Tourettes Syndrome Makes You Neurodivergent

Deciding not to go forward with any higher education after high school was honestly one of the best decisions of my life.

I've always done quite well in school when it comes to grades etc, but for the past 5 years of it I'd spent every day exhausted and depressed, and I can't honestly say I retained ANY of the information I learned the last 3 years.

Most of my friends are currently studying, and every time I see one of them work with school stuff I just feel so relieved that I'm never going to have to do any of that shit again.

The only reason this was a hard decision for me, is because my entire life it was so ingrained in me that further studies was just what you did (especially here in norway where education is free). In the 10th grade, we applied for schools in class. It wasn't an option to just not apply, even though school after the 10th grade is optional in Norway. And then towards the end of 13th grade we had classes focusing on seeing different universities and different courses we could take, which for people who, like myself, were properly struggeling to get through each day at that school, was very demotivating. Just the knowledge of never being done with classes, studying, and tests.

My parents had a very hard time accepting this choice, being completely convinced that I'd change my mind some day, but what they somehow don't realize is that my biggest dream is working in a book store. I don't want an office job where I sit in meetings or at a computer all day, and I have no interest in taking on any more responsibility than that. I enjoy helping costumers in the store, and for a lot of people, that is the job they have for their whole life, and that's totally fine!

I am very lucky to be living in norway, where the minimum wage is an actual liveable wage (at least if you don't have kids, which I have never wanted), so I understand not everyone, especially a lot of disabled people who can't work a "normal" work-week, are able to just opt out of higher education if they are given the opportunity, simply because they wouldn't be able to survive on the money they'd get from such a job.

But for people who live in countries where it is possible to live a good life without higher education, I truly feel like it should be more normalized to just work at a place for joy, and not just as a stepping stone to a "better" position with more responsibility and a higher salary.

(Not to mention the fact that there are way too many jobs now that you seriously don't need higher education to do, but that for some reason requires it anyway)

Suptober 2021, day 8, leather and lace

So I generally don't participate in inktober and other challenges alike it, but when I saw this prompt I just couldn't contain myself...

I'm rewatching supernatural for like the third time, you know, as you do, and in season one episode eight, the famous Bugs episode, and a lot of you probably already know this, but there’s this kid, Matthew Pike, and his actor is the same guy who later plays Samandriel in season 8 I'll have you know, I was shook when I saw his face pop up just casually holding a spider.

Just a lil’ destiel moment. Id really appreciate it if your take a sec to zoom in and check out my new blending/shading style (I really like it and it took twice as long as my usuall style)

Considering how obsessed my cat is with my achilles tendon (she bites it any chance she gets) I might have to rename her Patroclus...

I made pizza and ended up with a bit too much ham, decided to give it to my cat. She ended up eating some of it but wasn't really too interested, she ended up leaving quite a bit of it.

What did she find that she absolutely loved and I physically had to tear her away from? Arugula... you know, the green kinda bitter kind of salad. She absolutely loves it.

The cat in question: (her name is Hiro)

How the FUCK do people just KNOW where the eye belongs when drawing a face in profile????? With the straight on headshot there are RULES, the eyes are placed in the MIDDLE of the head vertically, fit an ENTIRE eye between them, AND an eye on either side (sometimes less depending on the lense zoom)

IT MAKES SENSE

But in profile??????, its still vertically halfway down, but THATS ALL YOU GET

HOW FUCKING WIDE IS IT

HOW TALL

HOW FAR AWAY FROM THE RIDGE OF THE NOSE

I absolutely HATE it here

Being an extremely extroverted person with chronic fatigue sure is a fucking trip

What do you mean I can only be outside of my house for like 3 hours a day???? I need to TALK to people, be SOCIAL, have shit HAPPENING

Shoutout to my flatmate that gets attacked with a fucking monologue any time she dares exit her bedroom. Cause then I've been sitting in the shared living room for HOURS, just charging up shit to say, and everything spills out at once the SECOND theres a living soul there to listen to me

Some things we learn from experience.

alright gang we're taking "perfection is the enemy of done" into the new year and by GOD im going to be finishing some creative projects