I hate that no one talks about just how distressing memory loss from adhd actually is. I always see memes that are like “haha I forgot my phone, I don’t remember where my laptop is, etc”, but no one seems to talk about how it can really fuck you up long term to just, not remember things that are completely mundane to non-adhd’ers. The memory loss is, however, so frustrating to us. I cannot physically count how many meltdowns I have had over the sheer mental frustrationandtorture of not being able to remember seemingly simple things
in addition to the frustration and shame of the actual forgetting, there’s this constant background dread, because you know for a damn FACT you are forgetting something important at any given moment. racking your brain may or may not bring it to mind, but you can’t be dwelling on that 24/7 or you’d never do anything else, plus it quite often doesn’t even work. so you just. live with it. every second of every day.
you have forgotten something that is going to bite you on the ass at some random future moment. water is wet. this is your life.
i have zero (0) feelings regarding the jonas brothers reunion, but i will fight every single one of you that has the audacity to call year 3000 a jonas brothers song in 2019
Browsing jobs and came across this unhinged banger of a job description containing the following:
“This is NOT a role for someone who wants to coast into the office everyday and make a few calls and hope that that is enough, this is not a role for someone who doesn’t feel the PAIN personally when they fail or let the team down.”
I’m a passionate person and like to throw myself at work. I absolutely adored the job I unfortunately just lost, we were doing some really amazing things and really putting Scotland on the map.
HR’s hardest job in the company was actually forcing people to take their holidays. There was nothing I wanted to do more than wake up the day after and just get back to doing what I did.
I’m really gutted that working somewhere so great has actually shielded me from the horrible reality of looking at other companies who are arrogant enough to think I should have this immediate desire to fall on the sword for them.
Other grievances so far consist of “Commission-Only” roles being places into every single salary bracket category.
If it’s Commission-Only then the salary is effectively £0. It’s also just a massive red flag.
New grievance:
FULLY REMOTE*
*Must be able and willing to commute to our office at least once a week
Starting salary - £18K
Requirements - Fluent in 3 languages
Best one so far.
“Edinburgh, Scotland [Fully Remote]
Must be willing to relocate to Canada”
Okay, another thing, sorry this is just becoming a list of hell.
We need to separate the two very different definitions of remote into two separate terms.
On one hand, you have remote work meaning work from home. But you also have companies saying remote work is driving up and down the UK. These are two different things and shouldn’t both be labelled remote.
My first biology professor had an ‘inadequacy drawer’ full of things to remind him he wasn’t, in fact, the dumbest and laziest person to ever exist. It was mostly Darwin, notably these two bits:
‘But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’
‘I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids and today I hate them worse than everything.’
“I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
-Charles Darwin on a letter to his cousin
Charles Darwin: unexpected depression hero.
I knew about “I am very poorly and very stupid and hate everybody and everything,” but not the others.
“I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees” is A Mood.
My favorite Darwinism: “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects”. Hits me right at the center of my hyperfixated soul.
