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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • This is something I tell my coworkers with ADHD as a senior level person and former manager - you need to accept yourself and what you can do. Sure, exploit the fuck out of brain on time and crash through tasks - but accept that this is temporary. Feeling in the dumps and guilty about not being productive - accept that this is also temporary and (I know this isn’t easy) try and tear yourself away from the task and be unproductive in the most pleasant manner… I try to go for walks when I’m in a slump and sometimes it lets me shuffle my brain enough to be productive - sometimes it doesn’t… but I’m happier having had a walk than zoning out in indecision.

    It’s all temporary - our most common strength is improvising and we need to respond to what our brain tells us instead of fighting it constantly and I hope you all have jobs that allow you to do so because I have had an “always on” job and it was absolutely miserable.












  • I wouldn’t consider it particularly dystopian with a condition - the modern world is a dystopian corporate hellscape so nearly all modern setting tales are dystopian… your description of the setting and plot are certainly a society under pressure but assuming the new country isn’t also a dystopian corporate hellscape it’d break with the tradition of dystopian literature where the actions of the characters leave the world no different than the initial state (sometimes names will change, or governments be overthrown only to be replaced with nearly identical ones) or, potentially, worse.

    I think the “everything is awful and can only ever get worse” is pretty integral to dystopias.