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ADHD meds are dangerous! They cause hypertension! You must not take them! - some wankers.

The “hypertension”

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lolz, just tested, 148/102 😆 yeah... you do not have hypertension... but I do.

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The Supreme Court refused to listen to trans voices. We brought them to the Supreme Court. | Good Law Project

The Good Law project took a lesson from ‘Led by Donkeys’ and projected trans people’s faces and voices onto the walls of the Supreme Court.

goodlawproject.org/the-supreme…

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powerful. fix your broke down country and get some adults into the supreme court.

remove the petty children out of the supreme court to stop them making decisions for your nation by thrill and impulse.

those specimens need to be in school anyway so they can get at least some form of education. it will help avoid dangerous and ridiculous disgraces to your nation like this heartbreaking trans apartheid.



Breakfast of champions (if your champion happens to be a chaos goblin). Clockwise from left: blood pressure monitor, cereal, water, protein yoghurt, lisdexamfetamine 50mg.

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This blows my mind. My sleep data from Apple Health over the last 6 months.

The green line marks the point I started amphetamines. It doesn’t make a lot of difference.

The red line: I read Sisters of Dorley

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@Heather 👻 Oh, doctors are no good for HRT. You want a transbian mad scientist coven for that.
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... Yeah I'm now considering this. Not the first to suggest it. Just not sure if I can easily access testing (or afford it). It's all bullshit.



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Since this is Trans History Week and trans people desperately need people to understand and ‘know’ us right now, please buy yourself a copy of my book ‘Trans Britain’, conceived, compiled and produced BEFORE the world went absolutely mad against us. It tells the history of half a century of slow, careful progress before we became a populist political football. Get it wherever you prefer to buy your books. Hive is a great alternative to Amazon. hive.co.uk/Product/Ms-Christin…

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If you prefer ebooks to the physical then Trans Britain is available at a variety of online stores besides the Kindle. If you have an iPad then it is a fabulous comfortable read and you can buy it here in seconds on the Apple Books store. This is also the best solution if you’re outside the UK. books.apple.com/gb/book/trans-…
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I can thoroughly recommend this book! I have a copy myself and I love the methodical way its put together. Well researched and well written. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


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@zoe @marlies

Always interesting seeing variation in what meds do and don't allow and how to balance desirable and less-desirable things and learning to live with a changed neurology.


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The UK Parliament could simply override their Supreme Court but they're all fucking transphobic cowards, too.

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Hey ladies, more victories for you.....oh.

Oh well, at least Trans Women are being tormented for your pleasure, so.....

No surprise that us Queers are an afterthought, looks like we're going back into the shadows so we don't upset the Breeders with our 'depraved' existence.....

Remember, coming after 'misogyny' is complicated but last months Bathroom proclamation provided 'clarity'

theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

#Misogyny #Patriarchy #ScotPol #TerfIsland

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ADHD med titration continues apace. I’m sticking with 50mg Elvanse (lisdexamfetamine) and adding in 10mg Amfexa (dexamphetamine) as a booster to get me through the evening.
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@Becky Yeah. They’ve basically fixed my IBS and reflux issues too.


I honestly never dreamed my life would go in the direction of having to manage the duality of being a functional adult who can do adult things in the daytime and is sensible and all that stuff, and a chaos goblin by the evening.

The transition I saw coming from a long time before, if I’m being honest. But while neurodivergence was always obvious to anyone who met me, finally getting the actual answer and following it through to Planet Amphetamine and all that implies has blindsided me a bit.

These drugs are very very weird to be on.

But they may have saved my life.

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I'm glad the drugs are so helpful, I know there's huge variation in how helpful they can be, but so positive at such an early stage. Hope your titration/jibbling continue to go well and you get an optimal configuration for you.

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If you ever think you're not great at tech, web design or use cases you're almost certainly still better than the person who built this


The single weirdest thing for me about being on Elvanse for ADHD is getting to spend each day as a functioning human being with regulated emotions and executive function, but knowing that the clock is ticking and that when the timer runs down I am going to return to being a self-hating hyperactive messy vial of emotional nitroglycerin.

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"We're not going to fix the NHS but we are going to make it harder for Trans and Neurodivergent people to use it" - Labour

#NHS #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Ukpolitics #Ukpol #Ableism #labour

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Still seeing people criticising US lefties for not voting for Harris over Gaza. I regret their choice too but let me explain something...

There are some things that are so important to you that you can't vote for the lesser evil, because you see no difference between the choices on the issue. In that case you can't vote for the lesser evil. You just can't. You'd throw up.

I'm there right now with trans rights, for example. If I'm still in the country when the next GE happens, there's no fucking chance of me ever voting for Starmer, even to keep Farage out of number ten. I'd rather die than vote for him. And... things are bad for trans folk in the UK right now but they're nothing compared to what's been done to Gazans.

