i just reblog stuff

It's 2 AM now, almost 3 👀🤫

and congrats to this sign being the oldest sign in my drafts

If you want to live a productive life with adhd, forget about your productivity looking like a neurotypical’s. What you need are the brain engine primers, a habit of trusting yourself, and a phone timer. What I mean is, believe that you are capable of finding a way to do what you need to do. Let go of what neurotypical people tell you about life goals and five year plans and figure out what is important to you.

And then figure out what starts your engine. Not just one thing, ten or twenty things. Does a cup of coffee in the morning help your brain get in gear? Do you process better if you go on a walk? Do you feel more present in your body with a regular yoga class? Is there music you can play that gets you hyped?

And then ride the waves of your brain. Take ten or twenty minutes to do whatever is the next thing you need — a phone call or the vacuuming or a report — and then stop. (Unless you’re on a roll you want to ride; keep going then while it still feels good, unless it’s been an hour or two and you need to eat and pee and take a breather.) Put the task down. