out my face always said “Are you fucking stupid? I understand how to heat things” while I was trying to be a little polite. I found this out when I visited my parents recently and found out that, while I’m still trying to be polite, my face still tells my mom that I’m capable of deciding on the temperature of my food.

      My face says things that I don’t mean to say even when I’m trying not to be an ass.