#crowspice

[theawkwarddeadgirl]

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” - A Christmas Carol

This lovely sweater (with partial quote) was made by @crowspice and is so soft and comfy. I will probably take more (and better) pics to share, but for now just know I love it immensely and you should totally go look at his other art and stuff at blackbirdparlor.com

[tmitransitioning]

For nonbinary afab with cycle related issues - don't use hormonal transition if you hope to turn out androgynous. It doesn't work that way. If you want to stop your period, it sounds like you need a form of birth control. Because there's no way to get the hormonal cycle to stop unless you have a hysterectomy, in which case it would be necessary to permanently stay on hormones. If you have gender dysphoria for both binary genders, it's not going to help to appear male, either.

(don’t remember which anon we’re talking about here, there’ve been a lot of them) endometrial ablation would also be possible for cycle-related dysphoria, without adding additional hormones or causing long-term issues by removing any.  It just destroys the lining that gets shed.  some (many) nonbinary people do find success with low dose testosterone for androgynous transition, depending on what their goals of transition are, however that dose may not be enough on it’s own to stop the cycle. again, we’re not here to provide direct medical advice for any specific person, just to review scientifically accurate information and chat about less-known effects of hormone treatment so people can make informed decisions.  mod mayhem

[post-transition]

I had to switch to injections a few months ago, and though I'm definitely better with the sight if needles than I used to be, every now and then something happens that freaks me out. Perfect example, and the real question -- how normal is it to occasionally have a lot of blood (more than a slight pin prick) come back at you after injection? Everything seems fine now but I'd like to prepare myself for it if it's a thing.

It’s normal! It’s possible to go through a vein or something that causes more bleeding than you’re used to. It won’t be a “wasted” injection or anything. Though I’d say the vast majority of my injections don’t bleed at all. I have had blood squirt out once though and, as alarming as it was, I was completely fine.

[timeforbirds]

I'm sorry if you've answered this somewhere I didn't find, or over and over and over, but I have to ask -- what program do you use for modeling?

I use kHED! It’s rather outdated, but it was the first program I learned and it’s simple enough for my needs. The terrain and maps are made with tiles that are also made in kHED, but I use an in-engine editor for piecing them together, and the character models are also animated in-engine.

[actuallyadhd]

I just came on this video because it’s from a youtube that I like. From what I’ve seen he tends to take a very calm, mature approach to mental health, so when I saw the title of this I had a “wait what” moment. Thought I’d share, if it’s of any interest to you or followers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Zw_0uZYMo

I watched this and it is really funny. It’s user jackskepticeye taking the ADHD quiz at TotallyADD. Well before he got even halfway through I called the results, too. (And I’ve never watched any of his other videos so it was just based on what he was saying and doing while doing the quiz.)

-J

[fishcrow]

heyyy since I saw you're cool with requests, would you do an art student fishcrow? I found your art recently and it makes me so happy. I have a personal connection to crows and I'm also a stressed out hungry art student, seeing your version of this would be amazing

haha okay :>

[deadlycomics]

heyyyyo thanks for the crow XD do you mind if I do something like print it out on scraper, or stick it to the back of my computer, something of that nature? I don't know what you make already, I don't want to overstep even with a doodle

Sure thing yo! here’s a higher res one if you want

[actuallyadhd]

So I told my therapist I suspect ADHD, so we went through the DSM. I can describe how I think the checklist applies to *me* but she kept saying what it really means and how it applied to kids she used to work with with ADD/ADHD. I get there's different severity but I'm really, really frustrated because I've also talked to her about not trusting authority for other reasons, which can result in me just shrugging and going along with "yeah I guess you're right." (c)

© I want to be able to tell her that I think she’s wrong and using extreme examples but I’m also terrified of what might happen, no matter how polite she is. I like her but I don’t see her taking me seriously if I say she’s wrong. It’s not that there’s a huge ADD-like impact on my life but I’ve noticed things I want explained and I don’t want “you were treated badly by your parents that’s why you think there’s something wrong with you” to be everyone’s go-to for the rest of my life.

Have you been through our self-diagnosis post yet? Start there. Take detailed notes. Then write down all of the things that make you think ADHD. Every way it’s affecting your life. All of the ways you struggle, and why you think applicable criteria are applicable. Take all of this documentation to your therapist and explain that you felt like you were having trouble explaining yourself previously, so you took some time to write it down for her. Hopefully she will listen to you better this way, and you will feel more confident when you bring it to her since you’ll be able to go back to what you wrote down if you feel stuck.

-J