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This is Gilbert. He’s been around a while. Attributes his long life to many, many years of always getting what he wants

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24 years later…i’m sorry for everyone who never got to enjoy the humor of neopets growing up. they are so FUCKING funny

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And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive EightYear Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.

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love learning about odd-couple interspecies joint-nesting events

nesties (nest besties)

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Sëlynn aka 쉬시턴 aka Sëlynn Lee aka Selynn Draws (South Korean, b. South Korea, based Frankfurt am Main, Germany) - Sudam Sudam, Paintings

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

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need one of those cones they put on dogs to stop them chewing open their half healed wounds but, like, psychologically

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Sniffing the spiked bracelets someone gave me to tell if they're real leather with a coating or just plastic all the way through like a truffle hog for faggotry

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this thing is makingme tear up

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my beloved main pet - made them when i first got back into neopets 6 years ago (: Day 6 Petpetpet - Bumbluz

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Objectively speaking, you are to the right of attack, not under it.

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how i wake up in the morning knowing my enemies are ontologically evil and there is no act against them which is wrong

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obsessed with these notes my mom found yesterday from when my parents first moved in together. i laughed at the fact that my dad never filled out the grocery list…some things dont change

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