stele3:

autistic-dave-strider:

dishwasher-in-a-suit:

autistic-dave-strider:

people shouldn’t have to pimp themselves off to the military to afford college wtf

They don’t…lol

actually almost every teacher i’ve ever had has suggested joining the military because they’ll pay for college and almost half of my class is either doing it or considering it but i hope that rock you live under has air conditioning

Hi @dishwasher-in-a-suit, I grew up in a small, poverty-stricken, rural, mostly white town. Things have improved in my hometown a lot over my lifetime, but even today the poverty rate is 30%. There was no upward mobility; our high school had multiple leaks in the ceiling, we definitely didn’t have any preparation for the SATs or scholarships or anything of that nature.

There were 140 kids in my graduating class; of that number, 5 went on to
universities. 25 joined the military, myself included. It was the only
way that a lot of us could get out of town, and it was definitely the only way that most of us could pay for college. 44% of America’s military recruits are from rural America, and two-thirds of them came from households with incomes below the national median.

This is the reality of America today: poor urban people (usually non-white) go to prison and poor rural people (usually white) go into the military.

What are the symptoms of ADHD besides hyperactivity? All I’ve been exposed to is stereotypes of what it’s like to have ADHD and I want to learn more!

twentyonelizards:

backofthebookshelf:

mckitterick:

manyblinkinglights:

thefisherqueen:

thedoctorisadhd:

well here’s what it’s like for me

  • feeling like you need to Do Shit All The Time
  • like, literally every second
  • if you aren’t stimulated for even a second you’re incredibly bored
  • boredom is literally painful
  • it’s worse than death
  • worse than e v e r y t h i n g
  • feelin that sweet Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria™ any time you get teased or insulted
  • when you’re listening to music you always tune it out eventually
  • not picking up on social cues At All
  • actually, what are social cues?
  • can’t regulate attention
  • not interesting = not worth paying attention to
  • hyperfocus for hours
  • “wAIT ITS 4 PM WHAT THE F U C K”
  • did i forget to eat again
  • The Thoughts go from point a to point g in less than one (1) fuckin sentence
  • *someone says a thing* what *person repeats thing* what *person repeats thing again and you still don’t hear them but dont ask what again in case they think ur weird*
  • or, alternatively
  • *someone says a thing* what *person starts to repeat said thing; you reply less than a second after they start*
  • using subtitles all the time so you don’t have to go back twenty times to determine What The Fuck someone said
  • “sorry i tuned you out for that entire sentence can you repeat that”
  • needing e x t r e m e l y s p e c i f i c d i r e c t i o n s
  • EXTREMELY POOR VOLUME CONTROL TBH
  • tfw that thing u were working on falls apart and u cant redo it bc u already did it and that would be boring
  • long blocks of text are Extremely Hard to Read
  • ur fuckin brain works 12 times as fast as everyone elses. for every ADHD person it’s somethin different. for me it’s puns. ill choke on my own laughter at a pun an Entire Second before anyone else even gets it
  • RAMBLING
  • The Leg Bounce™
  • Disassociation
  • that ADHD feel when you
  • ^^ that one is a True Marker of an ADHD person. only ADHD people understand.

Reblogging because I think this is super helpful 

!!!!! PSA that the hyperactive stuff on here (always needing to Do Something, ccaann’‘tt bbee bboorreed, etc) can wind up masked almost totally by maladaptive daydreaming, which, when you think about it, is actually a marvelous way to begin INSTANTLY doing something interesting without even having to get up and go somewhere else. Once you internalize your need for stimulation and start watchin’ the ol’ headmovies, you might LOOK like a very patient person who has no trouble sitting still when it’s required or staying on-task for extended periods of time despite setbacks and delays, but only from the outside. Inside there are tabs open with music videos and etc. playing, and you’re probably glancing back at reality only when necessary. You might look at sensation-seeking symptoms like hyperactivity and think “can’t relate” when, really, you’re just ready to return to your interior hyperactivity at a moment’s notice.

@ everybody who can’t just slip out of reality when boredom threatens and who has to instead find something to entertain themselves with irl, my heart goes out to you and everyone around you because holy fuck

I wonder how many writers and other creatives are ADHD. I mean, that whole “Occupy the brain with invented narratives, characters, dialogue, and wotld-building” thing was my refuge as a child, and has become my happy place as an adult.

I’d write all day, every day, if I could arrange my life for that. Coping technique turned profession. Unfortunately, the Day Jobbe sucks up most of my creative energy, alas.

Others out there like me?

I had a teacher in high school who pulled me aside one day and thanked me for being so attentive in class, and all I could think was, “bitch I am on year three of a Harry Potter OC fanfic, I have not heard a single word you’ve said in weeks.” So, yeah, maybe.

(A couple years ago I turned up positive on an ADHD screening, but I wasn’t jittery and I don’t forget appointments so my therapist said nah, probably not. But I’m finally getting my anemia treated, and I’m starting to wonder if maybe ADHD comorbid with depression and iron deficiency, compensated for by years of refining my note-taking and planner systems, doesn’t explain an awful lot.)

Just so you know, ADHD and ADD are no longer separate diagnoses- there’s just ADHD, and subtypes (primarily inattentive, primarily hyperactive, combined). That means there’s tons of us ADHD people who aren’t hyper physically and may even struggle with fatigue and brain fog pretty badly. 

Some more exciting ADHD things include:

– I have lost this thing. When did I lose it? Where did I lose it? Did I ever have it in the first place?

– ‘I’m calling because you missed yo-’ FUCK

– the overwhelming need to be stimulated combined with getting tired of everything quickly and lacking physical energy/ the ability to concentrate 

– saying offensive or inappropriate things and then when people are like ‘what are you thinking?’ being like ‘i honestly could not tell you’

– your brain is like one of those shopfront windows with all the TVs playing different channels. at least one of them is a song.

