#schrödinger's job

[nando161mando]

[turtledotjpeg]

This came from a randomized AU prompt involving flight attendants and characters meeting in a coffee shop - I went with the main four meeting in an off-brand airport starbucks (plus melody because I have a blorbo agenda here :P), but got thoroughly sidetracked drawing melody + pika as flight attendants haha

(gon & killua meet in the airport and quickly hit it off, but while goofing off they accidentally bowl over leorio who really needed that coffee after 18 hours in transit back to medical school

kurapika is about ready to murder leorio - not for the coffee stain, but because he didn't apologize sincerely enough - but then gon jumps in very politely and says it was his fault and he's very sorry. kurapika decides to let it go :)

some handwavey logic later and they all end up on the same plane. kurapika gives gon and killua extra bags of the little pretzels and nearly kills leorio again for trying to flirt with melody. they all have a feeling it's not the last time they'll cross paths 🙂)

[rochenn]

growing up is realizing that all the "relatable" posts u saw as a teen about not wanting to answer emails weren't just jokes. they were made by someone in mortal peril

[limelocked]

The problem with trying to pace isekai erased is that I’m writing it like an anime but there’s precious few fucking mystery animes to compare and study the pacing of because most of them are like anthologies with one large mystery in the background or they’re old as shit (I know this because after watching erased I tried so fucking hard to find something similar)

[idiotwithasword]

English speakers will never understand the French struggle of not knowing if you have to use the formal you or the informal you when talking to someone

[binch-i-might-be]

my supervisors have informed me that I apparently saved their asses today which is very funny to me because all I do is Do My Job semi decently

[the-sleepiest-star]

I don't feel like a real person.

a real person would have a name,

would have friends and dreams,

would have a job, would go out and have fun.

am I real if no one knows me?

if not even my family knows my name?

I don't recognize the person in the mirror,

but I don't know what they should look like, either.

will I ever be real?

or will I just go trough the motions of surviving until I die?

[godofthestupid]

am working on that wuwa x chilshi fanart but the gift fanart had a bit more priority

and also I never really know what day it is

[find-me-in-hell]

so. to summarise that episode. uhm. colins probably dead. freddys fucked. lenas left. gwen has lenas job now. the rift was pulling celia. celia kinda manipulated sam to ultimately throw him in the rift. the archivist was there. but also went through the rift. sams essentially schrödingers cat???? all the while gwen, was just drinking in lenas office. the oiars total number of staff has just been halved. oh and a guy turned into concrete??? honestly not bad for a finale it would he worse (worms)

[doublel27]

I thought joong was straight? He is quite into dunk lips but beyond that i thought straight. I don't even read him as bi?

Look, I neither actually know nor care what Joong’s sexual orientation is. That’s between him and whomever he chooses to tell. And most of my Joong knowledge is adjacent to my knowledge of FKT, AouBoom, EarthMix and DaouOffroad because he’s close with all of them. I more know of him then know him, so I could be missing stuff.

I would say, in regards to your ask, Joong doesn’t appear to have the painful knowing that often comes along with growing up queer in a society that doesn’t want you to be that a lot of other queer people use as a tell to identify each other. The thing that makes us, as queer folx, hesitate or get shy when it comes to things straight people wouldn’t think twice of. And while I do use that in my analysis sometimes, I also know members of Gen Z across the world actively work to resist that shyness and that shame that comes with internalized homophobia and honestly the real-world consequences that can come from being proudly out.

What I do know is he is 1000% into the fanservice portion of his job. Now either it’s his job and he’s having the best time being gay for pay, its his job and he’s excellent at pretending to have the best time pretending to be gay, or he is just shamelessly queer and has said fuck the knowing.

This man is out here yelling into full concert audiences “where is my teerak” and when the audience yells back saying SHHH! he didn’t ask for them, he asked for Teerak! He’s hugging and kissing Dunk at every opportunity and posting various shots of Dunk’s bare waist in crop tops during this THK filming area. He strikes me as the kind of man who reads the RPF about himself. In The Heart Killers book fair panel this past week, he talked about his love of reading BL novels and imaging himself and Dunk in the lead roles. Take that for what you will.

