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    The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)

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    • Grayson
      Grayson @Auspice last edited by

      @auspice Most people are right-eye dominant. If you can't tell, look at that one. Every now and again look at the left just in case.

      Then stop looking because staring people in the eyes is bad too. 😞

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        GreenFlashlight @Auspice last edited by

        @auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

        I don't know how people can. You can't look at two eyes at once.

        Wait, can people look someone in both eyes at once? Is that something other people can do?

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        • Auspice
          Auspice @GreenFlashlight last edited by

          @greenflashlight said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

          @auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

          I don't know how people can. You can't look at two eyes at once.

          Wait, can people look someone in both eyes at once? Is that something other people can do?

          that's what I assume looking someone in the eyes is?
          Because it seems super weird to stare at one eye
          i don't know
          this is why i hate it and it makes me anxious

          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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          • PuppyBreath
            PuppyBreath last edited by

            In many animal species, in most primates, holding eye contact is meant to be challenging. I'm not convinced macho bullshit isn't the reason prolonged eye contact is even a thing.

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            • Ganymede
              Ganymede Admin @PuppyBreath last edited by

              @puppybreath said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

              I'm not convinced macho bullshit isn't the reason prolonged eye contact is even a thing.

              It is the reason.

              So?

              It's macho bullshit. I know that; everyone knows that. It was never about respect; it's about engaging in that animalistic behavior known as staring someone down.

              As a society, we think ourselves above it, but we aren't and we never will be.

              I have learned not only to stare at people, but to stare and laugh at them.

              All of the neurotypical behaviors are unfortunately red-flags when I look at a potential associate because every one of them are honest.

              All warfare is deception.

              β€œIt is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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                GreenFlashlight @PuppyBreath last edited by

                @puppybreath said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

                In many animal species, in most primates, holding eye contact is meant to be challenging. I'm not convinced macho bullshit isn't the reason prolonged eye contact is even a thing.

                It's largely American macho bullshit. A lot of countries don't prioritize eye contact the way we do because they understand it's aggressive.

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                • Wretched
                  Wretched last edited by

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                  • Kanye Qwest
                    Kanye Qwest Banned last edited by

                    you look at someone in the eyes by focusing on one, or both, going back and forth (though not super fast, like a madperson.) I have never had any trouble with eye contact or addressing people, but that might be a quirk of anxiety for some people. Just not the way mine manifests.

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                    • Wretched
                      Wretched @Kanye Qwest last edited by

                      @kanye-qwest I either am not looking at your face or giving a hard stare/... apparently?

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                      • Too Old For This
                        Too Old For This last edited by

                        I apparently either don't look at people at all, or I have a creepy dead-eye stare mixed with resting bitch face. So... y'know, I tend to go for not looking at people. Its the lesser of two evils.

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                        • Wretched
                          Wretched @Too Old For This last edited by

                          @too-old-for-this I think I have the opposite of 'Resting Bitch Face' i call it 'Resting Fucking off Face' Every job/responsibility/whatever ive ever had... i could be helping a customer, arms full of product, taking notes, and supervisors come up to me like I'm doing nothing. Same with parents. I ust genuinely give the appearance of faffing off 24/7.

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                          • Too Old For This
                            Too Old For This @Wretched last edited by

                            @wretched Yeah, I used to get accused of that when I worked retail. While actively holding up a display for another associate to fix into place so it will stop falling over every time a customer touches it.

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                            • PuppyBreath
                              PuppyBreath @Wretched last edited by

                              I've been told by a male coworker that I have an 'intimidating aura'. I've also been told by a female manager (I think was a compliment?) that I'm really good at blowing people off, and I think that 'intimidating' face is what she was referring to.

                              I'm quietly terrified of literally everything and everyone, though. I'm just bad at having facial expressions.

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                              • Wretched
                                Wretched @PuppyBreath last edited by

                                @puppybreath I'm half convinced i only got my promotion because for most of the year no one has been able to see the weird as fuck faces i make at any given time.

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                                      • saosmash
                                        saosmash last edited by saosmash

                                        I finally have my ADHD assessment scheduled, after 9 random forms and a commitment to pay $900 out of pocket because it's out of network even though my insurance provider is listed on their website.

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                                        • Atomic
                                          Atomic last edited by

                                          1. Fail to do the laundry for all of it.

                                          2. Start a low-intensity freakout when you're down to just your stuntderwear.

                                          3. Do all the laundry ever, kick back in a giant fort of clean clothes that will sit there until your next LIF, which will probably be about clutter strangulation, though mine was about an incoming doctor call BEING TEN MINUTES LATE.

                                          Crisis-only dopamine?

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                                            Macha last edited by

                                            I only seem to be able to focus on 'fun' things. Other than that, I want to sleep. ...and sleep.

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