#adhd support print

[deadpoolsmom]

my condolences for kinning Jiang Cheng

😞😞😞😞

I’m only 10 episodes in tbf! But unfortunately I am also youngest sibling coded, spent my childhood literally following my older sister around, and would be also incredibly stressed out if someone in my Group acted remotely like wwx esp if I was told to make sure everyone behaved

also the way he’s kinda mean and the lil crush on wen qing are relatable me to fr bud igu 😔

[adhdanalogbrain]

Download & Print the ADHD Analog Brain Tool

The ADHD Analog Brain is now available for download in FOUR formats:

1. Editable Word document you can download and modify to the moon and back

2. Printable PDF with extra sections and blank lines for you to write in - list your favorite books, adventures, meals, and more!

3. Printable PDF, same as above, in extra-large font

4. Printable BOOKLET-STYLE PDF. If an 8.5″x11″ printout isn’t your jam, how about a duplex-printed 4″x5.5″ stapled booklet? Comes with all the extra goodies as the letter-sized PDF but now fits in your pocket. (Must have access to a double-sided printer. And a stapler.)

For links and instructions, go to the ADHD Analog Brain Tool website

The ADHD Analog brain will always be free, but if you’d like to support the project (i.e. hosting fees, my MRI copay) feel free to donate to the Ko-Fi!

[herblinz]

Hoodie Maul keychain giveaway?!

Hey hey hey my choombas tis I! Risen from the adhd do-i-have-energy-to-live-or-am-i-imbued-with-Gemmarays hibernation for five minutes (again)💀 To prove I’m still alive and thank the new supporters and prints-buyers (and also I just put up my first product on my Ko-fi gasps ╭(°A°`)╮)

I am doing a giveaway! Sorry for the promo pics lol I’ll get some lights and do better next time 🥲

🌟 Get a free Hooded Maul-san to guard your keys today 🌟

To join the giveaway:

☆ Follow me here, or on Instagram

☆ Comment your favorite Maul era

☆ Reblog to spread the word! (This site still runs on reblog dears! Support your remote artists and give them motivation as well as chances for substance to survive by sharing their content!)

I’m running the giveaway from today to Lunar New Year’s eve 28th Jan., and winner will be chosen randomly & announced here and on my Instagram (follow me if you use it too (✿◡‿◡) I have limited braincells to sh@tpost on one platform regularly and recently it’s been Instagram). Ofc a good way to stay connected is to grab a place on my Patreon. Join for free is super welcomed too:3 You can get my Procreate brushes there 🎨 Plus cat pictures (=ↀωↀ=)

P.S. Super soft announcement 👀 I’m opening the option for a sticker club on Patreon for only $12 👀 This month is Zabro and Mac Miller 👀 International mail pals welcome 👀

Update: thank you, everyone who joined me on this little game ^^ The raffle ended today with winner going to a lovely sideshow figure photography account on instagram (more deds in my reblog with picture). I’m leaving this for another day see if anyone else pops up with bombad comments, might send them a snail mail with stickers;)

[dreamingunderacloudysky]

Hey I saw your requests were open! May I ask for a fem reader x Anya! Instead of Jambalaya joining the crew it’s a sweet small energetic but slightly chaotic ADHD copilot? No crash but they open their apartment to her when they return after pony express shuts down and supports her through nursing school? Bonus for “I’m gonna launch myself at my friends” type hugs and inviting the gang over to celebrate her graduation! Sorry if that’s too much and thank you for your time and work!

Bubbly Co-Pilot HCS | Anya

A/N: Oh this looks super fun to write

When you'd opened up your apartment to Anya she was already left in disbelief

But she was beaming when given the opportunity to move in with you.

(I actually really want to save some of these HCs for what it would be like to have Anya move in with her partner)

But given your support of her to retake the final nursing exam she could not ask more of you. You had already given her a second chance at life after her main source of income (Pony Express) shut down

Now, Curly is on a ladder hanging the streamers, Swansea brings in the first round of cooked burgers and fixings to set on the counter top, Daisuke sets up the speakers around the house and has Anya's 80's synthesizer music, and you do the finishing touches of your make up in the mirror along as put some effort into the dress you're in.

You all had attended the graduation, but Anya had to stay a little late due to her professors wanting to speak more with her as far as job opportunities. This bought you and the rest of the Tulpar crew to set up a little surprise gathering for Anya in your cozy apartment.

