🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If you want to completely fucking ignore science and be an ingorant fuck, then yes, you can say those things.

    Let’s be clear about this shit.

    Because of my undiagnosed ADHD, when I failed fourth grade and the school board tried to get my parents to sign custody of me over to the state to be put in an institution until the STATE decided to release me, when my parents said “Fuck no”, they tried to put me in a private school, but there wasn’t one close enough, so I got to be homeschooled. Which went poorly with my undiagnosed ADHD.

    I managed to get to 2nd and 3rd college year level in all subjects except math (where I was at 11.5th grade level) by the time we were in the middle of the tenth grade school year, because I was “blessed” by high IQ - which is fucking useless, except it measures how quickly you can learn, and I managed to pick up enough even with all the struggles.

    I got into college, but I failed - three attempts at it.

    I had trouble keeping jobs, thanks to my ADHD.

    I finally got my ADHD diagnosis at age 30. The therapist who diagnosed me said I was the most severe case he’d ever seen.

    It was after that that I tried college a third time, but thanks to IRS stupidity - long story - we got screwed and I lost my scholarships because we couldn’t prove we didn’t owe $14k to the IRS that we didn’t owe.

    Meanwhile, I still had trouble keeping jobs, so I had no healthcare. So when I was diagnosed with diabetes, they put me on metformin. I didn’t get any education. I knew to cut out sugar but I didn’t understand carbs. And what do you live on when you’re poor? Carbs. So the metformin alone did hardly anything.

    So I lived for ten years with unmanaged diabetes because the metformin was all I could apparently afford. Thanks to the US healthcare system and to my ADHD.

    I had a saddle pulmonary embolism and nearly died, and that’s what enabled me to convince my wife to let me look for work nationally. We ended up in Virginia from Florida and I have insurance and have my diabetes under control, but the damage was done. I’ve had six heart attacks and my kidneys failed so I’m now on dialysis. I also had to have a below-knee amputation, so I’m a wheelchair user on top of that because with the fucking anemia I couldn’t walk, so I’ve lost that ability.

    Thanks to all of that, I’m 50 and I’m maybe going to see 60 if I’m lucky, but probably not.

    Thanks in large part to my ADHD. I strugle every single fucking day with my ADHD and its effects.

    So pardon me if I feel a little rage when you suggest that perhaps modern day life is “causing” this shit, because fuck anyone who says that. I’m sick of hearing people deny ADHD. I’m sick of people saying “we ALL are a LITTLE ADHD”. NO YOU ARE FUCKING NOT AND HOW CAN I TELL? BECAUSE IT DOES NOT FUCKING IMPACT YOUR LIFE TO THE SAME DEGREE IT DOES THOSE OF US WITH ADHD. SO HOW ABOUT SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ANY FUCKING THING ABOUT AND STOP DENYING THE SHIT I HAVE DEALT WITH ALL OF MY FUCKING LIFE.

    So there. You shitty people want to downvote something? Go ahead and downvote that. Feel better about yourselves, but you can also fuck off and be wrong.

    STOP FUCKING TRYING TO DENY ADHD. LOOK AT THE GODDAMN FUCKING SCIENCE. OR SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FUCK OFF.




  • I was not the one who passed Citizens United.

    I was not the one who set up Fox News and right-wing radio as propaganda outlets.

    I was not the one who chose to make the Republicans work with Evangelicals to push wedge issues.

    I was not the one who bought up all the media outlets to push Republican propaganda.

    But sure, put all the blame on me when I’ve done my part to vote, try and convince others to vote, protested some when I could which hasn’t been all that much. I even have a wikipedia page because of something I did in 2009 to try and help.

    But keep on blaming me and not the fascists and not the oligarchs who actually orchestrated this thing if it makes you feel better about yourself.

    Are you happy with yourself now for blaming me? Do you feel better?