Ozempic is the on/off switch I’ve been looking for

I spent ten days preparing for my court case, telling myself each day that tomorrow I wouldn’t need to prepare anymore. But when I get so focused on something I can’t get enough of it. I bound out of bed in the morning because I’m so excited to think about it and have new ideas to organize. And then I thought: this is why autistic people are so effective at what they do. But also: this is such a dangerous skill to have. Because it’s destroying my life. Where is the rest of my life while I’m doing this This happened at Harvard. A decade where I obsessed more and more about autism until I had read more papers than anyone in my department. I would write a paper every night. I couldn’t stop working. And what I remembered about that is how ineffective it was. Because this kind of brain is only effective if there are people around to provide guideposts. So for court prep I tried using AI for guideposts. But every time AI wanted to put one up, I was like, fuck AI, and went back to obsessing.…