Noah Kahan
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I spent an unnecessarily long time making this based off a silly pun I had in mind a few months ago. Hope you all like it!
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Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
⬇️ here’s all the images together to make it look like a comic
School doodles from my note book and worksheets. Most of them are just alternative girls with sad or neutral expressions now that I think about it but shhh 📝
anyways can we start recognizing adhd as an actual and serious disorder that
can affect on functioning in every day life so badly that it interferes with taking care of very basic human needs
is not 10 yrs old white boy exclusive disorder
is not a fake disorder created to benefit medicine companies
definitely should not be reduced to “kid who cant sit still and wont stop screaming” stereotypes because adhd has a whole fuckton of symptoms ranging from serious memory issues to fine motor control difficulties
ADHD is:
One of the most treatable “psychiatric” disorders (although it’s more accurately a neurodevelopmental disorder), with approximately 90% of patients able to find a treatment regimen that works well for them, given appropriate medical support. ADHD stimulant medications in particular (Ritalin and Adderall and their variations) are some of the most effective psychiatric medications in existence.
Contrary to popular opinion, extremely under diagnosed overall, particularly in populations that are not young white boys (women, adults, people of color, etc.)
So there are a LOT of people out there who could be helped by getting a diagnosis and treatment but are not, in part because of the negative stereotypes around ADHD and ADHD medication that are prevalent in pop culture.
Able to coexist with a number of other conditions or traits that may change its presentation and/or impact, including mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression and various learning disabilities but also giftedness/high intelligence.
In fact, in adults diagnosed for the first time, it is extremely common to have comorbidities, in large part because ADHD can be so hard to cope with.
Sleep disorders are also frequently comorbid with ADHD. Additionally, being poorly-rested makes ADHD symptoms worse, which makes you more likely to sleep badly. It’s a hellish merry-go-round.
In some cases, “twice exceptional” people (gifted + ADHD) have extra trouble getting appropriate support, because some ADHD symptoms can be masked by intelligence (for instance, if a child is bright enough to do their homework in the ten minutes between classes and master the test material by cramming the night before, they may never see the poor academic performance that might lead to testing), and because the symptoms of ADHD may also mask their giftedness - so they end up stuck in classes that are too easy for them, and therefore boring, which makes the ADHD symptoms worse. Also, people who know they are intelligent but have untreated ADHD can be really prone to some of the other psychological comorbidities, especially as they become adults, because they know what to do and how to do it and that they SHOULD do it, and they WANT to do it, but they still can’t make themselves actually do it, so they start to beat themselves up, thinking “I’m too smart to constantly be this stupid, I must just be really lazy, maybe I really DON’T care, maybe I’m just a terrible person.” Ask me how I know.
Can also have less-common symptoms associated with it. I actually had my hearing tested before my diagnosis because I had so much trouble following conversations if there was background noise. My hearing is fine: my issue is auditory processing. My brain just can’t focus on conversations if too much else is going on. (This also applies to following dialogue on television if there is a lot of background noise/music. I use the captions a lot.
In some cases, extremely disabling. Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, a disability is “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity.” A sampling of major life activities that might be substantially limited by untreated ADHD includes:
Managing finances (largely through impulsive spending, frequent lost items that need replacing, forgetting to pay bills, forgetting to do routine maintenance and having issues like larger repairs needed)
Basic self-care (remembering to take meds, go to doctor appointments, eat and drink at appropriate times, go to bed at appropriate times)
Employment (difficulty being on time for work or work activities, difficulty meeting deadlines, propensity to make “careless errors”, difficulty with emotional regulation)
Interpersonal relationships (memory problems so you never remember important dates, time issues meaning you’re late meeting them, forgetting commitments, easily distracted during conversations, impulsivity leading to interruptions/saying or doing stuff you didn’t think through, difficulty responding appropriately to social cues (through distraction/impulsivity), difficulty with emotional regulation)
Maintaining a clean and sanitary home (forgets steps in household chores, distracted away from finishing them, loses key equipment, impulsive purchases clutter up the home, loses interest in projects and leaves them out half-done)
If untreated, linked to higher rates of all manner of negative outcomes when compared to similar neurotypical populations, including:
unemployment
divorce
substance abuse
injury or death in accidents, especially car accidents
arrest
None of this is because people with ADHD as a group are, like, bad or lazy or evil or irresponsible or don’t care. People with ADHD are just people, and exist on the same range of good, bad, and in-between that all people do. However, the parts of our brains that are meant to help us regulate our emotions, plan for the future, remember to do important things, and not act on every impulse that crosses our minds just don’t work properly. A lot of us might lean in to an airhead, spacy artistic type, class clown, or similar persona to mask our deep shame over not being able to “just” do all these basic things that other people seem to do with no trouble at all.
