It's... Been a while. I'm so so grateful that I could draw today, even if it was only something small. ❤️ #inktober2020 #inktober #slippery #characterconcept #characterdesign #art #sketch #copicmarkers #myart https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQi8bahccT/?igshid=te2u9grsst9h

The Legend

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I am a witness to mint aggression. While I was in Kuwait, one of the dining facilities had an area around back where the workers would go in and out of and it had a loading dock. Next to the door was the AC unit that always dripped water since it's 100+ degrees on the daily. One day as I was walking back there with a buddy of mine we saw a little bushel of plants. At closer in section SURE ENOUGH it was mint. It was both amazing and terrifying at the same time.

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

This is just a really great habit for anyone. Gonna have to try this.

a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.

find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.

talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore

picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else

if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

DEPLOY THE BOY

!!!!!!

how do good braids?

i just learned this which is MUCH easier than what i used to do

and its fun!!!! BRAIDS!

The most valuable thing I learned doing a Masters degree with depression, anxiety and ADHD was to change my “things I’m bad at” list to “things I can’t do on my own.” Stop thinking of them as things I could do if I tried hard enough, and accept that I can’t accomplish them by effort and willpower alone; they’re genuine neurocognitive deficits, and if I need to do the thing, then just like a blind person reading or a mobility impaired person going up a storey in a building, I need to find a different method.

I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.

Accept your limitations and learn to leverage them, instead of buying the neurotypical fairytale that they’ll go away if you just try hard enough.

the fight is harder each year.

It's the cold harsh truth. Sorry mando.

i think the reason im enjoying the mandalorian so much is because mando is 100% my favourite brand of character in that he seems absolutely convinced hes a stone cold hardass out-for-himself character but then the moment someone innocent is in trouble he starts muttering under his breath and goes back to save the day

My eyes have been graced on this day.

I sort of had context to the story for these but then didn’t want to get into backgrounds and stuff bc it was so vague. Mostly went on some feeling and then playing around with colors I guess.

Have some eldritch, fire being Tadashi. And he looks pretty scary and all that but honestly he’s just mostly confused and probably in shock.

This whole situation makes me so sad....

Okay, I’m sorry but I just feel so restless about the bushfires, I made a mini-comic. Maybe it will get a few more people to donate. I wish I could do more.  Please see http://wires.org.au if you want to help. :(

If it were a goose questions would be asked. But it is nothing but a humble duck. Quack Quack, my friend.

Reblogging for quality content 👌🏻

Ridiculous yet effective ways to deal with Executive Dysfunction

Dealing with executive dysfunction and ADHD becomes so much easier when you stop trying to do things the way you feel like you should be able to do them (like everyone else) and start finding ways that actually work for you, no matter how “silly” or “unnecessary” they seem.

For years my floor was constantly covered in laundry. Clean laundry got mixed in with dirty and I had to wash things twice, just making more work for myself. Now I just have 3 laundry bins: dirty (wash it later), clean (put it away later), and mystery (figure it out later). Sure, theoretically I could sort my clothes into dirty or clean as soon as I take them off and put them away straight out of the dryer, but realistically that’s never going to be a sustainable strategy for me.

How many garbage bins do you need in a bedroom? One? WRONG! The correct answer is one within arms reach at all times. Which for me is three. Because am I really going to get up to blow my nose when I’m hyperfocusing? NO. In allergy season I even have an empty kleenex box for “used tissues I can use again.” Kinda gross? Yeah. But less gross than a snowy winter landscape of dusty germs on my desk.

I used to be late all the time because I couldn’t find my house key. But it costs $2.50 and 3 minutes to copy a key, so now there’s one in my backpack, my purse, my gym bag, my wallet, my desk, and hanging on my door. Problem solved.

I’m like a ninja for getting pout the door past reminder notes without noticing. If I really don’t want to forget something, I make a physical barrier in front of my door. A sticky note is a lot easier to walk past than a two foot high cardboard box with my wallet on top of it.

Executive dysfunction is always going to cause challenges, but often half the struggle is trying to cope by pretending not to have executive dysfunction, instead of finding actual solutions.

Sometimes I say self loathing things to my therapist and he looks at me dead in the eyes before saying “You fucking moron.” and tbh same

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Story time!! Every ADHD person has at least that one subject in school that they hate with a passion NOT because they aren't good at it, but because executive dysfunction is a thing and no matter how many times you try to just DO it your brain just.... entirely shuts down.

For me, this is my English 101 class, and writing is like summoning a demon-its unpleasant. As a disclaimer, my teacher is wonderful and has been working to help me all year. I've been told that I write wonderful papers! She always asks for my advice to better the class and what they assign. Unfortunately no matter HOW great my papers are, I still hate writing and it's not abnormal for me to not turn in assignments. It'll take me an average of double the time it takes a normal student to write a paper to write my own because brain no thinky linearly. And so, when I write, I release pretty much zero dopamine making it INCREDIBLY difficult to even start the process because my brain says "no. Bad. This makes me sad" meaning I just stare at a blank word document for 3+ hours hoping something comes from it.

It's surprising the amount of people who try to tell me (and others who have dealt with this) to just push through it like it's no big deal. It's like muscle failure. Sometimes you can continue pushing out a few more reps of something, but it doesn't always work like you planned. That's why when you see someone who's ADHD focusing on a project get irritated when they're interrupted, it's not personal. It's just detrimental to them because they don't know when this chance may come again.

about adhd

it concerns me that people really don’t know that adhd isn’t a personality type or behavioral problem.

adhd isn’t someone who’s personality is driven by fun and disorder.

adhd is someone who’s brain goes all over the place looking for dopamine, because it doesn’t make or register enough of it, and when it finds a source of dopamine, it hyperfixates on it. it’s about deregulation of attention as well as emotions.

it’s not a person who can’t behave. a person with adhd can look like a lot of things. misconceptions about what adhd looks like kept me from even looking for a diagnosis, and it also kept myself and others (professionals, even) from taking my suspicions seriously.

everyone’s encouraged to reblog, but if you don’t have adhd, keep your additions to the tags.

I decided to do myself a favor and post this after tweaking it for too long. 1) NO he is NOT Moses, though I did receive some inspiration from such. 2) Enjoy the (now rare) art of Gabby. I've got a long ways to go, but I'm getting there! Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #oc #digitalart #characterconcept #characterdesign #art #procreate #myart https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SDMgHBxNl/?igshid=1d0svix5sfw8s