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  • I work in IT and have no shortage of offers in linkedin. In hiring season it’s like 3 a week. I did go to the workforce with a masters though. 5 years of education in total. Also, tbh, I’m a senior dev now (+7 years of experience) so the playing field changes a lot.

    Tell your friend to search for startups that don’t pay that well just to get the initial 2 years of experience, then jump up.




  • That ADHD is a disability is a fact, it makes living in society harder. Also, saying that someone has a disability and that someone is disabled is different, I did not say that.

    You worked out coping mechanisms that you must employ so that life isn’t harder than baseline for you as long as you apply them, I would say that you are working harder than someone that doesn’t need to think of coping mechanisms.

    I completely agree that someone that’s little isn’t a disabled person because they are more than their disability, but denying that what makes them different from others makes their life overall way harder would be unwise. It’s a disability for which a lot of countries have money and help programs specifically because life’s harder than for people who don’t have it because society sin’t designed for little people, or for people with ADHD, or whatever other thing.

    Let me repeat it because I really want to drive home the point that I never said that you or anyone else is disabled. Disabilities are part of what defines a person, not what solely defines it, but three’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that something is a disability because it makes living in society harder.

    Edit: I reread your old comment and you did say the following:

    It may make one smarter if it causes them to have to work harder than others to reach the same level.

    That’s what I was commenting on, your premise is that if ADHD makes one work harder to reach others’ level, then that will help them be smarter. I disagree with that notion, I would say that if with ADHD you are able to reach others’ level, you were smarter to begin with. So the smartness of the person is irrelevant to my comment, it’s the part about having to work harder to reach the same level that I was highlighting. You being able to work out the coping mechanisms and keep using them is because you are smart, not the other way around.












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    4 days ago

    Average out of which number? There has not been enough empires in human history to get any kind of valid statistical conclusion.

    Also, the ancient egyptian empire lasted over 3k years, for you to get an average of 250y with such outlier you would need to include what, several 10y “empires”, or divide empires by ruler. Which would then make the conversation moot since each US president would be a new “empire”.

    The claim comes from John Glubb, and he used this chart to make the average out of… 11 data points!?! While missing tons of other ancient empires that lasted thousands of years?!

    This is the book where he makes such claim

    So to answer your comment, yeah math is easy. Impossible to reach such average number with all the data though, given that it was made with a wildly incomplete and incorrect data…




  • In school? Just marginalised can mean kids not wanting to be your friends, having difficulties forming groups for activities… All sorts of stuff that make your life harder. The word comes from the literal sense of being put to the margin, to the side, outside of the general circle.

    It can easily devolve into being bullied aka made fun of for being different, kids using hurtful aliases to call you, hit you, abuse you…

    Depends on where you live and all that but being singled out/marginalised can easily leave you in a position where bullies will pick on you and since you are alone, no one will defend you.