#adhd meds to clarify

[sanitizarium]

off my meds for a couple days while i wait for my refill (theyre at home not at college) and so far the only effect i have felt is Im So Fucking Tired. Holy Shit. I Cant Do Anything

[gay-little-axolotl]

DAY 6 OF @lambsappreciationweeks

Ezra Lamb was really 13 years old dating two people and selling drugs huh? (good for him, good for him)

[m4rs-ex3]

do you ever reread a wip that you wrote blacked out so many late nights ago and then forgot about and you're like "oh my god i fucking COOKED"

[locamotivednp]

not joking tho i would be upset if my new meds made me less crazy about dnp. like less crazy about other things is fine but i like being unhinged about them

[coloursofaparadox]

brain is doing...a thing? meds are.....good?

[fulviavincit]

btw blanket apology to all friends who i’ve ignored for like a month. i’m adhd medicated again! i’ve had 2 steroid injections! i’m on immune suppressants! all of these things are working and i am no longer limping! god bless love u guys thanks for putting up with me xo

[bludraws094]

"im gonna sit down and do my fucking schoolwork and get this shit over with!"

-me right before pacing for thirty minutes and rambling about hadestown as if im talking to someone

[euclydya]

we've only been awake for like 2? almost 3 hours i think and in that timeframe we've almost teared up multiple times bc we r So Happy To Be Alive And We Want To Live And Experience The World And We Are So Joyful And Excited For The Future and I'm just like WHO the fuck is co-con rn.* What the fuck. What the fuck is going on**

(*i know exactly who's co-con rn)

(**This is one HELL of a period that's what's going on)

[underthehedge]

Holmes also canonically played the violin, which...look do you know how many ADHD people have at least tried to learn that? Because it's a really weirdly high number. One of my more popular posts was about the time I ADHD impulse bought a violin and a friend, also with ADHD relayed that they did the same. And boy oh boy were the notes full of people with ADHD talking about impulse purchasing musical instruments...mainly violins.

Like, the violin isn't a symptom of ADHD but it sure seems popular with it.

“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

[lostinthefrigginwoods]

Screams about drifting away of being alone of not making connections and certainly not keeping them of being jealous and hating yourself for it of not understanding why the world has decided you need to be alone

[edgelessdagger]

🗡 Heya there! Help this dagger stay sharp! 🗡

see the full example art under the cut below, or by going to my blog

commissions are open for these little guys! for a base of just ten dollars you can tell me an animal and archetype and i will draw it for you! yes! do you want to see a mole wizard with a shovel for a staff? you got it! a bison gunslinger? that sounds fun! a cobra monk? i’m sure i can figure that one out! any animal will do. any animal. get as silly with it as you wish!

i’m only doing these simple animal/anthro lil guys right now (am i allowed to call these furry?), as they’re uncomplicated enough for me to make without adding too much stress to my life, can get them done relatively quick, and they’re super fun to draw. i more or less favor a medieval fantasy kind of aesthetic, but if you’re thinking of a different vibe, we can absolutely talk about it!

i need about 80-100 bucks for my adhd meds within the next few days before i run out (hoping to god and fuck that the price doesn’t increase without warning before i can get them. thanks free market!). so if you like what you see and would like to help me continue being able to make art, heres your chance! i’m opening 10 slots for these, and may possibly close them before they’re all taken if i reach my goal before that, so claim yours while you can!

whether you commission me, donate, or just share this post and/or my art i want to thank you so so much for the help and appreciation for my work. i love you and hope your life is filled with joy. 💕

Link to the kofi commission listing

Link to my kofi page if you'd just like to donate

🗡❤️

i feel sort of obligated to clarify something real quick and ask that you please be patient. i am slow, and in a more or less constant state of sleep deprivation, bodily pain, and just general stress. this makes certain things, like figuring out how kofi works and the technicalities and minutiae of freelance work, pretty darn difficult. if i somehow miss something or fuck up in some way just let me know and i’ll try my best to get it fixed as quick as possible. thank you 💕

[kollector-of-stims]

Ooh my god as an adhd and autistic woman with an ADHD husband I GET SUPER OFFENDED each time he repeats what i do. He always says he means no harm from it but it aggrivates, irritates, and hurts me like...every. single. time.

If he has echolalia, I admit that it annoys the absolute hell out of me. Never thought of someones stim bothering another stimmer. Feels bad, but that's just what his repetition does to me. Makes me wanna scream. Too overwhelming.

Have neurotypicals ever been offended by your echolalia?

In my experience a lot of people have been surprised or offended by it since I was a child, and I had no idea why until I was in my late teens and realized that they think I’m making fun of them, or even trying to copy them on purpose. Like, no??? I just end up mimicking people I spend a lot of time with, especially if I like them. It’s usually involuntary, it’s a stim I often can’t control and a lot of the time it actually means that I like you and feel comfortable enough around you that I end up echoing your speech.

