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It drives me fucking bananas as someone with a learning disability when someone says “just study harder.” Like I’m not already doing everything I possibly can to stay afloat. I’m already on the verge of mental collapse, if I do any more I’ll fall apart. I’m not capable of studying any harder, Karen!
Okay I have a legitimate request for advice/help???
So yesterday I had an idea for an animation for song that's like 2 minutes 20 seconds long
Anyone who animates knows that's a relatively long animation for an amateur artist
Anyway
Yesterday I like REALLY hyperfixated on this animation
This happens to me sometimes when I'm drawing
I have an idea and I HAVE to draw it, I can't draw anything else or take breaks other than quick stops for the bathroom or to eat something
And it's usually easily manageable because the drawings only take a few hours or something
But like
Okay this was pretty intense. I spent all of yesterday pretty much animating the whole thing
A lot of it is still very sketch-like
And I want to color it
And I'm struggling. The problem is that I really want to finish this animation enough to show people/enough that I'm satisfied. I just want to be done!
But like, I'm EXHAUSTED. I didn't get much sleep for hyperfixating on this, I am actually already sick, and I'm also having really bad period cramps.
It feels like the easy answer should be just take a break, right?
WRONG.
I CANNOT sleep, I CANNOT sit still, I CANNOT function I need to work on this. Trust me, if I could sleep or work on another project I WOULD. But like I can't even focus, all I do is think about how much work I need to do and what things to fix and -oh I need to draw another frame for this one scene,,,
I would really appreciate ANY advice, ANY recommendations, PLEASE send help I'm dying here
Question for the ADHD folk cause I might have undiagnosed ADHD.
Does y'all's brains ever...skip text? Like, a lot? So much so that 80% of what you're reading is your brain filling in the gaps between what you actually read? Please tell me I'm not the only one. PLEASE.
TW
It's crazy how with a little bit of adhd and excelling grades you can convince everyone that Ur fine, even when Ur OD'ing.
Me personally, I love the fact that my boss accidentally hired staff that are ⅓ adhd survivors.
I say this as I myself am an adhd survivor.
Survivor because it's like there's a gremlin on my shoulder making me do things impulsively. I'm a survivor.
...
ANYway-
Why does ADHD have to be so hard?
I just wish I could study without chronic procrastination!
Or get myself up in the mornings without assistance.
Or have people understand that ADHD isn't just "quirky little gal" disorder.
It's funny, I get kind of surprised when my diagnosed disability disables me-
me: I need to do my home work at 8
me: I need to do my home work at 8
me: I need to do my home work at 8
*8 passes*
me: . . .
me: I need to do my home work at 9
adhd will have you fighting for your life to do beloved hobbies that bring you nothing but joy
Today was the first two days of my collage classes, and one is okay, but the other one is a lot like my mentally unstable history teacher from 8th grade. I won’t go into too much detail but it was literal hell for me. And when I went up to him to tell him about my disabilities, he said, “You don’t look autistic, fill out this disability form and then I’ll help you, until then you’re on your own.”
I’m feeling my anxiety spiking and I just hope that we got off on the wrong foot, and the rest of the year will be okay… 😰
and for my next trick, i will vanish right before your eyes! ((you told me i was a too much after rambling about my interests))
*takes adhd meds* oh nice I actually experience hunger now, yay for having several warnings before entering the hunger danger zone
*hungry constantly* ok well you didn't need to do all that
It's my 3 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
Happy birthday to us I would like the opportunity to warn everyone. I am getting worse.
Introducing
Der Monster, The one who helps, the narcissist.
Seb, The silver tongued devil, the bard.
Arty, the Wordserker, the friendly neighborhood nice guy.
Wolf, we don't talk about this.
Yk when u reblogg yourself but u forget u did it and then u look at ur page and the first thing u see is an 'old' drawing of urs and ur like? What the fuck?? Did i accidentally post this again?
