#silly symptoms

[nonbinarymlm]

We Need to Accept that Silly Things Can Hurt People

Please allow me to ruminate a bit more on mental health on this blog. I have ADHD and OCD, both disorders commonly stereotyped and conflated with minor, silly behaviors like yelling SQUIRREL when you see a squirrel and organizing things by color. These stereotypes can often minimize and erase the genuine difficulties and harm that these conditions can cause. That’s very true, and it often causes intense sensitively and knee-jerk denial around stereotypes around this. I don’t think that’s necessarily the best reaction, because sometimes people can have symptoms very similar to these stereotypes.

I think we need to accept that silly things can hurt people. Silly, ridiculous symptoms can devastate people’s lives. People shouldn’t have to react into their painful past and trauma to get people to take their symptoms seriously when those symptoms are silly on their face, because that turns things into a pain competition and can result in gatekeeping how much people must suffer before their seemingly ridiculous symptoms get taken seriously.

I think we just need to, as a society and culture and social norm, accept that silly things can genuinely, sometimes intensely, hurt people. Yes, I do have the impulse to tell an animal’s name when I see that animal, and yes it’s part of my symptoms that makes it harder to me to drive and hold conversations and do basic functioning. Yes, I do worry about incredibly tiny and silly things, that the world’s tiniest cut means I’m literally dying, and this has at times been incredibly miserable to live with and severely inhibited my functioning and nearly lost me a job. Also I’m going to joke about it sometimes because it’s funny. I’m not going to find a joke about it from a stranger with no OCD funny, because they have no idea how much pain it can cause me.

Sometimes these conditions are absurd in ways that are funny. That’s true and people with the conditions should be able to joke about it. But everyone needs to understand, just because a symptom is absurd doesn’t mean it can’t also devastate you and ruin your life. So if you don’t have these conditions and aren’t super close to someone who has them, I think you should be sensitive and avoid joking even if it seems silly and funny. I think there is where true destigmatization lies: accepting that the silly brain can also really hurt.

[wifiwuxians]

Pop Team Epic x MDZS

a small thing that came to me in a flash, done in a flash >:) i wish i could redraw the scene frame by frame, but my brain demands things be done immediately. still, i hope it makes someone chuckle at least! 💖

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when you dissociate and don't remember travelling to an unexpected place but you're still thinking about fish. call that being in a fugu state

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

Okay it’s like midnight but is it a nurodivergent or aroace thing to be like why is *insert action* romantic/sexual

Edit: okay so this was poorly written cause it was super fuckin early and i wanted to clear sum stuff up + I have no clue how to like idfk pin a rebog or smth anyways

I know I'm autistic, so im just wondering if this is something that i should expect from having ASD or if it could ALSO be a sign that I could be aroace

Yeah thx :]

[bookshelfdreams]

americans learn what the middle ages are challenge

[scri--bble]

Weak. Something's wrong with his left eye.

[vixensofdeath]

don’t trust me while driving I’m either gonna run people over, drive off a cliff, or crash all on purpose too

[linabirb]

spaced out a little while i was outside and didn't realize i was standing in the rain this whole time and now i really need to change my clothes but anyway got a silly idea to make a group of ocs which are just one guy who genuinely looks normal, has his life together, acts somewhat sane (at. first) but also has THE worst i can fix her mindset ever and a group of really cute girls who he dates in different timelines (OR in one single timeline. it's just one big epic polycule) and all of them have their issues and they genuinely love him but they're also like "he's so so nice to us we should make him question his morals and turn his life into hell and repeatedly ask him if he's helping us because he actually loves us or just bc he likes to feel in control and he wants us to stay vulnerable so that we'll never leave :)"

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[the-spooky-children]

Can't stop thinking about unhealthy co-dependent teen!fireskulls..

[nightmun]

Here's a few more goofy Connectifia related sketches! Also introduction to Kit since I've barely talked about it in general. Basically Kit is Haniel's version of Connectifia (Haniel gets to join the sentient virus gang YIPPEE). Kit takes the form of a little spicy kitten in Haniel's head who is responsible for their poor reaction to other forms of the virus. Kit is very scared of and hateful towards other Connectifias, and in the process of being angry ends up inadvertently hurting Haniel, causing their sick-like symptoms. Haniel isn't aware of Kit at first, only learning about it after seeing it in dreams several times after an event where they nearly die messing with Connectifia. At first they think Kit is some kind of monster but they eventually learn that it's just a scared little kitten of a creature. Kit has the ability to affect technology around Haniel, so once Haniel befriends their little brain cat they're able to use Kit's powers and control technology from afar.

Hope you enjoy this little intro to Kit though! Also small cameo from @pokeblog123's Connie!

One more drawing below cut (spoiler for mild eye strain):

[symptomsofdeceit]

Hey,I just finnished your demo,and i can't wait till the full game is out!The plot is so good! I just wanted to ask,,Is Nalis inspired by anyone?His i want your full heart attitude reminds me alot from Yuzuru Saeki from Collar x Malice lol.

Hello, & I’m so glad that you enjoyed the demo!!

You’re completely right with this actually 💕

Kei Okazaki & Yuzuru Saeki are two of my favorite characters ever. Thaumo is lightly inspired by Kei, and Nalis is lightly inspired by Saeki.

They obviously have a lot of differences too! A lot of Saeki’s issues come from being way too empathetic, while Nalis’s come from not being empathetic at all. I actually think Saeki would hate Nalis xD but they could understand each other’s desire to feel their MC’s hate at least!

[venompeach]

Sketching wit symmetry tool cuz symmetry is my enemy

[emmavakarian-theirin]

"god had to nerf me because i was too powerful" - gale dekarios

[kaurwreck]

I try to avoid adjusting my medication unless I've exhausted other efforts, but after three years of having my shit kicked in by my neurochemistry, my psych and I doubled my anti-anxiety meds and threw in a limited quantity of an as-needed benzo and holy shit I feel like a person again.

[randomfoggytiger]

Prompt Request Announcement

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I'm currently under the weather; and, forced into unproductivity, I come to you, my mutuals.

Please, I beg of thee, send me Fictober prompts. >:DDDD