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While I have many ideas about how we got through my childhood, I think any meaningful plan will have to suit your kid so general suggestions are probably hit or miss at best. This is why I suggested a caretaker but I guess I really meant “a specialist”.
I’ll just say this, to offer some insight… ADHD is not just losing track of the external world- it is a loss of your own internal world. It’s like someone is always tugging your instruction pointer away from your stack. This is suffering.
Anecdotally, I had similar troubles as a kid and after a battery of evaluations they found I had slightly diminished verbal language processing (despite passing common tonal audio tests just fine). Understanding this equipped the adults in my life to better accommodate my needs, and in turn, I’m sure, mitigate the hassle I made for them.
While the outcomes for victims is fantastic unfortunately, it is definitely with some risk:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20420572 https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201397
Death is an extreme negative outcome. Hamilton Morris makes a good point that if we view all chemicals by their mortality or OD potential then we are missing the big picture, and potentially demonizing medicine. But we should also look at non-deadly negative outcomes.
Anecdotally, I suspect MDMA is quite psychologically addictive because it provides a once-in-a-lifetime serene feeling that can never be reproduced- once you use it, you will never experience it again as you did the first time. Moreover, the layman will try to overcome this by increasing dosage. Even responsible & informed adults may go against their better, rational, selves and reason about doing so on the basis of emotion.
The screenshot on the landing page indicates some penalization for “breaking master” iirc
Also,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_v._Oculus
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/oculus-cto-john-carmack-is...
It’s hard to describe what that feels like in practice, even still.
What do you suppose the odds are that a gaming-peripheral manufacturer sat down and came up with a better switch implementation than any that the mechanical keyboard community could?
So, of course someone who’s played the game 100,000 or even 10 times is likely to beat someone who’s only just played maybe a handful of games. That’s not a bold - or arguably fair-claim to have beaten a majority of players if those players are all brand new —or a minority of those are veterans— which I suspect is likely given the nature of web based games.
https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...
If that’s “dangerous”, well, so is piloting it manually.