So save your ire and your "how could yous" for the politicians who funded, supported and supplied the weapons for a genocide and then expected the left - that section of society who tend to give a shit about people other than themselves - to vote for them anyway.

#uspol #ukpol

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cursed shit

Sensitive content

in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

Well put. I think it's reasonable to argue those who stood up Harris for Gaza were plain undiplomatic, also considering the dire straits many vulnerable people are in today.

Still you can't say team anti-genocide blew Harris' election. That's on Harris. And imo even more on Biden who cursed her. He showered her in the blood of his own human rights failures and then wished her good luck with the race.



Oh god. I am feeling utterly SEEN by this. #ADHD m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-k2_Lio…
#adhd


Extreme sports, Iberian edition: about to take the lift.

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Having my first day off Elvanse.

Plan is all about self care. Avoid stressful stuff. If there is ANY hint of pushback against anything that needs doing, then I will make it a problem for future Sarah.



I feel like there’s a lot of reverse ableism with people telling me that the REAL problem with ADHD is that I am “traumatised” by a world that isn’t adapted to my needs and that were it not for this “trauma”, I would be able to function just fine.

If it’s trauma, why does a single pill that raises my dopamine levels switch it off like a light switch and turn me into an emotionally stable adult with executive function?

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I had a shower and thought more (as you do) and maybe it's just the usual problem of people projecting their own problems. Also medication only works for about 70% of people with ADHD and not everyone has the glorious epiphany you have (congrats tho!)

Also I wonder, like in my case, my DMN is rather strong and annoying... Combined with high empathy (confirmed medically kinda now due to the stupid ASD screening) it's a rather hard-mode life for me.


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This idea - found via @fj and @temptoetiam - to install solar panels between train tracks strikes me as ridiculous

Railway tracks are grimy. Things fall off trains, like melting snow mixed with grit in winter. You can't incline the panels. How are you going to keep the panels clean enough? Because you absolutely don’t want to stop the train traffic to do it

rts.ch/info/regions/neuchatel/…

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I only say „#Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine“ - really curious to see how that machine works together with the solar panels.

wdrmaus.de/filme/sachgeschicht…

#wdr #diemaus #sendungmitdermaus

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Die Rückkehr der Streckenläufer, taugt auch als Horror-Titel


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@zoe
12 May I hear the response to my official complaint. We'll see if they can offer outside assessment or just fuck me over some more and claim i'm just "unhappy" with the suggestion of ASD/anxiety/whatever they wanna make up.


Am I just deluded in thinking that when I was a younger adult, journalists at least PRETENDED to hold politicians to account?
in reply to Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

@christineburns Good question, I was wondering about that too. It was mostly the Telegraph who covered it, but they actually did a pretty good job, and I think things even changed as a result.

Yes, I think we can count it.


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One thing that beats me about the Supreme Court's shenanigans is this. The Equality Act is just fifteen years old. I still have my copy of the massive 'Discrimination Law Review' report that constitutes the policy starting point for every aspect of it. The people who drafted it are still alive. Many of those who voted for it are still in Parliament. The extensive debates and committee meetings are all in Hansard. The Bill Managers can be interviewed. So why did the SC resort to 'guessing'..
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@bwh @only_ohm
To quote para 7 of the judgement
"7. We also use the expression “biological sex” which is used widely, including in the judgments of the Court of Session, to describe the sex of a person at birth, and we use the expression “certificated sex” to describe the sex attained by the acquisition of a GRC."
So, sex assigned at birth and entered on (original) birth certificate. Which is administrative rather than actually biological.
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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ Because when courts are deciding the meaning of a statute they look at the plain text enacted by Parliament. It’s only when that text is ambiguous that they attempt to look behind the veil at Hansard, Explanatory Notes, etc. Thw reluctance to do this comes because a minister’s or drafter’s statement on what they thought something meant may not be what any individual peer or MP meant; the intent of Parliament on something like a Bill is far too nebulous a thing to be judged on any basis other than its text.




One thing I did NOT expect from ADHD meds: much easier to put my contact lenses in.

I guess my eyes are no longer darting about all over the place.

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Cis or trans, if you have not yet written to your MP about the Supreme Court ruling please do so as soon as possible. Marches are one thing but MPs getting lots of emails from their constituents and having to answer awkward questions will have an even greater impact.
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mastodon - Link to source
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for you sarah i will write to my garbage MP. although in echo of the above, she has never responded to any of my previous correspondence and in a mystery shopper exercise had the worst response rate of any mp in the liverpool city region (maria eagle).

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I truly do not believe this.

I just watched a video about somebody's parrot, or some similar birb. Said birb had been plucking it's feathers and the owner said it was a hormonal issue and the vet had given it Lupron.

