By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You do not have to be stuck forever.
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You do not have to be stuck forever.
I'm a 42 year old, sapiosapphic, transgender author who has currently self-published (2) superhero fantasy novels
My life so far has been an adventure of epic proportions. I swear if I wrote it all down it would barely be believable
That's been amazing for me though because it gives me lots of perspective. I said before that this blog is me "sitting in the car with you, piping up with whatever I may happen to be thinking about"
And that's still the case
Thanks to the chaos of my life, I know what it's like to be so poor I can't eat, and rich enough not to look at price tags even at expensive places. I have helped send rockets to the space station. I've done work for presidential advisors. I've given people advice that has changed their life and faced down a CEO in front of his own company and won.
My novels are about leadership. They're about found family. They're about having fun and finding a balance between work and pleasure. They're about a girl who just wants to have fun in life but also wants to help where she can. It's about what you do when you've been in leadership for a long time and what you do when leadership gets thrown at you for the first time ever. It's about a silly cute gay fast talking immortal girl and her attempts to live normally when the world says she's anything but normal
You may know me from my new years post where I said 1700 was 30 years ago (I mean I can't be that far off????)
You may know me from Juneteenth
You may know me from meeting the Norwegian prime minister or from a PM Seymour video or from that post where I said that jobs are too hard to get these days without an advanced degree AND experience
Whatever way you've heard of me, I hope you like my posts and I hope you'll consider reading my books and interacting with my universe
Here's the links to do so:
My first book, The Master's Quest: Meet Annabella
The Master's Quest: The Seventh Cycle: Meet Annabella [Randle Jr., Michael A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Mast
My second book: The Master's Quest: The Dancing City
you used to be able to play games on cartoonnetwork.com . . . now every company's website wants to give you spyware and spread corporate propaganda but I REMEMBER when you could play a BEN 10 adventure game in-browser without so much as giving away your e-mail. people's heads should be on pikes for this
Deradicalization isn't just for people who got into MAGA BS.
It's for your leftist buddy who got in with a leftist group that promotes eugenics.
It's for your feminist friend who was lured into radical feminism with "divine feminine" rhetoric.
It's for you when you fall into something that you thought you were too smart for, because it never crossed your mind that fascism could be repackaged in a way that would appeal to you.
One a lot of leftists need to deradicalise from: wanting a bloody revolution and creating a commune where everything is perfect.
The rapture isn't going to happen, and if it did, it'd kill so many people, including disabled people, which these ideas often act like will magically be cured during The Revolution instead of being killed or left to die.
also if you can't even cope with the interpersonal friction of *being on tumblr* you're really not ready to deal with the kind of rage you will experience cooped up in a filthy cold falling-apart flophouse amply stocked with high-minded anarcho-communists whose reverence for labor doesn't actually encompass doing the fucking dishes.
my fave is when kirk makes a reference to spock’s humanity or human-like traits and spock’s like y u insult me dis way ur supposed to be my commanding officer pls cease and desist with ur hateful words
1. Never tell anyone what you're planning to do until you do it (you will get a premature dopamine hit and sense of accomplishment from telling them and lose motivation to actually do it)
The school year is starting soon, so let's learn some stuff, I will be running a reading bingo of nonfiction books
One book per slot and this runs from August of 2025 through to May of 2026, books read during Summer 2025 (June and July) will qualify as well. You can review the books you read or not, and you can @ me with updates if you want to share with more people
Note: I have stolen this idea from @batmanisagatewaydrug but made it nonfiction.
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