Selfies. One medicated, one unmedicated.
I feel like I’m leading a weird dual existence. Not two people but one person who has a consistent personality but two very different ways of being.
It’s so odd.
If you're a non-trans woman in UK, who doesn't think banning trans ppl from toilets helps with *any* of the issues currently facing women (e.g. attempts to prosecute women who have had miscarriages for suspected illegal abortions) you might want to read and sign this petition:
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?NION Women (Change.org)
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I honestly did not expect starting ADHD meds to result in me seriously considering almost completely giving up alcohol.
Almost seems a shame. Whatever. Gotta move on.
So, bit of a problem and it’s a nice problem to have, but still a problem.
The ADHD meds are working better than I’d dared hope.
I’m almost functionally neurotypical on them.
I have no neurotypical socialisation though. I’m a neurodiverse person cosplaying but not masking. Ok. Bit odd. Whatever.
Pretty much all of my friends are neurodiverse.
This appears to be fine amongst the ones who are ADHD and medicated.
The ones who aren’t though; I really need to stop making eye contact because I think I’m freaking them out.
Sorry everyone x
ADHD meds are dangerous! They cause hypertension! You must not take them! - some wankers.
The “hypertension”
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.
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The Supreme Court refused to listen to trans voices. We brought them to the Supreme Court. | Good Law Project
Munroe Bergdorf, Nadia Almada, India Willoughby and Victoria McCloud said what they would have said if the judges had let them speak, and told us what it’s like to live in the hostile world this judgment has made.Good Law Project
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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.
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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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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'
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#Misogyny #Patriarchy #ScotPol #TerfIsland
Scottish ministers drop plans to outlaw misogyny and conversion practices
Government says measures are too legally complex to deliver before the next Holyrood electionSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
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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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"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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Lola Young - Messy (Official Video)
Messy out now!Listen and Download here: https://lolayoung.lnk.to/messyVDMy Album is out now 'This wasn't meant for you Anyway': https://LolaYoung.lnk.to/twmf...YouTube
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?
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.
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
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La première centrale solaire sur rails de Suisse inaugurée dans le canton de Neuchâtel
C'est un projet inédit en Suisse: la première centrale solaire amovible sur une voie ferrée ouverte au trafic ferroviaire a été inaugurée jeudi à Buttes, dans le canton de Neuchâtel.Radio Télévision Suisse
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I only say „#Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine“ - really curious to see how that machine works together with the solar panels.
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#wdr #diemaus #sendungmitdermaus
Die Seite mit der Maus - Gleisschotterwaschanlage
Mit einer Gleisschotterwaschanlage wird der Schotter, auf dem Bahngleise liegen, wieder aufbereitet und sauber gemacht. Das ist wichtig, damit der Schotter weiterhin seine Funktion erfüllen kann.www.wdrmaus.de
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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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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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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).
Elvanse LOWERING my BP
It’s supposedly at risk of doing the opposite.
How bloody stressed was I before?
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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.
@Kincaid Update: yeah. Ok. Fair enough.
The novelty of ANY hit at all was quite a thing at first. Now I appreciate your point.
@Kincaid Laundry pile is smaller.
Look, I've seriously been STARVING my entire life. A biscuit is a banquet.
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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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@Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ Just remember, nobody in your family has cardiac issues. You do not do substance abuse. You have never borrowed someone else's prescription medicine.
Because of course you wouldn't do those things.
@Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ Heart failure in extreme old age probably fine.
They will get weird if they think you might have cardiac issues.
Woman who believes vaccines cause autism also believes thing above her bed catches bad dreams
A woman has defended her decision not to vaccinate her children due to autism fears, and insists she sleeps ‘fine at night thank you very much’ due to the dream catcher which she hangs …NewsThump
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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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Elvanse!
NO FUCKING WAY!
Searching for hydrochloric acid on amazon.
It offers me sodium hypochlorite.
Fuck's actual sake
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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.
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Unknown parent • •@Alexa Devreux-Swift I was mostly using it to relax.
But it’s kinda crap at that compared to amphetamine.