Sword Art Online: Gun Gale season 2 has been announced.
Not even mad, since Gun Gale S1 was pretty okay.
There is a variety of good reasons people donât get a formal diagnosis (money, the process of going through medical diagnosis often being a directed nightmare for any neurodivergent people, not wanting a government record of something they can be discriminated for*, etc) so itâs best not to try and medicalise something that doesnât have a medical solution. If advice designed for someone with ADHD/autism helps someone, or they find community with people with similar traits/difficulties to them, I donât really care.
With autism being a bundle of traits that arenât definitive and often overlap with other conditions like ADD, it also means that when I describe something as autistic or say a character is autistic-coded, Iâm not diagnosing anyone - but if you identify with several of those traits, idk maybe look it up see if an assessment would help you
*discrimination up to and including enforced DNR orders if you are unconscious btw
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my psychologist wants me to get an ADHD test and it costs 200+ euros
i also want to get it tested just in case i do have it and maybe ADHD meds could help, but
ha hahhhhhhh
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In my country you get financial help if you are diagnosed with a disability, though minor ones doesnât count.
Because my disability is minor, I donât get any help. I pay for the meds, for the noise canceling headphones, for the psychologist, and sometimes I simply canât afford it. It stinks they donât help us High-functioning people because we need help too. And being diagnosed is expensive! But what can you do. The world is unfair sometimes.
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I do get some financial help but itâs obviously very little. But still better than nothing!
The kicker for me, and why Iâm fidgeting while waiting for Whenever medical decides Im through the waiting list (I have had no indication or rough timeline at all) is that thereâs a bunch of traits/past experience that aligns more with ADHD than ASD. And that stuff can be medicated.
Iâve seen/had people say âOh, but itâs bad to be on drugs for-â I do not care. I do. Not. Care. If it means I do not have to wage literal mental warfare against myself on a bad day to do the things I want to do, nevermind the things I donât want to but NEED to do, because society demands it, I will take it.
I would very much like the opportunity to make important phonecalls without needing an entire day free for prep time, psych-up and execution, please and thank you 
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Give me drugs, big pharma. Iâll take them all, no questions asked. Gimme gimme.
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Not sure if that was a generic/general comment or aimed at me 
It could be both, who can say
Well, while Iâm not denying that Corporations Are No Ones Friend, at the same time I think anything even approaching âNo, (medical) drugs bad, you should only use natural means and methods!â is woefully ignorant at best, and genuinely harmful at worst.
Speaking as someone who has had family members on anti-deppresents and the like at one time or another, sometimes they absolutely are necessary. This isnât the USA (thankfully) so I think a healthy dose of salt need applying to the sheer scale of âBig Pharmaâ talk that they have and which still gets transplanted without context across the pond.
I mean, in an ideal world, sure; weâd be able to rely more on less of that, because Society would be structured and enlightened in such a way as to reduce stress, increase support, have the time and structure and understanding to massively reduce the pressures on people day to day.
But that would require us to not be in a Late Capitalist Hellscape, soâŚ
I wasnât disagreeing with you (give me drugs)
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you wouldnât want my drugs (their main side effect is killing your libido)
Btw, the reason we know armour dye is in, is that the NDA for Baldurâs Gate 3 is over.
So some people may want to up their dodge rolls on youtube just in case. Not seen any spoilers (that werenât from the panel) yet though.
This is Lorasâs way of agreeing with you.
Trust me, I got a passing grade in Loras posting.
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I take drugs with a similar effect.
Itâs nice to be understood 
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Well, my bad then! 
I am too used to the General Internet Brainrot (there is no known cure, ahah)
Shame that the early access to full release that happens between early access and full release has been clarified to not be a thing, so everyone gets full version only on august 3rd. Sad times.
Iâm fine with it. I mean we got a month early instead of 3 days early⌠plus if you got the early access downloaded it lessens the amount of data you gotta download. Was mostly interested in the 3 days because of my slow internet and sometimes impatient friends.
I try 
Went to pick up some RP gear in (sigh) Shadowlands, and it reminded me just how inconsequential that expansion with supposedly cosmic stakes was for Azeroth.
Oh no, the Jailer has kidnapped all of Azerothâs architects of peace â oh wait, theyâre back and nothing of note happened during their absence. Except Anduin, whoâs free but off to do some⌠soul searching I guess.
For Azerothians, the expansionâs timeframe can safely be taken as part of âthose five years when not much happenedâ, which I guess is the best I could hope for as a roleplayer, short of deleting the expansion from the game.
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Itâs the trouble with âevent expansionsâ like that and WoD, where nothing else changes - itâs somewhat true with Dragonflight even, where things havenât really progressed in the world, but at least weâre still on Azeroth so we can easily cut away.
The world was fighting a renewed Scourge assault for the better part of a year and only one side quest in one covenant campaign makes even reference to it? not sure about that one
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I tried out the cool new gear update feature on one of my alts, it
- downgraded my gear
- downgraded my bags
- did not clear out my quest log
So thatâs a solid -2/3. Couldâve been worse.
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