The Rest Is Confetti

"If I cannot move Heaven, then I will raise Hell."

[unclefather]

[astronautpirate]

So are you full on adulting? Being a teacher so where?

I am! I’m so sorry I haven’t been on to see these asks!

[astronautpirate]

Have you found a teaching job yet?

I have! I love it, and my kiddos, and my coteacher! I’m so sorry I have no clue how old this ask is!

[technoskittles]

I keep forgetting that NT people don’t do math the same way people with ADHD do it until I try to explain my thought process and get weird looks from people who are like “how the FUCK did you do that?”

whoops

[technoskittles]

and for those of you who DON’T know what I’m talking about I’ll give you an example

42 + 29 = 71

for neurotypical people, they use the method we were all taught in grade school where you add 9 + 2 to get 11 and then move the extra one over to make 4 + 2 + 1 which equals 7 to give you 71

but the way I do it (as many other people with ADHD as I’ve come to find out) is this:

okay so you have 42 + 29. if you take 1 away from 42 and give it to 29 to make it an even 30, you now have 41 + 30 which is an easy 71

or, another problem: 53 + 88

round that 88 up to 90 and take the two from 53 so you have 51 + 90. but wait I can make this easier. take 10 more from 51 to make 90, 100 and now you have 41 + 100 which equals 141

it’s just…so much faster? and makes so much more sense to me

[technoskittles]

also? the math teachers that always took off points for kids not showing their work?

fucking HATED that. as someone who could get from point A to point D in my head in a split second, I felt like showing my work was often a waste of time when sometimes it felt like I just automatically knew the answer

or, if I did put down my work, I went through a process that wasn’t taught and would get points reduced anyway because it wasn’t the way we were taught just because my brain worked differently than the rest of the class. my answer was always right. they just didn’t like how I got it

never did like that much 

[technoskittles]

also, this is another way of doing it that I just saw on facebook that I’ve also done before

because I do things to that extent too

so if you give me something like 37 + 45 I’ll go “well 30 + 40 is 70 and 7 + 5 is 12 so 70 + 12 is 82″

there’s just…so many ways to do math that make more sense than the way I was taught

[technoskittles]

this post got a lot more popular than I was expecting wow

I’ve seen some people reblogging this saying they don’t have adhd but have autism and yes! People with autism do this too! I’ve learned that a lot of people with adhd and/or autism do things that overlap and this is one of them!

[technoskittles]

i’m sorry but these are the only valid tags on this post

[jasonmantzoukas]

Fine… 2024.

[astronautpirate]

So glad you’re still here!!!!

Thank you!

[astronautpirate]

Are you back?! :)

I wouldn’t say I’m back, but I’ve decided not to delete so that’s something.

[astronautpirate]

I know it’s been a while since I posted here,

but I’ve had this blog since the 7th grade and it’s been here through most of middle school, all of high school, and college. I graduate college on Friday with my teaching degree. I know I’m just talking into the void here, but I wanted to let someone know anyway.

[officialunitedstates]

the scariest thing about the future is not knowin how many more frog species we’ll find in the amazon. there’s gotta be a cap. there’s gotta be a limit

[dpcphotography]

Lake District Cottages

[astronautpirate]

I think I’ve officially decided to delete this blog. I haven’t used it in several months and rather than feeling like I “need” it, I’ve felt the complete opposite.

[astronautpirate]

Where have you gone gorgeous?!

This site has gotten so bad for me and was becoming toxic. I had to leave for a while

[astronautpirate]

What happened to your friend?

Since I got this ask more than once, I will answer it in the simplest way possible in order to maintain her and her family’s privacy. She passed away in a car accident.

[astronautpirate]

[astronautpirate]

Please reblog this. This is tara and her birthday is tomorrow. She just wanted a selfie to get popular

[astronautpirate]

I can’t express how I feel after hearing the news today. This girl has been a light in my life for a long time and I don’t know what to do now that that light is gone. Tara, I just want to thank you for getting excited about clubpenguin with me in 4th grade and being my best friend. Through all of it, you were there. I remember being so so so extremely nervous graduation night and you were there telling me that I was being dramatic (I was, thank you for pointing it out) and that I was going to rock it all. I’m going to miss you more than you could ever imagine. Who else is going to randomly text or call to tell me I’m dumb?

[astronautpirate]

Are you straight? Lesbian? Bi? Other?

Bi

[astronautpirate]

Did it get a ton of notes?

It got a few, nothing major.

[astronautpirate]

Damn. Please try posting it again. Was it bare breasts?

I took it down. A long time ago.