If you’ve been clear and direct about your boundaries and your family keeps breaking them, then it’s time to put up walls. I’ve cut out my family for years until I and they were ready to talk

Very nice! I hope y’all have fun

Yeah sounds good. Seems short to me :D What are you playing?

I just had my first one-shot DnD where I DM’ed for colleagues. We played a setting that I bought at a con recently. It’s about Italian renaissance, so that’s my hyperfocus now. Researching about venice, Florence, davinci, art, society… It’s been really fun to play (even though we went way too long with about 8 hours T_T)

Now I also started researching more about DM’ing in general, tricks and tipps. I hope I don’t do too much or work in the wrong direction.

Are you taking anything for your ADHD? Because you are describing very clear addiction patterns for dopamine.

Yeah, you’ve trained yourself. I noticed after a while when I was binging stuff, that I hadn’t even gotten what it was about. I had listened to hours of podcasts without retaining anything that was in them. You can un-learn those habits. Your brain works like that because you (and the world around you) have trained it that way.

When’s the last time you spent a day without a screen? Two days? A week? This is non-judgemental. I also have addiction patterns.

What you’re looking for is probably a RSS feed reader.

But seriously. Don’t do that to your brain. It isn’t heaven, also not for ADHD brains. Screens are very dangerous for us ADHD folks. The neverending circle of information will not satisfy your brain. I highly recommend you try to drastically reduce your screen time. You’ll find that after even a short time away, the speed of the normal news cycle will be too much for you.