What's a good book about #ADHD for those who don't have it? I told my boss about mine recently, and he said he wanted to read something about it.

Neurodivergent devs: what languages actually *click* for your brain? Not popularity — what feels kind, predictable, low-cognitive-load? Why?

I'm building a framework for ND devs and want real experiences. Rust? Go? Odin? Python? Something else?

Tell me what works (or doesn't) for you.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent #Programming #Rust #Go #Odin

it is kinda funny to think that you can effectively hack ADHD by having a shortlist of things to get serial-distracted by

just don't call it a todo list otherwise it incurs a -10 dopamine bonus, on accounts of being a requirement and therefore less interesting

#ADHD

I forgot to include the recall links yesterday. I was so distracted with what was going on the moment I posted this. Here are the links.

For reference, the CPSC is a lot more strict about children's toy classifications. If a fidget is small enough for a child's hand, brightly colored, or looks like something a child would want to play with and can fit inside a small parts cylinder tube it is considered a dangerous choking hazard.

There are some neyodimium magnet fidgets that are small and made up of 1,000 tiny rare earth magnetic beads, or don't have the coating thick enough over the magnets. When there isn't a strong coating the magnets clash together and release dust. I have 2 items in my store made from these items but they are encased in extremely thick metal and plastic. The ones I'm talking about are small enough to accidentally inhale or ingest. If someone has a dog and a tiny magnet bead falls on the ground and the dog eats it, that's a dangerous risk.

Many of these rare earth magnet sellers use the "for ages 14 and up" because that's the government's minimum required age to avoid children's toy classifications. But for the CPSC, just declaring 14 and up is not enough.

Autistics aren't only adults. There are also young teenagers, pre-teens, and kids who might get ahold of one of these and accidentally be rough on them, causing them to crack and fall apart and create an accidentally inhalation or choking risk for people and pets.

Recalls:

Based Online (9,300 Units): https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Based-Online-Fidget-Magnet-Ball-Toys-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Magnet-Ingestion-Violate-Mandatory-Standard-for-Toys

Rtons Magnetic Sets (5,800 Units): https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Generic-Magnetic-Ball-Sets-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Magnet-Ingestion-Violates-Mandatory-Standard-for-Toys-Sold-on-Amazon-by-Ritons

Honestcoolstore (REFUSED RECALL): https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-Stop-Using-Honestcoolstore-Magnetic-Balls-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Magnet-Ingestion-Violates-Mandatory-Standard-for-Toys

#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD

Help! I got into hyperfocus and I can’t get out! #ADHD

A lethal material is sold as fidgets to autistic and ADHD people. 16,700 rare earth magnet fidget units were recalled by CPSC in just in the first 7 weeks of 2026. If pieces or flakes are ingested they cause severe intestinal damage and death. These rare earth magnet fidgets are often sold with illegal medical marketing claims of stress relief and as disability aids. Do not risk your life for these fatal rare earth magnet fidgets.

#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD

(I accidentally deleted the original post, so reposting this because it's viral info to know.)

In which Hank reveals having been diagnosed with a disorder that no longer exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYMgTSUQrR4

(#ADHD)

A lethal material is sold as fidgets to autistic and ADHD people. 16,700 rare earth magnet fidgets were recalled by CPSC in just in the first 7 weeks of 2026. If pieces or flakes are ingested they cause severe intestinal damage and death. These rare earth magnet fidgets are often sold with illegal medical marketing claims of stress relief and as disability aids. Do not risk your life for these fatal rare earth magnet fidgets.

#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD

#autism: i'm happy with a couple of close friends

#adhd: i collect people like funko pops

#audhd: i have 100 acquaintances and 1 person i actually trust

@amy Exactly. My #ADHD can hyperfocus on something with strong rewards. Not having to do boring work is a powerful reward. My #autism can hyperfocus on creating order, which automation does.

#AI is the aid I've needed my entire life. I'm not going to mince words here. People making blanket statements about the technology without understanding it are my enemies.

My #ADHD is crippling. #LLMs are the exact thing that I've needed. I do not let them do work for me, but they do keep me working by providing constant and immediate feedback to whatever I'm doing.

My work from now till my death is likely going to center on how to make an #llm or any aspirational #AGI aligned with humanity.

Fundamentally, every problem y'all have with #AI was an already existing problem under #capitalism that AI is exposing.

This includes:
- Alienation from labor
- Corporate piracy
- Slop
- Environmental destruction and other externalities
- Wealth inequality
- Replacement of labor with capital

EVERY SINGLE ONE existed before.

Additionally, a ton of the problems, like layoffs, aren't even caused by AI, and blaming them on AI is _specifically_ corporate propaganda for what amounts to a criminal conspiracy by mega corporations to suppress wages.

