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Anybody else struggle to not sit on your office chair like this? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Image description: A crude drawing of a stick man sitting in a chair in an unusual position. Right leg is bent at the knee with the sole of the foot flat on the seat and the knee up towards the chin. The left leg is bent at the knee where the lower leg is flat against the seat and the foot is on the seat under the buttocks.

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[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone who was significantly more sedentary, and lived in a environment where I couldn't stand up straight for a few years, yeah, I was getting issues from this around 16+, late 20's now and I have scoliosis and an asymmetry of my thorax...

Robot backs when?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't mind me asking, what was the environment? That sounds miserable.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that aspect was, other aspects were less bad; when I was a teenager, I kept asking my mum if I could have the basement for a hangout spot/workshop, she eventually let me.

When I started down there I was just a tad bit shorter than the doorways, by the time I left, I was having to crouch when I stood under the regularly ceilings.

Some aspects were good; it let me develop a love for taking things apart and rebuilding them, designing and building things from scratch, working with friends on projects, etc.

Some aspects were less than optimal; I had a 3d printer running almost 24/7 down there, creating a lot of nasty dust + I used to smoke back then, so the air quality of the space was terrible.

The big mistake was likely sleeping down there, being in that environment basically 24/7 was certainly unhealthy.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Okay that sounds a lot less insane than the mental picture I had. I was like, "mines? Some weird construction..? Snow piercer?" But it sounds like just regular level younger people doing obsessive things to the point of resembling self-harm.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

I’m sorry that happened to you.

It would be nice if this kind of thing was taught in schools, like life skills. I do wonder if I would have paid attention as you kind of feel invincible as a kid.