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UPDATE: I think that all my productivity hacking is what made me suicidal eventually. It cranked my dvar up too high and I ended up having to traverse the 88 hells. If you decide to implement any of these techniques, do so with caution.

I was one of the lucky few who managed to direct their tiger. I would recommend sedating it a little with medication. I know I would have been much happier if I could have driven at 80%.

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Small memory, fast speed, easily distracted and frustrated.

Try not to distract, and try to help out of loops if they occur.

The reason for this is so that I can be a nice boy. It's not selfishness. It's to help regulate emotions and behave in line with values.

I can force it, of course, but it's exhausting and there are limits.

How I think and why I'm so bad when distracted.

I'm single threaded moving fast and have to try to close each thread before the next.

I start at A1, finish A. I start B and go til I hit a roadblock then hop to C.

Then someone interjects with a sympathising comment or something; for normal brain it's ok but I get derailed, go on a tangent, have to complete that thread.

Back we go but sidetracked this time. Wind up on some minutiae instead of the important stuff. I forget B.

What you end up with is probably garbled junk; maybe some flustered emotion. ACD instead of ABC.

So I have a short memory. We've establish that. This means I need to use external memory like talk or text or whatever to hold ideas while I juggle others around. This is how I pause a process that someone else could just hold in mind without effort.

What this means for communication - particularly electronic - is that I will frequently start a conversation and then go away for 4 hours before saying what I wanted to say (because I didn't know what I wanted to say yet). In the meantime I'll get grumpy if interrupted because of the processing in the background. Sounds selfish but... system limitation.

A good workaround here is a simple '.' message and muting the chat. You can see on your screen if there's a '.' as the final message and whether it's worth reading; otherwise dump ongoing.

Also - the '...' typing bubble at the bottom left is the equivalent of an interjection (above). So it is incredibly helpful to me to know that it's not going to pop up. Just having that reassurance means I can take my time to communicate properly.

And if you wait long enough I might even go back and delete some messages for you. Different brains, is all. I'm dot matrix with an overclocked cpu.

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