He also expressly stated in an interview alongside Dunk this week that he insisted on being paired with a partner the same height as him. Specifically stating, he thinks it’s a stereotype that one member of an imagined pair/branded couple is always bigger than the other and he didn’t want to lean into it. He wanted to go against that narrative.

As @firstkanaphans and @respectthepetty pointed out, he has a shit ton of queer friends and has close relationships with the members of GMM that are most likely to be clocked as queer (whether they are or not is also not expressly public knowledge and some folx that people clock as gay are straight because femme isn’t exclusive to gay men) Which again, either he’s the most down for the cause straight dude that exists or he’s also queer. My stance is considering he and Daou talk about how close they were to starving trying to make their first shot at being idols happen, I hope they’re having the best time in Thai BL fanservice land being shameless and getting that money.

To end, let me paraphrase my beloved Kit Harrington: to believe you can tell the level of queerness someone embodies just by looking at them or listening to their voice or looking at their hobbies, you’ve missed the entire part of Heartstopper.

Which is why I keep all my speculating to mostly private convos and tumblr where I can pretend celebrities don’t live because we’re all mostly anonymous on here and this site is hell to search. Don’t @ folx on Twitter or on their IGs or their TikToks. Don’t try and out people with YouTube videos. Let the Schrödinger’s Gays enjoy their boxes.

I know I have other anons (I see you. I am maybe coming soon) but this required less work on my end to compile my answers.

[angelofsmalldeaath]

in the woods somewhere — a.h.b.

cw: being sick, fevers

“go away, you’re not supposed to be in here,” i groan from under the mountain of blankets, struggling to fully breathe. 

the room is somehow boiling hot and freezing cold at the same time. i take a peek and his frowning face, and shut my eyes again. 

“you were calling my name,” his voice floats in on the breeze, garbled as if i’m under water and he’s trying to reach me. “you sounded quite weak and pathetic if i’m being honest—”

“oi!”

“—scared me a bit.”

i sigh into the pillow and grimace when a sweat-soaked tissue touches my nose. i shouldn’t be this disgusted by it. every inch of my skin feels the same—sweat-soaked and grimy and icky. 

a moment later, a cold hand touches my forehead. then i hear a wince. 

“oh, you’re not doing so well are you?”

“miserable. but you should go. i’ll be just fine—” and then, just to drive home the point, my body breaks into a coughing fit. 

the cold hand moves to my back, stroking down my spine until i can finally catch a breath, get some air in my lungs. it burns, of course. it burns like i’ve swallowed the river styx. 

“quit being so stubborn, will you? don’t make me wrestle you into being a good patient.”

“oooh kinky,” i tease, my voice hoarse and barely even audible. another coughing fit threatens to take over me but he holds a glass of water in front of me before that can happen. 

i take one look at his unimpressed face and take the glass dutifully. 

“i don’t remember calling your name.” i set the glass aside and try to prop myself up. he immediately moves to prop up a few pillows behind me. 

“well you would if your brain wasn't so fever addled. i reckon it’s melting. because you refuse to listen to me.”

“i’ve listened to you all day!”

“and did you eat when i brought you that bowl of soup in bed or did you make a face?”

“right,” i pout, pull out the last arrow from my arsenal, “are we really gonna do this when i’m on my death bed?”

a laugh tumbles out of him, surprising us both. he presses a hand over his mouth to stop it, pretends to run a hand through his beard to cover it up. “oh now you’re too sick, are you? i thought you were ‘just fine’.”

“schrödinger’s sickness,” i shrug and silently celebrate when he has to fight another smile.

“alright, how about we make a deal,” he says and extends his hand towards me, all business-like and serious. “you have some of that soup, let me help you with a quick shower, and then i’ll stay away from you. you won’t get me sick.”

“if you wanted to see me naked, all you had to do was ask.” i giggle behind my hands like a child. maybe he's right, maybe the delirium's really getting to me.

he huffs, close to defeated. “you’re impossible. why won’t you let me baby you, hmm? is it really so bad to lean on someone else?”

