(1) Say something honest but as neutral as possible. Whatever you do don't lead with "I have a disability and I want to know if you can give me accommodation" because as an employer I'm more interested in what you can do for me than the other way around.

(2) I am skeptical about both Autism and ADHD and especially when they are claimed to occur together. See also borderline personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder and other PD's.

I had a mental health crisis at 49 and was lucky, with help from my friends, that I wound up on my back foot rather than having a serious setback. The next year at the library a book practically jumped into my hands that explained just about everything that went weird in my life.

I spent most of the 2010s employed and unemployed trying to commercialize foundation models before the technology was ready and eventually wound up in a very ordinary fullstack job which is stable if not always exciting. Since I discovered what I am I gradually started to spread my wings and realize that people with my kind of nervous system in traditional societies have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

(3) No idea, but it is not about other people, it is about you. Today's freeze will be tomorrow's hot market but it could take a while.

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-1 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

> I had a mental health crisis at 49 and was lucky, with help from my friends, that I wound up on my back foot rather than having a serious setback.

I’ve seen a lot of your posts on HN and you seem knowledgeable and give good advice, but c’mon, divination? magic? are you sure you’re all right now? I mean no disrespect, and I’m no shrink, but I’d guess you’re maybe not out of the woods yet. I’ve had a family member with issues, being somewhat detached from reality is never good.

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purple-leafy 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I am skeptical about both Autism and ADHD and especially when they are claimed to occur together. See also borderline personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder and other PD's.

What?

> have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

Again, what?

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PaulHoule 7 hours ago | parent [-]

(1) I dunno about other countries but the blackboard jungle has gotten worse in the US since I was a kid.

I was one of only two dudes who showed up at a P.T.A. meeting, the other was the superintendent. He told me I could talk to the hand about my concerns about my son's situation in school whereas he told the mother of a "special" kid that she was a valued partner in his education because she could write a letter to Albany and the folks there would light a fire under his ass.

When I was a kid they tried a lot of things to accommodate me except what I really needed, but they tried. Today you have to have autism or ADHD or some diagnosis just to go to the bathroom during class. With an ADHD diagnosis you can get performance enhancing drugs and extra time on the test, no wonder it is a vanity diagnosis for rich kids. On Youtube you can see many self-diagnosed AuDHD women who look borderline PD to me.

(2) See

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-23999-003 (and I am not autistic but ask your shaman if therianthropy is right for you!)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30849096/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358882845_The_Shama...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death (magic is real but it takes a village to pull off that feat and like other feats that are common in traditional societies you don't need psi or other violations of known laws of physics to explain them)

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12192/persuasion-and-h...

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purple-leafy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t really know what to say to you, but you’re speaking to someone diagnosed with ADHD.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis for rich kids is hilarious to me.

If I could go back in time to have been born with a “normal” brain I would do so.

It is not and has not been a privilege living with ADHD. Diagnosis or not, life has been an uphill battle and society does not accommodate people with various brain-level divergence from the norm.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis, and then talk about voodoo in the same sentence is wild to me.

	▲	oliculipolicula 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fwiw for PP "rich-kids" means "anybody born in EU or USA" I think PP might even have been diagnosed with ADHD/autism at some point?? PP was trying to express that he doesn't want even want to live like a middle class no more (hence the traditional society)

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brandgefahr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Boy... that escalated quickly.

Thanks for all the links though. I'll have a look into it, seems very interesting tbh.