#actuallynn

[languidschizoid]

The "maladaptive" part of my MaDD isn't even how my daydreaming itself affects my functioning

It's how a daydream crash sends me right into a depressive episode

And that's probably why I don't like calling it maladaptive. The times when I'm daydreaming the most are when my functioning is at its worst, but at the same time it's when my mental heath (or I guess my happiness) is at its best

[autisticworlds]

changes ahead

I have been inactive on this blog for a long time. The reason is that I have been dealing with depression, illness, stress and an existential crisis. I am now mostly out of the darkness and can spend more time online without making the situation worse. And with that, I bring changes to this blog.

The submission based content model stopped working for me some time ago. My experience with posting has turned into an endless cycle of scrolling through tags, queuing posts and encouraging people to submit over and over again. It wasn’t rewarding or useful at all and it made me reliant on other people’s work. And that I don’t wanna come back to. 

What I want to come back to is my original idea for this blog - sharing my ideas about imagination, creativity, daydreaming and all things fiction, plus engaging in conversation and discussions with other people who experience it. All from the perspective of an autistic mind. I want to be excited about writing and about using this platform. And I hope you will be excited to see updates from me as well.

I’m still gonna post submissions if I get any and I really do appreciate activity, so keep talking to me, lovely people. Send your questions, comment, share your content and ideas, argue with me, prove me wrong, whatever - let’s have conversations about this. I’ve decided not to significantly edit my old articles, but instead, I will add disclaimers to them, and also probably write new articles on the very same topic with my most recent views. All the resources are still there for you to use.

I hope you understand why I am doing this and will support me in this endeavor. I have a lot of thoughts and ideas to share. I am sure you have too.

[iamthestrangerinmoscow]

One day I will stop giving any fucks and make a blog about my daydreaming/neuronarative where I will post about my para and their life because honestly their life is much more entertaining than mine.

[dreamy-latte]

It gets kinda weird to talk about my paras because some are OC's but the rest are just imported from other media. So while I can say: Odette doesn't want to marry Vesta. I certainly do struggle to say: Quan Chi and Otacon get along handsomely

[paraconvo]

Hey I'm too lazy to make an actual intro post but here MADDers can submit conversations they daydreamed about.

[creativestorm]

There's two types of people (in neurodiverse and mental illness circles): "Omg I thought I was the only one doing this" and "Omg I thought everyone did this"

[creativestormstories]

Team: my characters have awesome conversations in my head, but I can't write them down fast enough so everything ends up a fragmented mess...

[symbionym]

lowkey want a MaDD discord channel or something with a spot where people can take turns infodumping the fuck out of their universes at each other?? i know there are a few spots that do it for special interests or hyperfixations and man that sounds fantastic, just a handful of people sitting around & gettin excited about their stuff and asking follow up questions do we have something like that?? can we get something like that??? i want something like that, if there's a something like that let me know immediately, posthaste