“okay,” i hold my hands up weakly, defensively, “fine. deal.” and even though his peeved expression is highly entertaining, i keep my laugh to myself. “how could i ever say no to you?”

“you have,” he points out, “multiple times, if i may add! and quit flirting. it’s time to let me do my job.”

“and what job is that?”

“nursing you back to health. making sure you don’t waste away like you so obviously want to.”

“and will you be by my bedside in a slutty nurse costume?” i snort, “you have the legs for it.”

rapidly, he mutters the words “delirious” and “impossible” among others under his breath but i don’t miss the way his face splits into a smile. how he shakes his head. especially not the fondness in his eyes when he pulls the blankets off me and holds my shivering body closer. 

without hesitating, i curl into him, into the crook of his neck, trying to fit myself into any cavities of his body that will have me. anything for his warmth. 

“i’m going to give you so much grief the next time i’m sick,” he declares, then picks me up into his arms. 

i kiss the exposed part of his neck, resting my head in the crook. “is that a threat, sweet boy? because i know how much you love being babied—”

“shush, aren’t you supposed to have a sore throat?”

i hum noncommittally.

a moment later he sets me down on the lid of the toilet, and flits around the bathroom gathering things. i watch him—i watch the crease between his brows and the stray hair falling out of his bun. i watch where his t-shirt slides off his shoulder to expose a collarbone and the was he licks his lips when he’s thinking. 

and when my sweat-soaked skin breaks out into goosebumps once more, i know it’s not the fever. 

[fairyofshampgyu]

Forces of Attraction

genre: smut, college au

Pairing: physics tutor! taehyun x reader

Warnings: sub! taehyun, dom! reader, blow job, riding, titty and bicep sucking lmfao, taehyun so whiney you can’t convince me otherwise his voice was made to whine

Word count: 1.1k

“I’m literally going to fail physics at this rate. I just don’t get this section at all!” You complain to your friend yoon who pats your back.

“Why don’t you ask for help then?”

“I literally went to my lecturer and told them I did not understand at all, he just said to look at my textbook and past lecture recordings. I even tried to watch videos online but I just don’t get it!” You groan.

“Why don’t you ask kang taehyun?” Yoon gives you a knowing smirk, pointing to the pink haired man sitting down below, headphones in and studying.

Kang taehyun was the smartest guy in your physics class, quiet, intimidating, cute-you found him so attractive. Problem is, you’ve never uttered a single word to him. “No I’m not gonna ask him! He’ll know I’m dumb then!”

“He doesn’t even know you since you never even speak to him. Also why not? I heard he tutors and he’s really good.”

“He does?”

“Yeah. And then you’ll have an excuse to talk to him!”

“Hmm. Maybe I will sometime…”

“Go, go, go!” Yoon pushes you in his direction before you have a chance to speak, attracting his attention as he looks up at you who had just appeared in front of him out of nowhere.

You just stare at him awkwardly for a bit before you decide to speak, scratching the back of your head, “Uh…Hello! I’m y/n. I heard you tutor? Will you be able to tutor me I’m having trouble understanding this particular topic…”

You’ll make sure Yoon pays for this, you can see here giggling to the side, enjoying your pain.

“Sure. Give me your number and we’ll set a date and time.”

∘ ༺ ☆༻ ∘

Taehyun opens the door at your arrival and you try not to let your mouth drop to the ground. He was wearing a tank top and sweat pants, exposing his muscles and he looked so incredibly fine.

“Oh I just came back from the gym.” Taehyun says, seemingly noticing your prolonged stare.

“Oh. Cool.” You clear your throat and try to seem unaffected.

“Okay, so what do you understand about quantum physics? Tell me what you already know. Do you understand Schrödinger’s wave equation?”

“Uhhh…I don’t understand absolutely anything from the topic.”

“So you don’t even get the two slit experiment?”

“Um…”

“It’s okay! we’ll just start from the very start.”