You hear the tell tale beep of Anya's car in the drive way as it locks and you quickly gather everyone near the front door

When Anya opens it her eyes turn to saucers when she takes in her old coworkers and the decorations about the living room.

Then she spots you and the moment you lock eyes with Anya you bolt and leap right into her arms.

Anya, after being with you in space for a little over a year in close quarters knows this habit and catches you before lifting and spinning you, her graduation cap knocked askew in the process.

As you guide Anya into the room further, she takes note of the food, the music, Curly, Daisuke, and Swansea each giving her a bone crushing hug.

As the night draws on there's dancing, dining (finest of grease foods), and a classic game of cards against humanity.

When the night starts to close, the crew helps clean up before leaving and refuses to let Anya help with cleaning

Anya nearly cries after the silence flows back into the apartment but instead of doing that she just squeezes you. Possibly taking her cap off and even leaning down to recreate "The Kiss"

You can expect Anya to print out those photos and scrap book them to look on them on tough days.

A/N: god this was a long prompt BUT THERE WERE SO MANY DIRECTIINS I WANTED TO TAKE IT TOO. Sorry if it seems all over the place it's 6:18 AM here and I have Night watch in 12 hours so I'm going to knock out but pushing more content out!!!

[brightlotusmoon]

I remember being shuffled around to random specialists who looked at my cerebral palsy and epilepsy and fibromyalgia and ADHD and still said I was fine. My lawyer was extremely good and got me a very sympathetic judge he knew well and vocational expert who firmly determined I needed the SSDI. The sheer fact that I was made to run around to a bunch of different doctors and fill out so many forms and prove every single symptom was insane.

The judge said he'd read through all 70 printed pages of my LiveJournal entries describing my seizures for years and decided that between that and the mixed cerebral palsy I absolutely deserved SSDI and he was very glad my husband and my cats helped me out.

This was back in 2012. I filed in 2010. In fact, I hired the lawyer who helped my friend, who was his fastest case in decades, and this woman had over forty medical conditions. Most people filing for SSDI are not as lucky.

And this is just SSDI. I am allowed to actually build a savings account, be married legally and stay married, and live my life without agencies peering over my shoulder.

I know an older couple who chose to get divorced and live apart rather than lose the wife's disability support.

[umbra3terna]

People who follow me on IG (where I am the most active) probably already know but unfortunately I am going into a hiatus as for my art.

My life atm, between being busy at work but also truggling with chronic illnesses that leave me exhausted and in pain everyday and of course resulting to struggling mentally… it’s becoming too difficult for me to draw.

As for my art, I am at that point where I always feel like I will never be good enough, losing myself in different artstyles and ideas, and ending up not drawing at all because it feel useless…

I really don’t have the time or even the will to draw much anymore and it feel like chores…I am also trying to find new interests (adhd me needing new hobbies every weeks) and as much as I will always love JJK, I want to explore others things. I am also “old” (more than 30) and I do want to enjoy my life by doing others stuffs than just drawing non stop after work (I have a very busy life aka I have lot of animals to take care of haha)

So yeah, I am taking a break from drawing. I hope to not give up this hobby completely (I am used to take 1-2 years breaks between drawings) and still share from time to time (when my adhd meds let me have some imagination 💀).

But anyway, thanks to everyone who liked, commented, supported me by just some kind words or even buying my prints ! really, I never thought people would actually enjoy my art so much 💕

Thank you for helping me getting better at drawing, giving me the motivation to continue to share and giving me that feeling that I was finally good at something 🤣. Thanks you 💕

[justarandompersononthehellsite]

So... @muffinlance wrote a really awesome story. I read a post from a point in time, though I truly do not remember when since it seems like I've been working on this project forever, saying that she gives blanket permission for people to print and bind the story into a book (I think there was an also addendum saying that they do not give permission to be sold, since selling fic is illegal). This fic has had total control over my whole brain since it was sent to me (@creatorofthemind I believe it was you, so thank you forever for tuning me into it) back during the days of like chapter six or seven.

So here I am now, sharing this amazing journey of my first ever bookbinding adventure. Further reading below.

So to give you an idea of what's going on, this is a fanfiction about Zuko (Avatar the Last Airbender) (animated show version, the LA show did not exist yet and we do not speak of the movie) being adopted by Hakoda, Father of Katara and Zuko. (This might have also been what kicked off the Give Zuko A Parent craze, but don't fact check me.)

