Legit saw an ad talking about which in-game corporations to work for would be nice. One of them said something to the effect of

“ONLY AN 80 HOUR MANDATORY WORK WEEK! PERFECT FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY!” and like, I KNOW they’re trying to make a comment about how Capitalism gets in the future, but seeing as the people who CRUNCHED for 100+ hour work weeks, I’m just like...

anxiety and anger are extremely persistent in ADHD because we fixate on that input and devote all our runtime to trying to “fix” it when in reality the only way to fix it is to leave it alone. considering we are diagnosed with Chronic Cannot Leave It Alone Disease, that is Difficult.

when you’re outside one of these loops, take inventory of all the things you do that suck you into devoting all your attention to them. when i was a kid, the way i avoided asthma attacks was i played video games while taking my meds, so i wouldn’t be fixating on the anxiety and making the asthma worse. nowadays, i avoid anger spirals by also playing video games (in my experience turn-based strategy is a hyperfocus superhighway so i use those) so i’m forced to divert resources to do this other thing.

joke’s on you, impotent fury, you can’t kidnap my brain if my brain is somewhere else entirely