I have a new job. After getting to know my coworkers better for the last couple weeks, I was deep in conversation with one about tabletop game mechanics which then devolved into talking about creating currency systems for fantasy novels.

Out of left field they sort of add in that they knew I was autistic. I... had never been recently tested, tbh. I was completely nonplussed, not sure what to say. They asked if I had been tested as a child. I said yes. They guessed correctly that the doctors told me I had ADHD. I nodded... that's exactly what happened. They then tell me that many tests from back in the day were badly done, and many people with autism got misdiagnosed with ADHD.

This blew me away. This coworker was certain. They said they found it extremely uncanny and that they were very unsettled by me, because they also have autism and they could tell I was on the exact same spectrum as them. They said they had never in their life met someone with the same autism type until now. At that moment I realized I understood, too. Like someone was on my plane of existence and that was very unsettling.

So I took the 50 question test and scored 28. I'm on Abilify for bipolar, which I'm not sure I have. The funny thing is... I get all the side effects from the Abilify (Apiprozole) that one with autism would get. Sever drooling, insomnia, etc. Every side effect that the drug would have on autistic people has presented itself. However, the Abilify works good at stopping my horrible thoughts and worries.

So my question is... has anyone ever been in a similar boat? Where you were diagnosed with ADHD but it wound up being autism? These are new waters for me. I always thought when they tested me for autism that they were certain I didn't have it, but the more I interact with my coworker the more I can tell they're probably right.

My next step is to talk with my doctor and get officially re-tested. We may be looking down the wrong medication path (though, because the Abilify works pretty well, I'm not opposed to saying I probably have bi-polar, too).

I do not claim this script. This was built off of Delphiki's fork of Faglo's original Airstatus. They did the complicated stuff. They're the real heroes. I'm just a UI/UX nerd. I like things to look nice.

Fork here: https://github.com/SleepyScribe/AirStatus

I've added a few changes to my Airstatus fork just for my peace of mind. The new output can be used as a tiling WM status monitor. I'm in the motions of diving into KDE JSON/XML/QML spaghetti to see if I can make a widget, but its not going well. However, you can still specify an output file that will update with the raw data in it's original, unaltered form. This should allow hoodoo programming wizards to hook up their own OS front ends for the data. I may see if I can make it so that the raw data clears the line before adding a new update, just because I can see the output file getting unwieldy after a while.

The new table will output battery levels from green-yellow-red depending on charge level. Caret and input are disabled while retaining the ability to break out with CTRL+C. Breakout is now clean with no text and clears terminal. This was to keep things as neat as possible if you should use it as a CLI monitor. Update interval is set to 4 seconds. Airpods and Airpods Pro should have columns for left/right/case. I can't test as I gave mine away to a friend.

Let me know if you have or see any issues, I'll try my best to address them. Font is Recursive NerdFont DuoTone if you're curious. Its a mono that changes to a casual style for bold and/or italic text. There's also normal sans and casual sans versions. Has ligatures.

Today I went to check the battery status of my Airpods Max and found that 'discover' had been fully removed from Bleak. I had been getting warnings for years that it was deprecated and would eventually be axed. Today was the day. After updating Arch I was hit with discover being an unknown import from Bleak. I've tried every other trick in the book to get my Airpods battery to show on Linux, but Airstatus was the only one. I did some diving and saw that BleakScanner had replaced Discover.

I decided I might as well at some QoL things that I had wanted during my use of Airstatus. The new script accounts for Airpods Max and only shows a single battery level for them, as well as a keyboard interrupt exit script if you're like me and just check your battery in the terminal from time to time.

This is my first github fork. I don't know if I followed all the fork etiquette, but I did add delphiki in the readme markdown to credit them, as well as placed a notice at the end that it was a fork mostly for my own use. The only reason I decided to post it here is to help out anyone else that might be running into the same problem. Feel free to point out anything I should add to the readme or any problems with the script itself.

You can find my fork here: https://github.com/SleepyScribe/AirStatus

I will be spending a lot more time actually learning Python. I started learning a while back, but it had to be put on the backburner due to life in general. I'll be completely transparent in that I needed some help from AI. I know the Python basics, and I'd love to be able to fix problems like these without having to consult AI at all, but I'm just not at the level to do this on my own yet. To be fair, I used it mostly as an assistant to check and troubleshoot each block and traceback error rather than having it spit the whole script out for me. That way I at least learned a bit. I did pull up the BleakScanner page, fullstack, and Python guides at first, but I was still struggling.