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1. Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:16:11 JST Moon
   sometimes I think about how many years of my life were wasted and how many opportunities were lost because of things within and outside of my control and I get really upset but literally all you can do is not think about that because nothing you can do can change the past.
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:16:06 JST LS

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     • Firewire K900
     @Moon @pupperipherals is it really a diagnosis that you two wanted or just a school system that doesn't assume that you're fine with sitting still in utmost boredom for half of your day
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:16:08 JST Moon

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     @pupperipherals this is a big one for me too
   • Firewire K900 (pupperipherals@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:16:10 JST Firewire K900

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     @Moon Me getting pissed at the adults in my K–12 years for not getting me a proper ADD diagnosis. I'm not upset they didn't put me on meds back then; I didn't need 'em and heard enough from my classmates who were Ritalin zombies. However, it would've saved me the latter half of my 20s b/c I'd know what was wrong and where to start looking for a fix.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:18:15 JST Moon

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     • Firewire K900
     @lain @pupperipherals well for me it turns out i I really needed the meds.
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   • Firewire K900 (pupperipherals@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:22:59 JST Firewire K900

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     @lain I can't speak for @Moon, but my school became much less boring once I got to middle / high and almost all my classes were tracked by ability. I still slummed it in regular peon's English b/c I disliked the subject.
     
     Proper time-release meds would probably serve me better than hoping I get the morning coffee-to-food ratio right, let I waste the day with anxiety jitters or shitting.
     
     Also strategies for actually using the calendars and checking off the checklists. I was fastidious about keeping my planbook in high school but fell out of the habit in college: 100–200 level STEM classes have a consistent workload where you don't need a journal to keep track of all the deadlines.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:26:52 JST Moon

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     • Firewire K900
     @pupperipherals @lain I didn't actually NEED the meds until after university, I actually approached my doctor about it and they refused to prescribe them to me telling me to exhaust years of alternatives before we went back to it, if they had just given me the fucking pills I would have been massively more productive and fulfilled over like fifteen years earlier.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:32:10 JST Moon

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     • Firewire K900
     @pupperipherals @lain unironically agree with this
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   • Firewire K900 (pupperipherals@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 11:32:11 JST Firewire K900

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     @Moon @lain The medical field was better when you could buy children's cough cocaine from your local traveling druggist instead of gatekeeping things behind "we need to be responsible and try the gentle approaches first".
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