Additionally, even accessing ADHD treatment can be extremely challenging, because stimulant medications are controlled substances and there are so many false and damaging perceptions about the condition and medications out there. And even when you have a well-established diagnosis and are well controlled on a medication you’ve taken for years, you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment. I personally am a white professional with good health insurance and was able to get diagnosed and medication prescribed - which in itself is often really difficult - but even from that position of privilege I have experienced multiple gaps in my treatment for reasons like:
My pharmacy lost a prescription and had to get a new one. (My medication cannot be refilled; each month has to be a brand new prescription.)
My pharmacy was out of stock of my medication (I can’t transfer that prescription to a different pharmacy, and even if I had a paper prescription, you can’t call a pharmacy and be told the medication is in stock, you have to physically go there and ask.)
I forgot to make a doctor appointment in time (I have to have a doctor visit every three months to continue to get the prescription.)
I forgot to fill the prescription (since I, you know, HAVE ADHD, and you can’t set them up to auto-renew like you can other meds.)
My prescription is really expensive and there aren’t many savings options because it’s a controlled medication. (Even with savings I pay over $100 out of pocket for my ADHD meds every month. If the manufacturer isn’t offering a coupon that month it’s close to $300.)
Again, this is a LEGAL medication that I am LEGALLY prescribed by my supportive doctor with consultation from my supportive psychologist, for my actual disabling medical condition, and which all parties involved agree is extremely effective in helping me manage said condition. I’m in about the best situation you can be in short of being a millionaire who doesn’t have to worry about things like preapprovals or copays or taking sick time from work.
I’ve also heard from others who have had to change doctors due to moving, job or insurance changes, etc., only to get issues like:
medical practices that flatly refuse to prescribe any controlled medications at all.
medical practices that don’t deal with ADHD specifically at all.
doctors that “don’t believe in” medicating adults/women/people with good jobs/people with good grades/anyone for ADHD.
doctors that won’t accept existing diagnoses or treatment plans.
ADHD is a treatable and manageable condition, but it isn’t a joke, it isn’t “made up,” we aren’t “all a little ADHD these days anyway”. It’s a complex and wide-ranging condition that can impact nearly every part of your life in serious and possibly very damaging ways.
Hold on I need to schedule an appointment
OP you could’ve gone to my house and punched me in the face
Wait, sleep disorders, too?!
There’s a reason the joke goes “five out of 100 people have ADHD. One’s diagnosed, one’s getting by, one’s depressed, one’s an addict and one’s in jail”.
Seriously though, I quit binge drinking cold the week that I got properly medicated for ADHD. If you have substance use issues, gambling (including loot boxes etc), or other significant behavioural addictions, and you recognise the things described here as problems in your life, for the love of god please go get tested. Even just take a look at the Brown Adult ADD Self-Report Scale and see if it reads like a callout post.
Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.
“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”
“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”
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Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen…
This is not great, but it’s likely because people are fucking stupid and will screw around with it if it’s not locked up.
[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]
You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.
I think not.
But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with.
The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Disability rights are civil rights.
You want to know exactly how this went down? Let me tell you a tale.
I was visiting the museum with friends. They went on around the corner while I finished looking at the previous exhibit. I then followed them around the corner only to find I couldn’t get up to the exhibit because the museum AS PART OF THEIR POLICY had illegally locked the lift. My friends didn’t know the lift was locked (why would the lift be locked?) and had no idea that I couldn’t get to them.
Now I, the disabled person, am forced to travel halfway around the building to the front desk to find someone to unlock the lift for me, wait for them to finish what they’re doing, and then travel all the way back to the lift. This was bad enough in a wheelchair. Who else uses lifts? Oh yes. People who struggle to walk. Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit? You wouldn’t do it. You’d skip the exhibit. You’ve just been completely denied access.
So finally the museum employee unlocks the lift and then operates it (because yes, they’ve made it so I can’t operate it myself, which is also illegal). I finally get to the top probably ten minutes later, only to find that my friends have finished looking at the exhibit and are heading down again, wondering what has happened to me.
After I’ve gone to all the trouble to get up there, fuck it if I’m not going to look at the damn exhibit. So I look at it, then head back to the lift to go back down, only to find they’ve locked the lift with me at the top and gone back to the front desk.
If one of my friends hadn’t stayed up there with me, I’d probably still be up there. As it was, my friend had to go down the stairs, back around to the front, find an employee, and get them to come back and let me down. Leaving me sitting up there. Alone. For another five minutes.
