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@neurodivergent-studyblr
hi!! i'm back after spending a long time focusing on my other blogs!
my url was nd-studying-writing-chaos, but i changed it to neurodivergent-studyblr.
i'm reworking a lot of the appearance of the blog, but i'm still a studyblr focused on neurodivergent students, hence the url!
a lot's been happening in my life lately, and i'm excited to see where things are going! hope you're all doing great, see you around!
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Guys I'm sorry but I need to rant for a moment, okay? And then I get to ask y'all for advice (TLDR at bottom) Okay cool. Um. Once more unto the break.
I am currently sitting in my school library trying to fucking study and I am so incredibly stressed because my finals are soon and I CANT GET MY BRAIN TO STUDY!!
And like I'm in the IB program right now (I've dropped it starting next semester cuz it was fucking with me for reasons) and I was a "gifted kid" all through elementary school, right, which is definitely fucking with me even more.
In elementary and in grades leading in to this year I was good at math. Like I was good at it. And now I'm fuckibg dying and have no idea what is going on and I am going to cry because suddenly I'm not good at this thing that I used to be amazing at. And it sucks. So hard.
And like I said, my brain won't allow me to study!! I put on background noise that feels nice on my brain (aka TARDIS humming) and I put my phone at the bottom of my bag and I sit down with Practice questions and gum to chew and I do fine and then. And then I hit a question that I can't figure out on the first try. And my brain fucking goes. WELP OBVIOUSLY WE'LL JUST FAIL NOW NO POINT IN STUDYING AT ALL. and suddenly I'm distracted by the frickin books on the bookshelf next to me or the conversation happening in the next aisle or the way I'm sitting. And then I go fuck it and reach for my phone, and can't get myself to put it down again.
And like, at this point I'm sure I'm neurodivergent of some kind, maybe ADHD? and I thought of it and it's been peer reviewed (my entire friend group is neurodivergent) and like. I think now that I've acknowledged this part of me it's maybe come to the surface a bit more. And combine that with my issues with asking for help, and my bad self esteem, and my gifted kid status and fear of being wrong and fucking up and everything. This is just fucking with me. Like so much. Like an astornonomical amount.
[TLDR; I think I have ADHD and my brain hates me a lot, and I need to study but can't]
So. I come to you, fellow neurodivergents of tumblr, for a final resort in figuring this shit out.
Seriously, do y'all have advice for actually managing to study? Because I am desperate. Please.
Five Quick Tips For Better Notes
Preview the reading. Spend 1-2 minutes and skim through the material. Look at headings to see what the major concepts will be. Use these to help check your understanding by turning the heading into a question.
Jot down facts that are new to you. (terms, dates, names, etc.). By making a short note of these you are actually building yourself a custom study tool to work on memorization for the exam. If you don’t make note of them, how will you ever know what you need to memorize?
Look for cues in the text. Words like “3 steps to…”, bold words, or italicized words can indicate important information.
Make note of questions you have about concepts. Just make a note, flag it as a question, and keep moving. This keeps you from getting stuck on one thing for too long, but you also won’t forget it was fuzzy. You’ll be able to come back later and decide if it does make sense after reviewing more of the resource or if you need to dig back into the area.
Build your notes in question/answer form. Use the objectives and/or headings to give you some starting questions and work to answer them in your own words. These also convert really well on quizlet.com for easy review.
Try It Yourself: 30-Minute Challenge
Grab your textbook, notebook, and a pen.
Do a quick 2-minute preview to get an idea of what is covered in the upcoming chapter.
Using the other tips above, take notes on the chapter.
Review your notes. Are they short? Will they help you to study for the exam a couple of weeks down the road?
I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
Alison
Coursera
FutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor
IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)
TED
FORA
Big Think
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)
wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS
OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library
LEARN:
1. LANGUAGES
Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCulture’s Language links
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING
Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Bucky’s room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy
3. YOGA & MEDITATION
Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center
4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING
Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online
5. DRAWING & PAINTING
Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas
6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY
Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now
7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS
Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
Coping 101 - a masterpost of down to earth resources
This post doesn’t contain links to many professional resources - it’s a list of coping tips from people who are mentally ill/disabled themselves and who all decided to share what has worked for them here on tumblr. In the last 7 months I have been sharing content created for and by mentally ill/disabled people on this blog - and to celebrate reaching 5000 followers, I have decided to collect all the best coping tips I’ve come across in one easily accessible place. Enjoy!
Managing emotions:
Letting go of emotional suffering via mindfulness.
DBT strengthening statements
Handling negative emotions
The “emotions are signals” method
The “mindfully recognizing emotions” method
Healthy perspectives on emotions
The “emotions are like hiccups” method
The “healthy outlets” method
Managing anxiety:
Coping statements for anxiety.
