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Ritalin doesn't do that to me. It's super smooth. I barely notice I've taken anything. Instead, I'm just able to focus, think things through with patience, and enjoy what I'm working on.

neato burrito!

Thank you! The way I'm handling it now is that if I were in a similar situation like yours with your friend, I would just distance myself from them. If we were together and they started making me feel bad, I would just leave. I don't need to endure emotional distress because someone else is rude to me. I can just leave.

Apparently, there's a good stock of methylphenidate cr right now in my area. Might want to see if your psych can call the pharmacy and check.

Yeah, I don't think it's a Lemmy issue.

I'm just moving my mouse and not bumping into anything. This happens 100% reliably and doesn't happen at all if there is any posts/comments on the screen.

I'm not gonna watch the trailer because I love going into shows absolutely blind, but I am so excited for the next season! I just recently rewatched the first season, and now I'm rewatching Game of Thrones. While GoT was revolutionary, I think HotD is produced way better and I find the story line more engaging.

John Snow: No...that was no accident.

Yes, thank you! If I can't joke about being autistic with someone, I don't become their friend. Thanks to therapy, I have been really selective with who I allow in my life, and it has made a major welcomed difference in my quality of life and how I see myself.

That sucks about your friend's inflated ego, but I'm happy you see it so you can adjust accordingly.

Not at all. It only happens on the monitor connected to the HDMI port.

Love on the Spectrum was fun to watch. The characters were vulnerable and real. They weren't pretending to be something they're not to seem like a more appealing romantic partner, which is how I've seen most NT dating shows play out. I remember that when I first started watching it, I thought, "Wow, how refreshing. Finally, a reality TV show about normal people." Then, I realized I thought that because the show was about people like me, whereas most reality TV shows I've seen tend to have loud, reactive, and difficult characters that end up causing a lot of drama.

I've never really liked the Big Bang Theory though lots of people have recommended it to me. Something with the way they portray the characters feels off. It's like they are too extreme or stereotypical, and we're supposed to find that funny. Nope. Also, one of the characters, despite being autistic and me trying to understand him, is still a jerk.

So far, Atypical has been my favorite! The dude is soooo much like me. I loved it. It was so validating that I was just cracking up the whole time. I was like, "O.M.G!! Someone out there gets it too!" I binged watched that series in less than a week. My one complaint with the show is that the whole focus of the show is on autism rather than life in general. Rather than have an autistic character with their difficulties play out, the focus is often on autism. Everyone is frequently talking about autism. I get that's the point of the show, and it seems like the show is more tailored to NT family members of auties, so that makes sense. I'm just sharing my opinion from my perspective. I still like it a lot though.

The other depictions I can think of are Forrest Gump and Rain Man. Before I knew I was autistic, my jerk of a father made me watch Rain Man and tried to get me to sympathize with Tom Cruise's character, which I didn't. I just felt bad for Raymond. Regarding Forrest Gump, I used to watch that movie like 4 times/year by myself. I did this before I knew I was autistic too. The things that appealed to me from the movie were seeing the progress of American culture throughout that time period, how simple Forrest was, and how he was just navigating the world. I also liked that despite everyone, including himself, thought that he was stupid, he reached great achievements! Medal of Honor, started a successful shrimping business, ran enough to motivate the country, etc. Yet, he stayed just as humble as he always was because to him, they weren't extraordinary or special. He was just being himself ❤️

I would like to see a show with an autistic character that masks in most public places except for with family and close friends. It would also be nice if they didn't discuss autism nearly all the time. Instead, the person has their struggles, but they learn to manage them and navigate life through processes, systems, and helpful friends. For example, the character is talking to someone that casually brings up a special interest, so the character drops an infodump bomb completely unaware the other person was not interested in that. The conversation goes awry, leaving the character confused. They later get home and run that interaction by an NT friend which interprets the NT meaning of the interaction. Or, they get home from masking at work and start stimming, singing, and talking to their fake audience. Maybe they complain every time they're low on groceries and have to go to the market, then make a list categorized by aisle, and you see them go shopping with headphones on and sunglasses. Then, they eat the same thing for dinner all week. The point is to portray the autism in a way that shows our lives are different from NT lives, but that is not the central point. Kind of like if they made a show about a Black family in the US, they wouldn't be talking about racism and affirmative action every single show. Yeah, they would experience it, but rather than make the topic the central point, we see how they experience and navigate it when it comes up, but the central focus is the family and their culture. I would loveeee something like that for autism!

I feel this post so bad. I'm autistic but according to people that know me well, I'm also highly intelligent. Yet, when I first meet people without masking, they treat me as if I were stupid. This is such an issue in my life that I have often joked about getting a shirt that reads, "I'm autistic, not re****ed", but my NT friends have said that it's a bad idea. Anyway, this happens until a situation presents itself in which my intelligence is demonstrated, then people treat me as some sort of genius/savant. It's ridiculous, but I'm used to it.

Can anyone post a tl;dw so I could decide if I'm interested in watching the video? One hour is a bit too long for me to commit to without having an idea on the topics.

Like you, I've been through lots of psych meds. In general, the SSRIs sucked! Sertraline made me stupid. Paroxetine made me dead inside. Escitalopram made me disconnected from my surroundings. Citalopram did a great job at making me more relaxed and social, but it came with severe ED, and I became completely asexual.

The anti-psychotics were terrible. They either made me dead inside or sleepy and slow allll the time. One even made me feel like I was withdrawing from opiates. I also gained like 40 lbs/18 kg.

Mood stabilizers didn't really seem to do anything for me at all.

What has worked is bupropion for general mood. It doesn't make it so I'm not depressed, but it makes it so that I can still function and decide to live life even though I might be depressed. I've noticed that the depression also happens in waves rather than all the time now. Bonus: bupropion doesn't cause the same side effects as the SSRIs and makes it so that nicotine isn't rewarding anymore.

One med that seriously surprised me though was methylphenidate for ADHD. Prior to recently, my medical provider system was strictly not wanting to treat ADHD nor even assess for it. I went to a new provider that had me complete an executive functioning scale and found that I was a bit extreme with how poor my executive functioning was (99th percentile 😬). I was put on methylphanidate shortly after. At this point, I thought ADHD really only affected productivity...nope! Once I started treating the ADHD, I was not overwhelmed as much. I wasn't upset that I lost my keys, worried that I would forget something important, or zone out and upset others during conversations. I have also been able to engage in tasks that make me happy even if they're not my current special interest, so this has made my life more balanced and diverse. To me, this has been the most influential medical treatment for my mental health.

I constantly have several streams going at the same time that I cannot control. One is like you said: rehearsing arguments. Another is reviewing recent social interactions trying to make sense of them because, to me, NT and autistic culture are quite different. So, I'm always trying to figure out what an NT meant by something they did and what an NT could presume I meant by something I did. The next stream is a song or drum beat. I am 24/7 playing a song or drum beat in my head. Right now, it's Pretty Young Thing by MJ. The final and faintest stream is my bodily needs such as hunger, thirst, tired, having to go to the bathroom, etc. This last one can start demanding more attention and disrupting the others if the need is considerable enough. For example, I'm pretty dumb after eating a large meal because the bloating just takes up too much of my attention.

the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.

Why has that happened?

he's already encouraging violence

Holy hell, he really said that.

what happened to the bugs?

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