#cure my executive dysfunction
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#i washed my hair at midnight so now i have to stay up till 2am for it to dry#bc my roommate is sleeping so i can't use the blow dryer#moving out and being $$ indepndent ain't all it's cracked up to be#i do my early morning meetings in my bed while still underneath the blanket#then brush teeth have breakfast and go in at ~10am#come back by 3 or 4pm#and then it's just scrolling on my phone#till 2am#still haven't found a local doctor yet#barely done any cooking#haven't furnished my room beyond bed & desk & tons of boxes lying around#i keep feeling outpaced by ppl#by my male coworker whom i'm partnered with in everything so comparison is always inevitable#by my roommate who's barely 20 and still a college intern#by my oldest younger sib (same age) who has grown into themselves in the last year#and is doing things completely on their own in a way i never did at their age#and my mom has openly said that said sibling is better than me#keep trying to take one more step in the hope that it'll. idk.#give me serotonin#cure my executive dysfunction#break my rut#negativity cw
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took 10 mg of my ex's ritalin in the hopes it would balance out my adhd and i'm having like. a real weird reaction to it. it is making me paranoid i don't have adhd but i think it is much more likely that my body just isn't sure how to deal with having a stimulant in it for the first time. i'm also not like. high in any way. i'm just sort of jittery and physically unable to settle. and i'm still having trouble focusing but not the way i usually do which i suspect might also be bc this isn't overriding how tired i am. i also can't stop talking when in a conversation
#i think maybe i should have just started on a lower dose too my body processes meds so weird sometimes#bc i'm paranoid i'm reading other peoples accounts and i guess the first 1-3 days it's pretty common for people to have this reaction befor#- it settles out#which sucks bc i really need it to work correctly now#and i don't know if it would be better to stick with the ritalin for the rest of the week and see if it evens out#or try a different adhd med on saturday when i see my other friend who's offered me all of their old ones#idk. advice appreciated#it is breaking through the executive dysfunction to some extent which is by far my worst adhd symptom i'm just still having a lot of troubl#- focusing. which again may fully be the exhaustion esp bc it's midnight#weird though! don't like it! really just wanted it to be the magic cure all!#ted talks
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realized its because my depression is back not just because its aries season -_-
#executive dysfunction at an all time highhhh and like suddenly i actually do not caree#im considering antidepressants bcus my executive dysfunction was literally so bad yesterday but i also don't want to#knowing so many people who are on them...#but i also want to get stuff done and care :3#realistically i am just going to keep going and take a break when i graduate and hopefully that cures me for a while
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In terms of what I've been up to lately, I'm planning on massively overhauling my bedroom (I still live with my parents and with the way the economy is going, I seriously doubt that's gonna change any time soon) because these meds have made me more aware of just how badly I need a space that suits me. I have big ideas, and hopefully this treatment stuff will help me realise them, even if it takes for fucking ever. Like, the skills I'd need to learn for this would be quite numerous I would say so yeah it's a difficult project, but a big one I can gradually work on over time with other stuff I wanna do so maybe I'll get somewhere with it. Literally, after we moved here years ago, we put wall paper on one wall and I had plans to paint the rest of the room but I did one wall, and an unfinished pegasus onto it and we did nothing else to it. Same with the rest of the house honesly. Only room that got finished was the paint in the kitchen. After all this time, the exact same off-white walls everywhere and the grey carpets have kinda killed it for all of us I think, but now that I have an actual emotional requirement for a room that's comfy, cosy, and very much me, I'm gonna see if I can change that.
Dad also says if I actually go ahead with my little dream project of putting a train track high up on the wall that goes all around the room, and it actually looks good (cause I don't do things by halves okay I will take the idea and run marathons with it), he'll let me put another one in the living room themed on the ocean. It pissed mum off because it's not something you're supposed to have in a living room, and she doesn't want any guests assuming the worst, but she's wrong. An ocean themed model railway around the room would be unique, interesting, fun, and loved by everyone worth the time of day, in my humble, totally unbiased opinion.
