A Shy Guy's world

living with unmedicated ADHD is basically like if Zeno's paradox were real

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

Poochy stole Waluigi’s wallet. Stealing is really wrong! I am going to look for Waluigi. I want to give Waluigi his wallet back. It’s very important to treat others the way you want to be treated. Peach told me that. Peach is very nice to me, and Peach is also very smart to me. I do not care if Waluigi is mean to me. I want to be nice to Waluigi, because I want Waluigi to be nice to me.

Has anyone seen Poochy? I can’t find Poochy.

I found Poochy. Poochy was chasing after Waluigi. It was very funny!

what doesn't kill you makes you overshare on the internet

[scoffs] You couldn't PAY me to jack off to Brian Griffin! [remembers the state of the economy] Well, you could, but it would have to be a four figure amount. [remembers to be honest to myself] Three figures. [remembers not to devalue my own labor] Four figures.

Sam Handwich.