Aargh! Trying to get a continuous blood glucose monitor, but my pharmacy doesn't carry any that have a standalone reader. They all need to be paired to your phone with some proprietary app. There's no way in hell I'm forking that kind of data over to a black box that probably feeds it into some corporate cloud.
There are standalone meters on Amazon, but I doubt I can get my insurance to cover it if it's not coming from a pharmacy.
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Thought I was maybe starting to become somewhat proficient with the #soroban. Then I saw this.
At least I know how proficient it's possible to become.
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I've known I have #ADHD since I was first diagnosed in high school, but sometimes I wonder if perhaps I might be somewhere on the #autism spectrum as well. Let me explain a thing that's going on right now to illustrate what I mean.
I have a canvas messenger bag. I've had it for years and love it. I keep my whole life organized in this bag. Everything has a place and I know exactly where everything is. Recently, one of the snaps that holds it closed gave out. Within a couple of days the second one went as well, so the bag just falls open, which is fine if I keep it upright, but is kind of a pain in the ass.
The place I got it from essentially has a lifetime guarantee. I'm sure I can trade it in for another "equivalent" bag, but I'm sure they won't have this exact one since it's been several years since I bought it. This causes me an enormous amount of anxiety, because the new bag will be different, and I won't just instinctively know where all its contents are (because the configuration of the internal pockets will likely be at least a little different). It's not just the act of replacing the bag, but knowing that it'll mess me up for weeks afterward too.
I feel like this dilemma could possibly be explained by ADHD alone, but I kind of wonder...
Does this resonate with anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic crowd? I am of course not looking for a formal diagnosis or anything. It's more of a curiosity.
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Just ran into some #Mormon missionaries in the wild. It's always interesting when they try to strike up a conversation with me.
[...small talk...]
Missionary: So, do you know much about our church?
Me: Yeah, I actually had my records removed back in 2019.
[awkward scilence followed by an abrupt change of subject]
I know I'm late to the #Friendica channels party, but the "Quiet Sharers" channel is really quite nice. It only shows posts from accounts you follow that aren't frequent posters, helping you to find stiff you might otherwise miss.
This is how to do an algorithmic feed* right.
* Yes, I know that sorting posts chronologically is technically an algorithmic feed.
So, I like to set filters that automatically collapse certain posts that I may or may not have the mental bandwidth to engage with at any given time. Friendica lets me do this by regex, but some of them are kinda ugly
Take my Elon filter for instance. I could filter on /elon/i, but that would falsely trigger on common words like 'melon' or 'belong'. I finally settled on /^(.*[^a-z])?elon([^a-z].*)?$/i, but that feels overly complicated. Is there a better solution?
Edit: proofreading is for suckers.
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S3 E3 How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
Another episode, another week of expert interviews. This time, I sit down with Nicole Bedera to talk about her research on sexual violence within universities.Spreaker
Oh hang on, it gets better.
Apparently signing into the app on my phone using biometrics seems to bypass 2FA. 🤦♂️
My bank required me to set up 2FA. Via SMS. Only method available! So I did, but I wrote to an old friend (who happens to be their chief data architect) explaining why SMS was not the way to go. She spoke to somebody, and sure enough they soon grew the ability to use an authenticator TOTP in addition to SMS. Only issue now is: NO WAY to remove SMS as a valid method.
At least it doesn't reject a GVoice number, which is way safer than a real SIM-based phone in the wild.
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I will not comment in that thread. I will not feed that troll.
...no matter how much I might really want to.
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@R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: I really don't want to look it up again.
The gist of it was that neurodiverse people should stay hidden and avoid drawing attention to themselves because there are bad people out there who would do them harm.
They seemed genuinely surprised that people took offense to this.
Does #Haskell's microlens-platform really not have a function of type Int -> Lens' [a] a?
That seems an odd omission.
Also the quoting rules vary, line & row limits, space trimming, how decimals are represented, header or no header…
There's an RFC but I expect more non-conformant files than conformant.
I'm now on so many meds with such complicated rules about when and how to take them that working out a medication schedule kind of feels like solvong the wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
I guess that's just what it's like to get old.