Overall, the characters from the show stick very well to the cannon versions, but where MuffinLance really shines is in the rich backstories and fleshed out feeling of all the non cannon elements. Especially the background characters. I would argue that the writing in this peice of fanwork could easily rival the cannon show at many points of comparison.

Now that you have context, we can get into the actual process.

To start, I used this guide to figure out where to even begin, and fount the included resource list to also be quite helpful. I cannot for the LIFE OF ME figure out where I found the template I used for the front matter and such, but it must be somewhere and I will link to it when I inevitably come across it again.

Then I began to typeset. This step took... a long time. I worked in chunks from about September of 2022 to late March of 2024. I would get a big section done, sometimes even the entire thing, but then find I hated the way I had done it and give up for months at a time. Such is the life of ADHD and flitting interest in projects I suppose.

And then finally, step one was done, and I was left with pages on a word document that look like this. (And do please let me know if you want the link to the document. It was so much work, and I would love to not be the only one to use it.)

Next step was printing out this beast. Ended up being about eight pages of front matter, and about 630 pages of body text.

That I printed wrong.

Twice.

Before finally getting it right. And then not getting a picture of it, because I finished at 4 am and had work at 7, and am also an idiot.

Then I simply stitched along, putting everything together into a beautiful text block.

And came up with a design for the cover.

Yes the glue did end up lumpy. Ignore it.

Yes I did have to sketch out the design onto a scraped page several times before I figured out what I was doing. Ignore that too.

The cover design does wrap around the entire cover. No I did not get a picture before I glued the thing down. See again: I'm an idiot. And just... massively impatient.

Finally, we get to the stage of gluing. Behold, my bookpress.

Of course, topped with Madam MuffinLances own actual professional-people book, Fox's Tounge and Kirin's Bone. It is Excelent. Here is the LINK so you can go and support this amazing author with the real-monies as well as the internet-kudos.

Then, once everything is glued together, one must give the book its "gilt" edges.

[magentasnail]

Creatures Stickers - Common Asks

I've been getting a bunch of asks about the creatures stickers and where can you use them so I think it's about time I organize it in one place to save both of us the struggle

Existing stickers: Autism/TBH creature reactions Autism/TBH creature emojis ADHD/BTW creature reactions/stickers Anxiety/IDK creature + Depression/wtf creature

(all designs are currently available on my Redbubble shop !)

Can I use the stickers for reactions/emojis? yeah of course! you can use them on whatever app you'd like. you can also make packs of them if you'd like (as long as they remain free of course)

Can I use any for a pfp? yes, just make sure to @ me in your bio if you can!

Can I use them for my YouTube/Twitch channels? because these are more brand focused and can be monetized, I'd rather you don't

Can I use them for a tattoo? go ahead! I'd love to see the results too if you feel comfortable sharing!

Can I edit the stickers (for example, to resemble a character)? no problem, I'd love to see the results!

Can I print them as stickers myself? if you can, I'd rather you get them from my Redbubble so I can get a few cents !

Thank you so much for the support !!!

[nonspeakingkiku]

Intro time!

Name: Kiku (also other names because its complicated)

Gender: FTM, nonbinary, genderqueer

Orientation: Aroacespec, queer

Pronouns: He/Fae

Kiku is part of a DID system, and that makes things like names and figuring out who you are hard. Doesn't help that all of us hosts respond to Kiku and Kiku and another alter have been blurring together a lot.

We are a nonverbal higher support needs autistic person with multiple other disabilities. We are a full time AAC user for multiple reason.

We have apraxia, several learning disabilities, aphasia, adhd, hEDS, POTs, mcas, fibromyalgia, and are pretty sure we have spastic dipelegic cerebral palsy.

We are a mobility aid user (currently forearm crutches, a rollator, wheelchair and white cane) but we really need different ones (a different kind of walker, crutches that fit us properly, and a wheelchair that we own, the one we use belongs to our partner and they let us use it sometimes).

We were born and raised in Appalachia (North Carolina to be specific) and we have come to remember that that is a huge part of who we are. You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the boy, (once we get our hands on a print copy of Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White we'll put a quote here). We currently live in Tennessee, which is closer but not quite close enough.

We are pagan, raised christian, and havf religious trauma. This makes interacting with some communities hard.