Now imagine if I had gone to the the museum by myself. Or what if there had been an emergency? You think if there was a fire some museum employee who couldn’t be assed to leave the damn lift unlocked until I had come back down would really have run back into the building to unlock the lift so I could get down? I think not.
Locking an accessibility feature is never the right solution. It is denying access to an entire class of people. Which is ILLEGAL and a CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION.
Disability law is civil rights law.
“Add a spoonful of milk and voila! A latte ☕️🥛🍰✨”~
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Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting for a bit, I was busy with schoolwork and stuff. But anyway here’s a drawing of latte cookie! I did this drawing because my younger sister REALLY likes Latte Cookie and she wanted me to draw her so I did exactly that. This is also the first time I decided to draw an actual detailed background instead of just a plain color or gradient with a shadow 😱. Anyways I hope you all like it :D!
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.Time taken: a long time but I lost count
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
I spent an unnecessarily long time making this based off a silly pun I had in mind a few months ago. Hope you all like it!
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.Time taken: Way too long 💀
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
⬇️ here’s all the images together to make it look like a comic
Hello everyone! I’m in the process of making a mini comic for pride month and this drawing is a part of it. But since the other drawing I need to do for it hasn’t been completed yet, I decided to post this drawing individually for the meantime. I just drew a stereotypical gamer girl tbh and I liked how this drawing turned out. Hope you guys like it!
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.Time taken: a week
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
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‼️⚠️SPOILER WARNING FOR CHAPTER 90 OF SERAPH OF THE END!⚠️‼️
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Hello everyone! This is an extremely late Mika birthday (or death day) post and I want to apologize for posting it like a month later. This drawing I experimented a little and drew a background for once which was good and added subtitles from a quote from the chapter. I’m not sure how to feel with the final result since I think it looks like a mess but I kinda like it now.
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.Time taken: 6 hours
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
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Inspiration for drawing
one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic
✨🖌🎨2021 vs 2018! 🎨🖌✨
Hello everyone! I recently found an old drawing from 2018 back when I was starting out with Firealpaca and digital art in general. So I decided to redraw it after 3 years to see how much I improved in that span of time! It surprises me to see how I’ve improved and how much my style changed. I hope you guys like this!
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.Time taken: 4 hours
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
"I, Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung."
Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting in over a month. I was busy and forgot to draw things, but now I finally drew something! I decided to draw Fischl from Genshin Impact because she’s the character I use the most in that game and she’s my favorite character so why not draw her. I messed up on some anatomy but for the most part I think I did a good job! Hope you all like it! 💜
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.Time taken: A week
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
"I, Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung."
Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting in over a month. I was busy and forgot to draw things, but now I finally drew something! I decided to draw Fischl from Genshin Impact because she’s the character I use the most in that game and she’s my favorite character so why not draw her. I messed up on some anatomy but for the most part I think I did a good job! Hope you all like it! 💜
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.Time taken: A week
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
Feel free to leave any critiques!
Hello everyone! This is my attempt to draw Ibuki Mioda! I was bored and haven’t done digital art in a while and I decided to draw Ibuki for some reason. This took nearly a week and I messed up on a few things but I think it turned out nicely! Let me know what you guys think!
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.Time taken: a week
Program: Firealpaca
Tablet: Hunion Inspiroy Q11K V2
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Hello everybody! Recently I was gifted a paint set for my birthday and I decided to paint Krul Tepes! I haven’t painted in nearly 3 years so this was a bit challenging to do, but I managed! I think this came out nicely and I’m proud of myself. Let me know what you guys think 🧛🏻♀️💉🩸!
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.Time taken: About a week
Supplies: Meeden Paint and Brushes
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Hello everyone! Recently I had an assignment for my world history class to either write a paragraph about how children were during the Industrial Revolution, or to draw how a child looked at the time. And me being the artist I am decided to do the drawing part. This was a bit rushed and it looks like one of my Goretober drawings but I like the creepy atmosphere I made for this piece. Hope y’all like this!
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.Time taken: 3-4 hours
Supplies: Prismacolor pencils and micron inking pens
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Doodle Requests from my Instagram story Part 2!
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.Time taken: about a week
Supplies: Prismacolor pencils and micron inking pens
Doodle Requests from my Instagram story Part 1!
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- Hello everybody! I decided to post the first sheet of doodles requested. The first request was Mika but in thigh highs! The second request was Jason Todd! And the third request was AOC for some reason (it felt odd drawing a political figure even though I like AOC, and I most likely won’t draw one again).
This was interesting and fun to do! I’ll post the other sheets of requests over time so stay tuned! Hope everyone has a nice day!
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.Time taken: a week
Program: Firealpaca
Supplies: Prismacolor pencils and micron inking pens