∘ ༺ ☆༻ ∘

“So the right hand side of this equation is known as a linear combination of the vectors r1 and r2. The particular points to take away from this is that combining vectors produces other vectors, analogous to our observation above that combining states produces other states, and that the components a and b are a measure of how much of r1 and r2 respectively go towards making up the vector r. Do you get that?”

You were getting some of it albeit still hurting your brain and after an hour, you just needed a small break. He was pretty good at tutoring. It got hard trying to focus sometimes though when he was so good looking. Also, damn that tank top he was wearing.

“It’s making sense. Could we take a break though?”

“Yeah of course. What do you wanna do intead?”

You look down at his pretty lips, not realising how long you zone out because of them. He seems to notice, suddenly becoming a bit shy, ears turning the shade of his hair. But he tries to ignore it, clearing his throat.

He’d seen you ogle at him a bit more than once this whole session and it made him want to scream and run out, trying to act calm when really he was squirming at your gaze.

Truthfully, he actually knew who you were before you asked him. He’d always see you in class, in the library, around campus laughing with your friends, at parties making out with people on multiple occasions and he had a pretty big crush on you. You were pretty hot. He looks down at your lips too for a second.

“I think…we should make out.” You drawl out, a bit lower.

“I-I-uh-”

it’s the first time you’ve ever heard taehyun’s usually stoic self stammer and look so nervous. You couldn’t help yourself, leaning forwards to cup his cheek and pressing your lips on his. He reciprocates, kissing back with so much eagerness and neediness.

You pull away for a second, string of saliva between the both of you and he whines at the loss of contact, so prettily. You dive back into his mouth, biting and pulling at his bottom lip, causing him to whimper, then attaching your wet lips to his pretty and bare neck, marking them with pinky-purple bruises. He whines again even louder. You love his sounds, wanting to hear more of them.

You move to his sweatpants with his dick that was literally bulging, taking his flushed pink cock out.

“Can I?” You ask and he nods repeatedly. So you move your head down, wrapping him around your wet lips. He squeezes his eyes shut, high pitched whines eliciting from him.

“So cute. Whiney baby.” He only whines out your name in response and you chuckle at him.

“What do you want? Wanna be fucked?”

“Yeah…”

“Say please.”

“Please y/n.” He was so pliant you loved it.

You hover over him, taking his dick into your hands and rubbing it against your folds instead, continuously dragging the head over you but not putting it in and he just whines at you.

You finally take his fat cock, placing it at your entrance and slowly sinking down on it, he balls his hands into little fists against your side, hissing slightly as you start fucking him. You roll and move your hips around against his, riding him at a feverishly fast speed and you can feel his dick twitching inside you.

“Hey! you can’t cum yet. Maybe I should be teaching you instead.” You stop your movements.

“Sorry…”

You begin again, bouncing up and down on him even faster, his body trembling like a leaf beneath you, sweet and high pitched noises frequenting his mouth. You lean, picking up one of his arms, sucking little kisses into his biceps before you move his tank top to the side, sucking on his nipples instead and he whimpers and whines.

“I really need to cum now y/n please-ah!”

“Cum for me then.”

He whines out even louder than you think possible, eyes closed and his mouth opening wide in pleasure, you can feel his hot cum filling you up. He gasps, sweaty, face and chest matching his pretty hair.

“Maybe we should do some work now”

But you’re thinking of maybe another round. Or two. You don’t end up getting much tutoring done in the end but you have plenty of time to make up for it with your cute new tutor. And a lot of something else as well.

PLEASE actually reblog!!!! and comment!!!!!if you like the fic. It’s really appreciated and nice if you do tysm !<3🙏💕😊 It’s discouraging when fics have such little reblogs 👎🤨

[absolutebl]

This Week in BL - The Stand-in Stands Up (all puns intended)

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.

