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  1. 2 days ago on Frazz

    So, here’s a funny train problem from Staten Island.

    Every once in a while you’re getting off the SI Ferry and you hear the very strange announcement that, unfortunately, due to construction all trains will be departing on time.

    Now, if you’re not from Staten Island, go ahead and explain it: Why is this a bad thing they have to warn us about?

    (If you don’t want to do the work, the answer is “because the boat doesn’t always run on time”. The announcement is that the SIR will leave with or without you!)

  2. 13 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    I’m sorry for your loss. In my experience it does get better somewhere after the one year mark.

  3. 20 days ago on Frazz

    Well, I don’t know you. And if you have no troubles in your life related to focus or attention at all then, all righty then! You can have every last symptom and still fail to get a diagnosis if they don’t significantly impair you.

    But I’ll bet that like a lot of people who are not diagnosed with ADHD and who do not have family members with that diagnosis you aren’t actually very familiar with how it looks in adults, particularly AFAB adults. It is very possible to have ADHD and be strictly organized – lots of people with ADHD are super organized because it’s the only way they can function, they need to have a system. It’s very possible to have ADHD and still complete tasks on time. It’s not like being part of a hive mind. Neurodiverse people are still people, we’re individuals.

    And on a similar note, ADHD (and autism, and a whole bunch of other co-occurring conditions that cluster in a big lump together) are highly hereditary, and neurodiverse people tend to primarily associate with other neurodiverse people. I’m pretty sure that’s how my own parents met, actually! But the result of this is you have perfectly sensible people who say things like “Oh, don’t most kids start reading at the age of two? I mean, everybody I knew was doing it, even the ones who were totally nonverbal until the age of four” or “Don’t most kids line up their toys? How can they say that’s a sign of autism, that’s just how kids play!” (That latter is a quote from my mother.)

    It’s like being a fish, and never knowing that you’re wet. Why would you? You’re a fish, and everybody is wet! At least they are as far as you know.

    It’s just something to think about. As I said, I don’t know you, and I certainly don’t have any way of knowing if you’re ADHD-adjacent or anything. If you think this explanation may explain some things about yourself then you should look it up so you can know. Or if you don’t, then don’t.

  4. 21 days ago on Frazz

    Why? Why is it bad to get medication that helps you function? Is it a bad thing for diabetics to get medicine? Or people with the flu?

  5. 22 days ago on Frazz

    The coffee thing in particular is, as far as I’m concerned, practically diagnostic – ADHD brains do not react the same way to stimulants like caffeine or ritalin that NT brains do.

  6. 22 days ago on Frazz

    And are you still like that?

  7. 22 days ago on Frazz

    Quite seriously – though I don’t think that the comic intends to go in this direction – this is 100% a symptom of ADHD. If you’re reading this thinking “Ah, yes, I too do my best work at the very last minute when in a panic” then, well, that’s a very possible explanation. Doubly so if you drink coffee to fall asleep :)

  8. 23 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    This is why you back your work up, early and often.

  9. 24 days ago on Luann Againn

    Did any schools even require showers in the 90s? I never went to one that did.

  10. 27 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Antarctica is a desert, you know.