u/FragrantGearHead

… does anyone know of others I need to check out?

Fender Toronado and Cyclone
Reverend Set Neck models
D’Angelico Bedford

Points deducted for saying a Firebird 😉

Let’s forget Likes because straight women are just bombarded by habitual right swipers!

How many Matches / Mutual Likes are you getting a year?

And how many of those became first dates?

I’ll start. I’m 54M, 3 Matches, two of which became First Dates, in the last year. Still looking.

I’m just wondering… because yes I know 20% of the guys on OLD are getting 80% of the dates, but it seems like it’s fairly common to get 10x what I am.

I know this might sound like a strange ask, when so many in the ND community swear by their noise cancelling headphones, but I will explain.

I have Chronic Congenital Tinnitus. I have had this as far back as I can remember, and it is constant. In short, I have never experenced silence.

So I need external sound to have something else to focus on which will mask my Tinnitus.

This in turn means that Noise Cancelling Headphones are possibly the worst thing I could possibly use, unless I was playing some other noise through them all the time.

What I'm finding is all the high end, most audiophile* Over Ear Bluetooth Headphones are Noise Cancelling, and there's no telling just how "off" that feature will be if I switch it off (is it still processing the sound in some way, is it still contributing to battery drain, etc). On top of that, I'm pay for extra circuitry I have no need for, and that will be (a little) more bulk and weight.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

* and yes I realise "Audiophile Bluetooth Headphones" is an oxymoron because BT Audio is compressed to 🤬 , but I mean the headphone cans themselves don't add to the problem and are pretty flat sounding with little distortion.

At the moment the condition is split into Inattentive (which isn’t much different that the “old” diagnosis of ADD) and Hyperactive.

Yes there is a Combined diagnosis, but that’s both with interactions between the two.

However, there’s a third trait. Impulsive. And it’s bundled in together with Hyperactive at the moment.

But I believe the Impulsive trait is just as independent of Hyperactivity as Inattentive is, and needs to be categorised separately.

In my diagnosis, I scored high in Inattentive, high in Impulsive, and almost nothing in Hyperactive. But my official diagnosis was ADHD-Inattentive, because the Impulsive criteria count for a little less than half of the ADHD-H criteria, so I didn’t score enough to make the whole criteria.

My Impulsive side is the part of my ADHD that has been the most disruptive in my life, it is what I need the most assistance with, and yet it’s currently not officially recognised.

What I’m advocating for is ADHD-iN, ADHD-iM, and ADHD-hY.

And then ADHD-Complex (some combination of the above).