[PaulHoule]

(1) Say something honest but as neutral as possible. Whatever you do don't lead with "I have a disability and I want to know if you can give me accommodation" because as an employer I'm more interested in what you can do for me than the other way around.

(2) I am skeptical about both Autism and ADHD and especially when they are claimed to occur together. See also borderline personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder and other PD's.

I had a mental health crisis at 49 and was lucky, with help from my friends, that I wound up on my back foot rather than having a serious setback. The next year at the library a book practically jumped into my hands that explained just about everything that went weird in my life.

I spent most of the 2010s employed and unemployed trying to commercialize foundation models before the technology was ready and eventually wound up in a very ordinary fullstack job which is stable if not always exciting. Since I discovered what I am I gradually started to spread my wings and realize that people with my kind of nervous system in traditional societies have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

(3) No idea, but it is not about other people, it is about you. Today's freeze will be tomorrow's hot market but it could take a while.

[purple-leafy]

> I am skeptical about both Autism and ADHD and especially when they are claimed to occur together. See also borderline personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder and other PD's.

What?

> have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

Again, what?

[PaulHoule]

(1) I dunno about other countries but the blackboard jungle has gotten worse in the US since I was a kid.

I was one of only two dudes who showed up at a P.T.A. meeting, the other was the superintendent. He told me I could talk to the hand about my concerns about my son's situation in school whereas he told the mother of a "special" kid that she was a valued partner in his education because she could write a letter to Albany and the folks there would light a fire under his ass.

When I was a kid they tried a lot of things to accommodate me except what I really needed, but they tried. Today you have to have autism or ADHD or some diagnosis just to go to the bathroom during class. With an ADHD diagnosis you can get performance enhancing drugs and extra time on the test, no wonder it is a vanity diagnosis for rich kids. On Youtube you can see many self-diagnosed AuDHD women who look borderline PD to me.

(2) See

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-23999-003 (and I am not autistic but ask your shaman if therianthropy is right for you!)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30849096/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358882845_The_Shama...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death (magic is real but it takes a village to pull off that feat and like other feats that are common in traditional societies you don't need psi or other violations of known laws of physics to explain them)

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12192/persuasion-and-h...

[purple-leafy]

I don’t really know what to say to you, but you’re speaking to someone diagnosed with ADHD.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis for rich kids is hilarious to me.

If I could go back in time to have been born with a “normal” brain I would do so.

It is not and has not been a privilege living with ADHD. Diagnosis or not, life has been an uphill battle and society does not accommodate people with various brain-level divergence from the norm.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis, and then talk about voodoo in the same sentence is wild to me.

[oliculipolicula]

Fwiw for PP "rich-kids" means "anybody born in EU or USA"

I think PP might even have been diagnosed with ADHD/autism at some point??

PP was trying to express that he doesn't want even want to live like a middle class no more (hence the traditional society)

[PaulHoule]

I got a psych eval from an autistic autism expert. I have neither autism nor ADHD. I've talked to more than one schizotypy expert looking for a referral to a specialist and never got one.

As for my current interest in "traditional society" see the interview with my friend Valerie in this article

https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/pagan-community-notes-week-of-f...

I went out to her place for Litha (Summer Solstice) and the experience was otherworldly and transcendent. I've known her for a while, her kids came out to our farm to ride and she even married two people there. I've been invited to help start a coven and felt some imposter syndrome for the first time in my life (felt out-of-place in other ways!) so I've been spending the summer revisiting my old pagan friends and visiting some one

This Valerie quote blew my mind

   “Apparently, local authorities forgot that before the hegemony of 
    the Roman Catholic Church, the worship of pagan Ancestors across 
    the so-called ‘Old World’ centered on agriculture, for example Demeter 
    and Persephone, Dionysus, Osirus and Isis, Hathor, Freyr, the Dagda
    and many more. The authorities also failed to admit the possibility, 
    or did not understand the concept, that in a Neo-Pagan theological
    framework, the essence of animist agrarian practices can be recovered and
    are central to our worship!”

because of course foxwork is "recovered".

[oliculipolicula]

Weird that there is no fr.wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Andr%C3%A9_Aucler

Tried but failed to be diagnosed with ADHD; more "success" with "general psychosis".

Ofc the "stims" were more revealing, in that I discovered a hard threshold past which I have to actively pay no mind to, eg, the concealed carry under every Patagonia fleece. (The cutlery did not self animate. What a letdown amirite.)

That training has continued to be helpful with suppressing "subclinical" paranoid ideation

In general the antipsychotics did nothing more than fog the brain

Edit: wow the burning crosses (or rather, cross-like-thingies) are not going to do well in the continental USA, the coastal bits at least

Paganism needs to think about how to appeal to say.. Mencius Moldnug. And (rich) black people. Without devolving to satanism. While fully omnivorous (no Apple iconography, frex)

[brandgefahr]

Boy... that escalated quickly.

Thanks for all the links though. I'll have a look into it, seems very interesting tbh.

[-1]

> have a talent for divination, magic and healing and I am finding my peeps in that domain.

> I had a mental health crisis at 49 and was lucky, with help from my friends, that I wound up on my back foot rather than having a serious setback.

I’ve seen a lot of your posts on HN and you seem knowledgeable and give good advice, but c’mon, divination? magic? are you sure you’re all right now? I mean no disrespect, and I’m no shrink, but I’d guess you’re maybe not out of the woods yet. I’ve had a family member with issues, being somewhat detached from reality is never good.