Mezzie

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by Mezzie 3y ago
Here are the things that I think most discussions of Digital Citizenship/Information Literacy/Disinformation Mitigation etc. miss: * People's time and especially their mental bandwidth are limited and there exist large swaths
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Definitely mind the tags and ratings if you mine AO3 for anything.
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The heyday of AOL keywords was before SEO or search engine relevancy was anything that any company cared about. Search engines existed, but this was mostly pre-Google and they were not great. A lot of discovery happened in other ways - the
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> Are there washer/dryer and toaster influencers now? Oh yes. I spend too much time on the social medias and am also a middle-aged white lady, so I'm in the demographic that gets pushed a bunch of domestic and parenting content
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It should be noted that not all disabled people or communities like the social model. I despise it, for example. I have MS + visual impairments and society isn't why I'm disabled. I find the social model is adopted more by people
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I don't have ADHD but I have some neuro-visual impairments and movement + visual crowding are huge problems for me. It's basically really easy to turn things into an I Spy or Where's Waldo page for me where I can't see a
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I was in undergrad during 2008 and I am still pissed that the game was changed on us and we've gotten no assistance. I made very smart choices in 2005 when I was choosing what to do.
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I have modafinil for a different off-label use, but it has been helpful for some of my anxiety's symptoms. It's helpful for the brain fog and the paralyzing that comes with 'too many things to do = shut down and do NOTHING an
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Also it can be a really, really bad idea if you're dissociative. Detaching myself from my body is Not Good.
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Given a lot of people in therapy are there due to abusive families of origin, this is kind of difficult. I was neglected to the point of near-death and abused. My relatives are not trustworthy supports.
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I'm someone who has had a great variety in my financial security and that will likely continue into the future. This has included great scarcity (my state's computer system errors have just lost me healthcare and food help for the
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> The intersection between the set of chronically online people who see this content and the set of people who actually vote is much smaller than you might think. Voter turnout is consistently very low among young people, despite how act
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Honestly I'd just date women if I dated because lack of experience is way more normal in the gay community for obvious reasons. I just realized around 29-30 that the time had passed for anything having to do with men. (I'm female.
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I always think this take is interesting. I haven't dated before because I did have major issues. I'm much healthier now, but because I was respectful and opted not to date when I would have been a disaster, I am now an untouchab
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> if I was 40+ and met someone who hadn't experienced that in this day and page it's probably more likely they had also had some social hang up that you just haven't learned about. Can confirm. Am 35 and never dated and ha
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by Mezzie 3y ago
There are also valid use cases for preferring boring repetition. Most of the time when I do any kind of coding work, it's as a single person project for companies/orgs with absolutely zero tech people. For instance, the last proje
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by Mezzie 3y ago
That was my thought: Women have an opt out. Given how sexist Japan is, being a housewife isn't great but at least there's an option and some agency. Also it's far easier to be a socially reclusive woman without being judged o
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Campaign for a medical exemption + import bulbs from abroad in the meantime. I'd probably campaign with a two-pronged strategy of 'don't discriminate against people with health issues' and 'don't make businesse
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Right? I spent decades thinking I was the only one. > Most of my daydreams are world-building too, over time I’ve “built” cities, countries, continents, governments in my dream ecosystem. Like playing SimCity with daydreams. Yeeeaaah,
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I also have dream continuity which I've gathered is fairly weird? Like there are consistent physical and 'multiversal' rules and I can visit the same places over and over + have impacts that last from one dream session to ano
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> Yeah, and for me at least there is often an element of PTSD from childhood and early adulthood trauma which guides these daydreams, and it honestly sounds like the case for the author here, if I had to wager a guess I'd assume mos
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I would say the main difference between ADHD and CPTSD is that those of us with CPTSD can eventually 'rewire' our brains and act more 'normally'.
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This is so weird to me: I've always had really good memories of my dreams. About 80% of nights I end up lucid dreaming too.
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I've actually gotten paid for fiction writing before! I'm a good writer, but I despise marketing/branding and also really dislike doing creative work on a deadline/for a living. (It's the same reason I'm not a
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My MD is really music triggered. I basically can't listen to music without daydreaming. If I want sound but not to daydream, I have to listen to brown noise/rain/cafe noises.
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Mine are complete fantasy and take place in other worlds + don't involve me at all. A lot of my daydreams are worldbuilding or exploring 'interesting' scenarios/situations that characters would end up in. Not really a go
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I have very, very severe maladaptive daydreaming and it is absolutely a form of disassociation for me. I was abused as a child by my parents and underserved by schools - there was no way out so I learned how to entertain myself doing nothin
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They probably expect the kids to be involved/help, but that depends a lot on the parents' jobs. Like I was of some help to my dad in elementary school (helped him with basic IT/networking/data stuff), but my mom worked w
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Woke up this morning with no Apollo to scroll through as I wake up and wait for my medication to work. It was definitely weird, but not bad.
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In the US and Canada (the only countries whose copyright law I have studied), it is not.

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