Nangijala

Lol, the amount of damage control I had to do one Christmas when I rejected alcohol and said "no I don't really drink alcohol these days".

I'm not diagnosed. I work somewhere with an unusually high number of people with ADHD, autism and anxiety disorders. With the autistic ones it tends to be the most obvious. With ADHDers it is harder to tell sometimes.

If someone who appears to have their shit together tells me that they think they have ADHD or that they have it, I believe them. If they'd turn out to have lied to me, I don't really care. I'd probably just find their behavior to be a bit weird.

The only time I get pissed off about people with ADHD is when I meet those who thinks it is everybody elses' job to fix them. Luckily I have only met two of those. Everybody else I have met have been good people with their flaws and their struggles that may or may not get better ever, but at the very least they own their disability and don't think it is the whole world's responsibility to baby them. I knew one guy who expected me to call him in the morning to wake him up for work. He was in his 30s at the time. I was also supposed to do a bunch of other things that I have since forgotten. He had made a list like I was his mother. People like that, I genuinely despise.

As for myself, as I said, not diagnosed. I have a lot of symptoms and I appear at first glance to be a functioning member of society. I go to work everyday and deliver to various degrees, but I always deliver and I always meet my deadlines. Nobody, other than the ones working with me, knows all the acrobatics I do behind the scenes to make things look normal on the surface. I strive for extreme structure, yet I can barely set it up myself, and maintaining it is almost impossible. I start so many things that never get finished. I have constant racing thoughts and when I don't have that I have racing emotions where I can go through every emotion known to man within minutes and repeat them in a loop for hours with no pause button. I have so many different challenges I struggle with in my personal life that don't get to take over my life entirely because I'm super lucky to have good people around me whose abilities to create and maintain structures is something I lean on in my daily life. Every day I do my best to be productive and deliver. I have days where I just spin in my chair and water the plants at work or watch youtube videos. I have those days. I also have days where I am super productive and get a lot of things done and catch up on lost time. I always make it work, but I also know how fragile my structure is for me. Not too many things can go wrong before I crumble into a useless mess.

I suspect there are many people out there who are like me, who don't have a diagnosis, who don't appear to have it or who don't have it enough, who only appear that way because the systems they have in place for them and the people they have around them helps them to appear normal.

I can tell you that the only reason I haven't seen a psychiatrist yet is because the entire process of getting a diagnosis is so overwhelming and long that I just can't do it. I got a referral at one point and was supposed to find myself a psychiatrist on my own and I just couldn't do it. I have no idea how people who are worse off than me are able to get to the stage of seeing a psychiatrist in the first place. It is a complete mystery to me.

The black rhino side eyeing this meme hard.

Me when my best friend told me that in Islam, dogs were made from the Devil's spittle as he was frothing with glee at the prospect of seeing humans being eaten by lions:

I straight up told her I never thought the Quran could out-crazy Norse mythology, but where we are. I mean, we do have a story about the Æsir creating Kvasir from their spit, but that is no where close to being as metal as dogs being made from the spit of Satan. I was practically cackling.

Hm. Sure you're not just a giant, mate?

Or maybe I'm just aware that there is a world outside of the US where people can't afford smart fridges in the future no matter how much the market pushes them and that there are unions that will seek to regulate them running ads nonstop if it comes to it.

I have no doubt that people with money will most likely buy these things in the future if they are made with the costumer in mind instead of advertisers, but the poor people and the landlords who house them won't install smart fridges in their apartments anytime soon.

Maybe you're the one who hasn't paid attention or been around for that long.

We can agree to disagree on this one. I simply do not believe all fridges will be fixed with screens that shows ads nonstop. That is very unrealistic. It will be an option that people can choose, but oldfashioned fridges will always be available for people who prefer or can't afford the ones with screens. There are no words to be marked here. This is how the real world works. What you're describing is a dystopian fiction where every country is the same and no regulations exist and everyone was access to the same luxuries. That isn't the real world.

At the end og the day, it's all about money and most people can't afford fridges like this. Screenless fridges won't disappear over night either. In the same way that most people who own fridges don't have those fancy ones that vomits ice cubes at the press of a button. It's kinda cool, but too expensive and impractical for most people. People who can afford smart fridges and think it's a worth while expense will buy them, but I don't believe for a second that that is the majority of people. Not by a long shot.

In the same vein, there are many things that were in fact fads that have since faded into obscurity because they didn't make people's lives easier and/or weren't affordable for most os us. The smart home was one thing that was all the rage at some point back in the 2010s and they are probably still something that more affluent people invest in, but the rest of us, who can't really afford it, don't have smart homes.

I can totally see a revised version of the smart fridge becoming popular longterm if they are designed to be useful and making people's lives easier. However, the current designs of smart fridges are not helpful nor useful. They are a shallow gimmick and that is why they will not last unless manufacturers stop designing them for advertisement and start designing them to make people's lives easier.

I'm comparing smart fridges to 3D and VR because that is the proper comparison. All three are tech gimmicks that are too expensive and annoying to implement into daily life and that is why I believe smart fridges are a fad that won't last/spread. Especially not in these times where people don't have any money.

Using video games, the internet and gay sex as example of why smart fridges will become popular is both baffling and goofy to me, but maybe that was the point? If not, I'm not following your logic at all. Can you elaborate on where you see a link?

Only if people buy those things. I doubt the majority of people wants to pay extra for fridges with screens in them.

I think this shit is a fad that will go away in the same way 3D and VR did despite everyone promising this was the future. It's too expensive, too impractical and won't hold up once the novelty wears off.

I'm very happy for you!