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Mac Berg

In the department of wasting time, I have just spent a couple of hours thinking about ways to construct a gear shifter for an electric car, that can provide a mechanical feeling H-pattern manual and an automatic with sequential shifting in one box.

Will it ever be made? No.
Will I or anyone ever get to enjoy it? No.
Will this make me a single cent? No.
Have I done the things I need to do today? No.
Time well spent I guess...
#ADD #ADHD #cars #engineering

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gmc

I guess now that this #Friendica instance is actually working, I'd better do an #introduction. I never did one when I created my #Mastodon account (at @gmc@chasmcity.net).

I'm a retired #hacker, #scifi #author, #software architect working for a silicon manufacturer, #pinball enthusiast, #RetroComputing #nerd, #SelfHosting zealot, #gay, card-carrying #adhd (#add) member and #migraine warrior. I live in #Sweden, but am originally from #TheNetherlands. I love #nature, #snow, the #cat and the #dog.

I'm not sure how I will use this Friendica account, since I also have the Mastodon account. We'll see. There's things I like about Friendica (especially how easy it is to follow threads) as well as Mastodon (especially how easy it is to filter and block to protect my #MentalHealth). I might set up some scripts to synchronise followers or some such, or maybe not and cultivate a different vibe on both accounts. Who knows.

I'll be trying on some other #SelfHosting #Fediverse servers as well.

#add#mentalhealth
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Greg Leunig

#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 08 On a Venn diagram of your writing, what's the common factor?

Listen, I've been writing since I was like 15 and am now 40. I have undiagnosed #ADD and I love #scifi -- which is the genre with the largest diversity of possible themes/settings/characters etc.

In the sub-diagram of works that take place on Earth, climate change is a common factor. Also corporations tend to be the prime antagonists. It's #cyberpunk - what can I say?

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Mac Berg

Apparently Sweden don't want people to work part-time jobs. Apparently there's some rule somewhere that makes it beneficial for companies to demand that part-time workers already have either another job at 50% or more, or are studying at 100%. If you don't you're not even eligible to apply. Even if the job you want to apply for is like 60%.
#sweden #sverige #arbetsmarknad #ADD #ADHD

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Tarren (They/Them)

@melindrea @felyashono @joshsusser @darkfox I think, for me, it isn't that my #Autism wasn't a #disability, but that it was a disability I didn't realize I had, until I hit #burnout and had to leave the job I'd been in for 5 years; even having an #ADD diagnosis only helped a little in that situation. As things just got worse over time, I came to realize that all the masking I'd learned to do through the years was masking my #ActuallyAutistic nature from even myself, and leaving me wondering just why I couldn't seem to cut it outside of my special interests.

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MR.e

I need to be clear that my #math skills are embarrassingly limited and something I've always struggled with as an #ADD and dyslexic person. Going through school, subject after subject was presented as, "Now memorize this because you have to." Which was not very compelling without the context of what it can really be used for. I tried, I got high marks, but I wasn't included in the better classes with better teachers which created a cycle of disinterest.

As I read, "Dark hero of the information age : in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics" which tells the stories of how mathematics, biology, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, and computing were brought together to holistically in the 1940s to examine problems that span subject matter, it makes me want to go back and restart my mathematics journey looking at the contextual challenges those solutions were applied to. I think I could probably overcome many of my limitations by taking a different learning route.

Does anyone have other interesting books on mathematicians or resources that can build up math skills with independent study? Are there corners of the #fediverse that I can look at? I would appreciate recommendations.

I don't ever expect to be very good, but I would like to challenge myself to be more mathematically capable if I take the time to learn more behind the equations themselves.

#dyslexia#mathematics#cybernetics
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cobalt going beige today

@pathfinder @actuallyautistic This is helpful to read! Although no one in our family or extended family is autistic, we do have about half of us with #ADD #ADHD and the overstimulation really must be worked out so more people are comfortable. 2/3 of us are very much introverts but there are the ringer extroverts who can be “a bit much”.

As my son Drew is continually slowly increasing with #Alzheimers and #Dementia it is critically important to balance activity to be low key and pace. Be well.

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cobalt going beige today

I’ve no doubt most people reading this post would be sure I must have OCD. I don’t but sure have #ADHD mostly the #ADD part. I can’t NOT see the coffee oils. And I’m utterly opposed to bitter coffee, which is why I never go to Starbucks. As we speak right now the pot and basket are getting this cleaning treatment in advance of a heavy coffee morning coming tomorrow.

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