The lighter side of ADHD
Very accurate. The other day my partner walks in.
her - What are you doing?
me - reading about how to prepare acorns for cooking
her - huh, ok *walks away *
I think it went something like : See tree > acorns! > can you eat acorns? > look up acorns > spend 30 minutes reading about preparing and cooking acorns > Forget original thing I was going to do
The answer is yes they can be eaten but you have to soak them to remove the tannins. Then grind into a flour. Use for various recipes.
thank you for sharing your research findings! the only thing left is personal review! how are they?
My friend has done this, and says “not remotely worth the effort, unless you want survival skills”.
now I know!
thank you and your friend for sharing the feedback!
Apparently they taste much better if you let pigs eat them first and then eat the pigs instead.
Acorn and nutmeg cookies fucking slap.
nice, gonna have to try that
Wish I could remember their name but there is an adorable black woman somewhere who makes TikTok videos about foraging and forgotten staples that we humans used to use from the land we live on. Very solar punk vibe. She did an entire video on acorns.
Is it BlackForager? The "one of these is poison, and one is a snack" lady?
YES!
I just know you can eat them because my grandparent showed me them done on the fireplace instead of just doing the normal chestnuts. I just didn't like that specific taste. And it's used to feed sheep and stuff lime that too.
My horse learned from other horses in the pasture that he could eat acorns. The horses loved them apparently
Lime stuffed mutton fed on acorn meal, mmm
Ohhh that reminds me of eating pine cones in honey. I still have it somewhere, never finished the entire bottle. But it was good.
Doesn't help that I often get fascinated by the most basic things, and then they just occupy my mind.
Recent example: Internet
When I say I get distracted by the internet, you'd probably think I go to TikTok or YouTube shorts. No, I mean internet itself.
I set up Tailscale, and it's running on my headless home computer. And oh my god, I for some reason find it fascinating. I might not even have anything to do, but I just SSH in, or even run VNC, and it's just awesome.
I am accessing a computer in a different city, using it as if it was here.
Then I run sshfs, and it looks like local storage. How awesome is that?
And it's mobile data on both sides. So much data going through the air, through walls, to a distant tower, on both sides.
Plus it's so quick! Just milliseconds, and the bits are here.
Literally what web is too. Using computers from not just different cities, but even different continents.
I've used it for a few months now, but I still sometimes just log in just because. It still fascinates me that I can access my computer from so far away.
Oh and oh god, I almost forgot about when I ran SDR++/RTL-TCP server on it, and used SDR from a different city. Sampled RF signal live, right over the internet, how cool is that?
Welp anyway, right now I tried to watch some video, but got distracted by random thought of RAMdisk. So, now I am listening to music from tmpfs for no good reason.
The first time i realized i could use netcat to send and receive data between two of my computers on a LAN I was giggling like a child. You don't need fancy programs, email, webbrowsers or whatever. Just a single line in the command line and there appears text on my other computer...
I just learned to use scp. Now I'm looking up netcat.
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Are you me? I SSH into a VM on my home server from my phone via tailscale while I'm out and about. Just because I can. I love the internet! The stuff it enables not always, but the thing itself is amazing and so fun to play with.
The first thing I do when I get to work is VPN home and check if my server containers need any updates. I have so many services running but hardly use, just because I want my server to do more. I even had a headless steam container so I could game from my phone like a steam deck while pooping at work
Headless Steam? I didn't know this was a thing. Gonna look into that!
edit: Does playing games put a significant load on the server? Wondering if my N100 may not be up to the task.
Yeah its basically like gaming directly on it, I mostly played like 2d platformers and stuff like stardew or graveyard keeper that could run off the igpu
I mean, those are just a series of squirrels distracting you from the last squirrel.
Car rides when I’m not driving are super hit or miss for me for this one.
Mid-conversation I’ll start drifting off in random thoughts starting from who knows where, and by the time I snap out of it it’s been so long it’s awkward to resume a conversation.
How do you explain that you spent the last 45 minutes planning out exactly how to repurpose parking garages across the country as hydroponics farms (because of the slope, strong building support that can handle a lot of water, and wiring for lights) when public transit or ride share takes over, when the prior conversation was about beer/breweries? While driving through the plains of Kansas.
It’s barely in the realm of possible to explain, because you start to explain and then the other person goes “how on Earth did you get to that from there, while here” and then you stop and think about it and entirely forget why you were retracing your steps in the first place..
Edit to add pic and re-word for clarity.
Yet another ADHD meme that has me wondering if I have ADHD.
So was I for quite a while, seeing all these memes, then trying to find out more about the topic, after I've seen myself in too many of them. So I got my diagnosis earlier this year at 41. Much of my life has changed for the better since then. Do yourself a favor, go and get tested. Don't wait.
Just got my diagnosis in my mid -30s.
What did you do after you got yours and how has it changed your life?
I got a prescription for meds (Methylphenidate) and have been taking them for a few months. Since then, work has become much easier for me, I no longer procrastinate that much, I've stopped excessively smoking weed for self medication, I can concentrate for longer periods of time, I am generally much more relaxed in my everyday life and in my relationship, I can read books again, and I am slowly but surely getting my home in order. To this end, I recently created a two-week plan where I only have to do something for 15 minutes each day. It's working great so far. I never want to go back, because it's like night and day. I only wish I had been diagnosed 30 years earlier.
What about you?
I'm still struggling to find a doctor who still takes new patients and can handle my first prescription.
Otherwise the diagnosis hasn't really changed much for me, other than, that I have a bit of an explanation, why I'm struggling with certain things, that goes beyond sheer incompetence. But that hasn't really had an impact on my feeling of self-worth yet. It's only been two months though.
Yeah, the diagnosis was a remarkable relief, but didn't change much. Things got going with the meds, though. I try to improve on my self-worth by going to therapy, too.
Hang in there and don't give up! Wish you all the best!
Anyone here who somehow got diagnosed in Serbia? How long did it take?
Playing indoor soccer. Noticed that one of the roof poles things wasn't centred. Wonder why that is- SLAM. Other player runs into me.
Now reading this, maybe I should get checked
I have 15 WOW wiki tabs open right now and I haven't played that in like 12 years.
Yeah but if you close them, they are gone forever.
Accurate.
Mine sometimes gets pretty bad that I forget and ignore my wife.
You start looking up the tree and remember climbing a particular tree as a kid, you wonder if that tree is still there, you feel sad that your body is falling apart and you could never climb trees like that again, why do many cities remove all their trees, why isn’t there a less verbose version of JSON, there is it’s YAML, why don’t more things support YAML
“5 MINUTES” LATER
But why does nature love crabs, what was that word called again, you go to look it up but your phone has a notification about a new item at Taco Bell, you hope the brought the enchirito back, the sun has set and you’ve missed all the buses and they are no longer running and how long has it been?
YAML should have never been. So many problems I've dealt with over my career were directly from Ingy's infuriating invention and the myriad of parser quirks and version differences that exist across multiple languages.
Yes. True. Hehe. :)
Oh look people on that river are kayaking and boating. That exists. Let me spend the rest of this 6 hour train ride looking up man powered watercraft. Can you just buy one and use it? Yes.
Then a few years later I got a kayak. Used it quite a bit but then we moved house, now it's like half an hour to walk to the sea so I usually cycle there and swim instead.
Damnit Stamets!
…this is how I learned how many species of squirrel my state has.
You lost me at squirrel
Is.... Is that not normal??
It's exhausting tbh
Should study about trees at the bus stop.