So, it's midnight. I've been trying to get to sleep for two hours. The migraine meds have kept the worst at bay today and I've been editing the first video for my retrocomputing peertube channel.

It's done but there's this tiny bug in Cinnelera-GG Infinity which silences a few seconds of one audio track in the final render.

I've tried a few work-arounds but none worked, and it was time to go to bed.

So, obviously, my stupid brain can't let go, and keeps analyzing the issue and coming up with workarounds.

So there I am, chemically dampened migraine and all, at midnight, trying another workaround and waiting 25 minutes for another render of the whole thing.

At least this workaround did the trick and all that's left to do is finish the subtitles tomorrow and I can finally publish!

#RetroComputing #VideoEditing #CinelerraGG #Migraine #ADHD #Midnight

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence

Nervous/anxious. I have a new PC, my link to the outside world, but I have to cannibalise the old one to get it going. Afraid of what happens if it all goes wrong... 🥴

Does anyone know what's replaced the ADHD and ActuallyAutistic Guppe groups? I'd love to share Anissa's work with them.

#neurodivergent #neurospicy #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic

@wokstation @MakersHour I always gravitated towards 'things that make things for me' vs. using hand tools. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that #ADHD comes with proprioception issues. Then it made more sense.

I have learned to be more forgiving with myself when working with my hands, and have consciously chosen to do more.

Absolutely not the same thing as losing the physical ability, though.

#MakersHour

@MakersHour hello #MakersHour - long time no see! I've set a calendar reminder so I hopefully make it more often.

A1: 100% for both helping/hindering is #ADHD. Hindering is executive dysfunction and the inability to sometimes follow through on projects despite a keen interest. Helping is the fact that I feel it's honestly a creativity superpower. Being interested in many things and connecting them together in new and interesting ways.

#pda #neurodiversity #pathologicaldemandavoidance #demandavoidance #autism #adhd #audhd

The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.

These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.

As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."

If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.

#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity

Turns out I not only have #ADHD, I am also autistic.

I told my children and this was the response from one of them:

#ActuallyAutistic

Alt...

A screenshot of a text conversation. Me: Hello, thought I should tell you that today I got a diagnosis of autism Other person: LOL Other person: Sounds about right

Bringing Pablo home, my best bud/doggo, who turns 9 tomorrow... was the best thing my #autisitic #adhd #auDHD arse could have ever done, even before I knew... he always has known I am a bit speshul... Got stats? TOO MANY? all seem so silly looking back now! but helped me cope with having this ball of madness in my life who didn't respect commands (well initially)

What a legend! https://www.instagram.com/monsieurpabloescobark

(I hate looking up the years for his hat tomorrow) #dogs #dogsofmastodon

in classic adhd style, i've made a plan of action for the day and then one thought has pushed everything off the executive function workbench, and won't rest til I post here. So, any uk based adhd/autism people who are self employed, have you gotten help from Access to Work? Initially i thought, boy could i use one of those therapy lights, I wonder if the government would buy me one. But now i'm like, can I get work coaching? Illustration specific work coaching? #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #art

Every day I am overwhelmed by the state of America and the world at large, and every day I can't help but see all our biggest social and political problems as a result of society's general ignorance of and hostility to #neurodiversity. The problem is so comically large that it is too big for most people to see at all, let alone clearly. And I despair of being able to describe it convincingly to anyone who doesn't see it already.

Just one example: Our prisons are jam packed with ADHD. Like the rate of ADHD in prison is ten times that in the general population. Our society has not just failed neurodivergent people, but is failing itself. A body cannot fail an integral part of itself without becoming disabled, at best. Why are so many ADHDers in prison? Maybe because they face insurmountable barriers to success in our NT-biased society. There's no way to win at the NT's game when we never have the equipment to play their game. So people who can't hold down a normal job but still have to eat and to sleep somewhere get ground up and left to decompose in prison. The purpose of a system is what it does, and our criminal justice system is how we deal with ADHD. And this is just one example, but I don't have the heart for getting into any more of these just now.

I do wonder what our country would be like if we accepted neurodiversity and gave neurodivergent folk the support and care they needed to succeed in life, or even just didn't exclude them from everything for no good reason. Maybe we wouldn't have millions of incels and anti-vaxxers who think the world is out to get them and the only satisfaction they can get is watching other people have a life that's more miserable than theirs.
#neurodivergent #ADHD #autistic #ActuallyAutistic