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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoADHD@lemmy.world•What are your strategies to not be late?English
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    6 days ago

    Similar to many others on here, I’m terrible at time estimation, so I have to literally track backwards from the time I need to be there with things I need to do along the way, so:

    Need to be there at 8am Driving takes 30mins (730) Shower 15mins (715) Tidy up and get my travel drink 20mins (0655) etc.

    Then I also usually add 15mins to get lost or find parking. (0640)

    Then I know what time to get up etc.

    (Then I usually panic that I need more buffer and add another 30mins and get up at 0610!)

    Oh… And the calendar thing. If its not in the calendar, it doesn’t happen…

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoADHD@lemmy.world•ADHD-friendly online jobsEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’ve made a career out of my ADHD in a presales engineering role… (And ending up in product management).

    I did need to get the social aspects under control (mostly learning to slow down, and to learn when to shut up!), but this was all very manageable if you can take feedback and hyperfocus on putting it in action… 🤪

    I liked that I got to work on the 20% of the customers problem that was the “rocket science” bit, and we would sell consulting services to do the bits that were more like “making license plates”…

    Also, having a new audience every week meant I got to really practice and hone my presentation and soft skills which are super important.

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•A typical ADHD tale...English
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    3 months ago

    My favourite was when my GP gave me a list of 10 docs to call to see who was taking referrals for adult diagnosis.

    Yeah, that list sat unopenend (combination of overwhelmed and totally forgot) till 6 months later when I had to see the GP again, I panicked, and I called all 10 in the 30mins before my GP appt and then was late for the GP and almost missed my GP appt…

    Fun times…

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains
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    3 months ago

    This needs a government / IEEE / domain registrar policy of some sort. Maybe it should simply be that all expired domains are put into stasis for 10 years.

    If you want to buy it and have access to it sooner, then you need to run (and pay for) a program of works to catch and proactively kill all linked accounts, and build a register of embargoed existing email addresses that must be set to bounce.

    I knew this was a problem, but wow, had no idea it was this bad…

    Because I have a firstname.lastname@popularcloudemail.domain type email, I get SOOO many people signing up for accounts with my email, forgetting that theirs had some number suffix. I get peoples phone bills, pizza receipts, Amazon orders, parking meter e-receipts, Xbox live accounts, Dropbox logins, you name it.

    I NEVER thought of what that would look like at a domain level!

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoADHD@lemmy.world•Anyone else feel like their ADHD was always there but got progressively worse as an adult?English
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    4 months ago

    I was also diagnosed late in life (mid 40s).

    For me it became a significant impact in two places in my life:

    1. as my roles changed and I needed more ability to handle “blank page” type work assignments as I became more senior, rather than “survive this chaos” which I’ve always excelled at (given my ability to drop something, pick up something else, then revert later.) With previous “chaos surfing” roles, my now diagnosed ADHD was actually a secret super power (seriously, I managed turn ADHD into a career). As my roles became more “take this blank page, and figure out what to do, and make it into a project to make stuff better” I fell off a performance cliff.

    2. as 1 happened, my ramp up of symptom management routines started to impact my family. (I didn’t actually realise this until my partner filled in her part of my diagnosis questionnaire. )

    My Doc basically told me I had been doing everything they want ADHD patients to do to manage the impacts of their symptoms, but my level of challenge had reached a point where medication could help me live at an effort level below the 99.99% constant I had all the time.

    He was right and it did…

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Are filament vacuum bags worthwhile?English
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    4 months ago

    I live in a subtropical area.

    Short answer: YES!!.

    I now religiously use a filament dryer, VAC bags and loose silica beads that I bag my self into DIY teabags and then redry in the oven.

    I also make sure to dry new filament for 24hours before using it the first time…

    Since I started doing this for PLA and PETG, many of my previous my print issues dissapeared…