We are a speller, and hope to soon have at least a few sessions of S2C to help with unreliable speech and motor loops. A speller is someone who points to letters on a letterboard or types on a keyboard to communicate. We call ourselves nonverbal mostly, but also use other terms, nonspeaking, minimally speaking, unreliably speaking and we have taken to saying "it's compilated" because it is. We call ourselves nonverbal because we are unreliably speaking, what comes our of mouth isn't what we want to say and often does more harm than good, but we can't just turn it off. We grew up, seeming to be speaking, but we couldn't communicate what we needed or wanted to and what we could say often got us in trouble.

Kiku thinks that is enough of a ramble.

Thank to those who read this.

Please don't send us asks to post fundraiser, we don't have enough followers for it to get shared a lot and we can't determine what is bots and what isn't and they stress us out because of that.

We are posting our amazon wishlist here, if anyone ever wants to get us anything off it, feel free but there is no expectation to do so.

Amazon wishlist!

[pixelchills]

⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆ Welcome to my Space-themed art arcade! ⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆

Call me Chill, or Pixel!

♡ I'm a university student from Northern Europe, and I am passionate about storytelling and creating art in different forms, mostly drawing and writing.

♡ This is my fandom blog for my fan art, fanfics, and others' creations on my current hyperfixations. (Mostly Sun & Moon from FNAF)

✮ Some facts about me ✮

I am 28 years old.

I'm Nonbinary and Asexual. I'm okay with any pronoun or gendered terms.

I have hEDS which makes me really fatigued a lot of the time, so sometimes I take small breaks and hiatuses from content creation. I also have ADHD + a bunch of other mental health issues that might affect how I come across in conversation.

I play by the rule 'treat others like you wish to be treated' and wish to solve any possible issues privately to keep my blog nice and welcoming to everyone.

♡ Link to my Carrd, with links to all of my other sites.

♡ You can support me on Patreon & Ko-fi!

♡ You can buy my prints on INPRNT and Stickers & Pins on Redbubble!

✮ My other Tumblr blogs ✮

@chilldust (my main, used for not-specific-fandom-related stuff and my original stories) if you see this blog like or follow you it's me!

@kuuchaos (my side blog for The Sun and Moon Show art and AUs)

@ask-the-dolldrops (Dolldrops' very own ask blog)

♡ My askbox and DMs are always open, but I am kinda bad at answering some of them since I get overwhelmed by the amount of questions I get. Note that I don't answer DMs that only say "Hi" or "How are you" because I get so many of those too. If you want to talk or ask about something just type it out and I will 99% reply asap ^^

♡ I have a Discord server for my art and stories, where I also do art and game streams occasionally. The server is only for adults (18+) and you can get an invite by DMing me.

⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆ I hope you enjoy my stuff here! ⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆

[who-is-page]

Inky Paws on Hiatus

Hi y'all. Like the title suggests, I'm gently putting the Inky Paws fiction zine anthology on hiatus.

The feedback and support I get for this project is unbelievable and amazing, and I know that there's a huge amount of interest for Inky Paws #4. I'm overwhelmed with appreciation at the contributions that folks have made to this zine, especially over the course of three whole years. This wouldn't have been possible without all of y'all!

But this project takes a lot of time, energy, and focus to put together and make every year. It's also entirely free-- I don't even accept donations for it on my itch.io, because I feel weird about doing so when the crux of Inky Paws is a showcase of other folks' art. And three years is a long time for an ADHD dog like me to stick to a single project. Inky Paws takes up a certain amount of my spoons every year, and I kind of want to use those spoons to chase the rabbits of newer projects and ideas that I've had bounding through my head. So I've made up my mind to put a pause on this for now, until I feel ready to come back to it.

Thank you all so much for following this zine. If you've read through it, I hope that it's inspired you to write, draw, create, and share what you've made fearlessly with your peers. The spirit of Inky Paws is the joy of creation and collaboration, of leaving tracks and trails for the generations ahead and for those who may just be discovering themselves now, and I sincerely wish that people feel that spark of inspiration and passion when they page through the stories and art that others have shared through it. Inky Paws may be a closed book for now, but please don't let that dissuade you from leaving your own prints on the digital footnotes of our community's history and in doodling across your own personal timeline with claws and fangs and feathers and fins and voids and handprints. I can't wait to see what you all make, and thank you again for following this project and what it's become over these past three years.

