lib.lgbt (obvs) and blahaj.zone come to mind.

At university, I medicated heavily with “the hard stuff” - stimulant medications. These took a heavy toll on my body; I had nervous tics and twitches galore. The meds gave me enough focus to develop good study habits and after 2-3 years I ceased them.

Once I joined the workforce, I focused on doing things that I was passionate about. For me, ADHD doesn’t always mean lack of focus; I can hyper focus when I’m motivated by something. Having a job that I liked to do turned me into a low grade workaholic (too much hyper focus!) but I became successful in my career.

For the past few years, I’ve been medicating with a non stimulant that I tolerate very well. I still do what I love, at work, and Strattera helps me stay focused on doing the things that are most important to my employer and myself, but my days of being a workaholic are over.

If you are like me, then doing what you love is essential, and finding the right medication is a big help, though not strictly essential.

Well, now it’s surrounded by Azerbaijan – not so much before 2020, though!

You could try 25mg for a month and see if it’s in the sweet spot, if the 40mg provokes side effects you dislike.

40mg is a good starting dose but you may want to go lower.

The right med depends on your brain chemistry. For some, the stimulants do wonders. For me they had horrific side effects. Strattera has been a big help, not perfect, but with no side effects other than the beneficial ones.

Everyome’s brain is different. No shame in asking to try stimulants for contrast, if your doctor is willing.

What’s your dose? I had some issues with a higher dose (40mg) and settled on 25mg as enough to mitigate my symptoms without causing insurmountable issues.

Astoundingly, it’s still defaced at this very moment.

How incompetent are they?!

I started at 40mg some years ago; I did indeed feel superhuman, but my sleep suffered periodically and I had some other side effects – morning nausea sometimes, especially when combined with coffee.

I found ways to cope: reduce coffee intake, have some plain yogurt in the morning, as the protein seems to help buffer the stomach, medicate early in the morning (6:30am) and exercise hard after work to promote better sleep. Still, it was a drag, and too easy to miss a beat in my routine.

I had to quit taking Strattera for two years while attempting to become a pilot, but it turns out the FAA hates ADHD kids and once that fell through, I resumed at a much lower dosage of 25mg. While I don’t feel quite as capable at the lower dose, the side effects are significantly more mild and I generally don’t notice them. I still make sure to medicate no later than 7am, as a precaution, but there’s no correlation between being medicated and having poor sleep.

TL;DR stick with it for a few days and don’t hesitate to ask for a lower dose if you can’t hack it. The drug does a world of good for me, and it promotes habits that persist even when I go unmedicated for awhile (e.g. on weekends and often while on vacation).

I, too, wish to see Wet Gremlins.

It’s the same thing; I was just being sloppy with terminology.

I switched my Android assistant to a man’s voice; a woman’s voice serving as my digital assistant has always felt mildly sexist to me.

I switched my Android assistant to a man’s voice. A woman serving as my digital assistant has always felt mildly sexist to me.

My personal rubric, developed with much insight from my husband:

1. If queer peoples’ behavior is criminalized, the place is a strict no-go.
2. If violence against local queer people significantly exceeds levels in my home state the place is a firm no-go.
3. If the place is under autocratic/junta rule, it’s a firm no-go.

There’s a whole tranche of countries I’ll probably never set foot in due to rule 1, e.g. virtually all of the middle east and Africa, but more recently, also US states such as Florida.

There are countries like Belize that I greatly enjoyed visiting, but, once I became aware of the rate of violence against queer Belizeans, I decided I couldn’t support with my tourist dollar. Perhaps if I took great care only to patronize LGBTQ-friendly establishments – and how would we even identify those when sexuality is largely a taboo subject, in country? – I might visit these places again in the future.

Rule 3 is of more recent provenance. It’s a hypothetical at this point, as every place I’ve visited has been under some sort of healthy parliamentary rule. I greatly want to visit Turkey some day, but supporting a profoundly broken system by forking over money to hoteliers and airlines who are more likely than not aligned with AKP, seems like a bad precedent. As under rule 2, I might identify businesses whose values agree with mine, but it would be problematic.

In the US press, there was some coverage of the sier/xier body of neo pronouns for enby people. Are those the ones you mention that didn’t catch on?