How do you make an archaic hobby even more archaic? Easy: you cross stitch cuneiform. I have always loved the touchable, 3-D nature of cuneiform, whether pressed into clay or into cookies, and the tactile art of cross stitch was a natural next step.
Traditional cross stitch often involves religious statements, so I picked a line from a hymn to the goddess Ishtar: “She is wise with alertness, knowledge, and understanding.” (uz-na-am ne-me-qí-im ẖa-si-i-sa-am er-še-et)
Below the main text is Ishtar’s name, IŠ8.DAR. I chose metallic red thread to honor her, since Ishtar’s characteristic color is red/carnelian. (Cf. the discussion here.)
That autistic / ADHD feel when you want to do… something.
I call this “activity cravings” because it’s like when you want a certain food but you aren’t sure which food. But for activities.
Do I want to go for a walk? Play a game? If so, what kind of game? DO I want to make things? Read? Watch tv? A movie?
then when that executive dysfunction comes into play and since you could do literally anything in the world, you end up trapped and unable to choose anything to do at all, and do nothing instead but live in that restlessness
One of the best additions to this post yet. This is one of those nuances of choice paralysis that people fail to understand – sometimes it is because we lack the executive function to choose, sometimes we want to do all the things and can’t choose.
And, if your depressive anhedonia kicks in, even if you DO decide on something, you quit 10 minutes later because the thing just isn’t doing it for you.
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i need y’all to stop calling me out like this
Feels
WAIT. This is an ADHD thing??? Cause that would honestly make a lot of things make sense
I get this so often and it can be so frustrating! It’s like you’re full of energy – but only energy for this one specific thing and everything else is just… impossibly hard.
It really IS just like samefooding, in a way, when you really want/need to eat but you can only really stand to eat that one thing.
Fortunately, I was able to get mine back. They’d been moved to a sort of ghost file system, and I just had to move them back to the regular desktop. The ghost file system is still there, and it’s hard to find things sometimes, but everything still exists. (And now it exists in a couple more places than it did before, just to be safe.) Not everyone’s been so lucky.
The update that happened a couple of days ago (today being May 24, 2018) sparked a whole bunch of new traffic to the thread. Now people are getting nonfunctional desktops, or black screens. The numbers of people who report having the same problem is up to 205. One of the people who posted in the thread was a tech guy who said that the same thing happened to eight of his customers, and the only thing he can do is pull their hard drives, copy the important files, and reinstall Windows 10. And the Microsoft people agree that yes, this is the thing that has to be done, even if it costs you money, even if they were the ones who caused it in the first place.
I guess what I’m saying is, if you’re using Windows 10, do not go gentle into that good update. Postpone it and back things up, preferably externally. Probably you’ll be all right, 205 out of all the people who use Windows is infinitesimal, but something is going very wrong with some of these updates, and Microsoft doesn’t seem to be taking it seriously, even though people are losing data.
This is happening to me and it’s suffering. Please please please don’t let this shit update until they figure this out
Signal boost for my fellow Windows 10 peoples.
mine wouldn’t start again and then after trying multiple times in different ways finally restored to the previous working version of windows. i am not touching those updates again, at least not in the near future.
Signal boosting this, please don’t update till there’s an official release from Microsoft addressing this issue, and explaining it’s been solved.
YELLOWSTONE-“…the mist surrounding the bison was because they had just crossed a river. Their body heat in the cold air caused the water to turn to vapor.”
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