Notices by masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)

Doctors: I've got a patient with a genetic disorder that results in serious executive dysfunction and memory issues that will never go away, and they need drugs.

Politicians: Cool, but there are bad people in the world so we're going to require your patient to remember to call, and then overcome executive dysfunction to call. Meanwhile we’ll convince therapists and pharmacists that the drugs are "as bad as meth" & ignore reality

Doctors: Uhh.

Politicians: cool. The law just passed.

#ADHD

@JessTheUnstill @lisamelton TIL some guys bitch about women with vocal fry.

Dafuk is wrong with men?

#ADHD Torch Theory

I like it. Unfortunately the name is catchy but misleading here in the US. We call them flashlights

🔦

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MwETXD/

@hellomiakoda @actuallyautistic

Just as an FYI: Electric Lawn Mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers are amazing. I would HATE having to mow with a gas mower but our electric one is just the sound of the blade spinning through the air and whacking blades of grass. It's so SO much quieter.

We have an electric leaf blower. That is still a bit loud, but it's just the sound of a powerful fan not the engine.

The weed whacker is similar. sound of "string" hitting grass but that's it.

@hellomiakoda literally every week of your life? 😉

Sometimes I'll say something and my Allistic friends will completely miss the point, and insert their own in its place.

It's just so exhausting.

#ActuallyAutistic

@aral i think it’s more like a virus, because it doesn’t just affect one host, but destroys entire communities

Dear Programmers and HR people.

"Trans" (& "Transgender") is not a gender. It literally means to cross gender. Also it doesn't tell you starting point, ending point, or direction. It's a useless answer to the question of "what's your gender?"

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This reminder brought to you by the fact that I'm currently putting together a will and living will, and it wants to know my gender for some reason. The options are Male, Female, Trans, Non-binary.

@BeAware @hazelnoot get out of my office!!!!

😉😅

@aral @dmarti at least i’m not in texas *shudder*

Being trans in the US right now is bringing up a lot of homosexual / jew in 1937-1938 Germany vibes. I’m more scared with every passing month

@dmarti @aral I’m in the US and I’m afraid to leave because there is a fair chance, they will arrest me because of the gender on my passport when I try to come back.

There are so many words missing from #Emacs's iSpell dictionary that I feel like I'm being constantly gaslit.

"That's not a word." "That's not how you spell that."

Just now it was "smattered" As in "her skin was smattered with freckles"

Fucking A. As I type this even macOS doesn't think it's a word despite the fact that it's in the dictionary app that ships with the system.

[edit: corrected word in screenshot]

#Writing

@Zenie someone else mentioned that and some other options. Alas i have roughly zero desire to futz with things like that right now. 😝

how an interns attempts to familiarize themselves with a codebase, and spice up the comments resulting in finding a major security vulnerability. Via Reddit, via 🤷♀️

TIL that AO3 lets you download works in a variety of ebook formats, AND it'll combine all the parts of a series for you when it does. 😸

#AO3

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

i am _extremely_ suspicious of those extra benefits.

it has zero noticeable effect on my ADHD.

It has done nothing to improve my sleep. if anything it might make it worse because upset stomach is a frequent side-effect (and thus why you're instructed to take it before bed)

Increased sex drive makes ZERO sense because if it has ANY anti-androgen properties you'd (by definition) have LESS sex drive.

can't comment on anxiety.

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

Depression makes sense but not because of the drug so much as because trans tend to feel emotionally better when they've got a hormone balance that better aligns with their inner self.

Spironolactone alleviates a significant source of my body dysphoria which makes me feel better, which makes me less unhappy. but it's not because removing depression is a side-effect of spiro.

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

re how quickly they have effect:

Some effects of HRT are noticeable quickly (like Spironolactone's ) some just slide in subtly. I don't think it really matters because physical transition from HRT is a multi-year process.

In that context, does it really matter if it was a day or a week or a month before you could see effects?

@tim yes! There was a great big gap in the Cloud front that looked like it would be heading for us, but the way the mountains are here we end up just on the inside (wet) edge of very long cloud fronts that just keep going for hours or days.

Yeah but… dogs. 🐕