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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but how happy would you be to suddenly receive a:

"Hi, apologies for the delayed reply, it turns out I'm really bad at replying to messages. Anyway, I would absolutely love to meet up whenever suits you best - although I do understand you sent that message in 2006, and circumstances have likely changed..."

?

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago

For me is more like "when i have the time i will reply"

Two seconds later: "i believe i have already replied to it so it's fine"

Next day looking at my phone:

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate how relatable this comic is

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah same. I don't have many friends and those I do I neglect. I don't deserve them.

Just moved house, working 2 jobs, finding it hard to fit everything in

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your friends know you have an executive function disorder. They will still be happier to get a response eventually. There might be some gentle ribbing, but it'll be intended to be taken in stride.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I didn't know I was on the spectrum until I got diagnosed earlier this year; I'd made this comic well before then (/I'm just sharing my old comics in this community) but in hindsight there's a few of them that make more sense to me now that I know.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hehe, yeah. Well, it's not like there is a small amount of us. And that's without including all the people that just don't know yet. So, it still makes for popular comic material.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Y'all, I still haven't responded to a wedding invitation from more than a year ago. I said "no" after careful thought about travel expenses, but I wanted so much to follow up with a thoughtful response and just. Didn't. Even though I think about it at least monthly. Last thought about it was, "well, maybe the 2nd year anniversary of the invitation is the right time to respond." Fucking awful.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] doug@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

aye. i don't have a website, really. just a tumblr from when i was making comics for fun.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago

I've been thinking every so often that I need to reply to my friend's text, because it's been a while since he messaged me. Thinking it'd only been a few weeks, maybe a month tops.

He texted me last June.

...I am an irredeemable monster

[–] Uri@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll share it with my friend

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude this makes me sad. Many times I ended up doing the same thing because I got busy. Then my best friend died and I never got to say goodbye. Sucks.

[–] Uri@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago

It really sucks. I didn't get time to talk with my friend for a month. Yesterday I called him after seeing this.

[–] joby@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I hate that I do this, but when I do finally respond to an email or letter and it's been too long, I sign off with "Yours eventually"

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I don't think day 2 actually requires an apology, it's pretty clear that yesterday was probably busy. The whole advantage of SMS is the messages can be chronologically separated, maybe I like to go through them in the mornings or something.

Day 3, sure I can see wanting to apologize there.

I just messaged someone after not getting back after 4 years :) . Online friend so not completely crazy to have not communicated.

Oh thank you so much! That's exactly what's happening. I will save it for the next time I take forever to answer.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago