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Blackness, (Bi)sexuality, mental health, and body positivity.

[shawtyfromroundtheway]

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[brimalandro]

did you know tina knowles wrote a whole ass book about styling destiny’s child in 2002 including recipes?

[adhd-alien]

Continuing from the last Comic, here is something showing how the huge amount of criticism and rejection we face for our ADHD symptoms can not only prevent us from getting better, but also teach us bad coping mechanisms - and how it might affect us even now in our daily life. Next up: How it affects me daily and what I do against it.

[bluequestionmark]

I have noticed that, for most of the things I do, it takes me a while to start.

My mom asked me the other day to vacuum the doormat. I said yes. A few minutes went by. She asked again, worried I was not going to do it. I assured her that I was going to do it, just not immediately. And it indeed took me 5-10min to "close" (like one would close a tab or a file, but in my mind) what I was doing (reading something on my phone) before comfortably moving on.

I could have just paused my reading, done the vacuuming, and got back to my reading, but it felt more comfortable and natural to finish it and prepare myself for the upcoming task.

And it's like that with every little thing.

For instance, the one that prompted this post: I noticed my PC was out of battery and instead of immediately getting up to fetch the charger I sat there a few seconds, asking myself why I hadn't done it yet. And then I realized — it's not that I can't retrieve it, and it's not that I'm utterly lazy to the point of not wanting to get up either.

I just need a little bit of time.

[myadhdlife]

It's actually transition time!! It's super hard for our brains to just jump from one thing to another it needs time to transition out of one task and I to the other one (or as you very perfectly put it "close the task")

[youandmeandadhd]

Yes! Task Switching is a bitch

When I was younger I used to get hyperfocussed in my music and my sister thought it was hilarious to rip me out of it abruptly because of how I'd "overreact"

But it's like a mental switchboard?? If you've got a bunch of attention plugged in to a thing and you just rip all the plugs out at once, there's a bunch of power that needs to be dumped out to somewhere and that can literally and figuratively blow a fuse??

NTs will see you running a vital server and unplug it to charge their phone - then act brand new if you get annoyed about it

[ironwoman359]

this explains it PERFECTLY

[snowyhobbit]

Public Service Announcement

Ferris wheels belong to the LGBTQ community until further notice.

[melancholymetropolis]

When Prudence gave Roz a sword, I could feel the Black Girl Magic through the MUHFUCKING SCREEN

[aenslem]

#mother of THE MOOD™

[fycaos]

Prudence Blackwood in chapter twenty-one: the hellbound heart

[thatadhdmood]

untreated adhd in college: *apologizes to prof and asks for extension* *apologizes to friends for not talking to them* *apologizes to roommate for not doing x chore* *apologizes to therapist for being late again* *apologizes to

[thatadhdfeel]

That ADHD feel when you rearrange your bedroom at 11:30 at night because why not.

[thatadhdfeel]

that adhd feel when you made plans w your roommate and they say "well are we going or what?" and you're annoyed at their impatience til you realize you've been on you phone for half an hour when you were supposed to be getting ready

[theweirdwideweb]

[adhighdefinition]

not to alarm y’all but a lot of these are hallmarks of undiagnosed adhd lol

[abcsofadhd]

stupidADHDthings#34: Finding it difficult to go to new places/ try new things despite knowing that you’ll definitely love it when you go/ do it

[abcsofadhd]

stupidADHDthings#11: Starting a notebook to help you remember stuff, then forgetting about the notebook, then starting another one.. and now you have 20+ notebooks.  

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Lizzo

[bodyglitter]

me after starting to impulse clean my room and realize halfway through that im not feeling it anymore so now im sitting in a mess that was worse than when i started

[valtsv]

you’ve heard of listening to the same song on repeat until you’ve extracted every drop of serotonin from it, now get ready for:

- wearing that outfit/item of clothing you love to every social engagement you attend until either it needs a wash or you’re forced to change it so that people don’t think it’s the only thing you own

- watching the same film or episode of a show you like like until there’s no point in watching it again because you can vividly recall every scene in your head

- eating your favorite food until you’re so used to it that it’s tasteless and nauseating

- reading the same book until you can recite every line word for word from memory

-repeating the same word/phrase in response to everything until it stops being funny and starts getting annoying