Finally! After a horrible DIVA-5 interview a couple of weeks ago and two weeks of pushing and trying to be heard, I got my ADHD diagnosis.
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Andy Incarnate (He / Him)
@AndyIncarnate@ravenation.club
mastodon 4.7.3Late-diagnosed Autist with co-occurring ADHD (PI). Multi-Instrumentalist Musician / producer / engineer / tea boy. I sometimes put googly eyes on pictures of Donald Trump and take pictures of things. Too subversive for Meta. Rediscovering my love of Warhammer via Necromunda. Mostly benevolently shambolic Vimto fiend.
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Googly-eyed Donald:
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@etherdiver@ravenation.club That's one of the things I try to work into what I do, it's definitely a guiding principle. I think I picked that up from Brian Eno's little book "What Art Does". Someone else (can't remember who) said they got advice from Steve Albini when they were recording their album, he said "Don't forget why you came here". Both trying to encourage you to try to express your authentic self. Those things have stayed with me.
The Sound Burger arrived today! It is so cute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXyNEfggooU&list=RDlXyNEfggooU&start_radio=1
The first year I went to Burwell for the music summer school, I was in Andy Cutting's mixed band group, with violins, flutes, whistles and guitars. I stood next to him and we played this as part of our set.
When we were finished I went outside to phone my wife and cried. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
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@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social How did you know about the guitars? I thought I kept that very hush-hush...
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@brianbilston
He's creepy
He's weird
He cannot grow a beard
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
*Excited clapping* I've just ordered one of these, an Audio-Technica Sound Burger. I don't have space for a permanent deck setup in the new flat, but I've wanted something for vinyl for a while, and this should suit my needs perfectly. I spotted it entirely by accident when I was shopping for some BT Headphones for tutherarf.
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@dramypsyd@ohai.social That seems a bit on the high side.
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@Richard_Littler Is that "On the Buses" between Dr Who and the Levenshulme Fair?
I realised as I was writing that "Dr Who and the Levenshulme Fair" sounds like it might have been one of those really creepy episodes where people at the Levenshulme Fair have been hypnotised and are behaving not-quite-normal enough to be sinister.
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@lucasmz@wetdry.world @dgar@aus.social Ah, oh OK! My autist brain not picking up on that!
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social It's funny, I see a video of someone explaining microphone placement on amps and how it affects phase cancellation and I think "Oh, I was doing that anyway, it just sounds better" without knowing the technical stuff.
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@RikerGoogling Trombonizerist
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@brianbilston Brilliant!
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@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk There are times when I think it would be fun to describe twins as being "from the same litter". I've never had the chance to try this out but I suspect they probably wouldn't be amused.
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@venya Oh crikey! Chickens are assholes if you want to have either a nice garden or grow vegetables! They will eat whatever they want, especially the lovely earthworm population have worked hard to encourage over a few seasons. At least their guano is good for compost though, so swings and roundabouts...
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@venya You've gone from looking at properties to moving really quickly. We moved in August last year, I think we put an offer in on our apartment at the beginning of May. It is really tiring, but it won't be long before you've got everything the way you want it! You'll be surprised how quickly the time flies.
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@hellocatfood These are very similar to the visuals I get when I'm having a visual migraine. In the colours and disruptive pattern at least - they don't usually cover my entire field of view like that though.
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@Psychonaut @autistics I've not sought out a SaLT yet, I only had my diagnosis in the middle of March, so still quite new to me. I'm also going through ADHD assessment very soon, so that's more of a focus for me really. I hope that advice helps.
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@carrieberry@mstdn.social Ooh, that's brilliant! I love the part where Yakovleff says:
"And the last argument is American: you don’t reinforce failure. I learnt that at the U.S. Army War College. You don’t reinforce failure, you move on, you find something else.”
And yes, he's absolutely right, you don't make military requests on Truth Social or Twitter!
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@lucasmz@wetdry.world @dgar@aus.social That's Never Ending Story isn't it?
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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot That'll be a palimpsest will that.
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@brianbilston Or possibly one about Bram Stoker's spatula?
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@Ninji@wuffs.org Shows how out of touch I am. .xl is not even a valid file type!
Meanwhile over on Tumblr....
#Misheard on Radio 4...
"The BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show is to be taken over by Sarah Pox".
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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social I never knew that device was called a Ewbank. I've always called it a hodddd-du-dudddah.
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@Ninji@wuffs.org Did they miss a trick? I mean, I'd start with .xlXL