June 2024 Week 1

Ongoing Series - Thai

My Stand-In (Fri iQIYI) ep 7 of 12 eps - I do enjoy that the other Joe’s past is now coming back to haunt the present. For our Joe, the hits just keep on coming. Meanwhile, I know my heartstrings are being intentionally tugged, but I did feel sorry for Ming in this episode (at the last). And I think Up is doing a great job with this frankly difficult role if he can make me feel anything approaching sympathy for Ming. Ming's breakdown was excellent. Very dramatic.

Wandee Goodday (Sat YT) ep 6 of 12 - These two are entirely boyfriends who just don’t happen to be dating. It’s Schrödinger’s relationship. It's crazy that these two are already sleeping together and I still can’t wait for them to kiss. Very nicely done. Good tension point. This was a really cute episode but nothing much happened.

In other news, the sound effects REALLY bother me in this show. It might have been in the running as a 10/10, except for those fucking sound effects.

We Are (Weds iQIYI) ep 10 of 16 - I like how the majority of this show is just basically struggling with first love. It’s strangely sweet and innocent as a result. Frankly, right now, I need that - it’s comforting. It’s not exciting, but I can’t deny that thi is the highlight of the middle of my week.

Peem to Phum = use your words. Phum = SMOOCH. 

Bet you all heard this one coming: NO SINGING. 

Note: Satang (Toey) is a fantastic actor. I love the way he changes the physicality of his body for his roles. In this part, he’s kind of loose-limbed and floppy. He doesn't look younger but the way he inhabits his body does.

My Love Mix-Up Th (Fri YT) ep 1 of 12 - GeminiForth (AKA G4) are back and glory-be they showed up on YouTube. Still I’m worried it won’t stay there after the Cherry Magic debacle. So I stayed up late that night to gank it. 

Back to the show.

One of the things I’ve always loved about this IP, is how genuine and decent and earnest all of the kids are. They’re all trying so hard not to hurt each other's feelings. It’s all just a terrible case of miscommunication. G4 are perfect casting for these roles. That said, I have the same challenges with this version as I did with the JBL - it’s a bit frenetic and can be clownishly too MUCH for me. 

Meanwhile, the he feeds strays trope has popped up again. 

Love Sea (Sun iQIYI) ep 1 of 10 - Trash watch here. MAME warning! I found it rather lacklustre and inoffensive but still managed to invent dildo smores.

Knock Knock Boys (Thurs Gaga) eps 3 of 12 - Honestly? I’m kind of enjoying watching the friendships develop between the housemates. Of course I know they’re probably gonna all end up sleeping together, but right now the communal easy-going companionship and teasing is the most fun. Other than that, this is an unremarkable Thai BL pulp with better than normal acting and consistency (for a pulp).

Only Boo! (Sun YT) ep 9 of 12 - Moo is the clinginess boyfriend in the entire universe. The thing I think I love best about this couple, and the show, is what great communicators they are. That said they are not great actors. I don’t mean to be rude, and I don’t expect great acting from my Thai BL, but it’s a little rough going sometimes with this pair.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

At 25:00 in Akasaka AKA 25 Ji Akasaka de (Japan Thurs Gaga) ep 8 of 10 - It’s taken me a long time, but I finally realized what I dislike about this show. It’s the pacing. Or rather, the lack of it. And I’m not saying that the pacing is necessarily off, in fact this is a typical JBL thing. But for some reason, in this show, I find it particularly annoying.

Blossom Campus (Korea Thurs Gaga & iQIYI) ep 5-6fin - Honestly, this was a perfectly fine little friends to lovers BL, with better than average kissing from Korea. But for some reason it never really hit for me. The very end was extremely odd. A bit of a disappointment for a longer piece from Strongberry. I think they tried to be too classically BL and that is just not their strength-berry. Strongberry is better when they explore something a little edgy, or a little outside the box. 7/10

It's airing but...

The Last Time (Fri YT?) - Convoluted story of loss and possible reincarnation or something. Can't find it.

OMG Vampire (Thai Sun ???) 10 eps - also I can't find it. Comments from last week suggest this is not my thing anyway, but Lee Long Shi very much IS my thing, so... maybe I'll put it on hold for a bit and y'all can let me know.

