dragonlady7

capitalism, solarpunk fantasies really, what i want is to be free

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adhd just makes your really bad at capitalism, unfortunately

like bro i am just floating in a bubble detached from the flow of time and you want me to work 8 hour shifts?

I am built to sit up from sundown to sunup with minimal food and less light watching for intruders or little animals that I can kill. That requires very little of what would actually be called work and a whole lot of just zoning out because my eyes and ears are naturally attuned to picking up and focusing on changes to the environment. I am not built for the 9 to 5 office world, Janet. Unless your job requires me to persistence hunt Mark for sport.

no, i wasn’t built for persistence hunting, particularly.

i was built to be part of a small tribe or pod. i was built to live with my parents and my sisters, and to be surrounded by babies, siblings and cousins and my own children, all together with their aunties and uncles and grandparents and extended family. i was built to participate in collective labor, where some collection of the elders tell us when the time has come for various things and then a work party of us goes to do the work, and some of us do the heavy lifting and some of us do the lighter but fiddly stuff that takes skill, and some of us do the childcare, and some of us make supper and some of us are there to be comic relief and nobody minds who does the most work, everyone’s in on it because there is enough to go around if we all pitch in what we can, and everyone reaps the benefits at the feast later, and come winter we’ve stored enough to survive while the earth sleeps. Time is in waves, seasons and daybreak and sunset, and decisions are made collectively, and if I can’t fucking tell time it doesn’t matter because I am in context with my society. If I am terrible at seeing a task through, that’s fine, because I am in context with my sister who is ruthless about seeing a task through but loves me and thinks I’m funny and will keep me from working myself to death on the wrong task because I got distracted, and we will come home in good time for supper because she will notice the passage of time.

It’s not that capitalism is bad for ADHD specifically, it is that capitalism is designed to fracture us into smaller units, to make us self-sufficient because we’re easier to control that way. If we could have enough, and could afford to stay in context in our own societies, and could live according to the rhythms of the seasons instead of the tyranny of the artificial clock, and could share alike within our family groups and not have to fracture apart into Rugged Individuals, then there would be time and space for our Unproductive Tendencies that capitalism pathologizes to be incorporated into a whole society. It isn’t that no one would need medication, it isn’t that some of our conditions wouldn’t still be debilitating, but if we were free to care for one another and could love one another without the bite of scarcity and the Expectations Of Individual Productivity overtaking all of it, we’d be able to keep more of us alive and separate our individual worth from what we Produce and put it back into context where every person in our family has their own intrinsic worth as a person, and as a part of the whole, and everyone works as hard as they need to and rests as much as they need to and consumes according to their needs and desires and it doesn’t all have to satisfy some outsider’s balance sheet.

[disclaimer etc this is heavily simplified and i am not addressing some issues but all the threads about this on both sides are also heavily simplified so there] (Your picture was not posted)