Speaking of mum, she's gained an interest in making the garden look nice. We were gonna work on a pond and stuff together but she's kinda just doing her own thing so I'm gonna get a bunch of Diglett and Dugtrio garden ornaments and gradually hide them around the place until she notices. She won't stop me! She's used to my shit! But I'm wondering how much I can get away with before she notices the Diglett takeover lmao
#firefly life#i just felt like making a little post#no one is outside talking to me so I dunno#a little post for anyone actually interest in what I'm up to now#I haven't actually done anything to be clear#this is why I'm on meds I have chronically awful executive dysfunction and have been unable to do basically ANYTHING in YEARS#and that's depressing you know?#but now I'm getting ideas and there's actually HOPE that I'll be able to do them!!!#so I'm feeling much more optimistic about everything now!!#it's not a cure or anything but I'm hoping this just makes it EASIER#I just want a life man and this is pretty much my only chance at that#is that an unhealthy mindset? probably.#but the NHS just send me around in circles diagnosing me with 'curable' depression and anxiety#and then having the audacity to claim they've CURED me when NOTHING has changed!!#sick of it man#you know dad decided to pay for me to go private for this? that's how sick and tired he was???#literally giving me his life savings so I have a chance at a life of my own#can you believe that?#he's a grumpy old man that's almost retired that blames every technical issue on me switching him to Firefox#and is a master of showing up exactly when you don't need him and for avoiding making decisions to an infuriating level sometimes#but fuck man#there's a lot of people in the world that WOULDN'T do that if even if they could#I'm looking into trying to do something special for his birthday and christmas and stuff cause I just#don't know how to tell him how important him doing this for me is#sure he doesn't get it like at all and has a hard time remembering anything I tell him about it unless it's the thirty fifth time#but he's doing it anyway and that's so amazing of him#I don't want him to regret this#we've already seen improvements for me but if I can have some semblance of a life again#the three of us would be overjoyed#and his hard earned money wouldn't have gone to waste
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I will abide by the results of this poll
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Absolutely obsessed with my new desk setup
#WALMART HAD SUNSET COLORED CURTAIN LIGHTS FOR 5 DOLLARS AND THEY'RE EO PRETTY#AAAAA#also depression cured /j finally fought executive dysfunction and cleaned my room
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the date for my carpal tunnel surgery is scheduled for the 23rd. yall i'm gonna be so fucking powerful when i'm not in pain all the time anymore are you kidding me. been dealing with this since 2017 so i like... don't even remember what it feels like to Not hurt to type.
like oh my god. that fic i just posted? if i wasn't in nasty burning pain atm like.... i could've written it in half the time i swear. i will be unstoppable. i'll even be able to game again for long periods of time! i'm so excited for this actually wtf
#ramblings#assuming it works ofc but i'm hopeful because it has such a high success rate#if this gets fixed the only thing stopping me will be my executive dysfunction#and that gets cured by hyperfocus so <3
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google how do we subtly tell our dad that we think he has adhd also google how to eviscerate all mosquitoes in a 50 foot vicinity they are EATING US ALIVE
#we are LAYING HERE trying to DRAW ART and these MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP LANDING ON OUR ARMS IM GONNA START COMMITTING ATROCITIES I SWEAR TO GOD!!#💥#[air pats hackles] sorry bud :']#💫#ah yes. our irl mom has recommended the classic asian remedy of ''tiger balm cures everything ever" well okay :|#now we smell like if the word ''sharp'' was a scent. highly unpleasant. our overstimulation meter is steadily ticking upward.#🪶#but its not up there yet babie!! >:D th. the headache is. getting to us tho hkjgh :'] but we STAY SILLY!!!!!!#anyway our irl father has like. so many adhd symptoms but he also doesn't. believe in mental health issues so. uh. well!!#like hey dude not to armchair diagnose u but we sure got it from SOMEWHERE and im PRETTY SURE its from you my man hkjgh?#he is describing executive dysfunction to a T. we should know we wrote a college paper on it hkjhg#🪡#okay the headache is getting pretty bad actually hkjhg peace out for now ✌️
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The telehealth nurse I’ve been getting my adhd meds from has officially upped me to 30mgs of instant release adderall a day. I better fucking get so much shit done istg
#going from 20 extended to 30 instant is gonna be a trip tho#I’m not taking 30 instant in the morning she��s having me take 20 in the morning and another 10 in the afternoon#hopefully this will help w the executive dysfunction#cause the 20 extended has def helped w my depression and anxiety#but the executive dysfunction is still ruining my life#so maybe this will finally be the cure haha#actuallyadhd#wren posts
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My churrent project! I got this little guy this afternoon and spent the rest of the day painting him. As soon as this layer cures I'm gonna do a cute little forest design on the tabletop and maybe paint some surprise critters/monsters in the bottom tray 🤔
my pup is v sus of the table for some reason he keeps walking up to it and just sort of staring and then walking away giving it furtive glances
#sigh why does paint take soooooo long to cure#ive been taking a new adhd med and ive been like remarkably productive on it#like its so much easier to cut through the gulf of executive dysfunction and just DO things#huge fan#me#my stuff
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I smoke one (1) cigarette and suddenly I'm functioning executively
#why does nicotine momentarily cure my execute dysfunction#there's gotta be a study for this shit#adhd b wilin
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Sorry to bother you,
Your blog is wonderful! Since it's one of the most dialogue/explanation oriented, i wondered if i may please come to you with a more general doubt. i'm sincerely confused... Why is "curing" disability bad per se?