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S3 E2 Cults, Caution and Comedy: Lisa VanArsdale on Experiencing Cults and Communities
Hello listeners and welcome back to Season 3 of the Cult Vault Podcast. In this episode, Kacey is joined by longtime friend of the show Lisa VanArsdale. Lisa diSpreaker
Argh! Why is @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 not telling me that there's a new version out? I'm on 29 and it's telling me it's up to date.
Maybe it's a PHP thing because I'm still on 8.2.20, but that should be supported.
Season 3 Launch: What is Coercive Control?
As I return from my studies in the Psychology of Coercive Control MSc programme at the University of Salford, I'm looking forward to covering more content on thSpreaker
Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.
I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.
Weird, right?
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •100% resonance here! When I have a good bag, and I know where all my things are in it, it is very difficult to switch.
Are the snaps something that a skilled sewer could possibly replace?
You could still go look at the bag that you might replace it with, and if you didn't like it, you could try to find something you like. I know that takes a lot of spoons, though. All my best!
Eric
in reply to Ari does not comply • • •Yes the strong attachment to something like that, and the anxiety that comes with might having to replace it both resonate.
If you want to look into autism a little more, you can try some of the self tests at embrace-autism.com/
For the bag, check out if there is a repair cafe near you to see if the can help.
repaircafe.org/en/
Or if you have a sewer or leatherworking friend, they might be able to replace the snaps.
Repair Café - Fix Your Broken Items
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in reply to Ari does not comply • •@AriSunDog, Spooky Version! I imagine they'd be difficult to replace. It's a canvas bag, but the snaps are behind a thick leather backing that would probably need to be unstitched from the canvas first.
Honestly, if it could be repaired, I would 100% prefer that option, especially since apart from the snaps, the bag is in otherwise excellent condition. It's impressively well made.
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Take a look at the table on this page: embrace-autism.com/an-introduc…
I think systems of organization are hard-won among people with ADHD. It makes sense that you'd be anxious about changing it. I identify as autistic + ADHD. If I had to switch from a digital calendar to paper, I'd be really anxious.
An introduction to AuDHD
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@kdsch wanted to recommend embrace-autism and their AuDHD resources too.
Its not that unlikely, given that there is a big overlap between the 2 (in the 20-80% depending on study and "direction") that scientists are only unveiling since 2013, cause before then it was thought (by diagnostics manuals) that both were mutually exclusive.
probably all data we have from before 2013 is a mush of both cause studies were not accounting for AuDHD and thus biased.
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If you're interested. What tipped me to the adhd was the amount of work I'd put in over the years to compensating and dealing with it, without realising that was what I was doing, of course. But, I realised that I wouldn't have done this, if I hadn't had the problems to deal with.
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in reply to Kevin Davy • •@Kevin Davy It does make some sense from an ADHD standpoint as well. I get protective of my routines for a very pragmatic reason. The more I can leave to muscle memory, the more mental bandwidth I have available to more important things, and the less likely I am to forget some other important thing as a result.
This seems to go beyond that though. It's produced a rather visceral reaction in me that I don't feel I can fully explain by this alone, and it's by no means an isolated incident.
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in reply to Kevin Davy • •@Kevin Davy So, I can't go into too much detail here because it's about a parent rather than myself, but something you just said there just made a thousand watt bulb go off in my head.
Now I just need to figure out what to do with that information.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •One symptom of ASD is "resistance to changes in routine"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism
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Just so you know, the ActuallyAutistic hashtag is a matter of self-identification. It's nothing to do with "formal" diagnosis or gate-keeping. It was invented in response to allistic parents of autistic children using hashtags like "autism" and "autistic" to elevate their own voices above actually autistic voices. Using the ActuallyAutistic hashtag means "I am autistic and I will speak for myself as an autistic person". The way you used it, the AskingAutistics hashtag would have technically been a better fit.
That being said, if you feel like you identify with the autistic experience, you don't need an external diagnosis or validation to prove that. Self-diagnosis is just as valid as any "formal" diagnosis, and doesn't make you any less autistic than someone who did get a "formal" diagnosis.
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in reply to Diligent Circle 丸 • •@Diligent Circle 丸 Good to know. I was unaware of the other hashtag. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As for how I identify, I guess my answer is... I don't really know. I have however learned a lot from the autistic community on the fedi, and am grateful for that regardless of my status.