hey there hexbear nd gang! it’s that time of year for the first time ever!
here we are once again approaching the end of the year according to the roman imperial calendar that we all have to use for some reason. it’s the winter holiday season in the global north, a time of great symbolic significance to many people.
and so, i want to solicit your thoughts about this community, what it means to you, how you’d like to see it evolve, changes in moderation policy, suggestions for thumbnail and banner images, or anything else related to the comm or neurodiversity in general.
or just come hang out!
i also want to invite applications for new moderators for this comm. what would you like to do as a moderator for c/neurodiversity?
personally i’ve largely been a placeholder, but i do love this community and i want to see it grow as a shared and safe space for our neurodivergent comrades to talk about ourselves and with each other. i also want to do better and want your input about what that means.
c/nd has a well behaved user base so we don’t need extra mod help for enforcement or anything like that. what i’m mainly looking for is fresh perspectives on community engagement and growth.
there is absolutely no requirement to disclose any personal information about yourself, just to make that clear. but if you’re interested in moderating this community, please contact @CARCOSA@hexbear.net, myself, and/or the other nd mods with an application.
if deadlines help motivate you, you have 3 days from the time you read this.
if deadlines harm your motivation, don’t worry about it. if an application comes in a month or two from now of course we’ll still consider it. this isn’t a job, i’m just asking for volunteers to help moderate a small internet message board.
Application
What is your Hexbear username?
Do you have any preferred pronouns?
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
What are your thoughts on imperialism?
What are your thoughts on trans rights?
What are your thoughts on racial justice?
What are your thoughts on neurodiversity?
What do think about current and previous protests around the world?
What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?
Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?
What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?
How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?
Do you have any ideas for c/neurodiveristy community engagement?
What is your general time availability? (amounts, common browsing times, etc)
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haha i fucking wish i absolutely should have chosen a different major. i should have gone into film. political science sadly. its ridiculously easy at least, its a fake fucking major. grad school should be a challenge but that will be a nice change of pace. did my undergrad with no adhd meds but you dont really need them because classes were so easy. college was 10 times easier than highschool thank god. i still would like to be a professor one day, i would like to teach and lots of my professors have said i would be good at it. i am worried about grad school. so many things come easy to me i dont have any skills to deal with things that dont come easy.
ah the curse of the gifted child. i found grad school depends heavily on your relationship with your advisor, pretty much everyone i’ve seen quit over the years it’s been because their advisor isn’t supportive. like so many things it’s less about how hard the work is and more about the social constructs built up around gatekeeping academic credentials.
thanks for the advice! ill keep this in mind.
That was my downfall exactly. Or at least, my derailment- I took a very circuitous route to building up a life story. Yet I still often wonder how things would have turned out had I emerged from the standard college years with a graduate degree.
Unfortunately and fortunately with ADHD and grad school, I found all the techniques that got me through every other educational year were still very effective (just with more emotional handwringing about being any good)
thats good to know. i think im gonna feel imposter syndrome regardless though, i low key always feel like that.
I felt like that for a few years into working full time until I worked with so many terrible people that, even if I’m not living up to my idealised self at least I’m better than them lol
thats probably really good advice, i dont want to end up like most polisci goons.
Exact opposite experiance for me. Coped very well with highscool. Got doing everything the night before down to a science. Made it through with solid As ans Bs with only a couple Cs, one in freshman gym of all things. Fell apart sligtly senior year as shit started to catch up with me, but mostly held if together.
Fell apart completly in college. Too much reading, where I pathologically cannot skim. Big projects couldnt be procrastinated the way they were before. And i was halfway across the country from parental support/supervision. Coped so well in highschool without it that i had no ND safety bars, plus regious nature of the school meant they probably wouldnt have recognized it anyway. Stopped taking care of myself. Flunked 4/6 classes in two trimesters, one pass was only because of a very kind prof. No easy busywork homework to keep my grade afloat. Tests werent the type i was good at anymore, plus i couldnt handle the reading and just got internet addicted. Complete disaster.
Got accedmically suspended. Got kicked out by mom for it, moved in with dad. Took a couple single classes that i passed, but honors Sociology 101 i only passed because my teacher was kind enough to give me an incomplete and give me a whole semesters worth of time to do the work. Signed up for a full semester of four classes and actually somehow passed everything. But got depressed over Christmas break. Started missing classes, dropped out of two of four classes. Dad kicked me out over it and i withdrew entirely. Havent been back since.
that sucks dude
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