I might actually be a cat.

Bit of a Princess. Jesus is my King. 🤴🏽 AuDHD Interior Designer, creative writer and artist 🏡📚🖋

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

where do you think i could ask someone for advice in how to position my furniture to make a ocd/adhd friendly room. do i ask for a interior designer? i just wanna know how i should place my stuff and if there's anything i should get

I legit got no idea, like this is just not a question I've ever considered

[stillnota-gingercat]

As an Audhd Interior designer I can definitely say there are some useful things I have done to arrange and organize my space!

I got some clear storage drawers/bins from Kmart (australia) that are so good coz 1. They're clear and easy to see what's in there, 2. They're stackable, and 3. they come in different sizes so I can keep things organized in categories!

Also closed storage for things you don't need/use often is very good as it looks neater

Keep a desk or workspace/reading nook, close to the window for natural light - keep beds further from windows/doors so you're less likely to be disturbed while trying to sleep

Any furniture you can get that is multi purpose or space saving is ideal! I got a mini trestle table that has 3 different heights the legs can sit at, and when I don't need to use it, it folds up and I can put it out of the way 👌🏼😊

Also something I have done in literally my whole house, is festoon / fairy lights / remote control puck lights / lamps, etc - any soft ambient lighting to light my house in a sensory pleasing way, so I never have to deal with painful bright lights (I even put a little battery operated light in the bathroom for late night trips to the toilet)

Also because exec dysfunction HITS and I struggle to clean up sometimes even though I HATE leaving mess around - I got little empty plant pots or baskets or whatever looks nice to discreetly sit within arms reach of the places I normally sit so I can always have a little place to put rubbish without getting up, then I just tip them all into one bag on bin day 😊

Hope this helps a bit!

[xerox-candybar]

Ah, so apparently I won’t be able to rest until I yell into the void about… the creative process? here goes. please wish me sleep.

One of my mentors once told me, “A story’s success can be measured by its ability to evoke emotion in its audience.” Notably, she did not mention what emotion (although my story, specifically, had made her laugh a lot). But to some extent, emotion is the best thing to bank on. Nathan Pyle (the cartoonist behind Strange Planet) once Tweeted about his creative strategy, particularly when it came to writing jokes, using the “Leafbucket” cartoon as an example. I saw this about a year or so ago, but I haven’t been able to find it since then so I’m going from memory which hopefully will not fuck me over.

Nathan Pyle posted the comic and then polled his Twitter followers: What do you think the green things are?

80% said salad (Excellent! the joke came through loud and clear for them)

10% said spinach (Good, not what he intended, but it still worked in context)

5% said broccoli (Not so good; they’ll kind of get the joke, but the essence of the punchline is “look how normal behaviors are actually weird!” Eating a bucket of broccoli is unusual, so then you have a comic about a weird person being weird—which might be amusing, but there’s really no twist and therefore no laughter, no catharsis.)

5% had no idea what the green things were. They didn’t get the joke, but it’s possible they appreciated something else about the panel, which, in my humble opinion, is actually kind of beautiful.

Anyway, Pyle actually considered “Leafbucket” to be a successful comic. You certainly can’t expect everyone to get every punchline, and 90% is a lot! You’ve probably seen a comedy routine performed in front of a live audience—nobody laughs at every single joke, to the same degree, the whole entire time. That’s why comedians excitedly break the fourth wall to address particular patrons—“this guy knows what I’m talking about!” which typically earns another round of laughter because I’ve just demonstrated how relatable my jokes are! Here’s one person that’s relating right now—so it’s okay, go ahead and laugh. Peer pressure, amiright? 🤣

Even if you find your niche audience, there’s still going to be variation among individuals. If you think of the audience as a uniform entity—moving in unison and echoing back the author’s moralistic intention word-for-word, then you’ve mistaken your spectators for a Greek Chorus, and a Greek Chorus is an entirely different animal. While your audience may have come seeking a particular trope, they also expect to be challenged at least a little—when you leave aspects of a story up for interpretation, you allow space for each viewer to make it their own. (And in fandom spaces, that can get very heated).