In case you missed it

The Time of Fever AKA Unintentional Love Story 2 (Korea movie) trailer released to Korean theaters 5/25. HoTae & DongHee, side couple from Unintentional Love Story are back! Same actors, same character names. I love them. I NEED TO SEE THIS. How?

You Made My Day (Thai YT) - mini series staring the I Will Knock You couple Tar & Bom, started but I couldn't find it. I also didn't try very hard. Apparently it's cute but basically a 10 min advert.

KWill To Reunite With Seo In Guk, Ahn Jae Hyun in Comeback! For those who don't know the MV for his song Please Don't is a heavy hitting shock tactic BL adjacent piece featuring major Korean actors. (The closest we are likely to ever get.) Look it was a BIG DEAL at the time. Kinda like Kpop's Broke Back Mountain moment. More here:

I don't often report on the Kpop scene but this is very interesting.

Next Week Looks Like This:

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

June Releases

6/14 Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru 2 AKA Aki wa Haru to Gohan wo Tabetai 2 Haime! (Japan movie Gaga?) - Continues the (frankly) lackadaisical story from part 1.

6/15 Sunset Vibes AKA SunsetXVibes (Thailand Sat iQIYI) 12 eps - Star Hunter + MosBank on iQIYI for 12 weeks? If nothing else it's gonna be a wild and sexy ride. A one night stand but "uh-oh he’s my boss," adapted from a web series. I’m game. Maybe it’ll have a better story than Big Dragon? Maybe it will have a plot? We can but hope.

6/26 The Rebound (Thai Weds VIU?) - MeenPing are back in their 3rd BL together, a basketball based romance (Meen was a national basketball player, so yay for that). I like this pair better than most (I still do miss Meen with Est but Est has a fantastic looking new BL coming from GMMTV so yeah...) Anyway I'm up for a sports romance starring a man who, yah know, actually played that sport so... I'm game (pun intended).

(Speaking of, why can't Est be a merman? This... I ask you?.)

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

Flipping stellar side couple Wandee, thank you.

Love the mains too of course.

This is that funny little unnamed (muli-named) BL/GL something from Korea that's happening on YouTube right now. It's cute! I guess it's falling under the moniker Fake Buddies.

(Last week)

Streaming services are listed by how I (usually) watch, which is with a USA based IP, and often offset by a day because time zones are a pain.

The tag BLigade: @doorajar @solitaryandwandering @my-rose-tinted-glasses @babymbbatinygirl @babymbbatinygirl @isisanna-blog @mmastertheone @pickletrip @aliceisathome @urikawa-miyuki @tokillamonger @sunflower-positiiivity

@rocketturtle4 @blglplus @anythinggoesintheshire @everlightly @renafire @mestizashinrin @bl-bam-beyond @small-dark-and-delicious @saezurumurmurs

Sigh, Tumblr in it's infinite wisdom doesn't like too many tags.

There's these tricks, remember.

[shabbytigers]

clusterfuque: navigating name and gender change legal-regulatory processes as a dual citizen of Germany and the US, paying taxes in both countries, under the emergent political pressure of a swiftly approaching unchecked fascist regime in at least one of those countries

i didn’t even want to fucking do this! at least till such time in the misty, nebulous, and highly uncertain and theoretical future as i, you know, pass? at all? for starters? tbh i was intending to spin this out a couple more years, or at least secure another full-time job, before dropping this Schrödinger’s bomb on my employability

but like a lot of other people i played myself: getting it sorted on the US side may now be a question of immediately or not at all. and i’m not sure it isn’t too late

the us passport people here are willing to sort gender marker on request and handle a name change later. us name and gender change are state, not federal, and new york makes it relatively easy and can be trusted for a little while at least. so far so good. but i doubt i can get through the state piece (which isn’t hazard free) in time to fix my social security id before monsters take over the SSA. i think they have to give me a name change if i have a court order about it, ditto the possibly new and worse passport people, but like ?? !! omg

furthermore my father is nearly 86 so it is not an option to simply decide to refrain from traveling DE><US while all this shit shakes out, as the nice berlin embassy email urged me to consider! a half-changed passport may create major hazard points at airports and at the border; so may discordance between the two passports

and i need to decide about all of this like tomorrow

berlin embassy e: “we encourage you to speak with a lawyer experienced in name-change/gender issues” my good bitch there is no lawyer on earth experienced in my proprietary blend of fucking issues

[chaifootsteps]

Someone in TADC pilot comment section said that in just the first minute the show introduces the world, the characters and hints to the main conflict/problem of the show. And holy shit, they are so right and realizing that made my respect for Goose as a storyteller rise so much.