So far, the arguments (on Tumblr) seem to be,
i. Consent.
ii. Generalisation. ("Everyone will want this same thing".)
iii. The undercurrent ideology holding disability as a flaw to be "cured" (including the use of the term "cure").
On which we all agree, they're implicitly bad no matter if it's disability or a haircut. Very well.
But.
What of magical healing per se is inherently bad? Because being given a choice implies that for every given person agreeing, there are going to be others who won't. So we should still write our fantastical society around them, that's not in any way in question.
But these, the possibility of magical treatment and the non-necessity of the same, are not mutually exclusive. You don't have to "take one before the other", they can very well coexist.
Last question (i promise), is seeking treatment for oneself bad?
Like, if there came up a quest to get the glittering flower blooming once a millennia guarded by the Evil Dragon of Evil and capable of magically taking away OCD and PTSD, sign me up! Or if there's a spell to resuscitate my thyroid or an alchemical pill that solves ADHD's executive dysfunction. i mean, that's kind of what my medications should do if they weren't so costly and inaccessible, and that would be a one-time thing too.
Autism's doing alright, i'd keep everything, thanks.
Disclaimer, i'm obviously not advocating for eugenetics (as this term has been often used and misused in these discussions, better to precise).
All these conditions in one way or another define me and effect my life in a pervasive, quotidian way, or/and on a more existential scale. Not always in bad ways -my life is not a tragedy, and this i wish to make clear. i'm not saying that a "magic cure" should come before a change in society to accommodate disability. What i'm advocating for is their coexistence, as a choice -not evil per se, but nocive if inserted in a context of ableism, negation of individual consent, and, indeed, choice.
Or at least that was what i was arguing for until a few months ago. Now however, seeing as the collective opinion is one of strong rejection for these ideas, i believe there must be some important fallacies in my reasoning, and i wish, before everything else, to correct them. To understand.
Sorry for the monologue, but, may you help me?
Thank you for your time and for your kindness,
Anonymous Sloth.
Thank you for your ask! The reason curing disability is bad in media is because the disabilities cured often cannot be cured in real life. People with incurable disabilities already have so little representation, taking away the characters they see themselves in with an impossible cure is incredibly disheartening. I live with multiple incurable physical conditions, and I’ve accepted that I’ll live with them for the rest of my life. Day to day I already deal with people saying how much better my life would be if I didn’t have these conditions I had no choice in getting, I don’t want to see that in my stories! If someone has my conditions I don’t want the author to get rid of them with magic, I want to see that character going on cool adventures and being badass! Sure a magical cure might be nice, but that’s never going to happen. I’m going to be living in this body for the rest of my life, and I want to see stories where people like me get to live their lives with their conditions!
Disabled people should be allowed to see themselves in sci-fi and fantasy stories! People who can’t be cured, who can only have their symptoms managed, who have to be on medication/assistive devices the rest of their lives and who don’t want to be cured should be allowed to see themselves in media without the constant reminder that most able bodied people think their lives would be so much better is they would simply stop being disabled.
Additionally, even conditions that do have cures or ways to manage them aren’t realistically portrayed. There are never any symptoms, side effects or rehabilitation, it’s always portrayed as a magical cure that completely gets rid of the disability. This rarely happens in real life, and I don’t think it’s wrong for someone who shares a condition with a character to want to see that condition accurately portrayed.
