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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Consciously processing the information that is coming at you while driving is just too much. Noticing everything.

    Approaching intersection. Light is green. Four way intersection. Nobody turning left. Car in front of me holding speed. Black car. Behind me car holding speed red car. Pedestrians crossing in line with traffic on other side of street. No pedestrians this side. Light is still green. Car in front is still black. Car in front slowing slightly. Lane change behind me car is now green and matching my speed. Car turning right at intersection is silver and stopped to give me right of way.

    Whew.

    Ironically, this is the reason I love my motorbike. I can ride for hours in that state, and it feels amazing, like it’s feeding the hyperfocus, hyperactive part of my brain.

    The second I stop though, I’m exhausted.




  • Or impose a minimum radius around a property where you can’t buy a second one and then a minimum around both where you can’t have a third one and so on. Want to have a house in the city and a cottage >100km away in a straight line? Go ahead.

    But this is what’s causing the problems. People are buying second houses in holiday destinations, then either leaving them empty for most of the year, or renting them out for things like Airbnb. House prices are going up, and locals can’t afford to buy. Off season, the local businesses don’t have enough custom to sustain themselves, and end up going under.

















  • I was tested by someone who came to my school when I was about eight years old because my parents were concerned. They diagnosed me as being lazy.

    30+ years later and my kid is going through the same thing. The workers at the nursery are decent though, and suspect neurodiversity. A couple of appointments later and my kid gets an autism and ADHD diagnosis. My wife and I speak to them because my symptoms are so similar, and they said that from the conversations we had about my kid, they assumed that I had already been diagnosed.

    I’m now 45 and still on a waiting list for an official diagnosis 😫