Hazbin should take some notes, because with it's Schrödinger's pilot situation and general poor structuring of S1 story, I can only imagine how confusing the show can appear to new fans (who got into HH when it aired on Prime and most likely didn't watch the pilot and the streams), even after watching the entire season.

And the crazy thing, the Hazbin pilot does a better job of introducing the worlds, the characters, and the conflict than anything HH/HB has done before or since. Also, it's heartwrenching in a way that holds up even today.

Almost like Viv shouldn't have abused her writers. Then maybe she could have had something almost as good as TADC.

[alpaca-clouds]

Neurodiversity from an Evolutionary Perspective

I spoke yesterday about how neurodiversity is a bit of Schrödinger's Disability today. We neurodiverse people get all the backlash of being diabled, and all the discrimination, but we rarely get disability benefits of any sort.

But today I want to talk about something else: Evolutionarily speaking most neurodiverse people are not disabled. Our disability stems entirely from the fact that we just do not function in a 9-5 capitalist hellscape.

Just look at it from the perspective that our species actually evolved to gather and hunt - and maybe also cultivate some stuff. (Given how long ago we did that, you could argue that this also shows in our genes.)

See, by now a lot of specialists think, that both autism and ADHD are very underdiagnosed, because even within the field a lot of people are looking for a certain, stereotypic way for the neurodiversity to show. With modern diagnostic criteria there is a good chance that about 5% of all people have ADHD and/or autism. Which is... a lot.

But the thing is that it actually makes a lot of sense. Because evolutionarily it would totally have been an advantage.

Let me talk about something we did at university yesterday. We got a lot of random shapes on a picture and we were supposed to find the T and the X between these shapes. Something I could do within less than a second, while three of my fellow students were unable to find the T (which was rotated) at all. Because my brain processes visual information completely differently.

And this... is evolutionarily an advantage, right? Just imagine being a hunter-gatherer and going through the forest or the savanna. And now you have someone among you, who is able to see a prey animal instantly, because of how they process visual information. Or who realizes them being stalked by a predator. Or them finding fruits and other things.

Neurodiverse people are also very capable of having a very different approach to problem solving. Which again would have a small tribe easier survive. Doubly so with the hyperfocus that neurodiverse people can have. Which totally is an evolutionary advantage for a group to have. Who knows. Maybe the first person to make fire was a neurodiverse person hyperfocusing on this task.

Also, there is the very common believe that people with ADHD specifically were probably very well adapt at hunting for several reasons.

So, yeah. This is so very common, because evolutionarily it was an advantage. From an evolutionary perspective it makes sense that it is so very common.

You have to remember: Modern Homo Sapiens as a species is around 160 000 years old. We settled down sometime between 10 000 and 15 000 years ago. So, just from an evolutionary perspective us having settled down is a very, very new thing. And not to mention, that the modern working culture has been around for not even quite 100 years. Office jobs have been a thing for even less.

And I can tell you: If you leave me out and about outside. I am good. Like, give me some nature observatory duty or something, putting up trail cams, what not. I am good. I can work for 12 hours straight (because hyperfocus). But sit me in the office for just 6 hours, and you will have me crawling up the walls, because that is just not what my brain does.

Ideally I am gonna need a job, that involves a lot of research and going outside. Which is why I hope to either go into Digital Humanities or the Environmental Geoinformatics. Because that is stuff I work well with.

If you gotta put me in an office job, you might as well shoot me right. Because my brain just doed not work like that.