This Is Fascinating And Good To Learn. Thanks For This. Reblogging So I Remember.
This is fascinating and good to learn. Thanks for this. Reblogging so I remember.
It's just annoying that people don't realize how much of the way Caleb acts is PTSD. It's like you said, it's not just flashback and outbursts. It's everything. Sensory problems, cognition problems, communications problems. It totally wrecks your brain on every level.
PTSD can effect the brain in so many ways. At its most severe it really can have an enormous impact on nearly every aspect of your life.
It can have a huge impact on people’s cognitive abilities, particularly their memory and attention. This is especially true when it comes to situations that are more emotional, especially if those emotions attached are negative, it the situation is stressful, etc. They will have a harder time paying attention to what’s happening around them and their brain will struggle to properly process the memory, which means the memory of the event will be less than reliable. It also impacts the way the brain processes and reacts to the memory of the trauma. When they have a memory of the trauma, they’re unable to pull themselves out of it. Sometimes they can’t remember parts of the traumatic event, and it’s incredibly common for people with PTSD to, even if they remember it, be unable to talk about a part of the trauma, or even the entire trauma. Their brain is unable to process the memory in a way that allows them to put it into words. This is even true of people who have experienced trauma but don’t suffer from PTSD.
Attention and memory also impact just day to day life, because in general a brain effected by PTSD has a harder time processing information it takes in. There are also significant sensory issues. People with PTSD and other trauma disorders experience a great deal of difficulty when it comes to sensory filtering, basically filtering out irrelevant stimuli. (This may also be true of people who have suffered trauma but do not have PTSD as well, but a definitive link has not yet been shown.) Basically, the trauma causes a person to be in a state of hyper alertness, wanting to be aware of everything that’s happening around them so they can catch something bad before it happens, so it takes in everything, every sensory stimuli around them, and it stops filtering out the things that don’t matter.
PTSD can also cause a difficulty in processing the stimuli that is taken in. The combination of not being able to filter stimuli and not properly processing the stimuli that comes in, or even either one on their own, causes a great deal of confusion and frustration. Issues with processing stimuli can make a person incredibly sensitive to relatively minor stimuli. Processing and filtering issues can also have a physical effect, making someone dizzy, nauseous, give them headaches, make their body ache, etc. They can cause significant anxiety and raise their heart rate. People with sensory issues often just shut down when over stimulated, an attempt to basically just shut out ALL stimuli.
I’ve already talked at length about all the ways communication is impaired by PTSD, and Caleb demonstrates a lot of those problems.
These effects can be far more profound if they happen during or before the parts of the brain that control such things are developed. Since Caleb was still quite young when everything happened, his brain was likely still developing, so the trauma would likely have a major impact on how the neural connections that are formed in those area. Impulse control, emotional regulation, problem solving skills, understanding consequences, judgment, planning, sequencing and organization, reaction to stimuli, and even more are all things that could have been seriously effected by Caleb’s trauma during neural development.
So much of Caleb’s disposition, his behavior, and his actions check these boxes for trauma disorders. There are things he’s done that demonstrate possible sensory issues, he’s demonstrated communication issues, his story about what happened to him could demonstrate the kind of memory problems that can come with trauma disorders. And he’s certainly demonstrated symptoms that I’ve discussed elsewhere, like his attempts to control situations and his difficulty trusting people. He’s also had at least one flashback, which is probably the best known symptom of PTSD.
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Calling all Critters!
A few years ago a call was made to Critters to submit lovely things about Marisha Ray when she was going through a rough spot in the first campaign. The submissions were compiled into a scrapbook and arrived just in time for that month’s round of Critmas. It was a huge success; she was absolutely blown away by the things that were sent to her and how much you guys loved her.
Things have been admittedly rough for the cast the past two months, especially for Matthew. So I’d like to do the same thing for Matthew Mercer: put together something to show our appreciation for what he does and has done as a DM and for what he brings to the show with his skill, imagination and personality.
