Thank you, that actually means a lot to me. I was really frustrated with how simplistic and repetitive conversations around technology were.

I just watch YouTube and laugh. Generally media is how I make the days bearable.

We have saddle sandals for the bathroom.

Her main problems are concentrating in lessons. We think she may have other learning disability and her grades are suffering for it.

We intended to at least enroll her in summer courses but she’s as stubborn as ox. She thinks it is waste of money, feeling that she’s just lazy.

I dont think your wrong though, both about me and her, I just dont know where to go from here.

Gonna be honest, anyone else tried of how writers romanticize reading? Maybe its because I grew more cynical in my age. Maybe its because I am more aware than ever, of the publishing industries faults. Maybe its just colonialism.

I have tried looking fiction stories written in my world setting, but they all suck, one way or another. The only real dose of real people’s live I get is from non-fiction and let me tell you, you are likely to even found ebooks of those, let alone a traditional hardcover book.

Also, j am from a culture that to this day, still realize on oral story telling.

When ever you bring up stimming, people jump to stress balls, and like, not all motion is the same. For me to actual process stuff, i need to be pacing, and so mh default is to reread my notebook, which is why i panicked when in university we were suddenly expect to do our own notes.

Its like we are back where we started about personal responsibility. You are being told, that you personally, are responsible for boiling the oceans. It all the same shit companies pushed about climate change as an individual’s problem.

Like driving a car isn’t a sin. Some people are assholes and reckless with them. Some relay too much on them, but a lot of people need them for basis needs.

All to say, thank you, that means a lot to me. I have been dealing with a lot the past few years. I dont need to feel more like a failure because I prioritied my health but don’t have resources to seek professional help.

Most of the world can’t afford to buy one specific android and hope not to brick it. Most people can’t afford a google pixel and if they can, aren’t going to risk it.

And what happens when google cuts off third party tools like MicroG. I need WhatsApp for almost everything from talking to family and friends to Work. Most of the world does, and the same is true for Facebook.

There are open source 2FA. They require like specific apps OTP or something else?

I am not from the US but can’t you interpret the first amendment in a way that would work here?

Code is just information and you could argue that a platform is infringing on private free speech.

I dont think so? If I am actually sick and not just a minor cold, I dont much energy anyhow, nevermind keeping track of my surroundings.

But what does the fact they are tools, add to the conversation?

When people say that “It’s just a tool”, what they really mean is that it’s your responsibility to use them safely and any failure to do so is a failure of the individual and not the system.

Nothing ever truly ends and the Buddha lied.

It really sounds like the voice in my head calling me lazy, like bro, is this the best you can do?

Using Voyager here and had no issue, its on the app store.

At most the school could have offered you Urdu instead of Hindi

You know, I never thought of it that way, probably would have made the transition back to Arabic easier too, when I moved back to my country.

Whoever invented Piggybacks, should carry the sins of their predecessor on his back to hell.

What does Larp mean here?

I lived in India(in what at the time, was called Hyderabad) for a while, as a foreign Arab. Most of the curriculum was in English, with both Telugu(the official language) and Hindu language subjects. I hated it.

Coming from an Arab country where the most English we were taught was the ABCs, and then being told I had to juggle 3 entirely new language. I wasn’t even exempt from it. I would alternative from getting 61 out 75 in a hindui exam to falling the class, depending on if the teacher let’s me cheat.

I couldn’t even tell you what letters I was writing, I just drew them as a I saw them. My dad even forced me to watch Hindi cartoons in the hopes I will magically pick it up. For a while, I even had a Telugu teacher teaching me the alphabets. None of it stuck.

Honestly that period of my life was really damaging. I left India with full English and not a hint of Arabic. Coming back to the Arab world, to even get to the point of conversing with people again took years, and I still don’t know how to read or write beyond a first graders level. Reading still gives me a headache.

I feel you. I keep discovering (or rather admitting) that I have issue, not just ADHD, and it feels failure on my part that I didn’t treat those before entering adulthood.

I have also started meds for three weeks now but other than hunger, haven’t seen much difference.