Depends on the kind of game I think. Certain games I do play for the challenge (FromSoft, TBT, RTS, rogue-likes and lites). Others I’m playing for Story (RPGs).

I think a good example of a game that was too difficult (for me) but had an engaging story that I wanted to play was Celeste. I hate precision platformers. But they Devs knocked that out of the park in terms of accessiblity options so I could tweak it until it was enjoyable for me, and enjoy a beautiful story with beautiful music.

‘Unkind’ is such a diplomatic way to put it! I used to post a lot on Reddit say around 2008-12, then it began to get a bit intolerable. Some subs you were guaranteed to have an ‘unkind’ response or a deluge of downvotes I think because people were so hyper-competitive about their comments being seen over yours, because of that engagement issue you mention.

Credit content creators, link to original sources, and frame your copypasta as an analysis (like you’re citing specific areas of text to add to it in some way). You could even group together various related posts on a subject as a comparative piece.

A Dr won’t just give you drugs without taking you through an assessment. They usually provide a 10 question assessment first to determine if you meet the threshold to then do further testing.

It may be important to know what region you’re in to determine how receptive a GP may be to recommending assessment.

I hit burnout during COVID and once we came out the other end my productivity halted. It’s only just began to recover (also newly diagnosed and recently started vyvanse so that’s helping).

I benefit from working in an extremely large organisation, and we have an internal ND Peer Support group on our org’s Yammer (Viva Engage?). Someone set up a body-double rota, so anyone in the group can go into a shared calendar and sign themselves up to host a Team meeting for “body doubling”. You can either sit silently on the call (cams on!) or chitchat if others are okay with it.

A few other things I’ve done to help keep myself on track in my specific team:

• Set up a Team Planner (works similar to Trello) so I can see what is MY task and what other people are working on. My manager is responsible for recommending due dates and we go through the planner during our team meetings.
• Setting up accountability mechanisms with my manager and subordinate: they give me clear deadlines/requirements
• Agreed that any actions discussed verbally need to be followed up with an email because I WILL forget within 30s of the discussion if I never put it in the Planner
• Plan meetings in the morning rather than afternoon where possible, because afternoon meetings prevent me starting a task due to appointment paralysis
• Me and my subordinate both did ‘working with me’ guides, just a one-pager that describes who we are and how we like to communicate/work
• Use OneNote to categorise almost all of my work. I have a ‘library’ page that shows all the resources I use/may need. A page describing who people are and what they’re responsible for. A page where I put every note I take from a meeting. Then tabs for current work, tabs for completed work, all broken down by subject.

My org is limited to using MS suite of products so there may be other tools that yours will use. For my personal life I use Google Tasks & Habitica.

I’m also in an extremely supportive team where I felt safe to disclose my ND, and appreciate how lucky I am for that. If you can find a confidant in your team/org it may help.

I’m going to leave RIF right where it’s been on my home screen for the last decade, as a little memorial.