Now you know.
It’s okay if you didn’t know, just don’t do it again.
Ducks make great crunchy noises if you give them lettuce.
Wanna hear the water birb CRONCH
tumblr is just so adhd conforming?? random posts ranging from scientific wikipedia like articles to posts full of humor that’s so obscure and incomprehensible to outsiders? like that’s our brains in its most default setting right there. you never know what you’re gonna get, neither with us nor this hell website
Please reblog if you are 20+ and are mentally ill. I see so many posts by mentally ill teenagers and that’s great, but I feel like I’m too old to have depression and anxiety and other mental issues to the extent that I do.
Made it to adulthood!!! Not very good at being an adult but HERE I AM existing and stuff!!!!
33 years old this year. Depression and anxiety still suck giant donkey balls, but I live, I live, I live.
27 years old with schizoaffective disorder, depression, anxiety. Also autistic and ADHD though those aren’t mental illnesses
we’re gonna run out of posts eventually
you wont live to see it….
good god this is the most ominous thing anyone has ever said to me what the fuck
Study Place Essentials! (according to me)
This is an article discussing what I think are essential items for autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people to have at their study place. I do not discuss things that aren’t ND specific (such as why colored pens are great or why making notes is better than just reading). There’s plenty of posts and articles like that. I’ll focus on things I consider important and give reasons why. I will also give you some ND study tips! So, let’s look at my study place.
1. Ear plugs
This is very important for autistic people and others with sensory processing differences: get rid of all sensory distractions! You might not notice it, but it will harm your focus and productivity immensely. If after an hour of studying you didn’t manage to learn or do anything and feel more tired than you would expect, sensory overstimulation is a very likely reason. If you already know which of your senses are overstimulated, make sure to bring helpful items such as ear plugs, headphones, sunglasses, comfortable clothes, etc. If not, spend some time figuring out whether anything bothers you. Believe me, it will make a difference.
2. Tangle Jr
Some of my senses are often overstimulated, but others are often understimulated. That is true for my proprioception - it is quite weak. As a result I do a lot of movement stims, including hand motion stims. Unfortunately that often means scratching myself or picking at my own skin. I really don’t notice that I’m doing it, especially when I’m focused, so the best solution for me is to keep a stim toy with me. Usually it’s a spinner ring, but here I put a tangle Jr on the table because it’s one of my favorite stim toys.
If you know that you stim a lot when focused and studying, stim toys might help you. It’s especially important if some of your stims are harmful, like my scratching. Even if you don’t feel fidgety now, still put a stim toy on the table. You might need it later. Remember that there are good alternatives to almost all harmful stims: if you bite your nails, there are chewable toys; if you pick hair, there are hairy stim toys; and so on: put some time into research and it’s likely you will find a solution.
3. A glass of water
Many people will enthusiastically talk about how you are supposed to drink eight glasses of water, no less, every single day. Even if you aren’t thirsty. I don’t agree with that, because it’s not true! No one should force themselves to drink if they don’t want to, and the daily norm varies a lot depending on your weight, age and level of physical activity. The reason I still put “a glass of water” in this list is because like many autistic people I actually have trouble knowing when I am thirsty. Often enough I won’t remember until I see a bottle of water or a water filter, and then I’ll drink two full glasses in one go!
That’s why I keep water or some other drink near me when studying. Even if I don’t feel thirsty, I might glance at the glass and realize it. Then I can sip from the straw and not worry about spilling it all over my books (which with motor dyspraxia is quite likely). Also a friendly reminder that juice, tea, coffee and even soda are all excellent sources of H2O as long as you aren’t consuming too much sugar or caffeine. Caffeine has a tendency to dehydrate you but it’s a fairly small effect, so one-two cups will replenish your water balance just as good as pure water.
4. A reward box with low-energy study break activity suggestions
This is a study hack I use for studying something I don’t like. I used it a lot when preparing for my biology of plants exam (which, to be honest, I didn’t pass that well, but I did pass it on my first try!). It’s a reward box filled with suggestions of study break activities: playing my favorite iPad games, watching YouTube videos, going on Buzzfeed, drinking a cup of tea, and so on. When the subject is dull I cannot hyperfocus no matter how much I try, so I keep looking at the clock and asking for the study break to come sooner. With some rewards waiting for me, I can motivate myself to focus just a bit more and stick with the subject until the break.
A great motivator for studying boring stuff is special interest time! After some work done, there’s nothing better than engaging with your special interest in some way. I used it a lot, including in silly ways (like pretending that different types of plant tissue are Doctor Who aliens with certain traits and superpowers). One note though, make sure your study break activities are low-energy and don’t require as much attention. Switching tasks is already draining, so you better do something ridiculously simple for study breaks - like playing Candy Crush or watching cat videos.
5. (not pictured) Study Plan
I know I always talk about study plans but it’s because I find them immensely useful. When you have executive dysfunction, it might be really difficult to do many things: remember to do tasks, switch between them, break them down into steps, even just start tasks. In my opinion precise and detailed plans help a lot. Prepare them on a good executive functioning day and keep it near you. You can do it on paper or in an app. Make it in three sections: main parts, intermediate steps, daily goal. For example when revising for my zoology exam, my plan could look like this:
II. Revision notes
1. Protists
1) Read chapter one of the book
2) Translate all the words I didn’t understand
3) Rewrite key definitions and information summary for three phyla
It helped me to stay on task and accurately predict how much time each part will take. As a result I finished couple of days earlier and had time to read my revision notes again and recall the information better. And I got the grade I was hoping for!
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That’s all I wanted to show you. What do you think? Whah are some your study place essentials? Share you info in replies or through asks!
carrie fisher didn’t get laid to rest in a prozac-shaped urn for us not to take our meds…………. so take your meds
i kno posts like this are meant to be positive and nice but like… medications arent a nice pure glass of water theyve got all sorts of social and historical baggage. uwu stay medicated is not a trend we should be getting on
Okay but I don’t care about nebulous baggage, I care about my neurochemical state permitting me to retain executive function so I can be a relatively competent human being who feels like life is pretty okay at least some of the time. So I will absolutely uwu stay medicated and the many other people whose lives would be better if they took their meds should absolutely uwu stay medicated, and I wish to strongly urge everyone else to uwu stop and think critically before you blithely parrot baseless handwringing rooted in the bizarre social stigma against literally just taking medicine for illnesses.
Thanks for reading, have a nice day, ooh woo take ur fuckin meds
Do not let us die again, we where left once before because of a part of ourselves we can’t control.
Don’t let is die, don’t ignore our cries.
LGBT concentration camps are Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov solution to the “gay problem”. This is real. This is happening right now
i usually don’t add onto posts but on the link above there is a petition against the camps and it is far from its goal, consider that, this is horrifying
vote-deadpool4king asked:
askaboutautism-inactive answered:
It’s a bit of both, as far as I’m aware. The main reason is that A$ is greedy and very little money actually goes to autistic people. Another part is that writing it in this way prevents posts from showing up when people search for A$ written normally which can help avoid nasty anons who think that A$ is the best thing to ever happen (almost always allistics).
-Sabrina
tessagray-herondale-carstairs asked:
buzzfeedtasty answered:
We thought the posts were more ~aesthetically pleasing~ without them! If people would prefer we include them, we’d happily include them again (maybe as a read more?) Let us know which is preferable! We always like getting feedback.
self care is drinking 3 pots of coffee and getting into a knife fight w god
We found Dean Winchesters real blog.
put shit like this on my posts again and i’ll come into your house at night and shit in all of your cups and bowls
