also on a more personal note, i also had/have ADHD and my parents could be frustrating to deal with for a long, long time.
hang in there.
hang in there.
Need thoughts on a bike
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Canuckles
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I just don’t fully get it I’m not like a 16 year old in school working a part time grocery store job. I have a pretty decently paying full time job that allows me to travel multiple times a month if I wanted to only reason I have moved out is renting prices are insane and I’d rather get a down payment for a mortgage saved up
Canuckles
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Sounds like a plan I can get it all sorted out id like to get my M2 settled first before I get a bike (if all goes well I’ll have it in 2 weeks). But just hoping they let me get the bike before June
Canuckles
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Its
not fun legit heard my parents yelling over how I hadn’t yet taken my meds even though they asked me like 4 times meanwhile I’m in a full on state of adhd dopamine deficit paralysis. Legit was just laying in bed and couldn’t move
my parents never really understood me, or at least how i arrived at decisions and maybe that's my bad. any test i ever took showed i was actually quite intelligent, but my mind always worked at a billion miles a second that to them it seemed like i was ignoring or not understanding certain things. While in reality, those things were so easy to wrap my head around that i just moved on from them. To this day i'm easily bored and dismiss things i understand, i need to be challenged constantly.
Canuckles
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But I also don’t blame them for not understanding I only got my diagnosis and treatment a few months back. Throw in autism into the mix and now I went from a lazy good for nothing into some dude with mental problems
oh boy. yes, my mother came to school many a time to drag me to the nurses office for my meds.
I simply stopped taking them at 18, they weren't happy but i was an adult and i learned self control...kinda
Canuckles
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Yup I feel the exact same way but I’m very picky with what I challenge myself with. I spent years learning about computers and how to build them and now that I know how I don’t have any desire to build computers. I even went to school for it but dropped out semester 1
Canuckles
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Unfortunately if I am to keep my emotions and behaviour in check I do need assistance but at the same time it’s one of my few days off I just wanna stay in bedoh boy. yes, my mother came to school many a time to drag me to the nurses office for my meds.
I simply stopped taking them at 18, they weren't happy but i was an adult and i learned self control...kinda
Canuckles
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Honestly makes me feel a lot better to know that there are tons of other riders with similar circumstances to me cuz ngl while my parents were always the “you can do anything you put your mind to” type one of the first main cons to me getting a bike was them worrying if I can even ride with my problems
I think its a bit of smoke and mirrors, not trying to downplay your personal circumstances..but generally parents who don't ride/part of that life are not happy campers about their children getting involved.
was 31 when i got my license, when i told my mom she said "it was nice knowing you."
Damn!
My parents disapprove as well, but knew better than to outright question my life choices. But the fact that it's such a big part of my life means that we don't have any meaningful conversations about anything anymore.
With my brother they talk about their grandkids.
With me, it's just "Hello, how are you doing? OK. Good."
Canuckles
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Ya that’s kind how it be right now with me but honestly they should be happy we’ve found something we can be passionate about and have fun withDamn!
My parents disapprove as well, but knew better than to outright question my life choices. But the fact that it's such a big part of my life means that we don't have any meaningful conversations about anything anymore.
With my brother they talk about their grandkids.
With me, it's just "Hello, how are you doing? OK. Good."
Catching up here:
-GS500 is an alright beginner bike. GS500F is a cursed bike, the fairings are waiting to be cracked like the shell on a boiled egg. Back when they were current, roughly about half of them in the classified would have substantial damage or just be missing the fairings altogether. I owned a late model GS500E, and to be honest I didn't like it that much. Very utilitarian, at least. The best part about the GS500E is that it is a BREEZE to maintain. Nothing complicated, 20 min valve adjustments... though the fairings on the F model might be a pain to tear off every time (I don't know, didn't own that one)
-I have been buying/selling used for about two decades now, and I have never lost substantial money on any of them. That is including bikes that were sold to me as streetworthy, but I ended up selling for parts or repair. And that GS500F would be the 2nd newest bike I had ever owned, if I bought it myself. Bikes don't age like cars around here - they don't see (much) salt or winter, they are generally taken better care of - being 12 years old is nothing.
-Don't overthink the ADV thing. "Adventure bike" is a wide segment, and a portion of them have capabilities akin to your average SUV - sure, you could take it offroad, but you're really buying it for the seating position, general utility, and possibly aesthetics. ADV bikes are perfectly happy to spend their entire lives on pavement, some specific ones might not be the best use of your money for that but a KTM 390 Adventure is very reasonable
-GS500 is an alright beginner bike. GS500F is a cursed bike, the fairings are waiting to be cracked like the shell on a boiled egg. Back when they were current, roughly about half of them in the classified would have substantial damage or just be missing the fairings altogether. I owned a late model GS500E, and to be honest I didn't like it that much. Very utilitarian, at least. The best part about the GS500E is that it is a BREEZE to maintain. Nothing complicated, 20 min valve adjustments... though the fairings on the F model might be a pain to tear off every time (I don't know, didn't own that one)
-I have been buying/selling used for about two decades now, and I have never lost substantial money on any of them. That is including bikes that were sold to me as streetworthy, but I ended up selling for parts or repair. And that GS500F would be the 2nd newest bike I had ever owned, if I bought it myself. Bikes don't age like cars around here - they don't see (much) salt or winter, they are generally taken better care of - being 12 years old is nothing.
-Don't overthink the ADV thing. "Adventure bike" is a wide segment, and a portion of them have capabilities akin to your average SUV - sure, you could take it offroad, but you're really buying it for the seating position, general utility, and possibly aesthetics. ADV bikes are perfectly happy to spend their entire lives on pavement, some specific ones might not be the best use of your money for that but a KTM 390 Adventure is very reasonable
Canuckles
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Thanks for this. This was honestly really helpful also respect to someone repping Juno from beastars fun fact I have spoken with and even played games with the guy who voices English legoshi