[stardustedknuckles]

Lots of things I enjoy about dog daycare but my body slowly deteriorating from standing for five hours isn't one of them and 14 months of walking into a place with the full knowledge that I will be overstimulated in under two hours takes its own toll. Not to mention the whole "two jobs" thing where I'm pulling both jobs three days a week or the usual dozens of tiny things that drive home that employee satisfaction is not a priority (we had two washers, one has been out for eight months and the other in grooming is giving up the ghost but god forbid corporate allow a new washer, dishwasher, fur scraper, squeegee, etc., plus my manager who knows I have scent triggered migraines put up an air freshener in the front of the store because customers were sooooo sad it smelled like dog in a dog daycare).

Anyway. I had a virtual interview Friday with the CEO of a small clinic - she likes to do the interviews so she knows her staff and is involved (funny in light of recent events but I didn't catch it at the time thankfully) - and it went really well and if I get the position I will only have one job for the first time ever while I have lived in Chicago. Well - the first time when I wasn't also desperately scrambling to find another job to make ends meet. My first time having and only needing one job.

There's no real reason given how well it went that I shouldn't get it (they're hiring two or even three people so competition is barely even relevant) but I am still nervous. I used my favorite interview tip I have ever seen - when asked if you have questions for the interviewer, ask if there are any reservations about your qualifications or anything from what you have already said that you can clarify. It either forces them to admit they have a worry, which you can then try and soothe, or they have to tell you to your face that they find you perfectly qualified and good for the position, which was what happened with me.

I go in thursday to see the place and observe what everyone does for a couple of hours. Reception would normally be a big ADHD danger, but I have meds now and it seems there isn't a lot of time with nothing to do, so I think it'll be fine.

I will miss the dogs though. Several will also miss me and won't understand where I went. And that sucks. But this might be the first job I have ever left without extreme duress, so I guess it's easier to think about that kind of thing when I'm not in straight up survival mode trying to get away from somewhere as fast as possible.

[animentality]

To clarify how my ADHD meds are making me feel weird...

I did not sleep a single hour on Tuesday.

I then spent the entirety of Wednesday night awake.

So for the past two days, I have had 2 or 3 hours of sleep.

And I don't feel tired.

And it's really fucking weird.

It's like there's a bubble inside my head that's shielding my brain from the exhaustion that normally permeates my skin, only it's making me feel totally nuts and overly focused on one thing.

Oh. My god. There's something so wrong with me.

He just doubled my dosage and I feel like a walking heart attack.

I don't know if I can take another dosage without dying.

[doin-just-fine]

Okay so I just read through your entire blog (hope that’s not weird) and it was really helpful, thank you for describing and sharing your experiences. (I am a questioning system for context.) As I scrolled down your blog I found myself wondering if certain feelings or thoughts were just how my autism/neurodivergence present in me and then I got to your post talking about that. And anyway I was wondering if you could maybe expand on how you pulled those two facets of yourself apart and how you knew that one wasn’t the other. Once again thanks for sharing your experiences it’s been really helpful reading them.

Not weird at all!

I assume when you say facets you mean the neurodivergence and the system-ness. Median systems can also refer to there alters as facets instead because it feels more accurate. Anyway heres a bit of an answer for you.

it's tough. Like really tough. Especially if you relate to the no amnesia part of all of this. I have no traditional indicators if systemhood except for trauma at an age before 10 and emotional amnesia. It's really hard to sort out whats what.

Heres what helped:

1: Does your mask have feelings sometimes?: When you mask does it share the same opinions as you all the time or are you only just thinking about if you're masking properly or not.

2: I do not recommend this but if you can do it safely then maybe try it. I went off my ADHD meds for a week: this dropped barriers and people got through a little bit easier.

3: understand who you are and look for differences that don't match that and then try to talk to them: Some might talk back.

4: When you talk to your brain does it talk back: if you said hey that intrusive thought was annoying could you stop please does you brain say sorry? thats different than talking to yourself. Typically talking to yourself is you problem solving, or thinking allowed. If your brain talks back to you outside of those moments maybe do the next thing on the list.

5: Internally operating as if I was a system: Treat the parts of you you suspect to be a head friend like it is a head friend. Treat it like it's a separate person form you. Treat it kindly, with respect, validation, and compassion. If it is a friend in your head understand that whatever their doing is in there eyes for the safety of you or the situation. Even if it's disruptive be kind and patient and let them know that they are valid in why they feel that way and that they are safe with you. If it is another friend they will hopefully appreciate the gesture and maybe feel like they trust you enough to show themself, and if it's not another person nothing bad happens in fact you probably did more good than you were realizing.

