MarkKO wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 4:10 pm
Renascent wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 4:02 pm
Hardartery wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:09 pm
MarkKO wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:44 am
Maybe some idiot was making bulletproof coffee.
I am thoroughly mystified by this. In what reality is this doing anything different than putting cream in your coffee? From a straight up nutritional point of view. I mean, unless you're using salted butter, in which case you could add salt to your coffee with the cream. Mmmmmmm, yummy, lol.
I suspect it was my kid's doing. ADHD-diagnosed, slightly spectrummy (I forget the exact clinical term they gave us). Where mindfulness is concerned, he and I are practically opposites. Whenever he's tasked with cleaning up the house, I always explicitly request that he leave my keys or any other daily-use belongings exactly where he found them, unmolested, or else I wind up on a nationwide search for some shit I really need in order to leave the house.
After washing dishes, he never puts everything back in the proper place. Kept rearranging toothbrushes for some reason last week, which annoyed the shit out of me. I think he even ate a giant block of gouda cheese in a sitting while doing chores, probably out of boredom; supposedly he has no recollection of even doing it.
He's been on a brownie kick lately, and I suspect he was cooking or something. He won't cop to it, though.
He most probably has a perfectly good reason for doing stuff like that, which makes sense to him and no-one else. Makes it hard to explain.
My wife is similar in that respect. She doesn't look at things the way I do.
For the most part, I think this is true. This is also how my wife attempted to describe the manifestations of his diagnoses to me, back when my understanding (and tolerance?) of it was rather poor.
Dude just straight up gets bored doing mundane tasks, which I understand to a large degree. "He creates his own stimuli" is how a behavioral therapist once described it to us.
My concern arises whenever he's either unable or unwilling to articulate the logic behind his actions and movements. In a world where "good kids" and "bad kids" are defined by the ability to sit still, shut up, and defer (or respond quickly) to authority figures (of questionable stature) when expected, kids like him can meet trouble in the unlikeliest of scenarios.
He used to catch a lot of shit from strangers for stuff like not using "ma'am" or "sir" when addressing adults, or even acknowledging people in positions of power that would normally be seen as obvious. As a household, we generally don't subscribe to a lot of social conventions that are considered normal in our surroundings, and I've heard that there are genetic elements to things like ADHD, so there's that.
On the other hand, I'm of the opinion that a lot of "conditions" are over-diagnosed, and everyone's got a place somewhere on any given spectrum. I think the strictures of modern society haven't yet caught up to the modern human brain.