This frickin comic, it gets me every time. It is a lot like that. I try to reason, be rational, consider options, but I get nothing back. It’s like trying to hail the Reliant, all I get is static.
I am never gonna get bored of seeing Star Trek references just absolutely fucking everywhere.
That being said I’m sorry it resonates so hard. I feel you buddy. I feel you…
Same here, it hasn’t gotten old for me yet! Hahah, I’m sure you get this a lot, but I saw your username and assumed I was looking at a Risa post (or at least a post in the startrek.website instance), hence the Trek reference.
Thx for posting this comic, it’s nice to be reminded you’re not the only one, ya know?
Yes. Yes I do get that a lot lol I never thought that would end up being a consequence of me branching out into other communities after establishing myself in Risa. You’re not alone though, don’t worry about that!
Oh I totally get it. That’s why I love this comic series so much. Was genuinely one of the first times I could go “oh wow, someone gets it.” I have most of the comics saved to my phone which is why my posting of comics to this community is skewed in their favor. Also I just kinda love them and wanna give the artist more attention.
Me: do the thing
🧠: “uh, no. Now sounds horrible and way too hard and it’ll take eleventy billion hours”
Later…
🧠: “OMG Emergency!! I’m late!! … Completes task … Wow that was kind of quick and easy. Why didn’t we do this sooner???”
Me: (ಠ_ಠ)
Brain, gaslighting us for adrenaline hits every chance it can.
completing tasks? how do i learn this wizardry?
I mean… mostly complete…
I can start it now but it won’t get finished and it won’t get done right. I don’t think the same unless I’m under pressure. Pressure breeds perfection.
Does it? Or does pressure lower standards of what constitutes perfection?
My brain literally only fully dials in when under stress. I become hyperfixated and very calm. The panic and adrenaline quiets all distraction. It’s very similar to the effect drugs like Adderall and Focalin (my favorite) have on the ADHD brain. Give normies Focalin and they’ll climb walls. Give them to me and I become very calm.
What’s Focalin like? It wasn’t an option when I first tried meds. Have you tried vyvanse before?
I was on old school Focalin, which was a smoother cousin of Ritalin (softer landing). They later released an XR version of Focalin because technically you could grind up the version I was on and abuse it. It was amazing. I was literally a different person. I booked millions of dollars of business on that shit. Unfortunately, it probably also contributed to my now chronic insomnia, hypertension, and other heart related issues. I got for stents installed at 45 even though I’m athletic, always active, and hadn’t had red meat in almost twenty years.
Nothing in life is free.
Damn, I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m probably fucked then lol
When I do a little bit every day, I still find myself with the lions head of the task leftover to do the night before.
Sure, it’s saved my ass a few times, I’ll have gotten all the time sensitive tasks done earlier - if I need to buy something before an event I’m sure glad I started early because I had time for the parcel delivery. But I’m still up till 3am the night before finishing the PowerPoint presentation, and I’m rocking up to the venue at 7am not 9am because I never did get around to setting up the furniture as planned because instead I fixated on the catering and spent 6 hours learning how to florrette every fruit known to man - a job I’d only scheduled 40 minutes for.
I’ll do a task that I’d scheduled 2 hours for and knock it out of the park in 15 minutes. So I reward myself by taking the entire rest of the day off from any related tasks. Then I get stuck on a task that is taking much longer - sometimes because it genuinely takes longer than I realised, sometimes because something about it just sends me into a timeless trance.
So that’s what happens if I start early. It’s a lot of mental labour. If I don’t start early, so far nothing bad has happened, and it feels like less work because I condense it into a shorter time.
Yep this is me right now. I’m being screamed at on a project I could have finished long ago but now they are throwing deadlines out and I spend more time coming up with excuses than just actually doing it.
I know how it looks from the outside, i seem incompetent. Sucks because it’s easy but I’m skimming lemmy and seeing what movies are on rather than working.
Drugs will kick in soon though and i can get back to it. Fun.
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