And for a split second u panic before realizing reblogging exists
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I rly need to fix my sleep schedule
oh my god
I'm not diagnosed yet but I'm suspecting myself of it so I'll try this !!
Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free
my hyperfixations are messing up school does anyone have advice im struggling
on my 3rd listen through of sherlock & co… feeling very normal
I’m both at the same time
Good news
I’m back on a higher dose of adhd meds
My mind is quiet again and I can focus
Bad news
I have new hyperfixations that are neither my day job nor cleaning my goddamn apartment
My doc and I did some fiddlin with my ADHD meds and now I’m back in Executive Dysfunction Hell™
Forgot how bad it is down here fuckin get me out
people who dont experience it cannot comprehend how awful executive dysfunction is. I WANT to do the task, i have the resources TO do the task, i will feel better having DONE the task
but i cant fucking do the task
Might I add:
-the “pretend you’re a sim without a choice” method
-the “get someone else with executive dysfunction and help each other do stuff” method
-the “pretend you’re piloting someone else to do their stuff” method
-the “Ask for someone to breathe down your neck” method
-the “pretend you’re a slave in medieval times” method
-the “make jokes out loud about absolutely everything as you do it” method (works best with sleep deprived delirium)
-the “sing a song about what you’re doing” method (especially if you sing it oompa loompa style)
-the “pretend you’re possessed by your comfort character bc they want you to actually care for yourself” method
-the “be loud and silly like ASDF while you do stuff” method (works best if you’re alone OR have other people being loud and silly with you)
I might reblog with more if I come up with other ideas
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
Directly copy pasted from where I just sent it in a discord group chat:
MY AUDHD KICKED IN AND I HYPERFIXATED ON SORTING ALL OF MY ART SUPPLIES FOR THE PAST 4 HOURS
I PUT OFF EATING UNTIL I WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN I COULDNT FOCUS
THEN I INSTANTLY WENT BACK AT IT
IM TRYING TO CONVINCE MY BRAIN THAT IM DONE FOR NOW BUT IT WANTS IT ALL DONE WITHOUT ANY MORE INTERRUPTIONS
HALP
I feel so vindicated rn
i’m currently obsessed with 3 different fandoms that have absolutely nothing in common and i want to write about a hundred thousand crossover fics
Today, all I have is medication and lemonade, and I forgot to take my meds.
the plight of a writer with adhd and major executive dysfunction issues
I WANT TO MAKE ART BUT INSTEAD OF MAKING ART I JUST SIT AROUND AND FEEL BAD ABOUT NOT MAKING ART AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGHHGHHG
adhd is wild. just got up from doing homework to go piss and ended up spending 15 minutes cleaning my toilet and sink. woulda cleaned the mirror too if the stuff for it wasn't in my sleeping roommate's bathroom.
it's 2:12 AM. what am i doing
you know when your adhd compels you to immediately stop all work and begin reharmonizing a choir warmup for spooky season (october) and purposefully go download a free videoediting software (ShotCut, hot artists dont gatekeep) to then continuously voice record myself for the next one hour exactly cutting and editing the voice recordings to line up (speeding up by 1.001000x with pitch consideration) and then having a result that was absolutely not worth the time because your two-voice harmony one sounded much better than the three-voice one you spent twice the amount of time as the two-voice harmony one figuring out and you messaged your music major friend about it but theyre asleep rn so your thoughts are still hyperfixated on music even though i've music'd all the music there is to music right now because i have no instruments near my vicinity enough for my adhd to consider it more convenient than it is important to stay hyperfixated on this unimportant task?
yeah me neither
I always get asked if I’ve got music in my head because I’m always moving my head and tapping, but in truth I’m just stimming. I say yes.
Anxiety and ADHD hand in hand, making you feel like a bee being shaken in a jar. Constantly vibrating, being thrown this way and that. Knowing what my objective is, but can't get it done. Heart racing with the unknown and yet can't calm down even when laying still. Suffocating in the jar but still trying to move to get to my honey.