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AimeeMaroux , 8 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

This coin was minted circa 206 CE, during the reign of Caracalla. The obverse depicts the laureate head of Caracalla facing right. The reverse type features #Mars, naked save for cloak hanging from his shoulder, holding a branch and spear.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology @CoinOfNote @Greenseer
#DayOfAres #mythology #numismatics #coins #ReverseNotObverse #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

A very perky looking Mars, carrying a trophy, on a denarius of Septimius Severus, struck in 196 CE 😊

#AncientNumismatics #Numismatics #Rome

marenf , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic German

@actuallyautistic
Have any of you tried L-Tyrosine and/or L-Theanine to improve anxiety and memory with AuDHD? If so, how much did you take and did it help?
Any other supplements you can recommend?

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@marenf @actuallyautistic Yes! And I'm really not one for fad supplements. For me, as an AuDHD, L-Tyrosine really works. Not so sure about memory, but certainly for clarity and alertness. This after, being unable to continue with any of the prescribed amphetamine based drugs, or antidepressants, as even sub-therapeutic dosages produce intolerable side-effects. The L-Tyrosine gives me about half the benefits, with none of the downsides

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@marenf @actuallyautistic Just 500mg a day, but that's cos' it's a little expensive for me. Really, I'd like to try twice or three times that

sahat , 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to actuallyautistic

sometimes I read something on here a personal account or something political, that moves me. It often takes until the next day or even several days before I know why and what it is, that I would like to reply to that. most the time I don't, cus I can't find the original post anymore or because I assume, it's too late. Sometimes I then write up a long long post. About this issue and all the implications and my experience and so on.
That's just the way my brain functions. I can't help it. There seems to always be too much in it. Too many threads connecting too many things and too deep feelings. I wonder whether I should quit this alltogether and rather dump my hyperconnected brain's content into a blog. On the other hand, I love the community on here. All of this presents exactly the same in my offline life.

the @actuallyautistic community has helped me so much in trying all of this out, reflecting on it and receiving encouragement. In my initial unmasking phase I got a ton of flag from NT on my style of communication and the intensity of it. I knew I needed to learn and adjust.
I'm often way fast actually. All of these patterns and connected issues flash into my mind right away. But creating a bridge of communication takes time. Mastering the intensity and the volume of it. The impatience. The need to balance my physical.emotional mental energy finding ways to stim or otherwise relax that work. After decades of masking and suppressing some of the actual content I had to find a whole new way of expressing myself truthfully. With all of that extra ND energy and views included. It was rough at the beginning.
This space here was important to me in being able to have helpful and loving feedback and being able to take all of those baby steps. Thank you all.
#AuDhd #ActuallyAutistic #adhd

Greenseer , 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

@sahat @actuallyautistic This is exactly the reaction I had to your post, a number of days ago. The one on the thread where I first saw you posting. I'm still processing it and my thoughts. It's terrible as I worry my non-response might leave the impression it had no effect on me when, in fact, the reverse is true. I thank you for expressing yourself so well here, yet again, and hope that you can understand that what you describe happens to those who read your posts too. No response ≠ no effect

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@sahat @actuallyautistic 🫂♥️

beatnikprof , 8 months ago to academicchatter

Trying a Pavlovian experiment with my students today. I will toss a candy bar to anyone who speaks. Let’s see if they catch on and if this will encourage greater class participation.
#professor #academia #academicmastodon #academicchatter #halloween @academicchatter

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@beatnikprof @academicchatter I predict that you will have to sustain this method forever because you will discover that the moment you stop it, not only will the students revert to former patterns, there will be an even greater disinclination to participate than before.

I mean, why would they, if there's no more treats?

Be careful! 😉

nddev , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic

Are you still keeping quiet about your autism? Well, maybe not as quiet as you think.

Helen was chatting to a friend today about something I'd done. The friend immediately said, "Oh, that's obviously the autism." We've never told a soul about my autism, but this friend has an autistic son and she saw it straight away.

So just be aware that your secret may be out.

@actuallyautistic @allautistics #ActuallyAutistic

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@nddev @actuallyautistic @allautistics Same thing happened to me with a chatty boiler engineer. Usually I don't tell a soul, but he was talking about his autistic son, so I mentioned I was autistic too and before I finished my sentence, he said, 'Yes, I realise'. Well bugger me, it only took decades and many shrinks before I finally had to suggest the possibility to one myself. It was like I'd lit a light bulb in their head. If only I'd been seeing boiler engineers instead! #actuallyautistic

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@nddev @actuallyautistic @allautistics To be honest, the single biggest benefit to seeing shrinks was that a professional could tell society on my behalf that, in his pseudo-knowledgeable capacity, yes indeed, this one is mentally defective and should be cut some slack

Other than that, everything approaching therapy or treatment was a very mixed blessing. I now avoid them and am better for it

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@sahat @nddev @actuallyautistic @allautistics I totally agree with you. As you say, the good work is being done by those with a natural compassion and sensitivity. The 'science' at its foundation? Well, in my opinion, it's a lot closer to quackery, with all the self-delusion, abuse, snake-oil, BS and bigotry traditionally associated with that, than it is to other fields of 'real' medicine

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@sahat @nddev @actuallyautistic @allautistics With apologies, right now I can't reply as fully as I'd wish to, but.. we are gonna get on! I passionately agree with all you say, and I look forward to talking with you more 🙏🏼😊

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@Aerliss @nddev @actuallyautistic @allautistics No, you must never tell them this! 😂 That would break the rules of the sick game we must play to protect ourselves. But I do think it is vital to know it in your own mind

strypey , 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to actuallyautistic

This is so me!

'How my ADHD hides my autism':
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5jD4iU2_v4k

#video #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD #YoSamdySam

@actuallyautistic @adhd

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@sahat @strypey @actuallyautistic @adhd I've just watched the video. I've both ADHD and autism too and relate to all she said so much (TY Strypey for sharing, I'll be exploring more of Sam's channel)

You know, it's funny, some people complement us, and we gravitate to them for the sake of the differences. But other's trigger a deep sense of affinity and the feeling they are 'our kind of people'.. and this experience is, imo, potentially, a more sensitive diagnostic tool than any other

JeremyMallin , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic

How many fellow Autistics have never lied on a job application, never lied on a CV, never lied on tax forms? 🙋‍♂️

Is doing that expected? Is it required? Is not doing that handicapping us? Do you too feel almost unable to do that?

#AskingAutistics
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

Greenseer , 8 months ago

@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic No, I've never lied on a CV or during an interview. It's not that I couldn't, I just wouldn't betray my own integrity. I also have a weird notion that if you don't get a position for the crime of being yourself, that's probably a good thing in the long run.

However, I suspect many interviews are a test of how well you can conform to the prevailing BS, so this approach is probably not the best way to get rich 😉

Greenseer , 9 months ago to random

#Numismatic show and tell for a lesser known Ptolemaic god, Harpokrates, a Hellenic interpretation of the Egyptian god of the newborn sun, Horus, as a child. Usually depicted with finger pressed to his lips and often with roses, he also later became associated with secrets and silence, leading to the concept of 'sub rosa'. Here shown on the reverse of a rare bronze obol struck in 137 to 138 CE under Hadrian, in Alexandria, Egypt, wearing a pharaonic hemhem crown #AncientCoins #Egypt #Mythology

Greenseer OP , 9 months ago

@taoish Until a papyrus with a direct reference an ΑΡEΠΟ is found, it's impossible to say. But now I can't stop thinking of the middle Marx brother 😁

Greenseer OP , 9 months ago

@taoish @medievodon @histodons I'm afraid it would be a one-sided process as I have no notes to share. I am aware of it, but that's all. I'd be very interested in reading more tho'. After I cracked that joke about Harpo, I found out that apparently there was a running joke that he was named after Harpocrates, as the mute member of the trio. It wasn't actually true, apparently. He was named for the harp he played