So, can I say:

My grocery store closed.
I prefer routine... but found a replacement store.

They have very nice yogurt parfaits and sandwiches and banana pudding, and is located between my therapist & my home.🙃

But they did not fill my prescription for ADHD.😟

They're refusing ADHD meds for *any* new patients.
Despite a prescription from my psychiatrist.
Despite diagnosis #ADHD, #PTSD, etc.😶

I've been taking them since I was diagnosed in law school in 2009. ☹️

And now, I've gone cold turkey - no meds. Not fun.🥹
🦃🦃🦃

Somebody will have to sort it out but.not.me.

Not sure how to get all my stuff done👇👇👇
I've got this to do this week:

A NIH training to write & record.
A game design challenge to launch about toxicity.
🥸 A nice role in a theatre production.

And coordinating my neighborhood's response for easements for a big sewer line project.

TOO MUCH STUFF
TOO MANY THOUGHTS
NO STRUCTURE!!! 🧨🧨🧨

Tune in & see how the catastrophe will be resolved.

IF it will...

My pharmacy is out of my Adderall. Only now, they're saying that any amphetamine is on "national backorder" with no date given on when it will be resolved. We called around and not a single pharmacy had it in stock.

So, let's just talk straight, is this RFK finally leaning in? Or is it just a genuine issue of supply chain economics? Anyone have experience?

#adhd #audhd

Not a fan of Catchphrase because it's what I do with my #ADHD wife all the fucking time.

@actuallyadhd @autistics

Was going to keep today a Do Stuff day so I could zombie my way through that (recovering from being up several hours earlier than I'm used to & having to people & adult most of yesterday) so I can actually enjoy my duvet day tomorrow.

Enter fly in the ointment.
Tomorrow is more going out & peopling 😱. Then next weekend Saturday is more peopling & being social at friends' (shared) birthday.
Problem with this picture, Saturdays & Mondays are usually duvet days.

One positive is, I've already tackled today's adulting, phoning my Mam so hopefully she won't phone me later today 🤞.

Can I book my 12 month cryostasis treatment now!?
No, I'm not asking for a friend.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons
#SelfCare #Life

Had an interesting revelation during an interview today.

One of the sequelae of the Industrial Revolution has been specialisation of workers in the working class and generalisation of the members of the executive class. Curiously, while this is clearly a capitalism issue, this is also something that all non-trivial self-described-as-Communist countries have followed, as far as I know. But I digress.

So, importantly, a common side effect of the #ADHD experience is, one tends to specialise in generalisation.

But insomuch as generalisation in the job market is popularly associated with the executive class, having this particular experience track without the "other" markers of belonging to the executive social class can strike a neurotypical working-class colleague as bogus, pretentious, or "uppity".

@riley My ADHD had been pushing me into so many directions.

I was an expert on Song and Tang dynasties at certain times in the past. Then, I was a Scheme programmer for another times. Then, I was a meditator.

Then I was an expert on Psalms. Then at Tao Te Ching. Then expert at WordPress & Excel. Then expert at so many other things.

But those expertises were gone with the wind when I lost the interest on them.

Now, may be I can say that I am an expert at none.

#ADHD

@teajaygrey "This is overpriced" can be a sufficient un-justification.

(Also see https://toot.cat/@riley/116105585079045004. Besides what I already said, I'm extremely disgusted by Skribidi's use of #ADHD-hostile forget-and-pay collection tactics. I'd rather wait for a physical book to come through interlibrary loan than pay Skribidi even a single euro.)

@whitequark

Ugh, ADHD & Essen… eine ewige Herausforderung! 😩 Viele Medikamente brauchen regelmäßige Nahrung, aber wer hat schon Bock/die Energie dazu, wenn das Gehirn ständig woanders ist?
Und manche unterdrücken sogar den Hunger.

Gleichzeitig kämpfen andere mit emotionalem Essen, Impulskontrolle & Cravings (Dopamin-Mangel sei Dank!). Wie geht's euch damit? #ADHS #ADHD

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@rl_dane
> I usually need a YouTube video or something like that to get the dishes done

Podcasts are magic for me when I need to cook, do dishes, process laundry, exercise, or anything routine and therefore understimulating.

BTW A NT would say "boring", but that word doesn't capture the intense psychic suffering understimulation creates in the ADHD nervous system.

#ADHD

@Zumbador @actuallyautistic

#ADHD #Adderall #Cleaning #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ShitIFind

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Roommate told me she was going to take an Adderall and clean, came back to this: [Image of woman using a vacuum cleaning the "loft" area of a room with a roofline ceiling]