Hi! I'm Zin. Mid-20s, Biology Degree, English Minor, doing nothing with either at the moment, much to my continuing dismay. ADHD, Diabetic, not-quite-officially diagnosed depression. AFAB leaning towards agender, mostly because *tableflip* no1curr. ( Which baffles my beau, but w/e ) I like RPGs, various music, video games, paranormal shit, horror, urban paranormal/fantasy, text-based RPs, writing, drawing, cooking, reading ( though as of late it's mostly things I find on the web, time to read physical books has been weird ) and continuously attempting to try and get my own OC stuff started over and over and over ( slowly making progress on some of it, hella backburnering old projects that had 100+ pages that never got past the 'drawn and inked' stage, but which I hope I can return to some day. ) I also like to talk to people but am kind of in permanent shy-lurk mode on forums and tumblr and etc and tend to just spam the like button and silently reblog things because that's apparently my jam? I've moderated a few RP games on various forums and have a few not-so-happy stories and some amazing ones, too. My offline social group is small, but my online connections have gotten me through more than I can really ever explain, but I'm sure I'm not the only one here who can say that! Currently stuck in limbo waiting for the stamp of 'you're a grown up, here's your grown up job (tm) go get a house, have 2.5 kids, etc' with my beau of 8+ years by my side, both kind of glancing at each other every so often and going '...what do', but it could be way worse. I'm 110% ok with being randomly engaged in conversations, I just usually shy away from starting them. ( Working on that, too. Far better at it in person, lol. ) Uhhh. I'm wingedbunny, zinv, and zinkaryuu on tumblr, with those being my non-fandom misc that was supposed to be a cute things blog, writing, and fandom blogs, in that order. Not a lot of OC because I like to hide under rocks and just kind of watch everyone - plus I orginally joined so I could just reblog things and close some of my 50 bajillion tabs. I also am very prone to rambling like nobody's business if someone gets me started, hi hi hello.
holy crap zin, are you me? (minus the science degree, mine was English with a minor in sociology) I have A.D.D and diabetes too. What type do you have? We can commiserate about A1cs... Anyways, I'm mostly a lurker too and stuck in graduation limbo after earning my B.A... um... hi?
Type 2, or so they tell me. I don't actually have a lot of information - right now the doctor's having me focus on a low-carb diet and trying to pull off some weight in the hope that we can get things under control that way - I'm at, like... 16 or so pounds down in 3 months or so? :0 Hi!
I'm type 2 as well!! though my circumstances are little different. I was diagnosed at the age 11 w/ it. Wow that's pretty good on the weight loss!! May you never become insulin-dependent because it is soo much harder to lose weight once you start on insulin :( but 16 lbs. is really impressive!
Holy hell, that's rough. :( I'm... crossing my fingers. Nothing to do but keep trucking and see what happens... and 16 is good, better than I've been able to manage with my attempts in the past, but hoo boy. The freshman 15 kept growing through and after university, so... working on prying those pounds off means I've got at least another year of trying to manage steady weight loss, which is really intimidating! On the plus side, it means I'm trying some new and wicked recipies, I suppose? Cauliflower pizza crust, for one, is surprisingly delicious.
oh dude, you have no idea. When you're 11 and sick, you really don't want to face reality about the fact you've got a sickness for life, you tend to do some really stupid things. Things which I am now paying for, unfortunately :( It doesn't help that around that same time period, the school district psych and my teacher were trying to get me diagnosed w/ A.D.D. because I was having problems in class but when your father is a man who doesn't really believe in mental illnesses... anyways... I got totally off track there XD at least you have a goal you can focus on. I'm still trying get control of diabetes through insulin because I can't really do the weight loss until my a1c goes down because again stupid stuff done during young age :( cauliflower pizza crust? sounds interesting. I'm gonna look that up later ^ ^
http://detoxinista.com/2012/01/the-secret-to-perfect-cauliflower-pizza-crust/ < This is the one we've been using, just with way more herbs and shredded mozzarella, instead. Yeah, I can imagine. That's hella rough stuff to deal with at that age. I did get lucky on the ADHD diagnosis department, myself? They caught me around age 5/6, hooked me up with actual medication and I went from the most awful reading comprehension to 'give me all the books' like greased lightning.
see I was already a book person when I was young, I was already reading 12th grade/ college stuff by the time I was in 4th grade. But because of the previous problem of a.d.d I had a hell of time concentrating on EVERYTHING else. and I didn't know that my dad went to a meeting with my teacher about me being diagnosed w/ a.d.d and actually told them "she doesn't have that, she's always been that way." until I was in my senior year of high school and I didn't convince him I needed to see someone until I went to community college and was about to transfer schools! Along with my attention span being out of control, so was my diabetes because well, I'd forget to take my insulin and/or medication and I really didn't get a set schedule until I moved out for uni... so yeah... crap... sorry, this is not the place (forum thread really) to be dumping stuff like this... eheh, I think I need to step away for bit, excuse me ^ ^
It's all good, no apologies needed. I am 110% cool with that kind of thing, I tend to do the same thing if I have leeway. :) I tend to be where my friends, Co workers, etc go to talk when they need to vent or just want to talk about things, so it's absolutely chill, and if you need someone to listen I'm happy to lend an ear any time. @Wiwaxia hi!
