Mastodawn

👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

Question for neurotypicals: How often do you figure out new brain tricks or life hacks for yourself? How often is that because you want to improve on your current performance, as opposed to because your old ones stopped working and you need to replace them to keep functioning at the same level?

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

I have fallen into this pattern at most jobs but it has definitely been worse lately - combination of the physical environment of the new office, and workload problems while I try to transition off one project & onto another.

I want to try having my computer announce the time, but like, only when Chrome has keyboard focus or I haven't typed anything for 10 minutes.

👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

#actuallyADHD real talk time: I'm having trouble leaving work at night. Sometimes this is bc I can't get my shit done in the afternoon so I stay late to compensate, other times it's not workload or a choice, I just blink at 3:30 and suddenly it's 8pm. Evening plans help but I still left 1/2 hr later for my date than planned last week.

My new office is a windowless cave largely isolated from the routine noises of the hospital (though I can kinda hear shift change).

Advice?

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

@vector Oak galls! I bet it's a wasp! Cut it open and see if you can find the larva.

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

@kibi @srn "Gay" has always been an umbrella term but it has *also* always been used to talk about homosexual men. If everyone felt equally included in "G" why did we need "LGBTQ"?

Firming up my take, I think it's like using "guys" or "dude" as gender neutral terms. There's a lot of generic usage & it's 99% fine, but when it's not, I don't feel more comforted by "lesbian is a generic term for me" than I would "dude is gender neutral in California".

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

@kibi @srn
First person to come up with good inclusive shorthand for "people who have to deal with misogyny" is gonna get their name in a lot of gender studies textbook footnotes. I feel like *everyone* is struggling with this and it makes a lot of community jargon really unsatisfying.

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

@kibi @srn I also don't want to frame the situation as "wlw scores 12 gatekeeps, lesbian 4, queer femmes 2" - or w/e the score is when we've worked out all the intersectionalities. That pits the interests of Bs and Ts (and other groups sidelined by various language options, like elders who don't want to reclaim queer) against each other, priming us to argue about whose marginalization should score more points.

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👀🌲Apr 18, 2018

@kibi @srn Yeah, "wlw" explicitly includes cis bi women while asking trans women & women-allied enbies to just kinda hope they're covered by any given community's definition of "women". Not endorsing it.

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👀🌲Apr 17, 2018

@kibi @srn Out of curiosity, how old are you? Trying to figure out if there's a generational component to our conflicting intuitions here (I'm 37).

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👀🌲Apr 17, 2018

@eldang This would be easier with a picture. Eskers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esker