thinking today about how the same antidepressant I take can also be prescribed to treat ADHD, and how certain brainstuff I'd thought was innate to me and which predated my depression has become easier to deal with since I started taking it. you know. just Thoughts one has.
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and yet, it's hard not to notice patterns, once one has the relevant information. it's hard not to think, 'how much of me is patterns? how much of me came pre-installed, and how much of that is mental bloatware?'
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I'll tell you what, being stuck inside for a fucking year because of a global pandemic does tend to make one introspect! I just. brains are odd, and sometimes we acclimate to our own oddness so thoroughly that we don't always realise how odd it is, until it's thrown into relief.
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genuinely wondering how much of my personality in school would've been pathologised or pushed back against by teachers, rather than seen as charming, if I wasn't a white afab student with an advanced vocabulary
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fwiw I wrote this thread instead of getting up and getting a drink, which I've wanted for the past half hour, because The Stars Were Not In Position For Getting A Drink
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Hi Foz (you might know me from sleuth server :) )I’m familiar with those and a very fresh diagnosis with ADHD so in case you ever wanna slide in my dms they are open if you wanna chat
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Can I suggest that the beauty of each of us, individually, is the way we process these patterns? “I share this pattern with others like me, and my interpretation is my own” is kind of why I dig people. Just writing “I dig people” is part of a huge evolution for me.
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