Breathing exercise gif
Breathing exercise gif 2
Things to remember when having an anxiety attack
The “just show up” method
The “panicky friend” method
Grounding techniques
The “I can survive the next 10 seconds” method
The “distract your brain” method
The “you will be able to cope” method
Managing depression:
7 depression tips and why they work
Depression tips
21 tips to keeping your shit together when you’re depressed
Managing executive dysfunction:
The “might as well” method.
The “one step access” method.
Why self-discipline isn’t always the answer.
The “use whatever works” method.
The “taking care of someone else” method.
The “june-bugging” method.
Tricks for pushing through executive dysfunction
The “do several things at once” method
The “accept your limits” methods
The “turn it into a game” method
The “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method
The “tricking your brain” method
The “untangling the spaghetti” method.
The “smaller steps” method
The “emergency cleaning” method
The “letting go of should” method.
The “my body is an animal I need to care about” method
The “fork theory” method
The “remove the barriers” method
The “half-ass things” method
Managing negative thinking:
Challenging cognitive distortions.
Finding alternative thoughts.
Challenging negative thoughts
How to get over past mistakes
Toxic positivity vs hope and validation
How to improve your self-esteem
Negative and positive cognitions
The “self neutrality” method
The “separate your negative qualities from your identity” method
Self talk to help end obsessions
Ten forms of twisted thinking + ten ways to untwist your thinking
Managing self care:
How to practice balanced self care.
Why hands-on hobbies are important
Ways to self-soothe
A list of mental illness workbooks
Ways to start feeling again
How to get back on track after a breakdown
How to self-soothe and treat yourself
Types of healthy coping skills
The “parenting yourself” method
An interactive self care guide
The “don’t ignore your needs” method
Online self care
Making the most of therapy
Free worksheets for people who can’t access therapy
The “add good things to your life” method
Showering for spoonies
The “do what you can” method
The “it isn’t a waste of time just because it won’t cure you” method.
Self care cheat sheet
The “create something” method
Managing school:
Studying with anxiety and depression
Studying with mental illness
Coping with dissociation in school
Managing exam periods when you’re mentally ill
The “done is better than none” method
How to survive college
Managing urges to harm yourself:
What to do to when you’re suicidal
Questions to ask before giving up
Alternatives to self harm
Coping with suicidal thoughts
We are all aware that libraries across the United States are under attack. Here are some ways you can help.
We are all aware that libraries across the United States are under attack. Thanks to groups like Moms for Liberty and other outspoken “concerned citizens,” there has been actual legislative action at multiple levels of government to limit what libraries can do and provide to their communities. Even in the places where there hasn’t been that kind of action, those same concerned citizens have mounted acts of intimidation to instill fear and block access...In light of this, I’ve heard many iterations of the same question: how can we help? What do libraries and library staff need right now?
How to Support Your
Library in the Wake of
Rising Fascism
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
bad news, professor, the sixty dollar book of short stories and poems that you "edited" for our english 101 class is out of stock from the school bookstore, the included texts are all available online, and I have constructed a google doc to share with the class.
Kids, if you are in an English 101 class and you have a textbook that costs more than twenty bucks you should check your syllabus and see if the assigned readings are available online.
English 101 professors fucking love stories that were originally published in the New Yorker or poems that are 100 years old.
Are you taking an English 101 class during the fall semester? I give it an 80% probability of including an Edgar Allan Poe short story and you DO NOT PAY for Edgar Allan Poe short stories you go to Gutenberg.org and you read for free. (my class is doing the cask of amontillado and i look forward to memeing with you in october.)
Anyway if you're in an English or Composition class and your professor has assigned the third edition of the Little Seagull handbook this site definitely does not include the entire text at the bottom of the page and you definitely should not save it from there. (i would not recommend trying to download the PDF, tho. Just copy the text.)
Also please, please, please check your college/university’s library! They have the budget you don’t, and mostly do their very best to buy all required textbooks, often including coursepacks. Often you can check out the books for a limited period of time (say a couple hours or a few days) if it’s a required text, OR they may have them electronically for you to download/access. (or both!)
VERY MUCH THIS.
If your campus library is currently open and allowing people to check out books, there is a VERY good chance that your required textbook will be available for on-campus loans of a few hours.
What you do is this:
Wait until you have your syllabus
Go to the library and check out the required text and use a private study room
Use the high resolution camera in your pocket (because almost all of us are carrying one these days) to take pictures of every page of the assigned readings.
Organize the photos into files titled with the name of the class and the due date for each reading
Say "fuck you" to the $300, 1200 page Literary Theory book that you just photographed 87 pages of and live your best academic life carefree.
Also, my dear young friends who are starting college for the first time, I would like to introduce you to the Perdue University Online Writing Lab and its Citation Style Guide.
This is a free online resource that will tell you what the most up-to-date citation style is for MLA, APA, AMA, Chicago Style, and more.
