These are the kinds of places that make me believe in hostile sound design

Chemist Warehouse is a special kind of hell where they have music interspersed by their advertising, TVs looping their advertising (including jingle eight times in a row), a thousand people talking, and all of these conflicting audio tracks are louder than the pharmacist calling names

Scale from one to ten, how upset would my housemates be if they both reaaallly need the sleep for different reasons, but also I can't sleep and wanna run myself a bath

The terrible thing about being super aware of your body is you start doing crazy shit like running a vocal siren a couple times while muttering "I can hear you" to your PHLEGM

When the burnout, virus, severe asthma, migraine, and fibro flare all hit at the same time 👌

So how much of that "decentralised" currency is down cause of one server in North Virginia?

Yo twinsies! Technically they were testing for EDS but they weren't testing for the fibro/CFS I got in my bundle!

Sometimes, when your mental health isn't doing so well, you just need to jump into a warm cosy shower and waterboard yourself for a bit

Not sure if my problem is the location, the fact that I speak up and tell them they've fucked up, or pure coincidence

Anyway, I dislike people acting unpredictably in multi-tonne speed machines, and I like even less getting abused by men and fearing they'll escalate further

One got out of his car to yell at me because he was stopped at a green light and I had the gall to honk him

The other told me out his open window to get bent and called me a fucking idiot when he drove through the crosswalk I was on and all I said was "it's a crosswalk"

So I've been road raged at twice in two days in the same shopping centre parking lot, both times by people in the wrong

So last night some dude rolled down his window in a parking lot just to tell me I was a "beautiful lady"

Bit my tongue enough to avoid telling him he was wrong on both counts

When you wanna make a funny post but

Man I could really go for a scalp and foot massage

I keep forgetting the word "impairment" and my brain instead offers the word "impotence" and I just think that's funny to apply in many situations

this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible

once again tapping the sign

Literally couldn't sleep last night and got maybe 2 hours sleep on the couch, and I have to be awake at 6:30 for my desk job

But.

At almost 1am now my body's like hey how about some noodles that'd slap right now

So anyway it turns out I've been diagnosed with Body No Work and I haven't been making it up or lazy? Who could have seen that coming

Yes!

A comic with several panels about ADHD and shame. First panel, Kiki struggles holding a ton of items, while her peers only hold single sheets of papers. “I Spend so much time trying to fit in, hiding how forgetful and chaotic I am, but also pretending my struggles are like everyone else's." Second panel, Kiki’s mother is pointing at her. “I’ve faced so much rejection and trouble for thing I didn’t even know were wrong, just for being myself, that it feels like I have to hide who I am.” Third panel, Kiki is taking off a wig, revealing she is an alien “but what I’m hiding isn’t that I’m an alien, what I’m hiding is all the shame I carry.” Kiki is holding her stomach in pain.

A series of Kikis with text. “Shame that I couldn’t fit a shower into my daily tasks. Shame when I can’t let people inside because it’s never clean. Shame when I cry being overwhelmed by paperwork again. Shame when I’m the only one late again. Shame for every white lie I tell because I can’t take one more rejection despite being so burnt out.” Kiki’s face is hidden in shadow as she says “of course I change my bedsheets once a week.”

“I’ve used shame as a weapon against myself as a punishment to force myself to learn.” Kiki scolds herself in the mirror. “How well has that been working for you? Are you on time now? More organized?” The Kiki in the mirror is revealed to be a child version of herself. “Why am I never good enough? If I just stopped being like this, people would like me.” Kiki hugs the child version of herself. “You have been brave long enough. You’ve been scolded enough, what you - I would have needed was to be seen. You’re not alone anymore, we will find a way. Together.”

Small kiki is pulling the adult Kiki by the hand through their apartment. “Don’t punish emotions,pay attention to them. Missing a shower isn’t failure, it’s a sign, a clue. Ask what’s missing, not what’s wrong with you.” Kiki is standing behind her child self, holding her shoulders in support. “It’s not fair that I never got to feel like I am okay the way I am, that no one say how much I struggled and took all the pain away. Look at everything you’ve been through. It makes sense that you’re the way you are. Let’s try our best. Not to get it right for others, but to finally get to know how WE do things.” “At the very least, I can have my own back.”

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something

COVID must be sending me stir crazy cause I can't sleep and the solution my brain keeps throwing at me is to go for a 3am jog

I'd like to shake the hand of whoever invented apple juice. The simplest healing elixir.

Fuckin COVID strikes again

As usual, and expected this early on, I feel like the amount of sick I feel (none) is very disproportionate to the control measures I have to take (many)

Of course I know better, and I have all my supplies ready for hospitalizing levels of asthma

I have an online meeting with somebody at 10:30 for my office job, so I cram a bunch of work in the morning to prep for it and try and clear some of my huge to do list.

So gosh do I love it when I just sit in this virtual room and they don't show.

/sarcasm.

Boy don't I just love crying alone in the cultural centre at 8am

I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either.

Legacy code in COBOL, legacy magic in Kobold

Love napping so hard that your loved ones are seriously concerned