[creekfiend]

I get a lot of asks about training advice and I'm always like "well I am not a professional in any capacity" and also I forget every book I have ever read etc the moment someone asks me, but I remembered at random today that my very talented friend has written a really amazing training book that I think would be especially good for the people who tend to ask me this, bc Bridger has ADHD (LIKE DO MANY OF US) and is therefore really good at breaking things down into digestible chunks! this is one of the things I find most challenging about training so I think this is an extra valuable thing to have in a book.

It's mostly training basics for people who are beginners, but in a way where you can use the info the build a LOT of skills once you grasp the basics, and I really vibe with Bridger's ethics around training as well.

it's called Level Up Your Dog Training by Natalie Bridger Watson and I'm going to provide a couple different links where you can get it.

Amazon link:

Support a small business link:

(Bridger adds: "Also for accessibility, there is a large print paperback edition (Amazon only) and a digitally-narrated audiobook (Google Play only, trying to get it available more places). Am aware of the ethical implications of AI narration and would like to replace this with a human-narrated version when I can, but that costs $1,000-$2,000+ to hire out, so the not-ideal compromise is digitally-narrated for accessibility in the short term with plans to do better when I can.")

Anyway this is a really great book and not recommended as often as it should be bc it's just not one of the standard go-to books (yet!!!) so I thought I would plug it and in doing so answer all the training rec asks I get all the time and am so bad at answering 🤣

[gothmuppetenthusiast]

So I'm planning on doing a Low Buy Year mostly to curb my consumerist impulses, reduce consumption and environmental impact overall and just save a bit of money and I figured I'd post my manifesto on here mostly to hold myself accountable and maybe inspire a few people!

1. No new clothes - I don't want to fall into the trap of fast fashion - I am already decluttering, and while I do want more masculine clothing since coming out as transmasc anything I do get is exclusively secondhand, but ideally I shouldn't be buying clothes at all. My exception to this is if I go to a concert or show I may allow myself a t shirt.

2. No new bags. I have plenty of bags. I don't need anymore.

3. No new products until empty - this is mostly for things like aftershave, moisturiser, shampoos and most difficult, hair dye. I'm not going to buy new bottles unless I've ran out

4. No yarn purchases until I have used up a fair amount of my stash.

5. No new art supplies or journals unless I completely fill my current ones

6. As a general rule, nothing new unless to replace something. No replacing something if it's repairable

7. Don't buy anything that I could make with supplies on hand (as in, I already have the materials to make such a thing, no loopholes to allow myself to buy things just to make the thing I want to buy)

8. I am allowed to buy fabric and haberdashery to support my costume degree.

9. A personal allowance is set each week to be spent on essentials, what is leftover will be split into a savings pot and a fund for experiences - ie, going out with friends

10. Unless I seriously read through everything on my to be read, no new books

11. Try to replace time looking at products with other habits - instead of walking on the high street, walk in nature, read instead of looking at social media with adverts. This is less no buy but more me trying to spend less time on my phone and with stimulation because I think it's an actual detriment to my mental health and ADHD

13. I will allow myself to buy accessories such as jewellery second hand

14. I will allow myself to buy art prints at comic con and pride, but will set a specific budget for myself

15. I will turn to modifying and making my wardrobe before I consider buying anything - do I need to buy that, or is there something I own that could work?

16. I will allow myself to buy gifts for others, but will aim to be sustainable and get items I know people will use and are thoughtful.

I love maximalism, I love clutter, but there's a big difference between what I love, built up of heartfelt items I've collected, things I've made, and falling into the trap of buying to fulfil dopamine. I am definitely an impulsive buyer, and for some these might not sound like tough restrictions but for me I know they will be. I will maybe update this blog with how I get on with this throughout the year with little reflections. I don't know. I just know I can't be a punk and keep letting myself fall into the trap of constantly buying and spending and it needs to stop.

