"Alter Your Interests To Be More Palatable To Those Around You"

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

ADDitude

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Kenneth Roberson, Ph.D.

Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults with Autism

Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

I’m curious about all my gaming followers: first Pokémon game, first Zelda game, and first Mario game in the tags?

samus says "don't forget to stretch!"

Streaming Must Be Dumb

Why else would I have started doing it everyday but sunday.

Bug-shaped poison-bug type. Compared to my pfp, I'm a poison-bug type that mimics the Espurr line's appearance, but I'm actually luring in dark types. Probably to eat?

That's actually kinda disturbing, but interesting.

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

Hotboxing but it's just all 3 of us are autistic and none of us are on drugs

Encyclopedia Bullshitica is now for sale through Barnes and Noble!

The first facts-i-just-made-up book can now be purchased through Barnes and Noble here. It's still available directly from Lulu.com, where I get about $7 per copy, but but Barnes and Noble can order it to any of their stores if that's helpful or more convenient.

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listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry

Ahhh, cooking a pizza at 3:33 am because HONGER.

When you get rescued by the legendary space hero and he ends up being a mopey bird lady.

My friend suggested I give Samus a more monstery form than my usual design. Here’s the concept sketch :)