This just in.

There are hungry dogs out there.

And in here.

Particularly in here.

Under your desk. Look down.

Oh, hi! I didn& #39;t see you there! I& #39;m just a v. v. good #officedog boy who has never been fed ever wouldn& #39;t it be weird if you had treats?
Did I mention that I have a nose?
Reader of course I fed him look at those ears what am I a monster?
THIS IS MY JOB.

LITERALLY HOW DO I GET ANY WORK DONE.

o rite amphetamines
Surprise! You thought this was a thread about dogs, but instead it& #39;s a thread about how the single healthiest thing I ever did was go to the psychiatrist and get a diagnosis, start medication.

Bamboozled! https://mobile.twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1154156804516921344">https://mobile.twitter.com/NomeDaBar...
I was terrified before I did that I& #39;d lose myself. If all of my personality is just symptoms... what& #39;s left?

It was only the writing of some very open people - @cwgabriel and @TychoBrahe first among them - that motivated me to do what I needed to. https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2017/10/26/pax-australia-and-my-dumb-brain">https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post...
I& #39;ve been on pills for my #ADHD for almost two months now, and... I& #39;m better.

At everything.

Because for thirty goddamn wasted years, I hated myself for how little I could get done, while I was fighting with one arm behind my back.

Taking my meds for the first time was like
It& #39;s not perfect. I& #39;m not fixed.

But in a very real way, I was broken, and I was refusing to do anything about it, out of fear and anxiety and executive dysfunction.

Out of the fear of losing myself.

Reader, I& #39;m here to tell you I& #39;m not lost.

I& #39;m finally found.
I have the best job in the world, and I& #39;m better at it.

I have the love of a wonderful partner, and I& #39;m able to be there for her.

I have decades of ideas I& #39;ve never been able to get on the page. I& #39;m writing them.

I& #39;m me. I get to meet me. Wholly, fully. Unfettered at last.
I didn& #39;t even consider that I might have a disorder until I was 28. I was a gifted kid, not disruptive, so it went under the radar.

I get so angry at the wasted time. I& #39;m literally sobbing right now thinking of what could have been.

But i can& #39;t get that time back. It& #39;s gone.
What I can do is follow in the best traditions of the people who came before me, and light the way.

I do it wherever I can.

I hope, if you& #39;re struggling with the choice, that I can do it for you.

Because it& #39;s the healthiest thing I& #39;ve ever done. https://mobile.twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1157500633903071232">https://mobile.twitter.com/NomeDaBar...
And because you all have been very good, here is our office dog again.

Sorry for the bamboozle. In my defense, it was actually for your own good.

I love you all. Take care of yourselves. Please.
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