[kylejsugarman]

hey I lurk for your Breaking Bad content. please give me all of your Jesse in Alaska/recovery headcanons. I need it like I need air.

jesse in alaska.......where do i even begin 😔 im going to avoid lingering too much on my alaska oc's and that little world (tldr for newcomers: jesse gets to haines, starts working at a repair/custom shop called carvings owned by sheila, and befriends and falls in love with the local vet demi who is raising her niece baby) just because there are Plenty of those posts and i want to focus more on jesse himself

this is one ive talked about before, but its just so precious to me, and thats jesse getting into cooking. at first, him learning how to do it is out of pure necessity. the canned food that ed left him only lasts for a few weeks and the prepackaged stuff at the store is all queasily redolent of the "treats" (<- meager sustenance) that were dropped into his cage, so he picks up a box of dry pasta and looks at the recipe for chicken penne printed on the box. it has all the steps, the ingredients. he was always good at following a recipe. jesse dutifully buys the stuff and what begins as him robotically following the text later on in his small, dim kitchen starts to feel. Good. there's no harsh fumes or chemical burns. he doesnt have to measure the garlic down to a hundredth of a gram. he has a recipe to follow—something to guide him—but nothing awful is going to happen if he experiments a little. if he deviates. and he isn't making poison. he's making something Good. for so, so long, jesse only Destroyed and when he did create, it was poison. now he gets to do what he wants. he gets to make good. that chicken penne is the first thing he eats in weeks that actually has flavor—or maybe he's letting himself Taste again. jesse starts cooking more and more, using those supermarket recipes and eventually recipes that he prints off from the public library computers, and even once it becomes a part of his daily routine, he never loses that weird excitement for it. there's the satisfaction of successfully executing a task even with his memory issues and adhd, but also the excitement of realizing over and over that he can do what he wants.

jesse thinks he's "done" with drugs when he gets to alaska purely because he hasn't been able to use and doesnt have immediate access to anything stronger than alcohol or tobacco, but he quickly realizes that he does not have any other kind of coping mechanism ready to deploy or way to sufficiently distract himself once he's physically and mentally well enough to Be Aware. alcohol doesnt seem to "work" fast enough. he thinks over and over about hiring a sex worker or finding a bar somewhere so he can have sex with and fall asleep next to a warm, living body. he drives for hours and sometimes hits the brakes hard on the icy road when theres no one else out there, letting himself skid uncontrollably and hoping he crashes. he wants to start a fight with a stranger. he wants to hug a stranger. and he does end up using drugs again, several times. i mean he's a severely traumatized addict arriving in a new location with zero support. it's not a failure, it's not irreversible backsliding: it's just the reality of what being in this terrifying, vulnerable situation would be like for jesse. for a long time, he sees these relapses as signs of weakness and that Certain People were right about him being a pathetic junkie with no will or value, but as he starts meeting people and finding new ways to be happy and getting the right treatment for his various issues and sometimes even sitting in NA church basement meetings because he just needs to be Understood, jesse comes around to the idea that addiction is not a moral failing and sees his life as worthy enough to safely and healthily preserve.

lightning round!! jesse decides once he arrives to grow his hair and facial hair out some to look less like his old mugshot, but also because as soon as the cold winter air touches his shaved head, he basically reverts to spongebob and patrick duct-taping fur off of sandy to survive in her dome during winter. he stops to stare in awe at eagles and whales and moose even after years and years of living in alaska. his sense of smell is nearly totally destroyed from cooking without protection, but he still always buys lemon scented soap and cleaning stuff because lemon was his aunt ginny's favorite scent. he reads up on a lot of first-aid on the public library computers, sometimes out of a sense of frantic compulsion or guilt, sometimes out of legitimate curiosity. when he drives home from doctors appointments or NA meetings, he plays the music in his car so loud that his seat shakes. the people of haines know that mr driscoll can be a little cagey and will flinch at the sound of his own laugh, but they also know that he brakes for animals and carves beautiful gadrooning and buys ten of whatever the kids are selling to raise money for the band or their scout troop. and they like him quite a bit :)

[whereianonymouslypostfics]

Struggles 

Pairing: Wanda Maximoff x reader

Word count: ~1.3k

Summary: You struggle with your ADHD

A/N: Here’s a little fluff piece about real-life struggles.

Warnings: fluff

“You tried your best, Y/n.”

You sigh in frustration as you glance at the scene in front of you on the living room floor. It was chaos, dog fur, and failure all scattered across the rug as you struggled to figure this out. You held the confusing instructions in your hand with a scowl, but as the minutes passed, they continued to get more crumpled and less legible.

You shake your head as you turn to your wife and daughter with a determined look. The duo looked a little dubious, well Wanda did, but Natalya was resting her head on her mom’s shoulder as she waited for her crib to be done. She had one upstairs in the nursery, but Pietro had bought her another one and just dropped it off this morning. That was hours ago, and you still had all of the pieces sitting on the floor in front of you. To be fair you’d had to take a break to walk the dogs, but that had been only 10 minutes of your time. The remaining hours were just your inability to figure this out.