– ‘okay you can’t leave the exam hall until 1PM, so if you finish early you’ll just have to sit there’ haha death would be kinder

– poor emotional regulation. feelings are Very Hard To Handle By Yourself and you might break things when angry, hurt yourself when sad etc

– step one: join club or society. step two: learn everything there is and volunteer for as much responsibility as possible. step three: lose interest completely and ghost or quit, ignoring desperate/confused emails and hating yourself

– “something i thought has distressed me, but i can’t remember what. let me sit down and unpack the last five minutes of mental conversation.”

But this is the point I wanted to make. ‘Taking the Hobbits’ makes beautifully plain one of the key divergences in prosody in Western literature. Briefly we nowadays scan English version metrically, by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. We are so habituated to this, and it sounds ‘natural’ to our ears, that it’s hard to really take in the fact that the Ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t scan verse that way. Classical prosody depends not upon the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, but by a pattern of long and short syllables. In one of his essays Robert Graves distinguishes northern metrical verse from Mediterranean quantitative verse by suggesting that the former was composed to the beat of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the latter to the alternation of long and short oarstrokes of rowers.

Now I’ve read a fair bit of classical verse, and I know the prosodic drill: but I’ll confess that I’m still not entirely sure that it’s even possible for me to apprehend, say, Homer any way except metrically. I try to imagine Greeks reciting those hexameters in an, even unstressed roll, and hearing the intricate patterning of long and short syllables; but I plain can’t do it myself. I can identify the difference between the long ‘a’ and the short one (long in ‘car’ or ‘care’, short in ‘happy’); or the long ‘o’ (omega) and the short ‘o’ (omicron) in ‘own’ and ‘on’. But that doesn’t mean that I can really hear the quantitative dactyls in the Homeric hexameter the way I can unmistakeably hear the metrical dactyls in the hexameter line ‘they’re taking the hobbits to Isengard! They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard!’

But one thing that much repeated line definitely does, perhaps because it’s set to music, is make clear how important the length of syllables is to the overall rhythm even of English, metrical verse. Because, as you listen to it, you notice that the single dactyl ‘Isengard’ takes exactly as long to deliver as the previous two dactyls ‘taking the hobbits to’. You notice, moreover, that the distinctive roll of the line as a whole depends upon that balance between two short and one long metrical units – a sort of ‘anapestic’ overarching rhythm that nicely counterpoints the actually dactylic syllabic rhythm.

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/the_prosody_of_itaking_the_hobbits_i/

I woke up this morning thinking about this song and now I feel better

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Source: aretalogue

One common abbreviation used in Roman letters was SPD, which was short for salutem plurimam dicit, or “sends many greetings.” This served as a greeting at the beginning of a letter, to indicate the sender and the receiver, as in “Marcus Sexto SPD” (“Marcus sends many greetings to Sextus”). Another popular acronym was SVBEEV, which was short for si vales, bene est, ego valeo (“if you are well, that is good, I am well”). Such abbreviations saved space and time, just as acronyms (BTW, AFAIK, IANAL) do today in Internet posts and text messages.

Tom Standage,

Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years

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these millenials and their writespeak. in my day we didn’t have all these letters going around. if you wanted to speak to someone you marched up to Gaul and said it to their face, as the gods intended.

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ferenofnopewood:

fierceawakening:

newvagabond:

It’s clear from all of the anti-recovery on this site that a lot of kids have this weird false idea about what recovery actually is. 

For those of us who are chronically ill, mentally ill, disabled, struggling with addiction, etc, recovery isn’t, “HOO I DID A THING AND NOW I’M ALL BETTER 100% JUST NORMAL LOOK AT ME!” like someone getting over a cold or getting their tonsils removed. 

Recovery is the rest of your life. 

Literally recovery is every day forever. 

It’s hard work. It’s a process. It’s management. It’s good days. It’s bad days.

It’s faces dirty with tears. It’s relapses. It’s disappointment. It’s falling down.

But it’s also getting back up. Again and again. 

Today I might fall five steps behind. But tomorrow if I take one half-step forward, that’s recovery. 

Stop mocking recovery. Please.

Don’t call us neurotypical or abled like an insult, like we don’t belong or don’t get to speak because we’re proactive and put our all into our health. That’s shitty. 

Don’t take that away from us. Let us try to be well to our best ability. Let us reduce suffering. Let us be strong and let us be weak. 

Just let us be.

This.

It’s believing that it is possible to be healthier and happier, and fighting for it.

Because it’s believing that I am worth fighting for, not just everybody else.

Also, I feel like there are a lot of young people on this site who take comfort in being part of a community for their issue. “Oh my god! It’s not just me! OTHER PEOPLD UNDERSTAND WHAT I STRUGGLE WITH!!!” is a huge revelation for so many people. I think a lot of them are afraid of recovery, of “getting better” because they’re afraid to lose that community they’ve found. Like, if they go on meds they will no longer be a member of the Depression Club, they won’t be able to relate to the struggle anymore, they won’t be welcome anymore.

And that’s just…Not true. I mean, it’s a little true on Tumblr, but it’s basically a self-fulfilling prophecy. But in adult circles in the real world, you don’t get kicked out of your support groups for going on meds or taking other steps towards recovery. You don’t lose the friends you made when you battled cancer once you go into remission. You don’t suddenly become NeurotypicalTM just because the anti-psychotics are working.

I think if more people on Tumblr realized that, and stopped perpetuating the idea that your issues are only valid when they are actively fucking up your life, we’d see much less resistance to recovery.