I'm ADHD/dyslexic and have never had a social drive in person, so I wasn't going anywhere. Same thing causes me to be hyper suspicious of compliments, etc. so even though I was just a kid I had a complete bullshit filter and didn't buy any praise especially when it came to my writing.
I'll also add this was a couple years after I got into and out of "hacking" and torched my computer when I found what I found. Prince Andrew's area is rotten top to bottom, hence my drive to GTFO of there and I did. I didn't know what to do, it wasn't anything illegal I found just I knew what it was for. I wasn't stupid.
Anyway. U/maxwellhouse was supportive, helpful, etc. and very friendly. There was more users that they were friends with that I got into conversations with.
I'd talked with them for a few months when the suggestions to go to writing events, etc. all started. Nothing overly pushy. It went on for a bit, there was some close to home, but I didn't have an interest nor the time to go to a meet up.
That's about the time the sale went through and was switching hands. Aaron nuked a swathe of the user base who had dox-able info.
I was on the YC hacker news site too, which I ended up seeing Aaron comment on and I was jokingly like "hey wtf dude, you deleted my reddit account!?" and I ended up chatting on and off with the guy until they jailed him.
He said "you really don't want the new people running it knowing anything personally identifiable about you". I didn't use the site again until Q came and we went to war.
I am ADHD also and I am the same with compliments. I think we get so used to being in trouble as kids we are immediately suspicious when we aren’t in the let me explain hot seat and your absolutely right about seeing through Bullshit. The little things most people can ignore can be glaringly obvious to use. Yay filterless brain for being an asset and not just something you have to wrestle into submission. I knew it would be an interesting story and you absolutely did not disappoint Thank you.
I want more. You got stories.
Not really any stories.
I'm ADHD/dyslexic and have never had a social drive in person, so I wasn't going anywhere. Same thing causes me to be hyper suspicious of compliments, etc. so even though I was just a kid I had a complete bullshit filter and didn't buy any praise especially when it came to my writing.
I'll also add this was a couple years after I got into and out of "hacking" and torched my computer when I found what I found. Prince Andrew's area is rotten top to bottom, hence my drive to GTFO of there and I did. I didn't know what to do, it wasn't anything illegal I found just I knew what it was for. I wasn't stupid.
Anyway. U/maxwellhouse was supportive, helpful, etc. and very friendly. There was more users that they were friends with that I got into conversations with.
I'd talked with them for a few months when the suggestions to go to writing events, etc. all started. Nothing overly pushy. It went on for a bit, there was some close to home, but I didn't have an interest nor the time to go to a meet up.
That's about the time the sale went through and was switching hands. Aaron nuked a swathe of the user base who had dox-able info.
I was on the YC hacker news site too, which I ended up seeing Aaron comment on and I was jokingly like "hey wtf dude, you deleted my reddit account!?" and I ended up chatting on and off with the guy until they jailed him.
He said "you really don't want the new people running it knowing anything personally identifiable about you". I didn't use the site again until Q came and we went to war.
I am ADHD also and I am the same with compliments. I think we get so used to being in trouble as kids we are immediately suspicious when we aren’t in the let me explain hot seat and your absolutely right about seeing through Bullshit. The little things most people can ignore can be glaringly obvious to use. Yay filterless brain for being an asset and not just something you have to wrestle into submission. I knew it would be an interesting story and you absolutely did not disappoint Thank you.
Found this relevant to Aaron's comment: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888290402186215524