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I never did post this here when the series finished… oh well, better late than never I guess…

#Amphibia #the CALAMITY GIRLS~

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#Marcy Wu MY BELOVED #Amphibia #<33

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Here’s a weird autism thing that I realized this morning—

-If a choir director tells my section to sing louder, I will do so, even if I am already at fortissimo.

-If a teacher criticizes my class for failing to take their work seriously, I will feel guilty, even if I’ve been turning every single assignment in on time.

-If a post calls people in general out for not doing a particular thing and says it’s their fault if a tragedy happens, I will feel stressed, even if I was already relentlessly doing the thing.

I need to be told separately about my personal progress, otherwise I will overcompensate and eventually end up burning myself out. As someone who puts conscious effort in trying to understand social cues, this really messes me up for some reason.

#hey I feel this #actually autistic

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Hey btw, here's a piece of life advice:

If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

There is no correct way to live that's just supposed to suck and feel bad all the time. You're allowed to figure out how to make it not suck so bad.

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There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

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Signs of Autistic Burnout

Neurodivergent_lou

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as an Autistic person i am grateful for autism acceptance month and the advocacy shown by fellow Autistics but i also want to remind everyone that April is also PMDD awareness month which gets far too little attention, empathy and research. I did not know anything about PMDD before developing it 4 years ago and it has made my life absolutely unbearable for most of those 4 years. i am now at the point where my last resort may be inducing menopause in my body and people will still think that it's "jUsT pMs" and "moody women on their periods" while I'm trying not to throw myself off a bridge two weeks out of every month.

so i am begging you to sit down this month and educate yourself on PMDD and what it is (and is not), particularly from people with PMDD themselves

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Professional Pranksters

(also yes I'm not dead I've just been ruminating in burnout hell and only just now starting drawing again... after MONTHS)

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #oc art #my ocs #ocs #Adam Hastings #Dominic Hastings #The Hunters Saga #also I meant to post this on April 1st but #better late than never I guess

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#yeah probably

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"All autistics have low empathy" - This statement is wrong.

"Autistics having low empathy is a MYTH, we actually have HIGH empathy!" - This statement is ALSO wrong.

Autistics can have low empathy, they can have high empathy, they can have learned empathy. The myth would be that all autistics only experience one end of the empathy spectrum.

In spreading around misinformation that autistics actually have high empathy, you are disregarding the autistics who do have low empathy. And vice versa.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.

ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week

#TRUTH #actually adhd #actually audhd #:(

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When my brain is full of Markiplier characters.

#I cannot deny #Markiplier #back on my Markiplier hyperfixation #really not sorry

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#actually autistic #actually audhd #the sad truth

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ADHD & The Hunger Cycle

Future ADHD

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been doing laundry for a year

I feel so GROWN UP

I did laundry for the first time today

I AM ADULTING

… right???

#Rachel Rambles #update update