If you could hold your brain together and going forward in a straight line enough to get a graduate degree, I absolutely salute you.
I made it one year through my Master's program until I absolutely crashed and burned, and that after graduating summa cum laude for my bachelor's.
Undiagnosed #ADHD (and mental health issues) is a heckuva thing. :P
In my view, even if you can get only an undergraduate degree in a straight line while you have ADHD and asperger syndrome, you are already a superman / superwoman!
I lucked out and got my undergad degree in literature at just the right place and time.
The professors were utterly wonderful and even the other students were pretty great.
I landed in grad school (in the same uni) 3ish months later and the vibe was COMPLETELY off.
Everything was very officious, stuffy, and backstabby.
The classes had zero structure (we read these things and talk about them, and you turn in a 10-page paper at the end of your semester, which is 100% of your grade), and I didn't know to ask for help, because *ahem!* undiagnosed ADHD!
Not a fun time.
Undergrad was lovely, though, so thanks. ;)
@rl_dane If I could only remember all the important plans Iāve had over the last 20 years that never actually got startedā¦ it would resemble my pile of books Iāve bought and never read, or have started and never finished.
I have a composition I started working on a year and a half ago that I think about several times a week, but never when I have the opportunity/inclination to sit down and work on it. It hasnāt been touched in months, and Iām likely to scrap what Iāve got so far and start again.
I feel that. Maybe I need to tattoo my current project on my arm, so I don't forget. XD
I can't even begin to describe how seen this toot makes me feel.....
noooooooooo I feel this wayyyyyyy to hard
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I'm giving semi-serious thought to the idea of tattooing my arm with the name of my latest learning project, so I don't forget it, and just revert back to my default state of dithering in five hundred directions and going nowhere. XD
Because I seriously DO want to learn Persian, Japanese, German, Azeri, Piano, Guitar, C, and Golang. XD
At this point Iād settle for, ācan consistently do the PT for my arm so I can play music again.ā
@alatartheblue @OpenComputeDesign
Ouch, guitar? Piano? What happened to your arm?
PT is rough. You gotta push into and through the pain. :E
All of the above? Iām the worldās OK-est guitar player (aka 4 chord hero), a good classical pianist, and a bar storyteller. Musics been my core identity since I was a little childās. I can make any instrument sound OK - āgoodā is a stretch for some of them, but passable is easy.
Pain isnāt the issue - being able to make the mind consistently do the exercises to build back the nerves so that I have feeling (other than shooting pain) in my left hand/fingers. I was in a nasty car accident a few years ago - they tell me nothing is physically wrong, but it canāt be true. I canāt play more than a handful of notes on any instrument without being in tears from the pain. I could probably make it through a song at an open mic, but thatās about it.
@alatartheblue @OpenComputeDesign
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. Nerve pain and nerve damage is absolutely no fun.
I know there are stretching exercises that can help* with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but I don't know if that has any relation to what you're experiencing.
* I'm talking doctor-designed, scientifically-studied exercises, not, like, health influencer exercises XD
It is what it is at the moment. Iāve found some stuff that helps, but Iāll never get full use back.
Amusingly, massage and so-called eastern or homeopathic medicine have been helping me the best - massage, meditation, anti-inflammatory. Beer helps, too, but thatās not a sustainable solution.
@rl_dane this is #ActuallyAutistic me with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance).
So much capability, so little capacity.
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