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This article is really good and a useful summation of things I've felt and tried to explain, going to pass it on to my partner!

The only thing that I found interesting was with regards to choosing focus days, as I just cannot do that - I don't know hour to hour whether I will be able to focus or not, it's always a total battle.

However, my hack is that when coding I need to watch something silly: like cooking shows, reality tv etc - something I can partially ignore.

This was a fix I discovered about 20 years ago and it's helped me ever since, I've always described it as keeping the child portion of my brain happy whilst the adult portion gets on with its job.

I was diagnosed with inattentive ADHD (what was ADD) 8 months ago, medication really helps with emotional regulation and staying on task - yet I can still code better when I'm watching some random rubbish.

Getting out of my current flat / apartment as I'm getting serious noise pollution from above and to the left of me, and it's really affecting my mental health. Not had a proper night's sleep since the new upstairs neighbour moved in, around June/July, and this extra sensory overload has removed my ability to ignore the sub-bass coming from the left of me.

Last week there was a guy in social housing who killed himself after similar, and since then my social housing manager has been in touch to look at doing something - sad that it takes a death before someone investigates.

I know what I need to do but I can sit there unable to do the thing whilst the guilt about not doing the thing takes up all my bandwidth.

This is interesting, I have adhd and - other than the headache - I like the doziness that a hangover brings, now that I'm almost 50 though they do tend to be multi-day events so I don't drink as much.

Some people with CFS/ME also report that some symptoms are much better when they are sick with a cold or flu.

Kim Peak wasn't even autistic.

Have a look at the DSM or ICD diagnosis criteria

https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/diagnos...

For the first part I can't do this at the time, but I find that going back over my old photos a few months or even a year later I can easily delete the similar photos and find the most pleasing version.

As for the second, I've become lazy - going to investigate syncthing.

I remember writing a cgi app in delphi back in the late 90s to emulate our in house excel sheet that priced up a custom computer.

Do you have any suggested reading for what you're suggesting because I'm just about to start a project and as we do a lot of our LOB apps in Delphi this seems useful?

I'm going to guess conservatively, just in case, and look for a house that's exactly 1.47 miles from my office.

He tweeted:

>"But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support." >“If that is a crime, send me back to jail.” > https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1713335006121140511

You can't openly support a terrorist group in the UK.

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Back in the day - 1998 to 2003 - if we were backing up data for a rebuild, we'd check for mp3s and pirated movies, it'd be obvious when copying the data back to the users computer. The music just got added to the technician room playlist.

Oh, fantastic, thanks - looks like there may be a trial for ensitrelvir here in the UK.

I'm sure I saw an article somewhere of a bricklayer doing 60 hour weeks but making well over £125K

Nae wonder I wake up feeling like a white walker at times.

The main "long covid" symptom I really detest is the loss of smell/taste - after almost 2 years I still cannot smell or taste certain things, the worst being cinnamon in things like cinnamon grahams and cinnamon buns, strangely though I can taste the cinnamon fire jolly ranchers ok.

I sound like I'm jesting, but I love food, and I'm a big fan of scent too - things just don't smell or taste right anymore.

SSRIs can cause neurogenesis, wonder if that's some of the interaction - I thought perhaps the exhaustion could be too much tryptophan turning into serotonin in the brain, which causes fatigue?

I too would like to see where this research is because it describes me to a tee - I'm very much prone to throwing my hands up in the air at a certain point and going full scorched earth - I think that's the rejection sensitive dysphoria mechanism, but could be a few other things wrapped up amongst that.

Had a look because thought it may help with my ADHD but my ADHD doesn't like the fact I have to create tasks via a new process as it would distract me from what I was possibly focusing on.

Because of her previous reactions I'll admit that I didn't communicate as effectively as I should have which didn't help - even though I wasn't doing anything wrong, it could have appeared like that - when you don't have the full information you can imagine every scenario.

That sounds really good - I'm almost 50 and amongst my guy pals we still have "lads nights out" and it's very rare for us to go out with partners, unless it's a dinner date thing happening - when I first mentioned I was seeing my pal, I would get some "oh, aye?" looks, but they know it's platonic now.

Sounds like it's working for you, hopefully we see more of this as things progress.

I wasn't allowed women pals when I was with my wife, she saw them as competition, and I didn't have many growing up.

Since separating - I've met a few wonderful women who I'm still in touch with - one is my "bestie" for sure and we meet up to eat, I'll go round and play with her kids too.

My daughter and I are really close too - we go food shopping once a week, have done since lockdown, and it's amazing how much deeper conversations can go when your mind is concentrating on menial tasks.

I definitely feel more well rounded as a man these days, and it's not just age related, it's definitely helped me having women friends.

SLS - as well as being the thing that makes orange juice taste rank after you've brushed your teeth - also gives me huge mouth ulcers (canker sores). Sensodyne has been amazing for this.

Someone also mentioned a water pik is great for tonsililiths too.

They're GloFX, the rose coloured ones. Got them from eBay. They do all the irlen colours under the guise of colour therapy.

My tinnitus is there pretty much all of the time, and then for an hour or so it will disappear.

Over the last year or so I've developed really bad hyperacusis, this coupled with misophonia had made me severely suicidal, I even contacted the local mental health services and autism charities.

I've reduced that by wearing coloured lenses, I had been diagnosed with irlen but I see it as a little bit woo, however the coloured lenses have really worked.

My theory - I have a sensory fuck-it-bucket - I'm bombarded by all this crap every day, and if it overflows I'm under real stress, by reducing overload from other senses my bucket fills much slower, and the sound and tinnitus doesn't seem to affect me so much.

Strange to think that a £16 pair of cheap glasses has saved me.

This reminds me of being introduced to "Fugglers" via a message on twitter ages ago - apparently the maker had found a bag of teeth and decided to use it to make cuddly toys. Bought my ex a customised one, perhaps worth some decent money nowadays.

I was considering buying the sleep tracking mat, and I'm sure it mentioned it had dynamic waking similar to what you mention - to be honest I looked at so many devices though. (Also would be useful for turning off un-needed devices around the house when I jump into bed!)

I've been using a garmin for a while and it looks like my HRV gets worse as my propensity for a headache / migraine increases. It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation with brain activity and the other bio information it gathers so I can perhaps create an early warning system - not sure what it will do though, perhaps I'll just start my anti-migraine ritual sooner and maybe abort more than currently.

Thanks for this, I remember playing the first on my dad's compaq 286 green screen laptop when I was 9 or 10, tried to get the directory listing properly formatted on screen - sure you can guess what came next...

Anecdotal: I used Saxenda (Liraglutide), for about 4 months, and whilst I did lose about 20lbs the side effects I had were awful - really bad bloating, almost gastroparesis, erectile dysfunction (which I'm sure was due to trying to push more when on the toilet).

Even with fibre supplements I had to take stool softeners daily, bisacodyl fortnightly, and I just had an awful time on them.

I had passive suicidal ideation before I started taking it, I'm not sure if it got worse though although I did once move to the more active side.

Still - on a positive note - I did for once know what it was like to not feel hungry and to not think about food 24/7 as someone who has suffered from binge eating thanks to dopamine chasing adhd.

The most recent episode of Tacoma FD covered something similar to this mixed with a messed up Christmas Carol.

I'm sure that a bike stolen from a large chain store would be investigated before a bike stolen from a member of the public would.