The rules are the same as before:
Submit compliments
Submit encouragements
Submit happy thoughts or stories about positive impact
Be courteous and respectful of boundaries
Multiple submissions allowed
Specify the name you’d like to submit under, or if you wish to remain anonymous
The deadline for this is December! I encourage you to submit things for the other cast members while you’re at it too! This is a good chance to show the cast what we love about their characters and themselves.
Lastly, even if you don’t submit anything, please reblog this so other people can see it and contribute. Let’s make his happen!
This is great & easy to understand about the Ace experience
Note: This isn’t an insult/sassy come back to people to asking valid questions/statements (well maybe a bit sassy lol), none of it’s meant to offend people that are calmly trying to educate themselves to lgbtq+. Questions are always welcome!
Wow this is so imaginative!!
level 2 spell scars :) have fun when you suffer
(Cantrip scars)
(1st level spell scars)
This is incredibly helpful. This definitely something I wish had when first diagnosed With Autism. It all checks out with my understanding. Some of the methods for dealing with sensory overload are things I do myself to help with it. There’s still heaps of other pieced of advice that look super useful or address things I noticed but couldn’t put into words. So reblogging to remember this easier & because it is super useful.
I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!
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So cool! This is such an interesting take.
Rethinking Drow and Lolth
So I’ll preface this by acknowledging that while highly problematic, the Drow in their current state, canonically, can be an effective and interesting race when handled properly. Instead of plot-derailing gremlins, Drow PCs can be cunning and powerful additions to an adventuring party. Similarly, a shrewd DM can bring an even greater level of suspense to an adventure if they’re willing to portray their Drow NPCs with a level of dark prudence, making them cunning, savage warriors and Machiavellian criminal masterminds instead of asshole chronic backstabbers.
However, I’ve also seen some really great discussions on rethinking how most dwarves, orcs, and ’monster’ races in general are portrayed in gaming and storytelling, and I’d like to posit that the same can be done with dark elf races. Here are a few of my ideas, and I’d love to hear others from fellow gamers and world-builders. (Screen cap taken from Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir.)
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This is awesome and hilarious.
I was tweeting with tenfiends about how P5 kid should be Tatsuya and Jun’s son and it got out of hand
(Tatsuya is a detective, leading to hilarious antics as P5 kid conceals his identity from his dad, because his other dad Jun probably knows about it the entire time)
This is a great resource remainder & thought process explanation makes a lot of sense. Very helpful in life & fiction.
Could somebody be a paramedic if they were missing a forearm?
Y’know, sometimes a question comes along that exposes your biases. I’m really, really glad you asked me this.
My initial instinct was to say no. There are a lot of tasks as a paramedic that require very specific motions that are sensitive to pressure: drawing medications, spreading the skin to start IVs. There’s strength required–we do a LOT of lifting, and you need to be able to “feel” that lift.
So my first thought was, “not in the field”. There are admin tasks (working in an EMS pharmacy, equipment coordinator, supervisor, dispatcher) that came to mind as being a good fit for someone with the disability you describe, but field work….?
(By the way, I know a number of medics with leg prostheses; these are relatively common and very easy to work with. I’m all in favor of disabled medics. I just didn’t think the job was physically doable with this kind of disability.)
Then I asked. I went into an EMS group and asked some people from all across the country. And the answers I got surprised me.
They were mostly along the lines of “oh totally, there’s one in Pittsburgh, she kicks ass” or “my old partner had a prosthetic forearm and hand, she could medic circles around the rest of her class”. One instructor said they had a student with just such a prosthesis, and wasn’t sure how to teach; the student said “just let me figure it out”, and by the end of the night they were doing very sensitive skills better than their classmates.
Because of that group I know of at least a half-dozen medics here in the US with forearm and hand prostheses.
So yes. You can totally have a character with one forearm, who works as a paramedic for a living.
Thanks again for sending this in. It broadened my worldview.
xoxo, Aunt Scripty
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I will keep an eye out for this when around friends’ vehicles. There’s a missing cat in my neighbor hood so I hope by reblogging that means more people know to check for this because I don’t want that happening gosh. Suddenly glad I don’t own a car.
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