“No, Wands. Don’t worry, I’m...almost there.”

You cringe at your bad lie before grabbing the first piece that you’d set out to form one side of the crib. It wasn’t that this was exceedingly difficult, you just kept picking up the wrong pieces and there were too damn many of them, but it wasn’t that hard. You also kept getting side-tracked. You miss Wanda’s knowing look as she grabs the remote to turn off the cooking show you’d been watching all morning before deciding to come to your aid.

“Can I help at all?”

Wanda sets the remote on the table as she sits down on the couch behind you. You’re still looking at the side that you’ve organized perfectly, but haven’t started putting together. You turn to say hello to your daughter, and you smile widely as you look at the perfect sleepy bundle in your wife’s arms.

“It’s okay! I just need to read this part one more time…”

Wanda reaches out for your shoulder as you struggle to straighten out the instructions that you’d given up on. You’d gotten frustrated with the tiny print and the fact that none of the parts were actually labeled. You also had been a little distracted watching your cooking show and checking on your dogs to make sure they were trying to eat any of the packaging you’d left behind you. Fletcher had jumped in the box a while ago, and you hadn’t seen her come out yet. Your thoughts are cut off when you register the weight of Wanda’s hand on your shoulder and you look back up at her.

She’s smiling at you as she holds out her hand and motions for you to give her the instructions. You hesitate because you’d told her you could do this on your own, and you didn’t want to be proven wrong.

“How about I read it and you do the heavy lifting?”

You want to argue, but you are getting a little tired of this. The faster you get this over with, the sooner Natalya can continue her nap and Wanda can free herself up to do something else. You eventually nod before getting up and moving to the other side of the mess you’ve made so you can face your wife. You sigh heavily before grabbing the long piece that’s supposed to support the many, many posts of the crib.

“Okay, Wands. Ready.”

Twenty minutes later, the crib is assembled and you’re wishing you’d accepted Wanda’s help in the first place. Maybe having the television off would have helped, but it’s too late to worry about that now. After you made sure that everything was secure and it could hold your daughter, Wanda carefully set her down in it without waking her up. She sighs under her breath before smiling and grabbing your hand to lead you to the kitchen.

“Good job, detka. It looks great.”

You smile slightly before grabbing a drink and handing one to your wife with a sigh. You’re tired and could use a nap, but you feel like you’ve already spent most of the day putting that damn crib together. Wanda was thinking about what to make for dinner as you glanced down at your dogs who were at the edge of the kitchen sitting and panting in anticipation.

“I can’t believe it took me so long.”

Wanda had been getting ready to start breakfast when her brother had come by this morning. She’d been surprised to see him so early, and with a giant box to boot. She’d moved out of his way, and made sure his path was clear of toys, dogs, or cats as he brought the new crib he’d gotten his niece to the living room. You’d been sitting on the couch dressing Natalya up in her new outfit when he’d brought it in and your eyes went wide at the sight of it. He’d promised to put it together, but you’d insisted that it was fine and you’d do it. You’d told him it would be fun, and he’d just laughed as if he knew you’d never done it before.

After staying for a quick cup of coffee, he had to run to work, and you and Wanda were left staring at the big box that definitely wasn’t going to bother you. You’d started on it right after breakfast, and you’d attempted to multitask as you built it.

Wanda loved how enthusiastic you were, and how determined you were to do this yourself. However, she realized fairly quickly that today was one of those days that you struggled to focus. Sometimes you just went from one task to another and left most of them half-finished before remembering them hours later. Then there were days like this where you tried to be super-efficient and only ended up slowing yourself down.

You didn’t take medication for your ADHD, but you definitely had some somewhere that you’d gotten when you were first diagnosed. Wanda didn’t make you take it because most days you were fine, albeit a little scatterbrained, but it wasn’t detrimental to your everyday life. She also knew you didn’t like how they made you a little paranoid, so she just tried to help you out and get you to focus on one thing at a time.

“It’s okay, Y/n. It’s finished now, and we can spend the rest of the day doing whatever you want.”

Wanda smiles as your face lights up and you start to think of the many possibilities now that you’re free. You start to list off your top five choices, and despite knowing that she’ll have to reel you in a bit and probably just pick a couple, she’s excited to get to spend this time with you.

