#this Human Will Accept Any Harmful Interference

My love goes to all neurodivergents outside of US and few select other places. where you can get diagnosed and expect some kind of support

self diagnosing is okay

and if you were wrong that’s okay too

figuring yourself out is hard

go easy on yourself please

Horse love!

she knows her so well

neh

to not accidentally appear creepy and overzealous, I will now spend three months pretending I don't love you and don't think about you all the time. Until you're convinced I'm not cool but heartless and loses any interest you had. Also I don't think you could ever be interested in me, so I just accept it and start writing anonymously on Tumblr instead. All because I have poor sense of time and timing thanks to ADHD and for me it was happiness, like no time at all has passed.

Taiw those space lemons and shove them into life's face!

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Honestly, to any fellow neurodivergents that struggle with doing tasks: have you tried doing the task intentionally badly?

I'm serious. I always used to struggle with getting schoolwork done on time. Then one day, out of a place of spite, I tried to write the shittiest assignment the teacher ever damn graded. (It was a stupid assignment.) Got fed up with the bit halfway through and began writing the assignment in earnest. This has helped me start shit halfway since.

Even if it doesn't work like that for other people, half-assed is better than not finished. Half ass cleaning? Guess what, the space is still cleaner.

If you are reading this, I encourage you to try that thing you are procrastinating on or struggling with using the minimum effort possible.

Let's see... What do I win?

Hi everyone,

I found some more information on ADHD. I hope you all find this helpful. I’ll leave the link to the post.

ADHD Awareness Month

Amazing

oh shit i saw this like ghostly blue glow so i followed it and its a firefly being ripped up by ants

Reminders I need sometimes:

You are not causing world hunger if you throw out the lettuce you forgot about, you don't need to feel guilty.

Your followers are not going to die if you don't update your blog or fanfics, you are not their sole source of happiness.

Drinking bottled water might be bad for the environment, but it's also bad if you forget to drink & you get dehydrated.

Eating junk food is better than not eating at all.

Eating cereal for dinner is better than not eating at all.

Writing in your journal/going to therapy/meditating once a month is better than not doing it all.

You're allowed to mask if you need or want to. Masking is not a moral failing.

Other people aren't relying solely on you to cheer them up or to make them feel welcome. If you don't have energy to take care of people today, there are other places and people they can turn to for help. You don't have to take care of everyone.

Your feelings are separate from anyone else's. You can be sad when other people are happy, and happy when other people are sad.

You're allowed to have happy moments during a hard week. That doesn't mean the week hasn't been hard, and it doesn't mean that you're faking happiness. Your feelings can change from minute to minute.

How to see the next step ahead

Source: https://martinrue.com/to-be-productive-be-prepared/

Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more. Once we make a start, the game changes and it becomes about knowing how to make progress.

Knowing how to make progress and making progress are two different things, but we often conflate them and treat them as the same thing. We basically jump into the task and start. Only, it’s not really starting because we’re repeatedly stopping to think about design, architecture, security, how it will look, how it will work, which database to use. The list goes on.

But knowing how to make progress before you start is important. Before you start your next task, complete the following in as much detail as possible:

Describe exactly what the new [feature/bug/thing] will do

Describe exactly how it will do it, giving as much technical detail as you can think of now

If it has a visual element, quickly sketch out how it’ll look

If you can do this before you start, you’ll have a good idea of:

What you’re doing and what the definition of complete is

What to add (or what to change) in order to make it happen

Roughly how it looks or feels, which often clarifies details of the point above