Inspired by recently buying a cajon, and my husband immediately buying another for additional living room seating because he loved it.

    • python@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Really? Mine helps quite a bit with focus, but sometimes there are weeks where I forget it exists and just go “huh, aren’t I forgetting something?” while walking past the med pile.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That was probably because it was prescribed to you. For people without ADHD, it’s like capsulized motivation, combined with the best caffeine buzz they’ve ever had.

        It’s a scheduled drug specifically because the neurotypicals treat it like cocaine’s little brother. People with ADHD go through hell to get their meds because the neurotypicals just can’t fucking help themselves.

        • Triumph@fedia.io
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          10 months ago

          You’re not gonna believe this but … I fucking knew it. That is exactly the one that first came to mind, and I am ashamed that I didn’t just blurt it out before.

          I’ve had a whole lot of different scotches and whiskies, and Balvenie is hands down the best. Dalwhinnie is another good one along those lines, if you’re looking to compare.

  • Stamets@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Cocaine. It had absolutely no effect on me other than making me want more instantly. I tried it like three or four times before realizing that it didn’t really do anything. Granted, the third and fourth time I only got it because my dealer was exceptionally hot and he allowed me to snort the cocaine off of his abs.

  • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Cocaine definitely. Downside of the stripper salt is its a fairly short lived high and the comedown always results in a headache for me so gotta keep doing it to go the night.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Sports cars. It sucks knowing you are contributing to climate change AND not even having fun doing it. Family sedans, SUVs and big trucks suck shit. So I drive my little MX-5 as much as I can now. And get to smile that I’m making double the gas mileage of my jeep and having 10X more fun while doing it.

      • Nikls94@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I’ve driven everything due to work, from compact cars to SUVs and even small trucks. I can parallel park with all of them, even with a trailer added.

        I have once driven a Smart Fortwo. I could not park. I could touch the rear window from the drivers seat, but I could not park.

  • SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    A couple of mentions for cocaine here, but for me it was MDMA. I never understood how you could get addicted to anything until I was at the club and I really really really wanted another line of that love powder and immediately decided to never do it again. Then I did it again.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Mine was, oddly enough, LSD. It’s not even physically addictive. I didn’t even particularly enjoyed tripping, but in my day-to-day life I have aphantasia; I can’t visualize anything.

      If I asked you to close your eyes and picture an apple, then rate 1-5 how realistic you could make it look, most people would probably land somewhere around a 3 or a 4. Not photorealistic, but it would at least be recognizable as an apple and convey the important parts. A few artists or particularly visual people may land on a photorealistic 5. The people who are more biased towards speech (like an internal monologue) may land closer to a 2, like a rushed sketch, or even a 1 where it’s just a coarse outline and some color.

      I land on a 0. I just see the backs of my eyelids. I can describe an apple to you. I can tell you what it smells like, what it tastes like, what color I would want it to be, how big it is, how heavy it is, what it feels like to crunch into it and get a little bit of the peel stuck between your teeth, et cetera… But I can’t visualize it.

      I always thought the “picture yourself doing/going/working/etc {x}” types of things were just a figure of speech. Like if I was in elementary school and an art teacher said to picture a thing then draw it, I would just skip the first part. I’d still use my imagination before putting anything on paper, but it wouldn’t be visual.

      But with LSD, that’s different. I can actually visualize things. Not particularly well, because everything is wobbling around like it’s made of tiny ocean waves… But I can do it. I quickly found that creative outlets were much easier when I could actually plan things out visually before putting them on paper. It was like I had been stuck using black and white paints my entire life, and then someone handed me some red, green, and blue for the first time. I also quickly realized how boring life was when I couldn’t just conjure images out of the ether at will.

      Sadly, shrooms (which is commonly compared to “like doing LSD then smoking a blunt” in terms of feeling) doesn’t do it for me. I guess it doesn’t activate the same parts of my brain. But for whatever reason, LSD specifically allows me to overcome my aphantasia. I haven’t done it in years now, but I occasionally get the whim to try it again. Not enough to actually bother tracking down a new plug, but enough to muse about it while I type out shit like this.

      • SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 months ago

        I feel you. I took a very low dose of MDMA at a festival and I was euphoric or hight or anything. But for the first time in ever I had no filter issues. All the noises that drive me crazy all the time, just didn’t bother me. Same with touch. It just cured it. For one evening.