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  • I’m 53 now and was considering getting an official diagnosis a few years ago, I even had the initial appointments set up.

    I canceled it, because there was too much going on in my life at that moment (even got a notification I could reschedule for later)

    All that made me think about what I was hoping for from diagnosis. In the end it was just having something in writing that would help me with self-acceptance.

    Around that time I also was in a group psychotherapy so I talked about that and that part is now solved.

    Regarding meds - I don’t want to try them now as my other coping strategies are good enough at the moment and I’m a bit wary of side effects as I need to take a handful of. medicine every day, anyways.

    In the end you need to decide why you want a diagnosis. If you want to try meds I’d go for it. (My son “inherited” it from me and had meds for a time, which really helped him).

    In a case like mine where I didn’t expect any new strategies out of it or didn’t want meds - it was probably the right decision to skip it.



  • Speaking for a friend, they crashed the Mini Clubman S I love… sorry, THEY loved very much because of a WhatsApp that just arrived. Some one five cars ahead or so had to slam their brakes - eyes on the street would have made the reaction time “just enough” but even looking away for one second caused the crash.

    Learn from my err friend, don’t look at your phone while driving, even for a very short time.

    Damage on the Mini was more than its worth at the time. No one was injured, but even what looks like a small fender bender can quickly get very expensive nowadays.














  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCar
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    23 days ago

    The footrest is still there in a manual car. The brake pedal is smaller, the clutch in between.

    When you brake you hit the clutch with the left foot and brake with the right one on the brake pedal. Unintentionally smashing the wider brake pedal can happen if you switch from a smaller car to one with a very wide brake pedal. (Mercedes have quite wide brake pedals, for example)

    It also happened a few times to me over my. life until I got used to put my left foot very close to the seat when driving automatic, so I don’t subconsciously use it. (Just “away” from where I’d have it in a manual car)

    It typically happens if you need to do emergency braking anyways and just all the reflexes kick in. In normal situations it never happened to me.



  • “They are all Nazis over there” is something you try to put into my mouth.

    I said it is the same situation in Russia where people do not speak up against what their country does. I also understand if they fear repercussions.

    But this woman, who said she was in Brazil before, just whines around, “Russia is strong” and obviously is very OK with what happens or chooses to ignore it. She has been out of Russia for some time, she has seen other. media.

    What I said - the same what happened in Germany is happening in Russia right now. People CHOOSING not to see and not to, speak about it.

    I never said anything about “all” Russians.

    Don’t try to put words in my mouth.

    What I expect - yes demand - from someone like this woman is acknowledging what happens.


  • All those Hitler comparisons hit very close, as I’m German, born long after the war. It was. my grandparent generation that allowed things to happen.

    I have utmost respect for people who speak out against atrocities their country does, but in sucj a case - Hitler or Putin - being silent is agreeing.

    The woman in this video just whines how everyone treats her badly. If she had said one time, she understands because of what her country does - and then say, how it makes her life bad, I could somehow sympathize. This way - I can not.

    I have a Russian coworker who started business meetings with a minute of silence for the Ukrainian victims during the full invasion. That is something I can respect.

    I never got any details, but I have reason to believe my own grandfather arranged himself with the Nazis, some say he was a party member. Others say, he and my grandma hid someone from them. Nevertheless he managed to own a soft drink factory (and quickly got a Coca Cola contract after the war)

    I’m fucking fed up with people who arrange themselves with dictators and are just opportunists. As this woman obviously is.