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Juice

I feel seen

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If my brain could talk.

Oh wait...

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This is how adulting works.

ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed

For me its like:

Me: "Hey I used to love video games, let play video games"

Brain: "No you don't like video games, they are boring. Also, nothing is fun, don't try doing anything"

Me: cries in a corner

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As if I need to shower to play video games

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Executive dystfunction is a symptom of ADHD and one that I have a hard time explaining to others. Most people I know don’t understand that even if I actually want to do something, sometimes I literally just can’t start doing it or I have to do weird shit like this to like talk myself into it.

Getting medicated helps a lot if you find the right meds. Honestly the current meds I’m on don’t help as much with focus, but they do help with just being able to fucking do shit and that’s the greater benefit in my opinion. The fact I can just think “oh I should do the dishes” and then start doing the dishes without having to think about doing it for half an hour before starting is still mind blowing to me sometimes.

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My partner is gonna be thrilled when she gets home and smells that I showered today even though I have the day off and it’s raining outside. Breaking a three day streak. If I didn’t feel kinda sick (caught from her being much worse), I might not have bothered, but I wanted the steam to help with sinuses.

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I'm pretty severe ADHD and my wife has it too. Honestly unless someone either has ADHD or has had someone important in their life with it I'm not sure they truly understand executive disfunction.

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Yo, your brain is talking wtf

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I dunno what you play or how, but try playing blind (no looking up solutions), and not try to not min/max the game. Both of those take the fun out of the game really fast.

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Autist checking in, its a big problem for many of us too.

Yesterday I discovered a new tactic for the stuff I had been putting off all year. I started getting so angry at the fact that ive been putting myself though agony all year over some tasks that would take a few hours I nearly saw red.

I powered through them in about 4 hours, and I probably spent 400 hours agonizing over them.

I dubbed it ragetasking

Not healthy but it worked, not sure if I can harness it again haha

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But isn't playing "blind" the standard way to beat a game?

deaf_fish

Sounds like depression.

Queen HawlSera

The fact shit like this is possible is why I believe we are more than just the brain.

If we were only the brain, we couldn't argue with it. If we were just the body, we couldn't be at odds with it. We would merely be slaves to our impulses, the fact that we aren't is all the proof I need.

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Apparently we are actually two brains. And one half can't talk. But does make choices on its own that can disagree with the other half.

Something they used to do is cut the connecting tissue between the two brain half's. People who have had that happen have explain how the difference sides of their bodies will sometimes disagree with the other. And when that happens the talking half might come up a really non sensical reasoning to why it did what it did.

CGP Grey did a video on it. And if you search split brains you can probably find more. There an interview with someone on YouTube I watched a long time ago.

Ephera

There's nothing dictating that your brain needs to have one decisive opinion. It's just a bunch of nerve cells firing due to stimuli. Some of those nerve cells can be firing one thing and others can be firing another thing. To my knowledge, they actually do that quite regularly, and then if there's a particularly strong firing, it'll serve as a stimulus for more firings, which typically leads to some sort of 'consensus' in our head, e.g. most of the parts of a memory that got encoded into the nerve cells being fired off.

At this point, I am just spitballing, but I imagine, if you've got very many external stimuli or also barely any like in the comic, then the brain isn't pushed towards such a consensus-firing, so then the internal stimuli from one thought stimulating a different thought may just kind of ping-pong in your head.

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Not for everyone, and not for every game.

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Yea, but many people play while alt-tabbing to a guide or wiki.

nifty

“What’s the point” aka living while depressed