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[stillnota-gingercat]

This has made me think about my writing in a whole new way, thank you so much... I've been so concerned that I've complicated my story too much, and that readers won't "get it", but somehow now I think maybe it's just complicated enough. Nuanced even.

[captaincoffeegirl515]

“Being autistic is just continuously finding out random shit is apparently supposed to be rude and just sitting here trying to decipher any logic behind it” this has been me all my life like I would make the same joke as someone else but I’d be told “it wasn’t funny cause of your tone” but I swear I didn’t say anything differently from the other person who said it?? I’d always get in trouble or get called rude when I wouldn’t even know what I did wrong??

Ohmygods for me it's the opposite! Like instead it's me misinterpreting the tone someone else is using and it gets me into so many fights bc I'd think they used an angry tone but apparently they were joking but I just can't tell the difference

I hear you though! Trying to understand all these nonsensical social cues is the worst

[stillnota-gingercat]

The water when I shower for too long and it goes cold:

[stillnota-gingercat]

If corporations stopped sabotaging progress in a pursuit to make money off of long term "treatments" of problems, maybe they would finally have a chance to create a world where technology, knowledge, and society as a whole have progressed to a state where money is not worth killing people over.

Big Pharma would rather sell symptom treatments over one time cures, Big Tech would rather sell devices with planned obsolescence rather than develop new products that genuinely improve our lives, corporations are lazy and money hungry and our world will never become better until this culture of greed ends.

Just imagine a world where cancer and other diseases don't cripple the population, where technology is a tool that works alongside us, not a distraction that keeps us reliant on the little convenience it brings, where we work because it is fulfilling - not because we can't afford to eat, where resources are available when we need them, and we progress forward together as a society, rather than holding each other back for the hope of a bigger number in our bank account.

I hope to God I get to live to see a world more like this.

[stillnota-gingercat]

"Know your enemy.. so you can.. beat them" - my husband/AKA Captain Obvious

[grink1]

would anyone be interested in why the uncanny valley actually exists and why this tweet is incredibly wrong and bothers me because Autism, this works against my active logic surrounding it.

[stillnota-gingercat]

It makes me wonder why there is no "uncanny valley" for fake plants that look almost real.. like there are definitely many bugs and animals that are varying levels of dangerous that disguise themselves as (or in) plants but we are not afraid of fake plants

I would love to know your thoughts 🤔

[angeltiddies]

reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

[invaderxan]

academic conferences

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Work meetings

[greenekatgrey]

Interviews

[ambulatoryhoodie]

Auditory processing disorder

[stillnota-gingercat]

ADHD and Autism 🤝🏼

[relentless-for-jesus]

If you're going through a dark time.

And you feel like no one cares.

You feel lost, hopeless, and defeated.

God sees you. You're not alone. You're not hopeless. You can get through this. You're strong enough to get through this and when your strength runs out, God has more to give you. Keep pushing. Don't you dare give up! You've worked hard to make it to here and now and you can keep making it to greater places. Sorrow doesn't last always! Joy comes in the morning. Keep going! Keep going! Keep going! This is your sign to NOT GIVE UP. You CAN do this. All the voices that say otherwise are a LIE. Let what GOD says be true. I speak peace over your heart tonight in Jesus name. I speak joy over your mind in Jesus name!

You will get through this in Jesus name and you will come out a conqueror!

Don't you dare give up on this life! This world needs you! Don't you know that!? That's why you're fighting so hard. It's because you're NEEDED. Keep pushing. Keep fighting. Life isn't always easy, but by The Grace of God you will see victory in Jesus Mighty Name!!!!

I believe in you. I love you. God loves you, He is with you, He is for you. Always and Forever 💕

YOU WILL WIN.

[stillnota-gingercat]

Sometimes it feels like you can't "feel" God there, but that doesn't mean He isn't. Our feelings =/= reality every time.

