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Brother I know. I was diagnosed less than a year ago. Masking is exhausting and I do it automatically.

You are ok

Some of us have shit genetics. Yeah I’m 6 feet tall, strong as an ox, etc, but the mental issues that were handed to me I would never want to pass on. Both my parents died in their early 60s.

With the executive dysfunction I have combined with clinical depression and being short on work, most days I don’t even bother to take a shower.

Some label makers use an alphabetical keyboard. It’s frustrating.

Shit I leave food out for a day sometimes, it’s cool. The art of iron guts.

ain’t, so the song goes

Punk shit

I tell the people I work and worked for that I need external motivation and it’s worked out pretty well. Home life, my wife can sometimes be enough to motivate me. Not because she asks, but I want the house to be nice for her. If I lived alone it would be a mess.

First 3 sentences I was with you all the way, then you lost me.

Yeah but they’re not talking about getting ripped and doing steroids and shit, but taking classes from an expert.

Exactly what happened to me. I went for help with depression and anxiety. 3 years later, nothing really working, I find out I have severe ADHD at age 41. And my whole life made sense.

Reminds me of when Obama was giving speeches, he had his signature start stop style. It was because he was thinking before he spoke. Conservatives at the time claimed he sounded stupid because he didn’t just word vomit his thinking immediately.

Sulfuric acid of course, gotta get in deep to get that water out. Don’t be alarmed if some of the water becomes red.

When I lost my job I switched from my $8-$9 pack beloved camel blue 99s to Marlboro Black 100s. $4 per pack at Sheetz with coupon. They are not nearly as good and stain my fingers like I haven’t washed my hands in days. Gotta be worse for me. I haven’t switched back even though I got an even better job because paying that much for smokes is just stupid.

And yeah I travel a lot and know I have some of the lowest prices around. I always stock up before a trip.

For the first time in my life I live in a place with washer and dryer. Before, we would go to the Laundromat. Laundromats are hellish places. So if I needed some clothes cleaned and didn’t want to go, I’d put some clothes cleaning detergent in a shallow bath and stomp the clothes around to get them clean. Rinse with clean water, hang to dry. It took like five minutes. Anyone can accomplish this.

If you don’t wash your jeans, and you should only wash them very rarely if they’re nice, you can put them in a bag in the freezer and kill the odor causing bacteria.

Change your underwear and socks please.

There are much cheaper ways to get a diagnosis, even for people without health insurance.

I’m still doing physical labor, but I think neurotypical people would go crazy with my schedule. I don’t know what days I’m working sometimes until two days before. I don’t even know where in the country I’ll be next week. I thrive in the chaos and the physical work, but I can’t keep it up forever. Freelance contractor for IT work.

Do you mind telling me what age she was? My wife is suffering severely with mental health but will not see a psychiatrist. I suspect perimenopause. She does see a therapist.

I was diagnosed last year, age 41. I think back to one of my earliest memories, where someone took me out of 2nd grade class to give me tests in some big closet or boiler room. I am convinced I was diagnosed at that time with at least ADHD, but my mom didn’t believe in mental health treatments despite desperately needing them herself. She’s dead so I can’t ask her what those tests were about.

It’s funny you mention piss. I think yellow-meaning-coward comes from yellowbelly, an insult from the US Revolutionary War, probably started earlier with Napoleonic war. If a soldier made it through a stand and fire volleys style battle with a relatively clean uniform, they were often seen as honorable and brave. The soldiers covered in battlefield muck (plenty of it human and horse piss) had cowered down in the face of enemy fire, giving them a “yellow” belly.