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gotta do a word of the day for my ap eng class so why not share here?

baize:

a bright green fabric resembling felt, typically used to cover billiard and card tables

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baize:

a bright green fabric resembling felt, typically used to cover billiard and card tables

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FOUR!!!!!! HUNDRED!!!!!! HOLY SHIT

how to get started//a neurodivergent’s guide

hello! i do not see a lot about students with mental obstacles to overcome in the study community. I’d like to add to the collection. I battle with my ADHD and depression on the daily, as the combo makes doing anything difficult. here’s how I help myself get through the day!

note: I am an online student and some of these may not fit into your lifestyle. if you like a tip, make it work!

prioritizing

as someone with ADHD, prioritizing is my ultimate enemy. I still struggle with this like crazy, but what has saved my grades is prioritizing by time. if you’re assigned a project that’s due the same day, DO IT THAT DAY! it’s hard to put aside other things to work on another as it makes me feel like I’m ignoring other important tasks. remind yourself that the faster you get this done, the closer you’ll be to accomplishing your next one.

time-management

my personal life saver here is the app Forest, which I’m sure you’ve all heard of. the app is FREE on Android (lucky us!) but it’s well worth the few bucks on iOS. if you can’t get Forest, try another timer method. set it to an hour and try your hardest to make that hour worth it. the best mindset for this in my personal experience is to think of this time as “only one hour out of 24”. it’s way less daunting that way!

getting started

I’ve gotten pretty close to mastering this one (only took me 14 years) and I’m grateful as hell for it. say to yourself “fuck it! why not?”. set aside the idea that you have to do this task for whatever reason; this is often the source of your procrastination. go wild with it. if you’re writing an essay, swear if you want to! write down whatever the hell you’d like! later on, you can look back at what you’ve done and realized you accomplished something: you got started.

this is my first ever original post and as you can tell I’m awful at writing lol. I hope this can help at least one person out there. make the rest of your day the best you can :)

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juniors

i bet most of you are feeling overwhelmed with your work load. here's the thing...you need to do your work. this may seem obvious, but elementary and middle school drills it into you that you need to find the easiest, quickest shortcuts to getting shit done.

junior year forces you to sit down, cry, and get the shit done.

no, your essay is not going to be dropped. get the 500 words, check the rubric, turn it in. write your fucking speech and get it done with. ask any questions you have.

its not as bad as you think, i swear. it'll get easier. reading a novel in a day isn't the same as climbing mount everest.

if you have adhd like me and have problems getting started, check out this post

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why is finishing things so hard,,, you literally have one step left and then you never have to think about this again,,,.. please..,.

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what the FUCK!

If you’re going to spread “Autism Awareness”, then spread awareness that

We still face workplace discrimination

Caretakers are killing us

Autistic poc are killed for acting autistic because it’s “suspicious”.

ABA is not okay!

The Judge Rotenburg Center is still getting away with abuse.

Autistic girls are underrepresented (and it’s worse for Autistic girls of color)

Autism $peaks does not speak for us!

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I had a nice Saturday morning studying Latin.

I also finished my notes for ‘Caliban and the Witch’ and let me tell you, there’s nothing better than a good scoop of feminist Marxist theory to start the day.

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I find the concept of growing in love so much prettier than love at first sight?? like one day you look at someone and you suddenly realize you see them in a different light than you did the night before. that’s falling.

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oct 28. i'm making a new post cuz the last got 0 help. my family needs 600 USD before november 14th or we will be evicted. please fuckin help if you can, send anything. paypal

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Vintage outdoor bookshop spotted in Madrid, Spain.

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Hey there! I’m Nicole, and I just decided to make a studyblr instead of doing my psych homework (oops). I’m a non-traditional undergrad at the OU, so I’ll be posting a lot of psychology related pics and general study/motivational stuff!

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there are people who sit down…..they sit down and they say “i have to do this thing i don’t want to do.” and they do the thing. they fucking do it. like what the fuck is up with that

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adhd as vines/tiktoks + those with adhd energies #1

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me: hey how long is this thing going to last

someone: haha you just want to know when you’re off the hook

me: hah

me: (actually i just need to allocate the right expectations and backlog of energy and make sure the rest of my day falls in good accordance with it so that i don’t feel time-crunched and propel myself into a hysteria because if i don’t know how long this thing lasts or when it ends i can’t possibly know when literally anything else starts and my entire life becomes an unraveled realm of anarchy with no rhyme or reason and how is that not terrifying to you)

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what bothers me most abt mainstream understanding of adhd is that it’s effectively “not as severe”. that it’s just comedic relief, funny, quirky, limited to just distractibility and hyperactivity (“look, a squirrel!”), and something that you can grow out of or only affects children - or, even worse, nonexistent and just an “excuse” to blame otherwise normal hyperactive behavior in children.

the adhd brain and nervous system is wired completely differently. rsd wasn’t even given a name until recent times due to the heavier focus on what was more easily observable, which was - surprise - attention and hyperactivity. i didn’t even know emotional dysregulation in general was a symptom until 6 or so months ago, and ive had the incredible luck and comfort of being diagnosed early in childhood and taking meds that work for me which a whole lot of other people did not and still do not have access to. and still, not knowing that one symptom seriously took a toll on me because it significantly controls how i interact with people. i avoid rejection at all costs. i’m hyper-aware of the reactions of people around me and actively curb my behavior to fit what i think would be “acceptable”. and even the smallest subconscious thought that some part of something i say or do could be interpreted as “bad” is enough to deter me from doing it at all, whether or not it’s actually there (and it usually isn’t). the feeling of being held to a negative observation terrifies me more than anything else - that somehow, it will permanently damage how the person sees me, and that i won’t have been able to predict this thing ahead of time to avoid it. while i’ve improved with this fear given time, it still hinders me in many ways that it would not for others without the disorder, and if i had known about it, i wouldn’t have believed for so long that it was my fault, and i was just somehow irreversibly inferior to everyone else around me and always destined to make the wrong decision.

adhd is a disorder. it is debilitating. it affects your daily life. it is not just some funny quirk or something to dismiss as behavioral issues. it should be taken far more seriously, and the fact that it isn’t is exactly what’s hurting us.

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literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)

me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat