brain juice

pfp from _kingsana_ on instagram place for my weird fucked up relationship with my brain! studyblr x adhd enemies to lovers and also they are still enemies

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

[kurai-hono-blog]

This is the sacred texts, this is the holy grail.

[cricketcat9]

This a GOOD STUFF, people. Read and try, it may work for you 🤞

[geminiartemis]

I guess I’m the only one who feels overwhelmed by this enormous list. Cool, cool.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Hey there, me collecting a bunch of resources that has helped a bunch of people but isn’t helpful to you personally (valid), is actually not a personal attack on you and you could easily just have scrolled past it and moved on with your day instead of getting guilt trippy in the tags. Just a tip for future reference!

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

[mindflamer]

there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

[warm-mangoes-with-chai]

[findlight]

Josiah Wood Whymper, The White Bear, wood engraving, printed 1843.

[communistkenobi-archive]

the feeling of learning is legitimately so cool. there’s a little whoa sound effect that plays in your brain whenever you read a sentence that expands reality for you a tiny bit

[communistkenobi-archive]

the feeling of learning is legitimately so cool. there’s a little whoa sound effect that plays in your brain whenever you read a sentence that expands reality for you a tiny bit

[tomb-mold]

i finished it a while ago and only just got around to taking some pics but here is my finished crochet caterpillar in all her glory. gaze upon it

[ohkrebs]

The amount of work I have to do in the next few months for my A levels is honestly a bit terrifying to think about

[math-is-beautiful]

A list of mathematically related blogs

I know it can be difficult to find (tumblr) math blogs, so I thought I’d try to compile a list of them.  If you know of a math blog that’s not on this list, tell me about it and I’ll add it.  This list will be updated as more blogs come to my attention.

Blogs that are exclusively or near exclusively math related:

abettermathclass:  This blog shows that math can be fun, particularly in the context of teaching.

appliedmathemagics:  This blog focuses mostly on math humor and other nerdy jokes.

benmath:  This blog focuses on shapes, patterns, fractals, and combinatorics.

curiosamathematica:  This bog has various things related to mathematics, including jokes, fractals, and visual representations.

dailymath:  This blog posts math problems (high school level) every weekday.

dailypi:  This blog updated daily with a digit of pi.  It has not actually updated since January, but you may still be interested in checking it out.

do-math:  This blog has various things related to math, with an emphasis on visuals.

fibonaccirabbits:  This blog contains lots of things related to mathematics, particularly math jokes.  It is in German.

imathematicus:  This blog posts just about anything related to mathematics.

ipiphi:  This blog posts various things related to mathematics, with a focus on visuals and gifs.

mathematica:  This blog has just about everything related to mathematics.  Includes applications, fields of math, and various other things.

mathforlovers:  This blog has a variety of things related to mathematics.

math-is-beautiful:  This blog contains any and all things related to mathematics.

mathmajorproblems:  This blog contains a lot of math jokes and math humor.  It also notes the problems of being a math major or loving math.

mathmajorprobs:  This bog talks about the common problems faced by a math major.

mathwork:  This blog focuses on calculus.  It answers questions, but also posts other material.

minutemath:  This blog has a variety of things related to mathematics, especially visual things.  It also collects stories of why people love math, where more information can be found here.

mmeblair:  This blog covers various topics related to mathematics and attempts to connect people interested in mathematics.

numberrr:  This blog contains mostly math humor, mathematically inspired art, and math textbooks.

polyaenumeration:  This blog introduces mathematical topics.

proofsareart:  This blog features proofs on a variety of mathematical topics.  It focuses on the beauty and elegance of particular proofs.

secxtanx: This blog has a lot of things related to math, including humor.

teachmetheory:  This blog discusses game theory and code theory.  It was part of a final project and no longer updates.

thatmathblog:  This blog talks about a lot of things related to mathematics.  It has lately focused on weird examples and counter-examples, which can be found here.

theapproximatepresent:  This blog posts various things related to mathematics.

themathkid:  This blog focuses on pure mathematics.

truebeautyofmath:  This blog contains links to a site devoted to demonstrating the beauty of mathematics.

try-and-touch-my-asymptote:  This blog contains a lot of miscellaneous mathematical things.

visualizingmath:  This blog focuses on mathematical design and other visual areas of math.

weapons-of-maths-instruction:  This blog shows appreciation for many aspects of mathematics.

whatilearninmath: This blog covers a variety of topics, including abstract algebra, combinatorics, analysis, linear algebra, and topology.  A table of contents can be found here.

wolframalpha:  This blog is the official tumblr of WolframAlpha and contains information about WolframAlpha.

Blogs with a strong focus on math and science:

1ucasvb:  This blog posts things related to math and physics, particularly functions, with animations to demonstrate concepts.

backwardinduction:  This blog focuses more on science, particularly physics, but also contains a lot of math stuff.

isomorphismes:  This blog covers various topics related to math and science, in addition to some miscellaneous stuff.

mathmajik:  This blog focuses mostly on math, particularly mathematical design, but also branches out into the sciences.

matthen:  This blog contains a lot of math, science, and their intersection.

Blogs with a lot of math, but also personal or miscellaneous stuff:

2radical3:  This blog contains a lot of math, science, and art.  It focuses on math primarily as an art.

infiniteascent:  This blog has a lot of personal stuff, but also covers a variety of mathematical topics and does problems.

insane-mathematician:  This blog has a lot random mathematical things, including math problems, and a fair amount of personal stuff, particularly fandom related.

isolatedvertex:  This blog contains a wide variety of things.  Exclusively math related things can be found here.

math-a-magic:  This blog contains a lot of math, including problems and proofs, but also contains personal things.

mathematics-is-beauty:  This blog has graphs, equations, and theories.

nemosland:  This blog varies between math and TV shows with some other things thrown in.

vendittelli:  This blog contains lots of math, especially solutions to problems, and general geekery.

Blogs focused on quotes:

mathprofessorquotes:  This blog documents the strange and amusing things math professors say.

mymajesticmathprofessor:  This blog shows the behavior of math professors.

Blogs focused on design or mathematically inspired art:

advanced-geometry:  This blog focuses on geometrically inspired art and found geometrical patterns.

arithmetical-design:  This blog features all sorts of mathematical art.

benny-cheung:  This blog has beautiful modular and geometrical origami.

chaotic-renan:  This blog contains mostly fractals.

coolmathart:  This blog contains all sorts of art related to mathematics.

geometrydaily:  This blog updates daily with a minimalistic geometric composition.

geometric-aesthetic:  This blog has lots of geometric designs and geometric art.

intothecontinuum:  This blog has patterns and geometric designs, along with the code used to generate them.  Possibly avoid if you have photosensitive epilepsy.

mathrecpics:  This blog has mathematical and geometric designs.

neutrinoprism:  This blog creates fractals and designs based on certain algorithms.  The process is described here and here.

nonitram:  This blog has a wide variety of mathematical and geometric designs.

Other:

other-topics-in-self-sophistry:  This blog has math, science, art, philosophy, and other things.

Again, if you see a blog that isn’t on here, let me know and I’ll add it.  If you think a blog is in the wrong category, talk to me about it.  I’ll be the first to admit the categories are rather arbitrary.  If your blog is listed here and you don’t want it to be, tell me and I’ll remove it.

[fruitsoftheweb]

“I was working late one night when my wife said “you can’t simulate this!” and cracked open a banana in her usual way. Challenge accepted.“

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

Thwarting Executive Dysfunction

You’re sitting on the couch thinking about a task you need to perform, but your brain just won’t let you do it.

Me: “I need a shower.”

Brain: “No, that sounds entirely uninteresting. Let’s just keep sitting here instead.”

If you keep thinking about the task you need to do, but your brain won’t let you get on with it, the best thing to do is redirect. Pick a different task, an easier task, a more interesting task.

Me: “Ok, no shower. Let’s drink some water/brush our teeth/wash the dishes/start some laundry instead.”

Brain: “That does sound better than getting in the shower. Okay, let’s do it.”

Once you have some momentum going, it’s much easier to keep going. When you hit a stopping point in your chosen task, reevaluate the original thing you were stuck on.

Me: “Dishes are done. While we’re up and moving, let’s get a quick shower!”

Brain: “Uuugh, fine, I guess.”

Another option is to break down the task into smaller bits.

Brain: “No shower.”

Me: “Okay, let’s just go get undressed.”

Brain: “We can do that.”

Me: “Now let’s turn on the shower.”

Brain: “That’s fine.”

Me: “Now let’s get in the shower.”

Brain: “We are already undressed and the shower’s running. We might as well.”

These have been really helpful coping techniques for me. I hope someone else can use them too.

[notabled-noodle]

normal vs disordered masterlist

alexithymia

anxiety

auditory processing

depersonalisation

derealisation

dissociation

executive dysfunction

fatigue

impulsivity

intrusive thoughts

maladaptive daydreaming

memory

obsessive organisation

overthinking

pain

paranoia

perfectionism

rejection sensitivity

sensory issues

[jadechronicilly]

When will people realise that Chronically ill people cannot predict how they will feel in the next few minutes, hours, days or months. I could wake up feeling fine and then feel like I’ve been hit by a truck within the hour. There are no warning signs.

[anerdyfeminist]

Someone told me about the cognitive bias form called “curse of knowledge” the other day and I’m obsessed w/ thinking about it.