Don't fail your bibliographies, friends.
I was a lit major and even just getting the paperbacks for a bunch of my classes was sometimes prohibitively expensive so I used to:
A) Read a LOT of Dickens on Gutenberg on the tiny screen of my sidekick
and
B) Copy full texts off of gutenberg and print them eight pages to a sheet (four on each side) on printer paper and staple them together.
Here's a fun thing! You can also get a book on kindle, disconnect your kindle from the internet, read the book, and return the book for a full refund. This works best if it's something you can read in a short time and you don't need the device for anything else while you're reading that book.
Also Archive.Org has a library. You can search your textbooks and you can borrow them, usually for an hour at a time but you can request a loan for fourteen days.
Sometimes they've only got older editions of textbooks but in a lot of classes that's not going to matter.
So check out your textbooks and screencap relentlessly.
And if you are, like, morally opposed to piracy or something please keep in mind that photocopying/photographing/screenshotting pages of books in a library is perfectly legal.
Copying the assigned sections of a library book isn't piracy that is literally what libraries are there for, to give people access to books.
use, and i cannot stress this enough, thriftbooks
if thriftbooks doesn’t have what you’re looking for, especially if you’re looking for it used/cheap, alternatives include betterworldbooks and discoverbooks.
Other tips for cheaper books is checking amazon and scrolling down to the “buy used” or “other sellers” section and then checking to see if those sellers have storerfonts off of amazon.
There is also a good chance that you might have a local, indie book store that likely also has a used book section! Indiebound might help you find those book stores!
Also, check out your local library, sometimes, they have a for sale section or might have certain times of the year where they do massive used book (dvd, cd, etc) sales to fundraise!
(It’s also worth checking directly from an author’s or publisher’s page and seeing if they have other places they sell their books. I know this is about cheaper/used books, since some of y’all aren’t built for piracy or the library, but also if you want to dodge supporting amazon AND want to more directly support artists you support, there’s a good chance they might have alternate ways to buy the books!)
alibris.com - my go-to for textbooks and rare books for over 20 years; my Celtic design books and my "new" chemistry textbook came through alibris. The textbook was $360 new through the campus bookstore, and their cheapest price was renting the digital version for $80; alibris had it for $54, which was cheaper than Amazon.
so for those of you who don't know, I was recently diagnosed with ADHD-I. So far, I think my favourite thing that I've learned is the idea of "embrace the pivot".
Have you ever found a productivity system that works for you (whether it be your Google calendar, bullet journaling, agenda-ing, etc), and you're so pumped because it's like finally! Now I can actually get some stuff done! But then time passes, days or weeks or years, and the novelty of it runs out, and then it kind of just... Stops working. It can be so frustrating, because this thing that used to work no longer works for seemingly no reason.
But, that isn't a failing of the thing, that thing worked for a certain amount of time, and that's good! I used a massive agenda in my first year of uni, and it kept me on track for all my assignments. My second year agenda? Barely touched it. Instead, I started to use a bullet journal, and that was the thing that helped me through most of the year. But as time went on, my spreads got less creative, and in the final term, I didn't even want to touch it because it was too much work. So I switched to Notion.
The agenda didn't fail me, and neither did the bullet journal, it just worked for a certain amount of time. And when that time inevitably runs out, you can just say, "thank you for serving me for so long, I'm going to pivot to the next thing." And then you do it without feeling like you should try harder or like that thing failed you.
This doesn't just have to apply to productivity either. Systems, tools, habits, hobbies, coping mechanisms.. They all serve their purpose. It's okay to let them go when the time comes.
Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains
Obviously there’s a lot of overlap between the three, despite their differences, which is why this is all one post. In fact, some of the articles have one of those words in their title but the content of the article belongs in one of the other categories.
I think the links about the antagonist’s journey are some of the most interesting on this list.
