how often you log in

Sudo caches my password for like 3 minutes, so i type this all the time

typing of the dead

Omg i love itttt!

This was really helpful, thank you.

In my experience, orgs struggle the most with back-end volunteers - the people who write up minutes and send out reminder messages and provide intake info and organize their documents and all of that other stuff.

This was heartening, i cant do suuuuper fast steno typing to get everything people say, but i can do minutes and the like (im at maybe 60-75 WPM and proud of it). I can organize shit, i can do administrative work and all of this stuff. This makes me feel like theres (potentially) a place here for me.

Are you going to that meeting? No. Not gonna happen. Don’t even bother asking. Are you going to clear a backlog of 6 months of administrative logjam? Yes. And if that isn’t seen as a crucial contribution to organizing then whoever feels that way can fuck right off.

Me. This is me. Fuck meetings. Give me the sweet sweet admin backlog!

Gods i do not want to be a lenin lol, thats for others to do. I would love to be able to provide housing to other trans folks, but im scraping by and cant extend monetary resources to people. And yeah, didnt take long after coming out to myself to become a dirty filthy pinko¹

¹ silly tone

My audhd is truly a blessing in some ways. I can spend a day on something hyperfocused on it and do so so much. I would love to put that energy and capability towards organizing.

If you have ADHD and autism (like myself) and you aren’t medicated, it is even more crucial that you do whatever you can to get medicated for your ADHD.

1000%. Im currently medicated (both stimulants and a2 (ant?)agonists) and getting on the meds was really really good for me. It made it possible for me to do things. Like super basic things. Its why i wasnt crying and freaking out at this most recent meeting i attended and instead was able to save that for afterwards.

Im not an org member rn, but have had interest in that for a while now. The panic is just a lot and all of my exposure to local orgs has been through these “fire the people up” type events. Idk if its the adhd, the autism, past traumas that are unknown to me (i have a lot of missing parts of my memory), or a combo of some or all of the above. Regardless of the why/the roots of my difficulties, from the comments here i think ill reach out to either psl or frso and ask about how i can contribute within my capacities.

Yeah. Ill contact local orgs then i guess, ask about how i can contribute given how my brain functions. youre right, it shouldnt be on us, but i definitely take it onto myself. A lifetime of my needs being ignored has instilled that “no one will accommodate me, ill just do my own thing away from everyone” mentality.

Thank you for the reminder and for the vehemence of your words, genuinely its helpful and appreciated

This song was really fun for my language nerd brain! Dialects just make me happy idk. Also was fun to hear the namedropping, made it close to home.

can’t have enough highly divergent dialectal variants of extremely basic function words, can you?!

Got the best negation words folks! Ikke, ikkje, ikkji, inte, ennte, ette, itte, ittje, ittj, kje, kji (iirc ive also heard kkji? Like k-kj-i. But i could have also been mishearing things and the first k belonged to preceeding word), and all the other variants i havent heard or have forgotten lol

hvaru

I remember meeting someone named Are, but she was from a town (i dont recall where) where the r was a tap. She had to explain every time she introduced herself to someone that her name was Are not Ade, cause pretty much everyone, from egersund to hammerfest¹, couldnt differentiate between tapped r and d.

¹ im being hyperbolic here, but it was most people from what she said

Before, guns had to have a round put in the chamber through operating a bolt. when the first self loading guns were made, they were referred to as “automatic” cause you didnt have to do anything to get the next round into the chamber. (This is from memory and could be wrong or off)

Today automatic colloquially means the firearm repeatedly fires as long as the trigger is held, though in pistols the phrase automatic seems to have held on to its meaning as self loading.

Ok! I got bazzite set up for another friend who just wants to play stardew, so im familiar with the process (although the partitioner in the install program was hell lol).

Heard, ill look into all of these, ty!

Goler T. Glorious Butcher medal for democracy promotion prevention

Absolutely not on you to do the labour of educating them. You could just be straightforward to the point and tell them they dont know what theyre talking about, youve got a good understanding of yourself, and are doing what you need in order to take care of yourself. And yeah they should be talking in therapy about themself, not trying to pin problems on you or do armchair dx stuff.

Therapists make comments like that all the time. More (maybe most) of them need training in patholigization and how and why its harmful. Ive dealt with therapists saying to me “oh damn that behavior is not ok! Sounds like shes bpd or something”, and like i can totally see someone who wants to “fix” you latching on to comments like that and substituting them for an actual diagnosis. Not to mention even shittier therapists who actually try to dx someone based entirely off another persons reporting of them.

As far as countering the accusations, you could go the vulnerability route, and level with them and explain adhd, autism, and your direct experience of autistic burnout, laying out how it affects you and what you do to mitigate it. You could also try telling them that the way they approached you came off as aggressive? Idk, tbh when people have done this stuff to me theyve either been like 18 and literally dont know what theyre talking about, or older and its kinda been the lifting of the veil that makes me distance myself from them.

of course! Compromise is important! Let me plug that into the compromise calculator

0+(0×0.9885)=30,000,000,000

Altgr is truly beautiful, more keyboards should have it

Put a recipe here, but I misunderstood the assignment

She’s my cousin…but doesn’t she look…almost exactly like the empire?

How do i NAK?

Thats funny, working in a kitchen at 17 made me despise my fellow human beings.