I don’t like being wet, so I’d use about as much TP anyways. Maybe more.

If it’s hanging from the other side, there’s even more space for a spider to hide outside of view.

I’ve had a bidet for years and never used it. The rest of my family does, but I have no interest.

At least they’re not red circles and arrows.

Look for a bonnet. Wolves don’t wear bonnets.

It’s called touching your toes. Look it up.

I think I’ve seen mac and cheese cups that ask for hot water.

That’s what it’s called, okay. I didn’t remember the term.

“Please adjust your brightness so this shape is barely visible.”

Nah, I’m cranking that way up. I get that there’s an art, but I’d rather not be straining my eyes and ears.

It’s a slur, that’s why. Some slurs are major slurs that are considered offensive even when it’s not referring to someone, and I think this is one of them. They’re often forbidden because of it, and a lot of people find it easier to follow universal rules than to check the rules of each place they post, because the universal rules will keep you in the clear 95% of the time. And even if not, it’s still respectable to not want to use slurs.

And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term. That’s the way it goes, we have a word to insult people’s intelligence, doctors deal with patients who have a disorder causing that, they don’t want to use the mean word to refer to the patients, they come up with a new word for it, the word gets out, and then everyone makes it a new word to insult intelligence. Though this one seems to be taking a different track because it hit modern sensibilities, and at the same time I think doctors now know better than to come up with a new word for mental deficiencies.

Aww, I was hoping it was a replica. That would have been really funny.

If they can downscale enough, they should be able to pass this test.

Oh hey I think I’m in this picture.

Thanks, Bidem.

You’re fired.

I’ve never seen that association with my friends who use it. It’s always been more of a meme word, a meaningless adjective you throw into a sentence to make it “funnier.”

Not a bad idea, but as of now there’s no need in this case. I’m done having that argument (except for the one last comment I left in another branch of the thread before reading this) because it’s clear that it’s not accomplishing anything but frustration and wasted time. Though I guess it could still be good for DessertStorms to block me for the future, in case I misstep like this again.

Why are you being so hostile? I’m not even talking about ADHD here, I know neurotypical people who do it.

That’s talking about being on the phone before bed, not while trying to sleep. I’m not talking about people doing one last scroll before they go to bed, I’m talking about people lying in bed, scrolling through their feeds, expecting to fall asleep with their phone in hand.

And yeah, I thought it was a no-brainer that actively reading social media makes it harder to fall asleep while doing so, but these days I’m not so sure how common this “common sense” is.

I’m sorry about the experiences you’ve faced that are justifying this anger.

I just like to join in conversations, and to me, the forum format of Lemmy and similar sites is an invitation to have a conversation. When I see something that’s relatable, I often like to talk about how it’s relatable, and when I get to talking, I often like to say more than just a small bit. I usually only assume that a community is exclusive when something in its sidebar says so. The sidebar here doesn’t say it’s for people with ADHD only, so I assumed it’d be okay for me to join in the conversation.

And yeah, talking about how I sleep probably wasn’t the best thing there. I’ve been on the receiving end of righteous anger for giving neurotypical advice before, but I assumed that adding a disclaimer would have been enough. I’m not trying to fix you, and I understand that what works for me may not be feasible to even try for you. But I didn’t see it as just talking to people with ADHD. There are neurotypical people seeing these posts too when they trend, and I was thinking the advice might possibly help one of them even if it can’t help people with ADHD.

There’s a good point to be made about how it’s wrong for a neurotypical to co-opt an ADHD post to give advice to other neurotypicals, and I get that. I just don’t really see it as that, because the advice wasn’t even the primary purpose of my post (though I understand how it seems like that as it ended up being the largest paragraph.) The reason I was posting in the first place was just to talk about how it was relatable. I thought expressing a bit of solidarity and agreeing with the perspective on the top person in the meme would be a good thing. The advice was initially just a way to demonstrate that, before I went and made a whole paragraph out of it.

Sorry it came across the way it did. I’ll try to be more careful about it in the future, assuming I remember.