Antiheroes
Heroes and Anti-Heroes - What’s the difference? Anti-heroes in Science Fiction Movies 5 Types of Anti-Heroes You Need More Scoundrels in Your Life: How to Write a Han Solo Hero in Six Easy Steps! Han Versus Luke – Who’s the Better Hero? Defining and Developing Your Anti-Hero, excerpt from Bullies, Bastards & Bitches by Jessica Page Morrell 4 Ways to Make Your Antihero Deliciously Irresistible
Antagonists
When Being Bad is Good: Creating a Great Antagonist Being Evil: Plotting From the Antagonist’s Perspective 10 Traits of a Strong Antagonist 12 Tips On How To Write Antagonists Your Readers Will Love To Hate Types of antagonist Seven Types of Antagonists Ten Tips for a Terrific Antagonist 10 Essential Tips for Writing Antagonists How To Write The Bad Guy Likable Villains 3 Traits Your Hero and Villain Should Share Guide to Writing a Villain A Guide to Villainous Motivations
Villains
Guide to Writing a Villain Creating an Interesting Bad Guy The Sympathetic Villain WriteWorld: Villains Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero’s Journey - despite the title, this article is about villains, not antiheroes as the term is usually understood Killer Personalities The Antagonist’s Epiphany How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction How to Avoid Creating a Weak Villain 5 Characteristics of an Epic Villain Writing a Great Villain 14 Motives for Becoming a Supervillain Writing Villains Vs. Writing Heroes Villains Are People Too, But… A Short Defence of Villains by Agnes Repplier Villains: because a good bad guy is the author’s best friend. The Other in Fiction: Creating Wonderfully Wicked Villains Three-Dimensional Villains: Finding Your Character’s Shadow 10 Traits of Highly-Effective Villains Writing Tips #79:How To Write Better Villains Villains by Vicki Hinze The Sixteen Villain Archetypes
The Antagonist’s Journey
Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero’s Journey The Villain’s Journey Does the Villain’s Journey Mirror the Hero’s Journey? Forget the Hero’s Journey. Women want an Antagonist’s Tale Return to the Antagonist’s Tale
zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell
library genesis is still up (very similar site) and r/freemediaheckyeah and r/piracy have lots of other alternatives. zlib was the GOAT though. fuck tiktok
(originally commented. putting as a reblog as its important)
for anyone that wants to know about other sites, I also didn't know so this is a big help!!! thank you!
some sites i use to read online: - https://libgen.li/ - https://www.pdfdrive.com/ - https://libretexts.org/ - https://openlibrary.org/ - https://novel80.com/ - https://www.allfreenovel.com/ - https://bookreadfree.com/ - https://allbookshub.com/ - http://thefreeonlinenovel.com/ - https://www.epub.pub/ - https://www.readingsanctuary.com/ - https://yes-pdf.com/ - https://www.booksfree.org/ if none of the links work if you just search up "(book title) read online free" there's almost always gonna be a pdf link and those are always good to read from too
For all you dislexics, or if you want to read but need to mop and iron, try this one:
- https://www.audiobookbay.fi/
They seem to have nearly everything.
This site flummoxed me at first, but there's a trick to it. You have to make an account (use a burner email if you want) then use the free torrent download links.
Beware!
Avoid sci-hub too👀
From Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access
If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.
PSA
vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained
go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand
binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)
find free books on project gutenberg
download some western classics for free
borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox
start a commonplace book
take a khan academy course
browse MIT’s free online course materials
teach yourself to code
go on a google scholar essay dive
try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing
research the history of the place you where you live
tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language
search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points
print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes
improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises
learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones
start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week
clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital
check out online museums
fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed
hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x
how to google better: writer's edition
Welcome back! Today I will be sharing some tips to use Google to its full potential. I find that a lot of people don't know how to use these, but once you get used to them it makes research quicker and easier. These are technically universal, so you can use it for any type of research you need! :)
@thewritersuniverse on instagram 💖
quotation marks
ex) highest to lowest "military heirarchy"
Putting quotation marks around words you want to search guarantee that the search results will include the exact word(s) in the quotation marks. In the example, the search results will always include BOTH "military" and "heirarchy", not just one or the other.
tilde
ex) myths with ~dragons
Tildes are used when you want synonyms of the word to appear in your search results. In the example above, you will get search results for myths involving dragons and other similar creatures that may be considered synonymous to it.
two periods between numbers
ex) chinese royal family 1350..1600
Two periods are used to search a range between the two numbers connected by it. In this example, you're searching for Chinese royalty between the years 1350 and 1600.
dash
ex) sherlock holmes -movie
The dash is used when you want to exclude a specific word from your search. In this example, you want to look up Sherlock Holmes, but exclude all search results for the film.
vertical bar
ex) agents | publishers
You can use the vertical bar to signify an OR in your search. In the example, you'd be getting results for agents OR publishers.
site:
ex) what happens when stabbed site:quora.com
The "site:" feature will give you results specifically from the site you put after it. In this case, you will receive search results from quora.com for your question only.
location:
ex) asian market location:losangeles
Putting a location next to "location:" will give you search results limited to that location (lmao). Here, you will find asian markets in Los Angeles.
filetype:
ex) nsa ufo report filetype:pdf
The "filetype:" feature will give you results only in the mentioned format. In this example, you'd be looking for UFO reports from the NSA in pdf format.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people learned this in computer class or something when they were 13, but there's no harm in refreshing our memory! I hope this helped turn your research more efficient :)
Random question but does anyone know of a good log or journal app? Something simple that you can navigate through a calendar?
I need to make a daily journal but my adhd makes it hard to keep up and most apps are too much like real journals to be any helpful to me. I’ll look on my own but hoping someone has something they can recommend! Thank you🫶