“What are your top two, detka? The rest will probably have to wait until this weekend.”

Your adorable frown makes Wanda laugh, and she leans over the counter so she can kiss it from your lips. When your smile returns Wanda can’t help but move to your side and hold you, close. Figuring out dinner can wait. She’d rather give her adorable wife her full attention.

“We could take all of the kids on a walk later!”

Despite how many living things that would make the two of you responsible for at a time, Wanda smiles at the idea of going out and getting some fresh air. Boone and Rogue love hiking, and Fletcher hated her harness and leash, but Wanda secretly loved watching you try to get her to cooperate and walk like a dog.

“That sounds like a great idea.”

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Christmas Dino V1

Okay so there was this post and my brain latched onto the idea.

Christmas Dino! Way cooler than a tree, easier to store and no stupid pine needles everywhere.

We're super close the holidays so this year will be V1 - with plans for embedding lights and possibly engraving designs next year with more time.

So with like -2 planning skills and +5 to ADHD hyperfocus, off we go. The goal is if I chronicle this, maybe it'll keep me from getting distracted. HA.

Day 1:

Okay so the plan is to pick a dino, find a basic pattern, and then figure out how big to size it up so it fits on our tree table (aka the dining room table because we don't use it).

As much as I really wanted to do a Stegosaurus, the issue is that with the restriction of the table size, I'd be looking at a fairly small dino. Also, we want to keep our tree topper - a modified Heroes of the Storm Tyreal figure - and an bipedal dino allows for more hilarious possibilities for how to mount him on top.

So t-rex it is. I found a pattern online after a bit of Googling - it's low rez as hell, but I'm going to have to redraw it anyway to properly size the joints so no big deal.

Next step - Measure the table, and then maths to figure out how big to scale it Naw, we're going by vibes. Slap the pattern into MS Paint, scale it 300%, print it, reassemble, cut it out of cardboard and test the size.

(Just FYI in case someone isn't aware, because I wasn't - if you ever need to print something over multiple pages, MS Paint does it for freeeeeeee. Otherwise the only other option I know of that actual works decently well is Adobe Acrobat but you need the stupid CC sub for that feature. So to hell with Adobe, MS Paint ftw!)

This is gonna be so much easier than maths. Yup.

There were two pages of pattern pieces, each page ended up being 16 pages once pushed to 300%. Yay for laser printer speeds (seriously so happy we finally bit the bullet on one - this would have been objectively painful on an inkjet)

Popped Fantasia on in the background to began assembly!

Once assembled, cutting begins and a few songs later, we've got a pile of pattern pieces!

Luckily my ADHD brain has forgetten to put out the cardboard for the last like month and half on recycle day, so I've got a solid IKEA box to cut (most) of the pattern out.

(There's a few ribs that had to be done on another box, but they're not technically structurally significant so that's okay.)

Traced and numbered everything (mostly), and then we cut out!

I would like to note two things at this point:

This is all taking place in my living room, on my coffee table and my floor. I have a decently sized full on craft room and table JUST FOR THIS KIND OF THING but no. On the floor we go. At almost 40. My lower back has not forgiven me yet.

Since the IKEA cardboard is thick, I figure using my flip out utility knife is going to be the easiest tool for cutting. This is both correct and wrong. The knife is sharp and gets through the layers no problem HOWEVER it is a utility knife designed for more single quick use on a work site. It's got a rough texture and bolts and a belt hook. (Google Milwaukee utility knife and you'll see...) So by the end of this I've got a blister at the bottom of my middle finger that's popped, and several more on my finger tips that I notice as soon as I start typing.

TL;DR I'm dumb and injured myself in ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE WAYS.

But! I've got t-rex bones now!

It's assembly tiiiiiiiime!

Okay so cardboard isn't the most sturdy, and my boy cannot hold himself up on his spindly little cardboard legs. But still! He's the perfect size! A little wall for support and he's all set! Aiden really didn't want cooperate with requests to be used as a scale model, so Tali jumped in because she's the goodest girl 💜

Alright, so we've got our size (sort of) and a pattern. Success! Next steps:

Figure out if we need to modify the head in any way to accommodate Tyreal

Determine the best pattern layout for the sizes of wood sheets available

Make an actual file of the pattern that isn't a blurry PNG so we can pull it into Lightburn

ONWARD!

For reference, here's our Tyreal - he deserves an epic t-rex to ride

Part 2