Yep, that’s a mood.

seeing it capitalized in the post title didn’t help. 😆

Yeah… I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.

Hi. Thanks for the welcoming.

I’ll be mostly hanging back, though. Only acting on reports and illegal content attacks. It’s an emergency lifeline that is good to have set up before an emergency happens.

Even though I am aware of sounding incredibly cliché and cringe: The more you try to force it, the less success you’ll have. Forget personality types. Forget ‘effort’. People seem to instinctlively know when you’re not having a good time or when you’re outside your comfort zone. So have a good time first, and look for a mate second.

(Also, I am aromantic, so my sack of advice is probably worth only the sack)

Long story that played out over months… Went to the doctors with depressive episode. Got diagnosed burnout. But from what??? So… I dug into researching psychology. Turns out, I inherited the family 'tism and could trace anecdotal evidence back 4 generations. Nobody ever bothered to investigate before. Presented my findings to my therapist and her reaction after listening to it all was (paraphrasing) “You didn’t KNOW?”.

So, yeah… No ‘officially on paper’ official diagnosis yet. I don’t plan on getting one, because it turns out, the main cause of my problems isn’t Autism, it’s ADHD on top (that one got official a few months later), but now I am doing better with that under control and unlearning all the masking I did.

From what I understand, effectiveness is not guaranteed for any of the currently available meds. I won’t disclose which one at this time, as I don’t think it would be helpful to do so. I can only relay from my assessor, who explained to me that if a med is working, you will definitely notice the difference.

If you experience a problem with medication (like: it seems to you to not be working) you’ll have to take it to your doctor irregardless. Maybe you can make your case and get a different dose or a different substance. Maybe you need to get a second opinion from another doctor. Maybe you need to switch doctors altogether. That last option can be a hard decision to make, but that is one that online people can actually help - if you provide some context information. If you don’t want to do that and just read up on other people’s experiences, I suggest you go over to c/ADHD, because they are around a little longer and you’ll have a bigger chance of finding answers there.

Best of luck. 👋

Oh, you’re right. This one only has a signature. I don’t know for sure, but I’ll edit it in.

😟

Valid, too, of course.

I am speaking from the perspective of a late-diagnosed adult. With kids and teenagers it is difficult to gauge the cause of mental health problems as well as the effectiveness of treatment. You better find a doctor that knows what they’re doing… Sorry yours didn’t - not all of them do, unfortunately.

Be advised: I recognize this person joining and speedrunning Ban% in safespaces for several months now. This is at least my 4th sighting of them. They will antagonize the userbase in record time by blatant disregard of netiquette and basic human decency. They will cite any of their vast repertoire of mental conditions or minority membership cards as justification when called out on bad behavior - whatever is convenient at the time. Conversation to them is a game that must be won at all cost and people with even slightly differing opinions are seen as enemies that need to be defeated (and also humiliated) Their strategy is generally to single out one member and harass them with wall of text posts.

Do not engage. Do not educate - dozens have tried and failed. Just identify the pattern and ban permanently, before they can do any lasting damage to your community.

I don’t think I have strong preferences for any specific part.

Legendary feeling of Catharsis: Definitely worth it.

I just hope he got all the papers he needed before that and a new job in the bag, because doing this without either of these conditions fulfilled can haunt you later.

But I am pretty sure he did.

“Unnamed iStock photo model” is the best answer I managed to arrive at.

Let me rephrase the question:

Who is this actress? I feel I have seen her before, but I can’t recall where and am lost for a name to google after.

who’s that?

‘Information Submissive’ sounds perfect for me. It got just the right amount of hinting at kink. 😇

I am going to use that description from now on.

Now I am 100% convinced that we have met before, digitally.

Sorry for the harsh reception. I thought you were just some random troll invading ‘for the lulz’. (Your all-caps reaction to sharkfucker420 really enhanced that first impression)

How many people are in your swarm?

Autistic mind here: Reading yours is giving me a headache. It’s like debugging a minecraft mod after patch day. Please reset aggression level to zero and run a malware scan.