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  • Or stuff that is really difficult to get. Part of the diagnostic process for my psychiatrist needs me to arrange a 30 minute interview with a family member (which only works if you have a family member who is willing to do so, believes that ADHD isn’t just a personal failing, or has the time to arrange such a thing), or reports from primary school, which most people aren’t likely to keep around when they’re an adult in university.

    If you don’t have either of those, no diagnosis for you, and you’re out several hundred dollars for nothing.






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    You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers and aren’t SUV height, on social media and places.

    It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.





  • What do you like better here than on Reddit?

    The interfaces are better, and being able to integrate with mastodon is interesting.

    What do you miss from Reddit?

    The size of the communities, really. On Reddit, a lot of the subs have grown big enough that they can maintain themselves, whereas here, they’re pretty much dead without input. A few of the more interesting counterpart communities that I would frequent a tonne on Reddit are dead now, and if you’re just one user, it does feel like spam to try and contribute to it constantly.

    It’s really only a limit subset of communities that seem very active at all, and they are generally news or politics based.

    Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

    Bit of both. The culture in the larger communities would drift the way of Reddit just by volume, but the smaller ones are a bit more unique, and not always in a good way. Because Lemmy is a bit more tech-focused, I find a lot of the main medium-sized communities tend to have similar abrasiveness you see a bit in tech, though it can depend on both community and server.