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(different reasons that i might not be able to focus, how to tell them apart, and [maybe] how to solve them. work in progress.)

low energy - feeling tired and sleepy - yawning a lot  - working feels like it takes way too much energy; I’d rather just sleep - feels effortful even to think - seek low-mental-effort activities like tumblr solutions: stimulants (incl. caffeine), listening to energetic music, getting up and going for a 20+ minute walk

lack of self-monitoring - feel like i’m running on autopilot - can’t easily recall the last 3 things I did - get up and walk around a lot; get lost in daydreams and thoughts - difficulty verbalizing thoughts - can respond to prompts, but hard to generate new plans/thoughts - often goes along with low energy solutions: not getting up and going for a walk, sitting at my desk and listening to happy-energetic music while looking at the task. talking through the problem with someone else – it’ll be hard at first but having to converse will bring my self-monitoring system back online.

restlessness - feeling bored, wanting stimulation - feeling frustrated - changing sitting position often, feeling uncomfortable, fidgeting a lot - seek tasty food but almost all food is not tasty enough solutions: try working with loud energetic music and a fidget toy. if this doesn’t work, go outside and run around for a bit until you’re breathing hard, then try again. let yourself have sugar after the run if you still want it. compulsion for something else - pulled towards other, more interesting thoughts/activities - if i start working, i get sidetracked by the more interesting things without noticing - easy to enter flow state on other tasks, just not this one solutions: this one is hard. write down the more exciting thoughts and promise yourself you’ll come back to them? (you may not come back to them.)

the Drake and Millie situation? why is this being allowed to happen. I know it happens all over the world but here - right in the public eye it’s happening and nobody is thinking anything of it??? Or are turning a blind fucking eye??

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Note to purple states

Tired: Autistic people are ~just like you~! We have more in common than we do differences! Wired: Autistic people can be super weird and you might feel like you can’t relate to our experiences, but you don’t need to have things in common with someone to respect their existence.

— Amythest/gemythest (@neurowonderful)

That means that, yes, felons should have the right to vote. It means that yes, voting should me mandatory. 

I just finished seeing the movie, and while I do not have a history of epilepsy or light-induced seizures, the movie had quite a few scenes where super intense strobe lights covered at least half of the screen for minutes at a time (I even had to close my eyes for some of it).

These scenes occur with no warning at all, and I highly advise against going to see the film in theaters if you are sensitive to intense strobe lights and I advise those who aren’t to still be cautious when seeing the film.

I did thoroughly enjoy the film and have an amazing time when watching it, but I still have a headache from the really intense scenes.

In response to a Greg Palast threat of a federal law suit, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has coughed up the names and addresses of every one of the half million voters he cancelled off the registration rolls in 2017.

One in ten voters – disappeared WITHOUT NOTICE.

Look up your name or those you know, with the zip code. We’ll send back you entire registration address. If that’s you (or a former address of yours) re-register today – the October 9 deadline is almost here.

Kemp’s purge list includes those wrongly tagged as having left Georgia by Kris Kobach of Kansas, using Kobach’s racially poisonous, long discredited Interstate Crosscheck list.

Especially if your name is Jackson or Hernandes or Kim, check for your name now!

Note: We will be adding another dozen states’ purge lists – they are falling like drunken rats as our lawsuit deadlines near. …more

https://www.gregpalast.com

https://www.gregpalast.com/have-you-been-purged/

[Image: ink and paint illustration of a patient describing a pain in their hand to their doctor. The two people stand on either side of a pictoral representation of the pain, which is a vivid jumble of reds, oranges, yellows, and blacks that incorporates squiggles, radiating shaking lines, knives, lightning, and several numbers followed by question marks.]

Folks, this article is really fantastic: it lays out the issue of using the pain scale and then offers alternatives.

Essentially, the best thing you can do when working with your doctor is to explain what the pain feels like, what it does to you emotionally, and how it impacts your function.