• konalt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I physically can’t burp. The muscles in my throat don’t open to let air out. We had r/noburp on reddit, but I don’t know if there’s an equivalent here.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    I have a few, but the most commonly misunderstood of these… I don’t even know if it has a name. I’m just socially slow and people assume I’m an introvert because of it.

    Made worse because schools put people in special education classes for social issues, they can’t comprehend for some reason that people just don’t all socialize the same way.

    It’s not all that uncommon either if you believe in the statistic that the average person lies a hundred times a day. WHY do they lie a hundred times a day? Because of exchanges like this.

    “Hello.”

    “Hi.”

    “Hey, how are you today?”

    “Good, just finished washing the dishes.” (lie to keep the conversation alive)

    Which means our society, by training people to value sociability more than friendliness, are breeding its own compulsive liars. And on a side note, that brings us to another ill people don’t understand, because people think compulsive lying is a “bad seed” kind of thing when our environment (and sometimes the rebound after being 100% honest for a long time) can make us that way.

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      It is completely 100% ridiculous to try to ‘diagnose’ you from this short of a description, but it could be that you’re autistic to some degree.

      Us autistic folks like to take moral issues a lot more personal, like having to lie. We’re often at odds with societal standards. We may feel like we’re socially slow, even though in my experience, it’s usually just that we socialize differently. And we definitely overanalyze things.

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    1 year ago

    Chroma disease, people don’t get that when I’m burned out for the day it won’t help to take a short break. Immunosuppressants are a bitch.

    Edit: shitty Phone. Yes Crohn’s

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    I have ADHD, and most people _mis_understand it. They are familiar with some of the symptoms, like that it’s hard to focus, but completely unfamiliar with others, like that having an hour appointment in the afternoon can basically block out your entire day. I rely on and even thrive with medication, but there’s a nationwide Ritalin shortage that has basically kept me from working for the past month while I figure out a new medication.

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      Came here to see if anyone had mentioned ADHD. So much misunderstanding. The name of it doesn’t help either.

      Sorry to hear about the Ritalin shortage. Going without meds for more than a week super sucks. (I’m on vyvanse though).

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        Call it EDD (executive dysfunction disorder) which is a part of ADD and you’ll find more people want to know what it is and don’t just assume.