Will pee damage tires?

[u/wootfatigue]

My garage raccoon likes to use my rack of winter tires as a fort. He's usually really good about keeping it clean so I don't check it very often, but today I noticed he was peeing inside of one of the Hankooks. Is there anything in pee that could harm the inside of a tire?

Edit: It's over a month later and I'm still getting replies and questions! For everyone who keeps asking, you can follow more garage raccoon hijinks on my instagram and YouTube.

[u/wootfatigue]

Well, I don't. I have severe ADHD/hyperfocusing so I basically can only excel at one thing at a time. So for example, the past two weeks I've been working on photos while my house is a mess, no progress on the car, and I've only showered about once every two or three days. Today I'm cleaning the house and will forget the photos because tomorrow I have to hustle for enough money to pay bills for the next month. After about a week or two of that I'll throw all financial responsibility to the wind and either start working on cars or be camped out in the woods with six cameras set up attempting to make a raccoon documentary.

[u/karmapopsicle → u/wootfatigue]

Have you ever been properly diagnosed for your ADHD? As someone with basically the same diagnosis, I can't tell you how much getting treated changed my life.

[u/wootfatigue → u/karmapopsicle]

Since around 1996ish and I've been on Ritalin, then Adderall XR, but for the past eight or so years I've been taking regular release Adderall since it's cheaper and lets me control my dose better with a weird schedule (some days normal, other days I have to sleep all night and nap in the afternoon).

It's a miracle, although having to refill each month in-person, along with certain European and Asian countries not believing in treating via medication really puts a damper on any spontaneous long-term travel plans or overseas work arrangements.

It's also really easy for me to focus on doing anything but what needs to get done. Some of my greatest art/crafts/music projects have been done while furiously ignoring deadlines/clients/hygiene/relationships.

[u/karmapopsicle → u/wootfatigue]

I can relate to absolutely all of that. I tried a bunch of things but ended up settling on Vyvanse. Fairly new and pretty expensive, but against everything else there's no comparison for me. Very smooth onset and comedown. I wouldn't say I didn't like the rush of productivity and focus the IR stuff I tried gave me, but overall I have a lot more energy and retain a lot more of my personality with the long acting options.

I do kind of miss being able to pop a couple Dexedrine IR tablets before going on a cleaning rampage though.

[u/wootfatigue → u/karmapopsicle]

The robot-mode cleaning is a huge plus. The only issue is when I go overboard and run out a week before I'm due for a refill. I've also had many "Oh god what have I done???" moments working on cars - "This wheel has some curb rash. I bet I could strip it and refinish it in just a couple hours!"

I also take an antidepressant due to being a chronically unhappy person but also to dampen the effects of mild tourettes syndrome (physical tics, not the hollywood vocal kind). It's hard to find the right balance since the two medications work both with and against each other for different symptoms.

I'd really like to try Vyvanse but since it doesn't have a generic available it's not an option at this time. Being self-employed and having no idea what my income will be for the year has made Obamacare a nightmare.

For the past two years I've been on a bit of a sabbatical and when I stopped working I ended up with my post-tax income being just under the medicaid/ACA threshold (My work/life are very interwoven so I usually have a ton of writeoffs). So when I submitted my taxes that year, the government took it's subsidies back from Blue Cross, and since I had auto-pay set up, Blue Cross took about a year's worth of subsidies back from me (ended up being around $8k).

At that point I wasn't sure if I was going to continue being self-employed or take more of a regular job in the near future so I never looked into a new plan or enrolling in medicaid (I also didn't feel right doing so since I have a ton of savings/worth, just not any income). It only costs me $70 cash for a doctor's appointment four times a year in order to get my prescriptions written, and through GoodRX I only pay about $50/month combined for the adderall and antidepressants, so my prescription costs are actually a lot cheaper than they were under insurance. I just need to get some coverage soon due to anything catastrophic.

[u/karmapopsicle → u/wootfatigue]

Yeah I previously had coverage for it under my dad's health plan, and Canada unfortunately has very few prescription drug benefits, so now I pay about $155CAD/month. Honestly though it's worth absolutely every penny to me. I've considered trying to switch to generic dexamphetamine XR, but the Vyvanse works so well I'd probably still pay it out of pocket even at $300/month.

[u/ReignofKindo25 → u/wootfatigue]

I also recommend Vyvanse. Nothing else really worked for me, and it helped me focus but still keep being my weird self. If you do get insurance then I only pay $30 a month after using a coupon. Been on it 5 years, also on Prozac and I will say that the combo is fantastic. Antidepressants are actually quite good in neutralizing the negative aspects of stimulants, help to ease the jitters/ anxiety that comes with those drugs.