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Cake day: April 16th, 2024

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  • Less and less as I get older. I got medicated for it and I’m really better at handling, even using ADHD to work for me. I spent a day last weekend redoing a keychain stl for my daughter. Its a show she likes and I spent a good six hours hyperfocused on it and today I’m doing the finishing touches. I would not have been able to do that as quickly ten years ago.


  • I agree and have seen the same things many times. I can’t teach but I can do a great many things competently. This is not always appreciated by others.

    A synergist is someone who understands a whole process covering multiple disciplines. It pays well if you can get the job. The problem with that is you have to overcome those that only know one discipline and they don’t take well to someone coming in and making changes they don’t understand because they can only see a part of the process and can’t see their part in the solution.

    I could do that job but I’m not great with the hand holding necessary to get closed minds to shift to a new shape.


  • I’m sure thats part of it. My schedule for this week includes preparing eight cisco switches for deployment in a distributed multi vlan environment. Rebuilding my daughters iphone XR and reassembling a 2000 dollar 3d printer with a bad linear bearing and two questionable steppers. On top of that I’ve finished a remix of a keychain in freecad and started on modifying another fidget for two color printing. I don’t think I would know how to do any of those things if I had been born in to money.

    I have a coworker who is in his mid twenties who has undiagnosed ADHD and this is the first job he has ever had. He was hired as a favor to his family. He has never wanted for anything in his life and it shows. He isn’t stupid he just hasn’t ever had to struggle for anything. Its maddening to me. He thinks I don’t like him but in truth I just want him to realize he has ADHD. It wont do any good to tell him if he isn’t willing to accept it.