You forgot depression
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Depression and Anxiety are just bonus co-morbidities with AuDHD! Isn't it fun?
Another Holy Trinity haver reporting in 🙋♂️
Damn it Moon Moon!
There are ADHD-style tendencies, but I don't think that reaches disorder-level for me. Autism affects me more meaningfully.
Like I can keep my chaos localized to certain areas of my home and life, but sensory and social issues are constant.
I have both & my Dad had an arctic wolf and a timber wolf while I was growing up.
We don't really talk but I guess you figured out how to use Lemmy, Dad.
Was gonna say, roughly, who has those options. Then this is top (Canadian?)
I am, of course, both. Wonder what happens if we release wolves in Australia. Guessing it happened and they died. Dingoes are cool though, and smart.
Loopy was the Timber wolf (named after cartoon wolf Loopy DeLoop) & Kushtaka was the Artic wolf (Loopy's son, named after the native shape shifting creature of lore)
Not that you asked, but I'm hoping this deflects from the fact that I am not, indeed, Canadian.
Sadly I am trapped in the infernal prison that lies directly south of Canada.
Dingoes are (I assume) a different flavor of Wolf. Smart, yes. Pack hunters, again, yes. I am no expert, but neither species are dog. I would hang out with them, though. I miss Loopy and Kush a lot. It's been years and they both died of old age.
Wolves in Australia sounds like a good band name.
My sympathies. On the odd occasion I have had a chance to hang out, dingoes were cool, not dogs, but aloof canids. Love to you and yours...
Not keen on 'Wolves in Australia' we seem to do fine without promoting bad invasive species, cane toads are enough.
They are most certianly dogs. I have one as a pet. Just not domestic european dogs.
Fair cop, no offense intended, just describing those I've met in the wild. I have an afghan hound, four thousand year old breed, that I would also class as 'aloof canid', still love me dog...
dingos arent aloof if you bond with them. Humans just expect dogs to fall over themselves to be their friends and miss read dingos body language.
Thanks for the kind words, friend. Much love to you & yours back as well!
I'm aware of the many battles with invasive species across the world, and of course the introduction of cane toads as pest control and thus the resulting aftermath is one of the most notorious. It's a terrible situation that I wish could be balanced. It's bizarre in a way, because Australia has the stereotype of "all the critters are out to kill you" but hardly any of those tough bastards are willing to eat a cane toad.
Cheers, appreciated,
hardly any of those tough bastards are willing to eat a cane toad.
Crows mate, worked out to flip them on their back and eat 'em that way. Currently passing the word along to various murders when they meet up, smart bastards.
Crows are cool. I've made friends with a couple over the years. They have a lot more time to use their brains freely. It's a nice way to be.
They need a reward system though, if ya want em to keep eating the toads. Easy food, but picking around the glands can't be easy and I'm sure it doesn't taste better than boiled peanuts or whatever they do in the nest.
Yeah, they're not making much of a dent in the toad population, probably don't taste good, but I find it fascinating that they have the level of culture where their groups get together and swap notes like this. Perhaps we should do that thing where they get a peanut for dropping off trash (was it cigarette butts, eww) but with toads.
Hold up homie, Carrier Crows. I'll find some and ask what they want to deliver a message to you, and you do the same. They can meet up half way and split the pay or however they prefer to do it. I'd be happy to take a loss for it. Birds are just new dinosaurs.
Edit: I know about the cigarette butt thing, but I think that story was blown a bit out of proportion. The Internet has a tendency to focus on a few things and make the most out of it. Plus, even if that works, we shouldn't be getting birds addicted to nicotine. I'm sure it's in the filter.
2nd edit: if you make sure to keep 'em in check, you can have our surplus of bashing dickheads. There's lots of angry people here who would love to use their aggression on animals. They do it regardless, let's aim them towards critically invasive species. (PS, I know about the roundups. We have a similar thing in the US, but instead of helping, ours hurts. It's in texas and they call it "rattlesnake roundup". Bunch of dumbfucks that don't understand what a keystone species is.
Heh, we have plenty of dickheads here, thanks anyway, and varying forms of toad 'sport' (golf, cricket etc.) Mild fun, but, again, little tangible effect on the toad scourge, shit's invasive.
If I may, perhaps you could point your dickheads at the orange idiot, likely more productive. Sorry about the snakes, rule here is leave 'em alone and they will too (tiapan is so much more venomous).
I have cptsd too, comlpetes the set
I wish there were 2 wolves inside of me :3
Yeah. And didn’t get any of the Au “superpowers” either.
Inside of you there are two wolves.
BUUURP
Yummy. /s Hey, turn-about is fair play tho.
Got diagnosed with ADD back in the 90’s. (Which as I understand falls under adhd nowadays) But looking at my family, myself and what I’ve learned so far, … there’s chances there’s a smidge of autism in there as wel.
Yes. More ADHD when i was younger, more ASD as i get older.
Not that ADHD is disappearing. Some of ASD traits are just making ADHD traits less apparent and less damaging. So basically getting a better hang of my ADHD side as i get older, making ASD straits more noticable.
In my experience, ADHD is responsible for masking ASD behaviors. Am I making enough eye contact? Too much information, need to look away. Am I engaging my face enough? Are my expressions in line with the information I'm hearing?
As I understood that my abnormal behaviors were likely a result of ASD, my need to mask became less of a priority also making the ASD more noticeable. I don't really look at faces when I talk anymore unless I really know the person, but it makes me able to actively engage. Agreed, not disappearing but ADHD is less relevant now than the ASD. We will never be normal, but we can mitigate the symptoms enough to engage to a satisfactory degree.
When i was younger it was. ADHD was diagnosed pretty much instantly, 2 sessions, but my mother didn't believe or like it and nothing came from it and ASD stayed hidden for decades. ASD was diagnosed in my late 20s and this time that was diagnosed within a handful of sessions, i brought old ADHD diagnosis and old documents up myself later.
The combo of both kinda protected me from the worst social consequences and made me completely oblivious to those. The facial expressions and eye contact and many other human to human interaction related things came much later, basically in my adulthood. ASD hit my social and emotional aspects with a sledgehammer.
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I’ve got AuDHD and bipolar. Life is fun.
That's a winning combo! I've got dyspraxia and remnants of ptsd with a touch of depression
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