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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Aside from getting treatment, what’s helped me:

    • know that you’re incapable of forming habits. You have to choose to do the thing every time.
    • Trick yourself into hyperfixation if you can. It’s a superpower, if you can aim it in a useful direction. Find something gratifying or satisfying about the task to focus on. Sometimes watching the todo list get smaller or the inbox get cleared out does it for me.
    • This one’s hard to describe, but sometimes you have to realize that the hyperfixation easy-mode motivation isn’t coming and you’ll have to draw motivation from somewhere else inside yourself. Sometimes just getting over the initial jump of starting a task makes the rest of it flow naturally.
    • Break big problems into little problems.
    • Simplify your life as much as possible. You only have so many executive function tokens every day, don’t waste them.
    • have a todo list. Don’t make it complicated. If possible, just do the thing immediately instead of putting it on the list.
    • Get enough sleep. This is not optional.
    • Exercise, specifically some kind of cardio. 30 minutes above about 120bpm, 3 times per week. There are studies, it makes a big difference in a million ways.
    • Give yourself grace. You’re playing on hard mode, don’t compare yourself to neurotypical people.

    Edit: also it’s not laziness, not really. Lazy people are comfortable with it.












  • traches@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzTell me the truth.
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    2 months ago

    You’re just repeating the definition that I’ve already made clear I disagree with. This definition isn’t science, it’s taxonomy. Taxonomy is just a tool; we group similar entities together so we can characterize them. A body’s orbit and neighbors aren’t as important for that purpose as other attributes like size and composition.

    Should they be considered planets? No, of course not.

    Why not?

    how round is round enough?

    I’m sure the IAU can come up with a suitable boundary. The lines are always fuzzy.