A Big Part Of ADHD (and Graves' Disease, Which Can Give Similar Symptoms) Is Feeling Like It's Your Fault

A big part of ADHD (and Graves' disease, which can give similar symptoms) is feeling like it's your fault somehow.

That if you did just try harder or put "more effort in", you'd somehow stop struggling.

There can be times where you're at the absolute end of your rope, emotionally and physically exhausted, and you'll still feel like pushing yourself because you "could" be productive right now.

I'm here to tell you to STOP. When you reach those moments, do not suffer in an attempt to get more work done - let's be honest, if you're in that state, the work you do isn't going to reflect your capability anyway.

Right now, you might feel like "productivity" is defined by working or studying or something similar.

This is a lie. Right now, productivity is defined by self-care. Don't try to push the exhaustion aside, even if there are deadlines on the horizon. Right now, focus on keeping YOU healthy enough that you don't end up breaking down. If you've already broken down, now's the time to stop it from happening again.

Drink some cold water, and eat some food. This does NOT have to involve cooking either! Have a microwave meal. Eat cereal out of a mug or a glass. Don't have the executive function available to make a sandwich? Eat the ham slices and bread by themselves.

Can't find the energy to wash up, but you need dishes? Rinse a dish with boiled water. No, it's not the same, but it'll do for now, just for the moment.

The washing up and the cleaning and the deadlines and the stress can WAIT.

Productivity isn't just stuff that affects other people. It's also doing stuff that helps YOU.

You won't be able to properly do the other stuff if your body and mind are shutting down.

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3 years ago

imagine trying to side w a guy who is some country's national ass 🤡

Imagine being someone who thinks Tony Stark was right in Civil War 🤡

3 years ago

things i did as a neurodivergent person to get straight a’s for the third year in a row

hi hello hi how’s it going. welcome to the 3am-burst-of-motivation-tumblr-post-of-the-day, where i’m sharing all of my study tips that allowed my adhd/austism/ocd/bpd brain to somehow squeeze out straight a’s for the third year (sixth semester) in a row. 

1. study differently for different subjects. contrary to popular belief, flashcards and rewriting your notes does not work for every subject (unless it does for you, in which case ignore me and do what works for you). different subjects, at least for me, require different environments, techniques, and associations. 

2. association! sensory stuff works great for me because i tend to associate physical things with emotions and even personality types, so have something be constant every time you study. example: i have two tubes of chapstick, one peppermint and one pomegranate. i put on the peppermint one right before i go to bed and the pomegranate one after i eat breakfast - i associate the different scents with different activities (going to bed and starting my to-do list). 

3. to-do lists! mine are written on sticky notes and stuck to my mirror because i hate hate hate having the sticky glue stuff from sticky notes on my mirror and i’m not allowed to clean my mirror until all the sticky notes are off of it. when i can’t see my mirror, they’re on the outside of my backpack because they’re bright pink and the social anxiety makes me think people are staring at me if they are on my backpack. 

4. change your location often. specifically for my adhd peeps who have the attention span of an overexcited puppy, walk around. do things. go to a park or a coffee shop or a grocery store or a sidewalk or a bench somewhere or my personal favorite, the bank. when you’re understimulated go somewhere with lots of different noises and when you’re overstimulated so somewhere quiet or control noises (listen to music, noise-cancelling headphones, humming). 

5. keep a piece of paper next to you for the Random Thoughts That Come at Inconvenient Times and write down the stuff you want to look up/do/tell someone about and like… i don’t even know why that helps but it does. just having your thoughts out there i guess?

6. body doubling. find a person who will study with you. bonus points if it’s another neurodivergent person. they are depending on you to finish the studying and get the good grade. THEY ARE DEPENDING ON YOU. DON’T DISAPPOINT THEM. (side note anxiety people i would not recommend this for you)

7.  go to a place that will remind you to pee and eat and drink things. starbucks is great for this. so are most restaurants. 

8. get a new thing to study with every week. i like new things. if i have a new thing i am going to use it until it’s no longer exciting. i get a pencil, just a boring, manual pencil from the drugstore every monday afternoon for like sixty cents. it’s a fantastic method, at least for me. 

9. don’t drink something with caffeine in it while studying. you will either fall asleep or end up on a roof. it is not a good situation. caffeine for neurodivergents is like sleep pills, for me at least and most of the other ND’s i’ve met. if not for you, you’re lucky. 