The basic premise is that it is “when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand.” Or in other words, once you learn something, you can’t at all remember what it was like to not have that knowledge or context anymore. It creates gulfs between people who have different knowledge bases who are communicating.

This has come up for me in life SO MUCH around topics of abuse, boundaries, consent, and relationship dynamics. (All types of relationships, not just romantic.) I’ve read about and studied and dissected these things to death so it’s second nature for me to talk about it. Then, I will think that a friend and I have the same values of what’s abusive or acceptable.......but then later I learn that what they meant is totallyyyyy different than me.

Or when I bump into people who truly think that thin = healthy or who don’t understand what being trans is at even the most basic level. I’m like “Jesus this asshole is hopeless” and I no longer remember what it was like back when I very FIRST learned these concepts.

It’s one thing if someone is willfully ignorant or a proud bigot. But if someone is TRULY learning something new, they need the super super basics patiently available to them so they can get the knowledge you have...and then THAT could become a bridge between you.

This “curse” feels important for me to just bear in mind before I write people off. And to just not assume that someone else and I are talking about the same thing. Maybe it’s a case where they have knowledge I don’t.

[phinarei]

Oh shit. I've tried explaining this to people so many times. I genuinely forget that other people don't know the things I know.

One time I was having a lazy argument about evolution with a Jehova's Witness. I just threw out my basic talking points, basically assuming that I was dealing with an educated but stubborn person. Turns out, she had NO IDEA what the actual details of evolution are. She had zero understanding of mutations or even how chromosomes work. Once I backed up and gave her a mini lecture on evolution and she actually understood it, her mind was blown. She ended up having a serious crisis of faith and I still wonder how that went for her in the end.

Since then if someone is arguing a bad point very passionately, I try to figure out where the disconnect in information is. And sometimes I'm the one with wrong information and I learn something new! But when I'm right I try to be more patient and introduce the new information as clearly and neutrally as possible. And you know what? A lot of times it works wonderfully and I have a new ally or friend. Sometimes not, but at that point it isn't on me for just assuming someone has all the information I do when they don't.

Good to know it has a name! And now I need to tell all the people.

[anerdyfeminist]

Yesss thank you for sharing this example!

Like I get that so often people can be close minded and aren’t actually acting in good faith to listen or be open to changing views at all. But sometimes it’s not that.......there’s actually a serious case of the curse of knowledge. Major knowledge gaps are a challenge but if they can be identified and navigated around, great shit can happen.

This is also tied to why access to education and information is critical.

[fuckingconversations]

This is also why it’s so damn hard to talk to most scientists about their chosen field.

They’re ears-deep in advanced biology shit all day, everyone around them knows what oxidative bisulfite conversion and PCR amplification is, it doesn’t even occur to them that those terms are incredibly niche, hyper-specific knowledge tidbits and 99.99% of people DONT know what it is.

My lab director sometimes assumes that everyone in the world knows the difference between ribosomes and polymerase off the top of their head.

Just like how I sometimes assume everyone in the world can tell the difference between tomato and potato leaves on-sight. To me, they’re so unique, like telling a cat from a dog, but my fiancé regularly asks which is which in the garden.

Part of successful communication is recognizing where a gap in mutual understanding on a topic could be, and welcoming the chance to educate rather than mock.

I didn’t know how to use the subway until I was 29. I’ve never visited a city with a subway before then. It was wild.

My fiancée walked me through the map like three times and I still don’t really understand how they know which train to board, since they go forward and backward on the same rails. It kinda scares me.

So like, someone can have in depth knowledge about DNA and chromosomes and non-coding RNA making epigenetic modifications to behavior…. But have no fucking clue how the subway system functions or how to read a map.

[delphinidin4]

omg I run into this all the time with casual fat-phobia outside of tumblr. People just have NO CLUE about the problems with assuming that weight loss is an obvious good and something people should be doing. Even doctors do this! Constantly! and I just don’t know where to start with telling them that ALL of their assumptions are wrong. Particularly since my degree isn’t in medicine, or even in the sciences.

Also, I’ve been on the other end of this. Recently. Here on Tumblr. There was somebody writing this furious screed about how the novel Dracula was OBVIOUSLY anti-semitic, and they weren’t going to explain it to anybody because it was so OBVIOUS, what is WRONG with you that you can’t see it??? And I really wanted to be like.... Very politely, I have no idea what you’re talking about, can you genuinely explain to me, a well-meaning person who simply doesn’t see it because I don’t know much about the history of anti-semitism in literature? I didn’t engage the person, because I didn’t want to get online-screamed at by somebody who was clearly very triggered, but also... Refusing an explanation to people who genuinely don’t understand simply isn’t helpful?

[inkskinned]

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

putting the "Au" in "autism" with my massive piles of gold