6: I theorize that everyone is on a system spectrum: Just like neurodivergence I think plurality is on a spectrum that we're all on and it goes from "just me and my autonomic nervous system working in the background" to "it's me and 50 very distinct friend in my head". I fall in a "my emotions have thoughts and feelings that differ from my own" zone on that spectrum.

7: don't be afraid to make your brain make sense for you: If thats calling it a system then so be it!

8: Try out being a system: Don't make it happen through simulated experience. More like: if you notice you feel different, or you think you have or may switch see what happens when you let yourself notice and embrace those moment. If it feels like you're playing pretend you may not be plural in that way.

If you have anymore questions or need clarifying let me know I was a little stoned writing this. (that can also help people in your head get through easier if you partake)

[aropride]

wrt that poll abt tone indicators thats going around.w ell first of all tbh i think some of the hatred for them comes from cringe culture. but second of all. some of the criticism is totally fair like there are a fuckton of tone indicators and sometimes . there really dont need to be. and the abbreviations can be confusing i try to type out ones that arent s srs or j. tho i feel like most of the newer ones were popularized on twt so itmakes sense they wouldnt be written all the way out

like i think my prolem is when theres SO many and theyre redundant. i found a carrd with a fuckton of them that im gonna comment on To entertain myself sorry

like these 3 all feel redundant .. why do u need a different tone tag for Mostly joking than Half joking ? or for a Coping joke ? just use /j or combine with with like, /neg or something to get the tone across yknow? and /ji - first of all looks like /ij (inside joke), second of all why not just use /j

and like. why half serious or mostly serious or not serious when /j or /hj exist ? why /ns when it looks so similar to /nsrs, which means the opposite ? ive been using /s since like 2015 and /srs since like 2018 so ivegot those down and dont confuse them but i see why could be for some one who hasnt used them b4, why make it more complicated?

i like /g or /gen in theory- ppl have said its confusing bc gen could be general which i get, but for ppl familiar w tone tags tend to know what it means. genq is one ive used just bc. its fun to type tbh. and i think ppl get what it means but its not really Necessary. BUt genep and genc feel unnecessary when /g and /srs exist, and /gene is just, a word. that's just a word ! 😭

ojh my god. i should do a tone indicator tier list

as you can see my adhd meds are working

/nbr is funny bc half the time when some1 says theyre not being rude they definitely are. also there's already /g /srs and /lh. /nm is either helpful or deeply confusing Bc i try to take it at face value but sometimes i see it and im like. Why would i be mad ? and i start overthinking. but thats a me problem

i like this one i use it when i complain a lot Bc i dont want ppl to think im vagueing them i just love complaining

i love these ones. tone indicators for Being Mean To Someone. dunno if its on this list but ive seen /pa and /sbh (/passive aggressive & /somebody here, respectively) which is SO funny. i dont think theyre helpful really though except /neg Bc again. these all mean very similar things !!! why not just clarify extra things with a parenthetical

THESE R ALL THE SAME TONE !!! why not jsut use one single tone indicator for this !!! or none at all and just type the word !!!

need /nfl on a shirt in the aro colors so poeple know im not fucking interested in them. that aside. 1. whywould u need this ever !!! why not use again just /j if necessary.and 2. isnt the nfl a football thing

these r similar but i do like them, i think typing out a whole word again is a better solution so u dont have to scavenge google for the meaning but i think its helpful to clarify this and isnt synonymous with /j or /s or /lh

i think these ones are almost all just from the op's discord server or w/e, i won't bash that cuz if it works for them it works, that being said i dont think This many tone indicators for these types of things r helpful outside of that specific context yknow? also, /fx is really funny

ok i wont say that typing tics dont exist bc tics can be complex and vary by situation etc so im sure they can, but is that happening That much that u need a tone tag for it ? and also like. for /unin just delete the msg or say "oops sent too early hang on" or smth.. and as for vocal stim. first of all why is it /vt ? and second of all . why ... would u need that to type out ? bc if ur vocal stimming that would be. out loud? i.e. not in a chat where youre typing ???????@????>?,//???? BAFFLING. also in what situation is /gib necessary i genuinely cant think of one

ANYWAY.

None of this is to rag on tone indicators (/genuine) i think they can be helpful + i am always being gensrs when i use them. i just think some r a little silly & a lot from longer lists are unhelpful Bc theyre supposed to make communication Easier and Clearer + haveing So many tone indicators with Different Implied Tones WITHIN the indicators !!! makes it harder imo. bc if theyre to clarify tone why should i have to fight for my life deciphering why someone went from /mj to /hj yknow.

like this is all my Opinion and imsure these r all helpful for Someone otherwise they wouldnt exist but i rly feel like the system could be condensed a bit yk.

do i have a system in mind to suggest here ? well.

(also. this whole post is /genuine, /lighthearted, /not upset, and /not passive aggressive. and a bit /silly)