10. spaced reps. in other words, find a big pair of dice and write vocab terms on each side, then hurl it at the ground and define each term. do this for like an hour. it’s fun and gets a lot of energy out. 

11. stim. vocal stims, physical stims, self-talk, fidget, yelp, squeal, tap your foot, walk around, shrug your shoulders, twitch your nose, jump up and down, ribbit like a frog. stim, stim, stim. it helps. 

anyways. it’s 3:17 am. happy studying!

3 years ago

A weird idea of a möbius strip in a complex plane - a somewhat looping sequence in a vague interpretation.

A Weird Idea Of A Möbius Strip In A Complex Plane - A Somewhat Looping Sequence In A Vague Interpretation.
3 years ago

I give you: memes that I think would exist in the grishaverse

I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
I Give You: Memes That I Think Would Exist In The Grishaverse
3 years ago

truer words cannot be spoken

me to any fictional character i hate: well you're not even real you dumb bitch

me to any fictional character i love: why aren't you real you dumb bitch

3 years ago

GUYS DID YOU SEE THE TIDE PODS COMMERCIAL FEATURING MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS???

Dr. Strange Fanfic writers' hcs were right about the Cloak of Levitation being stubborn and unrelenting when it comes to washing/cleaning itself KAHSHSHHAHSH

3 years ago
So The First Pic Is A Deptiction Of The Plot Below, Relating To The Fibonacci Sequence.
So The First Pic Is A Deptiction Of The Plot Below, Relating To The Fibonacci Sequence.
So The First Pic Is A Deptiction Of The Plot Below, Relating To The Fibonacci Sequence.
So The First Pic Is A Deptiction Of The Plot Below, Relating To The Fibonacci Sequence.

So the first pic is a deptiction of the plot below, relating to the Fibonacci sequence.

What is this fuckery?

It might describe 'feedback loops" and self-interference patterns of a regression in dynamical information geometry; a set of information transforms.

The neat aspect is that if you expand the "outside frame" (the overall shell with the varying diameters), then neat 'coincidences' happen: the expanded 'virtual lines' often end or cross exactly at points at the "shell"...

I will play with finding loop sequences, as it's really thrilling.

Furtherly, it might also make sense to describe momentum and position of elementary particles depicting them as "progression of a dynamical information geometry". Plus the conceptions regarding relativistic aspects is in parallel 'production', and interestingly, although I didn't intend to put both aspects of my current work (this one and the relativity conception) together, they are each other's interesting addition. Someahat they "weave each other"... These thought processes are somewhat like the two perfectly symmetric, yet antithetic 'loops' of the first picture here. And it is like, so neat! The chaos literally sorts itself.

So The First Pic Is A Deptiction Of The Plot Below, Relating To The Fibonacci Sequence.
3 years ago

I believe someone already mentioned this, but we know that Lil Nas X survived the snap because Shaun and Katy are singing Old Town road in a bar in Shang-Chi. But I’d like to point out just how close these two events were, (the release of Old Town Road and the snap).

In spring of 2018, Thanos snapped and wiped out half of all life.

In October of 2018, Lil Nas X started recording the original Old Town Road, but he found the instrumental even earlier.

The song released on December 3rd, and later re-released with Billy Ray Cyrus on April 5th, 2019.

So, essentially, in a matter of months:

*half of all life is destroyed, governments are in ruins, world consumed with chaos*

Meanwhile Lil Nas X:

I Believe Someone Already Mentioned This, But We Know That Lil Nas X Survived The Snap Because Shaun
3 years ago

Inej comes from a people who have no physical home, who are constantly relocating. And so home for them is the people they surround themselves with. Their family, their loved ones.

Kaz has been birthed in Ketterdam and is a personification of the city itself. When Inej tells him she's not done with Ketterdam, it's understood that the unspoken meaning is that she isn't done with Kaz himself. But what's more important is that when she refers to Ketterdam as her home she's speaking about Kaz specifically. He's her true home.

As is traditional amongst the Suli people, her restless soul calls her to roam the earth, to travel far and wide, to always keep moving. But her heart will always call her back to her true home in Ketterdam. To the boy that is the beating heart of the city. To Kaz.

Kaz is Inej's home. Inej is Kaz's family.

3 years ago

welcome to this weeks episode of 

‘Is this Canon, or is this from a fanfiction I cant remember?”

a memorable mention being ‘is this an original post or did I see it somewhere else?’

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