Lupron is a puberty blocker. Parrots have more fucking rights than trans kids

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in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

Possible, but IIUC plucking is usually a stress issue.

Still, the fact that it's easier to get for a parrot than a kid is quite something.



Elvanse LOWERING my BP

It’s supposedly at risk of doing the opposite.

How bloody stressed was I before?

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For about a year now every day after lunch when the second Medikinet dose kicks in, I get so sleepy that I have to sleep for 30min on our couch. Coping is stress and you get so used to it... 😩
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This is why my kid drinks coffee to help them sleep

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fucking lol if you think you can "eradicate autism" and still have computers

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Still not got a good answer to the question of how neurotypicals have fun.

Like, it has recently come to my attention that you lot get a dopamine reward for picking up your socks off the floor and putting them away. I have now experienced this and, wow! Yeah. Very cool! Neat trick you have there.

So why spend money on leisure activities when you can just pick shit up?

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@Kincaid Honestly it feels pretty good to me.

But I guess I’ve been on starvation rations for 51 years.

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@Kincaid Update: yeah. Ok. Fair enough.

The novelty of ANY hit at all was quite a thing at first. Now I appreciate your point.

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and the hit isn't for doing the laundry, it's for not having to do the laundry in the immediate future. The doing still sucks
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@Kincaid Laundry pile is smaller.

Look, I've seriously been STARVING my entire life. A biscuit is a banquet.

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The knack is learning how to *stop* doing tasks. I'm still learning, 3 years on Elvanse.


It’s really starting to hit me now. All those years I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t deliberately obstructive. I wasn’t thoughtless. I wasn’t careless. I wasn’t a deliberate arsehole.

My neurology literally wouldn’t let me slow down, do stuff, talk quieter, not interrupt, not go from 0 to “temper tantrum” in 2 seconds, remember where I put the thing I was holding 1 second ago. Not want to end people for talking too slowly.

One pill fixes it all. One sodding pill.

51 years.

There’s more grieving to come here, I think. A lot more.

And no, everyone is NOT “a little bit ADHD”. You have no bloody idea.

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NEWS! Woman who believes vaccines cause autism also believes thing above her bed catches bad dreams newsthump.com/2025/04/18/woman…

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if it wasn’t so literally dead serious of a topic 😭😱😭😱😓


First few days on Elvanse and wow! This stuff is honestly astonishing.

If you’re seeing this on Bluesky it’s auto cross posted from fedi. Breaks might be in odd places.

It’s essentially created two versions of me. There is medicated me who is a competent adult and can Just Do Stuff and unmedicated me who is mot, and cannot (but who is fun and lovely and is the version writing this).

On the way up the transition between the two is smooth and continuous.

On the way down it is not. I can feel it starting to fade over above half and hour then it reaches some critical level and o spend 10-15 minutes just crashing.

And then I’m the person writing this again, but a bit dazed and bewildered.

I’m hoping this will get smoother. At the moment it leads to almost a discontinuity in personality, but only on the way down, where afterwards I simply cannot conceive of being the person I just was.

I think I need to get into the habit, before it wears off, of leaving myself something nice for just after the crash.

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Years ago, people would have described my aversion to small talk as "autistic". But this implies lacking the skills to make small talk. I avert it due to it requiring me to concentrate (on something that wastes time); it has nothing to do with an inability to schmooze, otherwise I would not have reached where I have in my nursing career. Understanding this, instead of lazily describing it as "autistic", has helped me gain a greater understanding of my life.





Searching for hydrochloric acid on amazon.

It offers me sodium hypochlorite.

Fuck's actual sake

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I think you will find that shipping of HCl is problematic. I suggest you look for a local builder's supplier or DIY store (if there are any in your area).
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you can't even get the full strength stuff anymore. Unless you can find a shop still selling "professionals only" grade stuff. Bah!


Decaffeinated Yorkshire Tea is entirely satisfactory. This is a useful discovery.

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I chain drink decaff Twinnings Everyday, have deliveries of coffee beans from Decadent Decaff and for at the Hackspace keep decaf Nescafe Azure. That mostly keeps me ticking.

Not all the decaffs are equal. That took a few goes. Some brands put a bit more care into it than others. And if you're shopping at supermarkets, I've noticed you have to go to the larger ones to get access to more than one brand on the shelf.



Nice spring day here on TERF Island. Time to break out the hiking dress. Its pockets can fit two bottles of wine!


Filing under “fun realisations about ADHD”

We probably pretty much never make threads on r/AmITheAsshole

Because we already know.

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I think there are healthy and unhealthy sources of dopamine, varied in degree and with who you are.

Heroin is mostly-bad but part-good, Reddit is all-bad.