He is Always there, you can ASK Him to reveal Himself to you, He wants to be found by you ❤

[stillnota-gingercat]

I love when @107bees said "...cancel culture is dumb, people need to make mistakes to grow"

That's the WHOLE thing with being HUMAN

Humans are imperfect, fickle, multifaceted creatures, who are always going to make mistakes and hopefully - if they are given half a chance - they will learn to grow from their mistakes and make better decisions, and then probably make some more mistakes, and then grow some more, etc etc.. but We have to Give People A Chance to make a mistake, see the outcome, learn from it, and grow.

I'm so SICK so being afraid that something I do or say in my early 20s while I'm still honestly dumb af is going to come back and hurt 30-40 something year old me who is trying to do something in the public eye, like publish my first book or something.. and someone pulls up some idiotic thing I did or said once thinking that that culminates who I am as a person years after the fact

I hope cancel culture dies out before I ever manage to do anything worthwhile :( and just forgoodnesssakes forgive people

[catcrumb]

i slowblink at cats like a rat in an experiment buttonmashing for treats

[stillnota-gingercat]

I slowblink at cats so often, I've started accidentally slowblinking at my husband when he looks at me 😅

[sauvryn]

Me: Alright, I'm going to bed early tonight.

ADHD Brain: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LUCKY WINNER!! YOU'VE JUST WON THE ENERGY & MOTIVATION TO DO A TASK THAT YOU'VE BEEN PUTTING OFF FOR TWO MONTHS!

Me: Okay, I'll do it when I wake up.

ADHD Brain: ACT NOW! THIS OFFER WON'T LAST!

Me: 🙄

[stillnota-gingercat]

Some days I like having ADHD... Other days I need to clean my house 🤦🏼‍♀️

[stillnota-gingercat]

They say dogs are man's best friend, but

So anyways, this is my best friend Benedict 😽

[acidfairy69]

this is my current phone background and it gives me good vibes and i haven’t posted in ages so hello i am still alive :)

[virtuallyinsane]

by eberhard grossgasteiger

[stillnota-gingercat]

One time, I was asked to seek God for a word or picture of "Who I am". He showed me a sunflower, stretching taller than all the other sunflowers in a field. I wondered, why? Why am I a sunflower? So I googled facts about sunflowers. And I learned a few things:

They look like little 'suns'.

Sunflowers "track" the sun (they always face the sun, except where they are in darkness or shadow they face each other).

Each Sunflower is made up of thousands of tiny flowers.

Sunflowers can contain 1000-2000 seeds

So what I learned about myself is:

I am made in the image of The Son!

I need to "follow" the Son for my nourishment, and when I can't see Him, look to the other "sunflowers" around me, until I can see Him again.

I am made of thousands of facets (many aspects of myself, creativity, gifts, etc)

I have the ability to share myself in thousands of ways (in my creativity, in friendship, in serving others), to help more sunflowers grow!

I love the way nature reveals the image of God.

[justcallmebishop]

In November I started reading the Bible from the beginning. Today, I finished it, and I cried.

I finally see what it was all about. This whole story is about a God that won’t give up. There are ups and there are seriously downs but he never leaves.

If He never left mankind from Genesis to Revelation, I know that means he won’t leave me where I am. He is ever constant. Through misunderstanding, frustration, fear, and tragedy, He does not run away.

When you look at the Bible as a whole, you see it. You see the heart of a Father that says in your beginning I’ll be here, and no matter how you end, here I’ll be.

He hasn’t given up on us yet, and He doesn’t intend to start with you.

[stillnota-gingercat]

This is what it's all about. His Unfailing, Unyeilding, Relentless, Persistent, Consistent, Perfect LOVE.

[thejakeallison]

an image from my new photobook, Frames of the Wasatch, available now

ig: @thejakeallison | purchase prints of my work

[stillnota-gingercat]

Just wanna run through here at dusk on a warm summer night 🌄