• PaulBunyan@lemm.eeEnglish
    69·
    1 个月前

    Take my routine morning shit. But instead of my phone I’m reading the label on the back of any bottle I can reach from the throne.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    501·
    1 个月前

    What was I doing in 1995?

    I would wake up, pour some Frosted Flakes and play Donkey Kong Country.

    What would I do now?

    Go outside and take a slow walk through my old neighborhood and probably cry.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
    342·
    1 个月前

    1995…

    I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade.

    And I remember everything, huh? Hoo boy. Hoooo boyyyyy.

    First thing I do is write this list while it’s still fresh in my mind:

    1. ADHD is real and it will ruin my potential if I don’t face it head on. The medication won’t work on me yet, though, so tell Mom and Dad I NEED to get back on medication when my brain is more developed in a couple years.
    2. Also, for future reference: it isn’t actually a deficit of ATTENTION at all–it’s really stupidly named by neurotypicals who don’t fucking get it–it’s TIME BLINDNESS and a deficit of IMPULSE CONTROL and EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.
    3. Sugar is going to make me extremely sick and all my weight and fitness issues come directly from carbohydrate overdose. STOP drinking soda, and avoid refined/homogenized starch!
    4. I’m about to enter the most painful and traumatizing stage of my formative years. The middle school I’ll be attending starting 6th grade will be hell on earth. I need to keep my FUCKING mouth shut and not talk to ANYONE unless they talk to me. I also need to practice the skill of mindful dissociation and compartmentalization. Stoicism will be my only shelter.
    5. Yes the adults around me are morons and don’t know what they’re talking about, but broken clocks can be right twice a day. In this case, they’re correct about homework and studying being important for the wrong reasons: It is NOT about satisfying the expectations of teachers, but rather it is entirely for practicing the skill of internalizing and recalling information. I will not regret time I spend on it.
    6. Mom and Dad are struggling financially right now. Dad’s racking up debt while Mom is the only reliable source of income. That’s why they would “hold onto” my birthday and xmas money “for safekeeping”. it is neither kept nor safe; it’s gone. All of it. HIDE ANY MONEY I RECEIVE… and tell grandpa to buy stock in Apple.
    7. Express early interest in nuclear energy and pursue it with everything I’ve got. Approach via Mechanical Engineering. I’ll enjoy Computer Aided Drafting in High School.
    8. Remember the major incidents to come: Columbine and zero tolerance policy in 1999, also dotcom bubble crash, Al Gore will lose in 2000, WTC will be destroyed by a terrorist attack 2001-09-11, Bush Jr administration will cause the housing market to crash as well by 2008, America succumbs to Fascism in 2016, and there will be a global plague in 2020.
    9. I’m a furry and I am not actually a boy despite being assigned male at birth. Embrace androgyny. Get online. Find my tribe. Draw a lot.
      • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前
        [Exactly how traumatizing it was--Caution: NSFL]

        I was sexually assaulted in the locker room by other students. No one believed me. I subsequently experienced a psychological breakdown. The traumagenic dissociation plunged me through egodeath and I stopped being a person for a year. I was literally not myself again until 2009. I am still slightly messed up to this day, but the two decades that followed immediately after the incident were especially rough.

        Edit: this is not a dunk and I don’t hold it against you. By all accounts, in a better world, middle school shouldn’t be traumatizing. But unfortunately, this is not the better world.

          • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            1 个月前

            …truly i’m grateful you listened. What I experienced cannot be un-experienced, but … the only way there’s any chance of people doing something about this kind of terrible event, taking preventative measures against it, etc, is if they know it happens.

            A peaceful existence comes from understanding conflict and how to address it.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    20·
    1 个月前

    Boot up my dad’s computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.

    Or go to the library I guess.

    • Nailbar@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      1 个月前

      I was probably playing Cannon Fodder at that time on our computer.

      d:
cd games
cd cannon
(space)(space)(F3)
  • JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone
    19·
    1 个月前

    Am i the only person who is driven insane by the insinuation that WiFi is synonomous with ‘having the internet’?

    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 个月前

      No. It’s the Chromebook/iPad generation. I feel like they don’t truly understand the Internet or computers. Having used Windows 98 and onward, my friends and I had to really learn to troubleshoot and learn the innards of the system. Nowadays, everyone is in a protective shell like Chrome OS, iOS or Android. It’s all dumbed down now. Simplicity isn’t always good imo

      Edit: Windows was a gateway drug into Linux

  • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    1 个月前

    I’d hug my mom. Then I’d go ask the pretty next door girl for a date; I lesrned later in life that she also had a crush on me at the time, but since I was plain looking and slightly overweight nerd I never thought I’d hsve any chance with her.

    After getting that out of my system I’d do the obligatory investing.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 个月前

    I’d walk out to the street then light me up that cigarette and strap shoes on my feet.

    I’d probably try to find a reason where everything went wrong. I’d really like to find a reason why my money is all gone.

    • katkit@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 个月前

      [Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There’s] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What’s] the first thing you do?

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 个月前

        you’ve omitted “just.” If “just” were not in the sentence I would have instinctively filled it in with the missing words you’ve suggested. But I can’t reconcile “just” with any parse.

        • katkit@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 个月前

          True. English isn’t my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the “just” is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They’re basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

          Sometimes people ask “Just why?”, and that’s a bit different than only “Why?”, because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

          • jsomae@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 个月前

            That makes sense, and “just” is a filler word in English. I can see why in another language like German this would work fine. But in English, at least to me, this seems exceptionally clunky. The simplest explanation is simply that “just” isn’t generally used in a context where “what” is been elided, but maybe there’s a deeper reason why it sounds odd to me.