It fucking is
(midwest.social)
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ADHD memesEh, wat. Is there any sane person who after a day of, say, real hard studying, cannot distinguish that "my brain and mind are tired from all the load they've pulled, but I am actually relieved it is finally over"?
Most people would probably just throw a blanket statement like "I'm exhausted" and call it a day.
Damn. True that
Autistic experience is talking about your entire body this way. "The body is irritated" or "the body is overwhelmed".
Especially when shutting down, thinking like that helps cope with the feeling of being "helplessly trapped".
"the body needs a sacrifice" - eats fried chicken
Your conscious brain is like 10% of your brain. The other 90% doesn't follow instructions and needs to be carefully trained and complained about
^ohshit.^
It's the "self" part that's the illusion there. There's just consciousness and its content. There's no "you" in there that's somehow separate from the process in your brain causing it to feel like something to be.
It really is. Haven't you ever been trying to remember something, actively racking your brain to remember it, but it is completely lost. So you give up. You move on. Hours later, you're talking to someone about dinner plans, driving in rush hour traffic, weighing the merits of Chinese vs Mexican, every part of your conscious mind handling the moment. And then suddenly your mind goes "DUSTIN HOFFMAN PLAYED CAPTAIN HOOK!"
That wasn't "you", the person, the conscious mind. That was a you that works backstage. They had to go down into the sub-basement to the deep stores, dig through a warehouse full of useless knowledge for the right factoid.
I call mine Derek. Derek just ran back up the stairs kicked in the door and delivered the query results after being dispatched hours ago. That wasn't me that remembered that info. Derek did.
I've been calling mine Elmo for a couple decades. Because it's little and annoying. Then that muskrat turd started getting called Elmo (I assume for the same reasons). I want my nickname for my subconscious back dammit
That shit byte me in many exams, it made me hate preparing for exams because I didn't know if the effort was going to be worth it.
Courtesy of COVID I feel like a frustrated spectator dealing with poorer memory, and brain fog when I reach the limits of a much reduced intellectual stamina.
My brain is often an asshole and we argue every day.
"I don't know sbout your brain but mine is really bossy"
Laurie Anderson
Untrustworthy little bastard 🧠
Yeah, there’s me, and then there’s the One Who Knows Things. He’s not always helpful.
Encyclopedia: “Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike.”
I JUST WOKE UP! WHY WOULD I NEED THAT?! WHAT POSSIBLE STIMULUS COULD HAVE SUMMONED THAT?!
Brain: "you be seven missed text massages from Contact Mike"
Brain: "I said what I said"
And not always wise. Yet we seem to take its opinions at face value, and forget the true mind lingering behind, but always present
wait till they find out about the belly brain, and how microbiota affects mood
Uh oh, my chronically low dopamine wants a word with you
(But you are also right)
2 billion bacteria can't be wrong when they say cheese is a perfectly valid snack. Or meal.
The more cheeses, the more valid
We're all just a cluster of cells. Majority vote...
My microbiota are cranky little bitches when I haven’t eaten in a while lol
Or just because
Had a parent (in full denial about a possible ADHD adjacent diagnosis) excuse their child's actions (defiantly running away from their carer and across a road) as "their brain must have been tired".
FFS you are your brain*, the rest is just transport.
* I argue that your brain is just the substrate you run on and there can be several of you running there.
These ones are living the plural dream!
It's crowded in here, can someone open a window?
Well, the eyes are the windows to the soul and they can be opened!
With a grapefruit spoon?
A grapefruit spoon and a lot of enthusiasm!
It's
Take care of your wetware.
I'm always confused about that term cause isn't wetwork a caldestine ops mission, usually killing? So why is wetware not related?
Still yes your brain, even if not functioning to what people call normal is your only one and if you realize that probably working better than many people's are.
It's not when you see a full moon and sploosh?
different source for the term. Hardware is your computers components, software is the programs running on it. Wetware comes, I'm pretty sure at least, from cyberpunk fiction, probably Gibson, and it's just your organic brain, in the context of a setting where people often have implants directly interfacing with it.
Wetwork is basically a translation from old russian gang slang for spilling blood.
Wetware implies the fifth secret thing of dryware.
As compared to software, firmware, hardware, wetware.
Stoneware probably goes in there someplace.
Now I'm concerned about drywall
Wetware = brain. Brain is wet. Software is stuff that runs stuff - mind/self? Where is that , exactly? In neurodivergent or mentally ill which does not run as it "should", where is the glitch? So many medications are "exact action not known". Kinda like kicking an old tube TV and it worked. Pregabalin's action is prior to Gabapentin. That is certain.
Yeah, wetwork is your thinkymeats.
Because the sack of shit is a different being it feels like. It hates me often.
I've always said my brain is my biggest enemy and I need to defeat it and keep it in check every day. it's a fucker. you don't need to exercise, nah making a meal is too hard just eat toast, you can have a smoke now it's 4.20 don't worry about whatever is on next.. my brain literally tells me to do the opposite of what I need if to do, so now I do the opposite of what it wants me to do. no you don't need to exercise, go for a run no, don't cook tonight, cook properly no, have a smoke it's good bro, wait until later no, cut the grass next week.. cut them grass
it's hard and I don't always win against my brain but it's a battle I win more often than I lose
brains don't know right from wrong, they just pattern match, so we need to define the patterns and make new ones.
I know right from wrong so I have to keep my brain in check. it's a constant battle.
Audhd here, I have 2 of them in my head 😭
The wetware processing-storage hybrid part does the calculation or it gets sleep deprivation again!
You don't wanna try that too much.
Sleep deprivation eventually leads to problems in the entire body (ask me how I know).
It's like the brain and body are in cahoots. When the body doesn't get regular, properly-formed messages from the brain it goes into some kind of revolt.
I do do that and I do carry a couple of diagnoses so I guess it's accurate? How I wish that asshole blubber of a lump of useless fat was a bit more cooperative.
so a computer hard drive IS the operating system! wow big if true.
Because it is! There are lots of us, and then there is The Brain, which isn't any of us.
.........................and WHERE in there am "I"?
That's the great part, there is no 'I'
Exactly! And as a bonus, there's no separation either.
