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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • Yea, I wouldn’t stop taking it for pain meds or the throat lozenges.

    If it’s an NSAID, there’s no interaction. If it’s an opiate, the stimulant will blunt the sedative effect of opiates, a little. (Ask a really good doc about it, most will just say “never mix”, without digging into the details and nuance).

    You want consistent, stable blood chemistry (I know these meds clear quickly) - but you still want to avoid back-and-forth as much as you can. Part of what they do is help you manage the distractability, so you can practice doing things differently and build new routines.


  • ADHD is largely the same set of challenges that neurotypicals experience, cranked up to 11 or constantly in place.

    EG: people know what it’s like to forget where you put your keys, for someone with ADHD, that’s constant.

    Or an NT may miss part of what someone says in a noisy environment - bar, restaurant, work. For someone with ADHD, that can be a constant challenge.

    So ask them to imagine all their daily minor challenges as being there constantly, but you never know when a particular one is going to interrupt.

    Because invariably they’ll say “well I experience that”. Really? All day, every day?

    Did you see the tiny leaf fall in the crack of the sidewalk while we were walking, or the 300 other things that caught my attention while we crossed the campus?






  • I’ve taken to taping up most of the vents on my boxes, then putting air conditioner filter media in front of the vents I leave open.

    This controls the flow to only come through those vents, so they get filtered.

    I clean the filters once a month - it’s nice that you can see them to know they need cleaning.

    I do change the fans to more powerful ones, usually compressor style (what people call squirrel cage) because they handle airflow restriction better. The trick is how to orient and duct them.