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[–] 60 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    I had a bad habit of making "boredom noises" for years until someone pointed it out and I had to start working on it. Turns out the technical term is "verbal stimming" and it's definitely tied to either of those.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It wasn't a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I hear that, but I deserve for my nervous system to be regulated, too. Just because clicking a pen calms someone down doesn't mean they should do it at the expense of everyone else's focus in an office setting, and the same goes for all stims. Situational awareness isn't something to discourage

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    We all have to wear masks, my guy. It takes a lot of effort to not be "the weird guy" at work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    But does it, in the end, take less effort than constantly fighting yourself?

    Life isn't a choice between easy and hard, it's mostly a choice between hard now or way harder later.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It becomes less problematic over time. Without learning how to mask or developing coping skills, life will just be harder in the long run. My career would certainly be less successful if I did not develop coping skills. Burnout can be avoided by finding healthy outlets and enforcing personal time to relax and recover.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    For me it's been the opposite, the less I mask the more I actually end up with people and in environments where I am accepted and cherished for the person I am, not who I force myself to be to fit in. Trying to do that nearly killed me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It's kind of a running joke in my family that I'm on the spectrum.

    I mentioned getting an assessment to my wife, and she made what I felt was a pretty strong argument against it. Essentially that at 56 years old it wouldn't change anything, and it would be time, effort, and money spent with no gain.

    I'm wondering what you are expecting to achieve with your assessment.

    Also, meow.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Know thyself.

    Getting an ADHD diagnosis opens you up for medical help. Getting an autism diagnosis can to in some places. In some states you'll get state sponsored healthcare. Depending on your needs of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there's a bunch to be said that if you've developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don't always agree that if you've lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Being the child of silent generation parents and way older siblings I was just the weird kid. Always being told there was something wrong with me but never did anything about it. Once I got older I was just called quirky and uncle nutsy by my nieces and nephews. I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia only 3-4 years ago and reading all the younger folks stuff on reddit and here I figured maybe that is why I was the way I was. Asked my wife and doctor and they said well yes of course you are on the spectrum.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia

    So if you don't think in words and also not in images... How do you think? I'm curious because I can't imagine thinking without either of those.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    The hell if I know. Not a clue. It is my biggest question about them. I do think as I am typing and responding to you and all the other stuff I do but it is just there. I kind of equate it to having a filing cabinet. And in that filing cabinet are tons of folders and I just refer to each one of them even though I don’t see them or know what’s in them. Both aphantasia and anendophasia are relatively new in their research. Some of it I read makes sense a lot does not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I've been peer reviewed, but I've never bothered with a diagnosis

    I just don't see the point. I'm already officially neurodivergent, and there's no treatment options that open to me with an autism diagnosis

    If saw a reason, I'd get tested. But I don't need a label for the sake of a label

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Self assessed autism is a thing and just as welcome in any neurodivergent community.

    The main reason where medical assessment is important is if there are genuine challenges related to it that you do need help with.

    Many disabilities only exist in context of the society one lives. In many aspects neurodivergent is just a flavor of brain and not a disability in any sense of the world.

    But when the whole word demands you to be capable of A while all you cal do is X, its still considered a disability in medical context and to get expert help you will need the medical assessment.

    I applaud your partner for accepting you as you are and saying the label doesn’t matter. But it might still be an idea to see if you could get it checked upon, you don’t know how your neurology might change with age.

    Or you may have underlying challenges that you normalized as “everyone has this problem, right?”

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  • [–] 118 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

    Some of that isn't limited to gen Z. I've had older coworkers make buzzer noises for correct/wrong (like those on a gameshow)

    Assuming the Scooby doo one is stuff like "ruh roh", that specific trend might be recent, but people have been doing silly voices for a while

    Although a lot of it could be tiktok trends (or vines for the millenials)

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Yeah i'm an early millenial and i got in trouble as a kid at a trading card game convention because i was playing the x files card game, which involved asking the other player yes/no questions and the guy demoing the game mistook my no buzzer noise for a yes buzzer noise and lost because of it.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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    About 6 years ago we were sitting on the beach and a larger wave came in out of nowhere that went say 20-25 feet further up the beach to where we were sitting, I grabbed her and my phone and said ruh-roh as she realized and stood up, didn't have time to grab the small Bluetooth speaker we had and it got soaked and I grabbed it a few seconds after as the wave retreated. It isn't a term I say often, but I think it was something I did back in my early twenties when there was the possibility of kids being around. Instead of yelling "oh shit" my 37 year old brain decides to sound like a cartoon dog.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    It's the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Karma police, arrest this man! He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    detuned radio

    How do you get the horsepower back out of the radio?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hoy do you get the horses to power your radio?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Now that's classified. The cold war? It was crucial information in that conflict. Getting them in is relatively simple once you understand the dynamics of it. But we tried for a decade and never could successfully reverse the process. Some say they can still hear the neighs over the old AM frequencies.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I do the occasional "ruh roh"

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I keep my GenZs collared and in a closet. They do grunt, but it seems normal adult reactions to what is being done to them. Are you specifically referring to non sexual noises in the GenZs that you own?

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  • [–] 50 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Recently I've picked up some 25-30 year olds.

    OOP makes employment sound really weird. Like picking mushrooms. Or contracting a disease.

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    My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Curious to know if they also claim that "we didn't have that stuff when I was a kid," and attempt to defend casual usage of the r-slur?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm 37 and my ~24 year old coworker and I just speak in memes to each other for most of the day.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Spez the pedophile that moderated the jailbait subreddit?

    That Spez?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Meow.

    Also, shouldn't there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    A colleague regularly goes "grrr" and for quite some time I didn't know that had an origin other than comic books. He's 34 and - yes - officially autistic.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    All those 35-year-old gen-z folks are certainly weird.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The only vocalizations that can be heard from my desk; "Are you fucking kidding me?"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I think you're speaking for many of us. Typing is my job, for all intents. And sometimes, as I tend to do, I rush. And I'll make a typo. I'll backspace it up, and then I'll make the same fucking typo. And so when I do it a third time, you'll get some variation of "Are you fucking kidding me," whether it's me to my computer or just to myself.

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    My new college hire is full of energy and makes quirky sounds and I think it's great. I miss having that.

    She also is really good about leaving at 5, which is something the rest of us need to be better about. We had someone in another department point out to me and my boss that she always leaves before we do, and we explained that she's the one doing things right and not us.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    What sheltered world did this guy come up in? The list of sounds we used in daily life or quotes from entertainment as Gen X was endless. Everything from "Ruh roh Raggie" to the "arr arrr arrr" from Tim Allen's character or various Beavis and Butthead references were never too far away. "Book 'em, Danno" an even older reference comes to mind.

    (However, in professional settings this should be avoided. Standard chatter with familiar people in the office you can get away with it)

    Dude needs to grow up and remember to be young.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Replace "Gen Z" with "parrot" and this still works.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This guy works the trades? Maybe Gen Z is going back to the boomer roots of Tim The Tool Man Taylor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Mr-cheesy ain't so breezy!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Generation rhetoric is so stupid when it's not about the boomers /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    my manager constantly hummed when talking to people, I have no idea how she never ran out of breath. it was kinda impressive

    she got a promotion and moved to a different location recently :(

    I like to stim by rolling my rs and changing the pitch when im working outside by myself. it's fun 😙

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