Oh god. Now I feel really old.

Yes, yes, it was a commercial title. I played it on the atari. Along with pong.

As I tell myself and my dear friends, the problem isn’t that YOURE pacing incorrectly. You are not to blame because you accidentally spent too much time looking at something. You are sick because scientists and practitioners decided that the loss of a segment of the population was okay.

Who ever it is I'm blocked 🤣

Same. Although this year, my asthma has been worse, and I've had several doses of oral steroids.

And I have MECFS, so covid is the very last thing I want to catch. I can't afford £100 for it privately.

Right?!

And they have tried alsorts (including setting up government owned "agencies" to try to get round red tape... that didn't last)

I've worked in IT and I've worked for the civil service.

🦒🛀

I'm honestly more annoyed calling it AI has caught on so well. As if that's anything but marketing. At best what we have now would form a tiny part of a real AI. It's a crappy algorithm that's surprisingly good at making us anthropomorphise it. That might be on us though.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵🩷🤍🖤

I just want the world to be kinder to each other, I used to think education was the way for that. Part of me still does.

Another part has realised that some people will always twist things to give themselves more power and to oppress others...

But I live in eternal hope.

Being ND (not just AuDHD) learning about why my brain does half the shiz it does has been liberating.

However, learning about how other people's brains do what they do has been really helpful in how I interact with others (ND and NT).

It's not okay to give a Centre-Right government (soon to be replaced by a Far-Right one) a database of information designed solely to combat immigration, based on prejudice, controlled by AI-lovers. How could anyone NOT be paranoid about the threat to minorities?

Even without a diagnosis, if you spot the patterns around RSD, knowing what it is really can help (helps logical brain & it does give you space to be kinder to yourself)

"they were just talking about me" isn't a normal thought for a child walking in a room - which came as a shock to adult me!

Understanding I'm AuDHD and that with that comes a load of extra things (I talk about them like the shitty freebies you got with magazines that you didn't actually want)... one of which is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD).

Is there any chance that is what's happening for you?

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings):
Life Expectancy: 46th
FreePress: 42nd
Healthcare: 30th
Education: 26th
Happiness: 23rd
Freedom: 17th
What the USA is #1 in:
Military Spending
Number of Billionaires
Incarceration
Bankruptcy filings
Medical debt
Gun deaths

The independent pulling no punches...

Thankfully it won't work.

Evidenced by the fact that currently I have 4 different log ins to different areas of gov.uk

Departments don't communicate internally, evidenced by DWP saying I'm too ill to fill in paperwork... (ESA support group), so they sent me an 80-page PIP form to fill in.

Progressing nicely to digital yellow stars and pink triangles.

Apparently announced as soon as tomorrow? And once we're all neatly carrying our minority pointers they'll start providing special spaces for us...