Building a Haven of WAFF~

Yo~ Indy here!

28/Ace (Aego). Biologically Somali, Finn in spirit. Freelance Scriptwriter. Massive Gaming Junkee. Super Crossover Nut. 90s' Animation Stan.

Welcome to my multi-fandom blog. I tend to do my own thing with the fandoms shared here, usually various crossover-related content.

Check the Fandoms-page for my preferred fandoms.

about adhd

dewgem

it concerns me that people really don’t know that adhd isn’t a personality type or behavioral problem.

adhd isn’t someone who’s personality is driven by fun and disorder.

adhd is someone who’s brain goes all over the place looking for dopamine, because it doesn’t make or register enough of it, and when it finds a source of dopamine, it hyperfixates on it. it’s about deregulation of attention as well as emotions.

it’s not a person who can’t behave. a person with adhd can look like a lot of things. misconceptions about what adhd looks like kept me from even looking for a diagnosis, and it also kept myself and others (professionals, even) from taking my suspicions seriously.

everyone’s encouraged to reblog, but if you don’t have adhd, keep your additions to the tags.

lauramkaye

Smart people can have ADHD. And a lot of the time, they compensate for the ADHD with intelligence- until they reach the point where they just can’t overcome it anymore, which is why a lot of gifted + ADHD people have good grades their whole lives and then “suddenly” crash and burn. For some it’s college, for some it’s grad school, for some it’s postgrad or professional exams like the bar. Whenever the things they have to do can no longer be brute-forced at the last minute.

ADHD is often lumped in with learning disabilities but it’s really a DOING disability. We know what we should do. Probably we know six ways to do it. The trouble is actually getting our brains to activate so we CAN do it. Sometimes it’s like you’re being controlled by aliens or something because you say “I need to do X” and you’re going to do it and you just. Don’t.

manywinged

i know it's an example of me taking idioms too literally, but the phrase "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" never fails to make me imagine something like when that lion in madagascar starts hallucinating all his friends as slabs of steak

manywinged

A closeup of Alex, the lion from the film Madagascar, staring in the direction of somewhere offscreen with a wide-eyed expression, as if frozen in shock. A hammer is edited into the image to look as if he's holding it up beside him.ALT
A generic background of rolling green grass hills against a pale blue sky, with cartoon nails with smiling faces and arms outstretched pasted across it.ALT

me when i have a hammer in my hand if i'm being fully honest