• FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I have his latest book on audio, and decided to give it a listen. That was one of the worst intro to a book ever. All I think of was Pangloss and his blind optimism, ‘all is for the best’.

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            Omg it has a name. Thanks for the link. I’ll literally cook a meal then ‘just do something quickly before I sit down to eat it’ and completely forget that there’s a meal on the side until I go back into that room to eat it. It doesn’t happen often because I know it happens so I have an order for doing things to make sure I don’t stray too far from the task until I’m finished.

            E.g. I could put the toast in and the kettle on then brush my teeth while I’m waiting. That would be efficient. But I’ll completely forget. So I brush my teeth, then put the kettle on, wait, get everything else ready, pour the tea, put the bread in, put some things away, butter the toast and leave the rest of the stuff out till after I’ve eaten. Otherwise, the kitchen will be spotless but I’ll suddenly remember at 3pm that I haven’t eaten and maybe I should start again with the cold over brewed tea and ‘toast’.

            • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              You’re welcome, hope the knowledge helps.

              For me, any object sitting somewhere for a few days just becomes part of the room, fading into the background until I barely perceive the clearly visible idk clutter on my desk for example. It’s annoying but once you know what’s happening, that makes it a lot easier to, well, cope

        • Yeah that’s uh… Not what this feels like to me.

          If he followed that up with “And that’s why I never step foot in the kitchen and make my wife to it for me” then yeah ok. But that’s not what’s being said.

          In the context of the initial tweet about the inability to visualize things in ones own head, I this tweet makes perfect sense. “I have x experience. It leads to y problem”.

          Gives me big time never puts the dishes away energy.

          Ngl, I think you’re just reading your own unrelated grievances into a tweet, cuz you dislike the guy for being a lib.

          Edit: I also love the reply where someone links a study that he may have OCD, a serious mental health issue. His response: wow

          Doesn’t he actually have OCD? That feels like a “No shit Sherlock” kind of response.

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          The inability to visualize things could be placed in the same neuroatypical bucket as autism and ADD. Why do we accept some measurable deviations but not others?

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          I also love the reply where someone links a study that he may have OCD

          He literally does have OCD, though. Which is probably why he gave that response.