It’s perfectly fine for a disabled person in media to want to seek treatment, plenty of disabled people in the real world also have to fight to get treatment (though the fighting is usually against insurance and doctors, not dragons and wizards). But like I said above, it should be at least somewhat realistic. The world is already over saturated with stories of people getting magical cures that make everything better forever, but what about cures with long lasting or permanent side effect? What about healing that requires extensive physical therapy? Or someone who needs to take potions for the rest of their lives to manage their condition? These realities should also be portrayed. Sure maybe some people want to see an escapist fantasy where their conditions could get cured, but not everyone wants that and it’s almost entirely done by abled authors who fathom why anyone would want to see a disabled person who isn’t trying to ‘overcome’ their disability.
We’ve also reblogged this post & answered this ask that deal with similar topics if you want to check them out.
I hope this helps! Have a nice day,
Mod Rot
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Everything Mod Rot said.
Basically, it's like giving us representation and then taking it away. Readers with that disability are going to read that book and relate to that character. Having a character like you in a work can be so important. But then the character is magically cured of an incurable condition, and now they're completely abled. Good for them. But the reader is still disabled. The reader will still always be disabled.
Disabled representation is already so rare. It's not really nice to take away what little we have.
- Mod Aaron
Echoing what everyone else has said, I want to add an extra thing:
If there was a wealth of disabled characters in media, represented with respect and nuance and care and all that, some stories involving disability being cured wouldn’t feel out of place, because there would already be so much to see that it would be an interesting departure and not posed as the only option for a happy ending.
And if you’re writing something about curing a disability that you have because that’s your experience and it’s what you want, that would make sense as well.
But since so many representations of disability in media have the underlying message that the only way to truly be happy or worthy or whatever with a disability is to have it cured, to have the least amount of signs of disabilities ever, then adding more of the same to that can be not just frustrating but harmful.
An “overcoming” of disability, a “making invisible” of a visible disability, or a cure for a disability are not the only stories worth telling about disabled people—because they are also not the only lives worth living for disabled people.
— mod sparrow
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This morning, I didn’t want to take my meds again. I interfaced with my brain and tried to unpack why, and it was this complicated miasma of
because the world is bad
to take them I would have to eat
I can’t tell if I’m hungry
I feel fat and I shouldn’t eat
I don’t want to make breakfast
You only get to have one breakfast and I don’t know what to choose
I have too much work and too much going on in my head so everything is impossible
If I take them I am somehow acknowledging that the world is still turning
Soon I will need a MyNumber card to refill the prescription and I keep forgetting to finish the application so I should be stockpiling them just in case
And hmmm. A lot of that is just life, but also a lot of it sounds a lot like executive dysfunction. And—stick with me here—maybe this is nothing more than a WILD coincidence, but executive dysfunction is a symptom that my meds are supposed to treat. *And* I haven’t been taking my meds the last several days because of Don’t Wanna. Hmm. Hmmm! What could it all mean?
Anyway. I still very much didn’t wanna, but I eventually formed a hypothesis with the potential to blow this case wide open. To test it, I had a glass of milk and my meds, and then I sat down and did what I had budgeted as two days of work (some of it while watching one awful horror movie and then another surprisingly fun one) and also some boring admin tasks, and also I made soup, washed dishes, made some ballot curing calls, hit and exceeded my word count goal, played a lot with Iggy, went for a walk, and even had a nice dinner out. Which is probably unrelated to the meds thing. But it’s funny how it turned out that way, right?
#i also bought a snack and immediately lost it#hopefully i will find it tomorrow#or maybe my bag was unzipped#and someone along the road home will enjoy it
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Sneak Peek - Spoons In Spades
At a little distance he saw a fire, and beside it there sat three giants, busy with broth and beef. They were so huge that the spoons they used were as large as spades, and their forks as big as hay-forks: with these they lifted whole bucketfuls of broth and great joints of meat out of an enormous pot which was set on the ground between them.
- Niels and the Giants (The Crimson Fairy Book)
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Intent: To give oneself additional “spoons.”
Ideal Timing: This charm can be made at any time.
Materials:
Spoons
Large Jar
Cotton Balls
Herbs: Hyssop, Rosemary, Thyme, Juniper Berries
When I asked my readers what sort of spells they'd like to see in this second volume of fairytale-inspired spells, one of the most strikingly popular responses was, "Is there a spell to give me more spoons?"
