first i want to say, im sorry for the experience you had in that community. that sucks. i myself have some things i want to share, and kind dont, because in the past the few times i have has been either the work get stolen, or tons of people dont bother reading the work and then instead try to simply attack the post because thats all they know how to do. im also new to this place, because i've heard it might be a little different here, and there might be more "peers" that measure the work itself for its effectiveness or not. but atm i'm in the "watch and lurk" phase to see what is actually like here before i share too much. so i hope for you, that you do find a community where you can share your work, and find peers to discuss it for its own merits.

be proud of what you make, and your willingness to dedicate such effort to things. and your unique mind. your young, but imo, that shouldn't be a factor in analyzing your work. work product is work product.

as far as your efforts to prove it. thats cool you did that. but also, i wouldn't care as much about whither other people, especially reddit, believe your code is yours or not. remember most people on reddit are trolling. their not there to have a productive convo. and likely not there to actually check out someones work. and likely if you posted your proofs, those same folks would likely not even look at it. these typically aren't people that look to discover what the facts are, so they can derive the truth from facts. instead they decide what they want the truth to be, and then look for evidence that supports that truth, and ignore anything else.

well. not all of course, but many many exist like that in communities like reddit.

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some of what you say here resonates with me.

im not adhd or biopolar or anything, but the part about intense episodes where you code on end? thats me too in a way, just.. not episodes.. its all i do. i've kinda always described it as an addition. and i think it is. so i wonder if for you its also an addiction. like people like you or i, have trained our brains to release dopamine when solving problems, discovering knowledge, completing tasks, creating things. so seeking out that "perpetual flow state" becomes our pen-ultimate satisfaction of our addiction.

maybe my experience isn't the same for you, but figured i'd share that incase it resonates with you and possibly helps you understand your mind from another lens.

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as far as what you mention about organizing your code, and your NEED to do so, i get that too. and do something similar. so figured i would mention that as well, since it sounds like in that regards we are also of a similar mindset. maybe if i share how i handle that "need for organization" it would help you as well.

so what i do. is i created my own "styling framework" as i guess many would call it. i work in c# lately, so the standard/tools i built to automate this for me are in that language. i call mine "CVEC" or "Cognitive Visual Ergonomic Coding". the core concept, is that our brains have "systems 1" and "systems 2" thinking/processing, and that we can leverage that. the mechanism i use sounds similar to what your doing. what im doing, is i use regions, with markdown like tags, to create a hierarchy of "sections" "headers 1-5" and "code blocks". then i run a recursive state machine wrapped into a tool i built that simply parses through the code file, looks for `#region` starts, then the tag after them (`$`, `#`, `##`, `###`, `...`, etc...) that identifies their "type". then reformats the region start, and end to a standard case usage, and adds or updates a comment ascii font header before them. "types" higher in the hierarchy, use larger, bolder ascii headers. and as you get lower in the hierarchy the ascii font gets smaller and thinner. this ends up creating code thats a nested, collapsible hierarchy. with the ascii font headers, acting as distinct visual identifiers/anchors that makes it much easier to keep things organized, find your class, method/function, block of code, etc...

since.. it sounds like your unicode dividers are performing a similar function for you, i thought that i'd mention my approach, because im not sure if in your approach, your sizing your dividers visually like im am doing. and maybe that idea would help you further keep things organized and decrease the "chaos" you experience when things are not organized.

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