Reading the web and watching the YouTube's yields a plethora of little attention hacks that apparently really help people with their ADHD, but leave me feeling completely alienated because absolutely none of them work for me. In fact, I just don't even implement them, just sort of eye them suspisciously from a distance.

It feels a little reminscent of the advice I'd get for depression in that the bulk of advice seems targetted towards people with less severe forms, and both writers and readers can say, "Wow! Thanks! This really worked for me!"

The feeling that I had earlier that, "OK, now I have a diagnosis, I can start treating the problem" is evaporating away I'm left with a despair that comes from having a version of ADHD that is seemingly not treatable and not work-aroundable and is actually and irrevocably debilitating.

Getting an eval in a week

Edit: If anyone has resources for severe ADHD instead of this Stephen Covery organizational bullshit, please drop it in the comments.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

The algorithm definitely has a type. Among the amateurs, young white women, from whatever country come first, and a lot of them are raising children. I have no idea why that is, though I suspect being able to stay home full time is socially more accessible, and I imagine you need huge amounts of bandwidth to pull off a successful YouTube channel and at least a small amount of money for a good setup.

The other thing I notice is a divide between professionally successful and professionally unsuccessful autistic people. There's a whole ass video about helping your kid get through college and get into a career and how jobs can accomodate it, but it all rest on the very definitely and explicitly stated condition that that autistic kid is world-class in some activity. And that is fucking annoying to me, because I'm not particularly good at anything and if I were better at the things I would like to do, they're not really job skills... anyway, just another wrinkle to the landscape.

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