If you're not familiar with the term, "spoons" or spoon theory is a metaphor which describes the reduction in mental and physical energy experienced by people who are disabled or chronically ill, with spoons used as a unit of measurement to represent how energy and motivation must be rationed throughout the day to accomplish necessary tasks. Spoons are only replenished through rest or sleep, so once a person runs out of spoons, that's it for their day.
The term was coined by Christine Miserandino in her 2003 article "The Spoon Theory," in which she uses dinnerware to demonstrate to a friend how living with invisible chronic illness required careful daily planning and prioritization, and how even with the best intentions and efforts, tasks are often left undone due to a lack of energy or an increase in pain. The term has since been adopted by wide sections of the online community in relation to struggles with disability, chronic illness, or mental health, as a descriptor for daily energy and motivation levels, i.e. "I don't have the spoons for this," or "After a full day at work, I have exactly one spoon left, and I need it for laundry, so going out is off the table."
As someone who regularly battles ADHD, anxiety, executive dysfunction, migraines, and depression, I'm a big fan of spoon theory, largely because it makes those invisible daily struggles, which so many of us have, much easier to visualize and explain. So in honor of all my fellow spoonies, here is a spell to help you gain those critical extra spoons.
For this spell, you'll need a fair-sized jar, some healing herbs, and a bunch of spoons. You can use plastic spoons or metal ones, if you happen to have spare silverware lying around. Use as many or as few spoons as you feel you need. If you need more spoons than can readily be acquired, you might draw or print out pictures or spoons and use those instead.
Place the spoons in the jar with a big handful of cotton balls. Apart from their mundane medical and cosmetic uses, cotton has healing magical properties and also represents the comfort that may feel lacking on low energy or high pain days. If desired, add several pinches of Hyssop, Rosemary, Thyme, and Juniper Berries, or a sachet containing the herbs if you'd rather keep things neat.
Close the jar, give it a big hug, and say:
I bless this jar and spoons And ask for the strength to function; And when I need a helping hand, These extra spoons I'll summon,
Set the jar aside somewhere safe. If desired, you might want to label it. You don't want anyone borrowing your magical spoons for their cereal, after all. When you need an extra boost to help you get through the day, simply open the jar and take out a spoon. You can carry the spoon with you, place it on your altar, or discard it to activate the charm.
Please keep in mind that performing this sort of magic should always be accompanied by appropriate medical and self-care measures. Magic isn't going to cure a chronic illness or permanently alter your brain chemistry. But it can help you cope with the symptoms and give you that all-important push to get yourself through the day. Stay strong, witches!
-from the forthcoming book, The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. II; © 2021 Bree NicGarran
(If you'd like to check out more fairy-tale spells or any of my other published works, please visit the Willow Wings Witch Shop!)
#A gift for all my readers on my birthday - hope you enjoy!#witchcraft#witchblr#spells#spoonie witch#The Sisters Grimmoire II
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ADHD really does put everything at equal levels of importance, huh? Like I'll have an email I need to write that'll take maybe 10 minutes, and getting that done will alleviate 6 months of stress. Then I'll notice a sock on the floor I need to put away. Then I'll get the strong conviction that it's up to me to cure cancer. And my brain will tell me that I need to do all of them at once, start and finish them all in the time span of 0 seconds, and my executive dysfunction will throw up its hands and do none of the above.
#adhd#actuallyadhd#executive dysfunction#examples were courtesy of my partner. it made me laugh so hard because i've never heard anything more accurate#i'll read stuff like ''adhd makes it difficult to prioritize things!'' and i never paid that much attention because i was like#''i can easily sort things into categories. it's just the doing them that's the issue.''#but then i realized. that the REASON doing things is an issue is because it's not happening at the conscious logical level#it's happening at a nearly-subconscious rapid fire in-the-moment response time#i've been working a lot on my adhd these past few months & have also been meditating a lot lately and it's been making my awareness more an#more broad and precise#and at this point i'm wondering if this is straight up the cause of my adhd. the brain putting absolutely everything at the same ''URGENT#URGENT URGENT'' level. since i can't do everything in the world at the same time at infinite speed and perfection#i'm thrown into ''freeze mode''. and that's also why we've learned to weaponize fear against ourself as a motivator. because it forces the#task we're trying to do into front view. makes it take priority over everything else we're scared of not doing.#we've been working on a lot of useful coping skills. haven't entirely figured out how to manage this yet but the awareness itself has#been very useful.
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