alastor having control issues and being afraid of abandonment and true intimacy so his closest friends are people weaker than him or he has some control over - or who need him 😌😌 seeking out power as a way to control things around him
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I wish in general discussion of ADHD that executive dysfunction wasn't used to just mean difficulty with task switching and task initiation.
Like, there's so much more that is a part of executive functioning! Executive functioning includes impulse control, emotional regulation, working memory, attention, awareness of time, goal formation, planning, and that's not even all of it. It's a broad catogory of cognitive processes, not just a single symptom.
ADHD symptoms do mostly fall under executive dysfunction because ADHD is an executive functioning disorder.
In general terms, it's not wrong to include difficulties in task switching and initiation in executive dysfunction! They are certainly a part of that! But oversimplifying executive dysfunction to only be task switching and initiation difficulties isn't accurate and gives an inaccurate picture of ADHD as a whole (or at least, from what I've seen, it impacts the discussion surrounding ADHD negatively).
It might just be me. idk. But discussing precise problems while calling them by a blanket term can make it hard to identify what exactly the block is. For example, if I'm having trouble getting started on a task and I just say "oh I'm struggling with executive dysfunction right now" that doesn't tell me anything about what's wrong. But if I say "I'm struggling with task initiation; I keep meaning to do it but don't know where to start" then I can think through the steps to start. Or if it's motivation, "I'm struggling with motivation" means I can think of how to overcome that. "This is overwhelming" means I can plan. "I don't want to stop what I'm doing/this is a task switching problem" means I can decide if I need to finish the task at hand or trick my brain into swapping.
(This is a separate problem but then you also have people saying execytive dysfunction is laziness or results in laziness when they are meaning that difficulty with task initiation. Even if it was true that difficulty with task initiation was laziness (it's not), saying that executive dysfunction = laziness is so incorrect. That would mean poor short term memory = laziness. That would mean hyperactivity = laziness. That would mean emotional dysregulation = laziness. And none of these are even CLOSE to true. That's another issue though.)
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btw not to make everything about My Fucking Guy but i honestly think one of the things that seperates q!phil out from the other islanders is the approach he takes to dealing with the lack of agency + control all the islanders have over whatever the fuck the federation's doing.
it shows up most prominently whenever tubbo is excitedly telling him about the 'progress' he's made with cucurucho or various investigations (ie: trapping him into a corner with the 'do you have free will' questions), and phil always shoots it down w an immediate 'that doesn't mean anything. curucuho will say anything to mess with you. you can't take anything he says as true.'
and it's not that phil is... a paticularly pessimistic character? he's just EXTREMELY practical. like, he's yet to give up on anyone EVER finding ANY answers (he was the one who initially gave the federation that one week ultimatum w the cage for a cage stream), he just doesn't trust the idea that curucuho is ever going to voluntarily give them. they're uncontrollable + senseless - you might as well argue with the weather.
and like, if that's how he sees the one (1) and only point of contact the islanders HAD with the federation for months, it explains a lot abt his characters lifestyle! ofc he sits on the wall all day, talking to his kids, and keeping his head down. he believes that the federation wants nothing more than to drag the islanders into sick games + tasks just so they can fuck with their head (ie: curucuho revealing he was the one cellbit gathered all that information for). and while he can't totally PREVENT any of that from ever impacting him, he can make sure his kids are well fed, well protected, and as happy + comfortable as he can manage. this is objectively not a perfect situation, there is a guaranteed amount of suffering + fear that he can't mitigate, but he can at least account for it.
like, he REFUSES to engage. whenever curucho shows up, he treats them with total ambivalence. he's not going to get riled up by anything they do, he's not going to get super attached to the guy, he's just gonna laugh it off and irish goodbye it when things drag on. the ONLY time he's strayed from that general guiding principle has been since he's lost his eggs, and can no longer afford to let the federation's fuckery go: those are his fucking kids.
hence the completely unprecedented levels of outward rage and sadness and terror he shows throughout the birdcage streams - almost all directed directly to cucurucho. it's all a completely fair + proportional response to the horror the islanders are being subjected to, but it feels so different bc until now, q!phil has been so dedicated to not reacting, and not giving the federation any sign that they're actually getting to him.
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thinking of Steve who'll likely use his body as a shield.
thinking of Steve who'll probably push Dustin out of the way and gets attacked instead.
thinking of Steve slowly dying as Dustin screams, "you die, i die!"
thinking of Steve apologizing, using his last strength to say sorry, because Dustin just lost Eddie and now even in death he's still adding unto the burden.
thinking of Robin finishing her part of the plan, immediately clutching the walkie in her hand to radio Steve because she knows her bestfriend is a dingus who would do something stupid.
thinking of Robin only hearing Dustin answer the radio with a wailing sob, begging for help and running and abandoning her post to run to where they are.
thinking of Robin finding them, flashes of images of Dustin clutching Eddie swimming in her vision but now— now it's her soulmate in his arms.
thinking of Robin trying to stop the bleeding.
thinking of Robin crying as Steve tells her his last wishes, which includes taking care of Dustin, asking her to promise that she will continue on and do all the things they wanted to do together.
thinking of Robin letting out the most heart wrenching sob as Steve finally closes his eyes.
thinking of the Party. winning. killing Vecna. getting back Max.
thinking of Max waking up and asking, "Where's Steve?"
thinking of Max crying, screaming for all of them to leave the room.
thinking of Max clutching the letter she wrote for Steve, for when she dies, only for him to be the one to die.
thinking of Lucas not knowing if he even deserves to be happy that he got Max back because it feels like a transaction and Steve's life was the payment.
thinking of all of them, dressed in black, having a private funeral ceremony just for them.
thinking of Nancy and Jonathan having to pry Robin's body off Steve's coffin because she doesn't want to let go.
thinking of Steve. dead.
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a silly thing i've noticed in the jordan vs sausage poll is sausage fans chiming in with "sausage didn't undergo [x] to lose this" and 90% of the time it's also something jordan suffered through. manifesting a goddess. becoming possessed. losing everything he ever cared about, including his goddess—who he watches die in front of him, despite dedicating his entire life to keeping her safe. i have never seen a better example of pitting two bad bitches against each other
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me to bones today: hEY SO YOU ANIMATED THE FYOLAI SCENE THE FANDOM IS OVERJOYED SO HEY IN THE NEXT EPISODE CAN YOU JUST ANIMATE THE SIGZAI DANCE SCENE, AND WHENEVER YOU ANIMATE CHAPTER 101 CAPTURE EVERY DETAIL LIKE DAZAI'S SPEECH AND THE LOOK ON CHUUYA'S FACE AND FYODOR IS THE BG IT'S NOT A LOT TO ASK REALLY SO-
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okay so ya girl applied for some jobs today in her field & she's feelin VERY nervy ab it..... so if y'all could say a prayer for me that'd be mint 😭
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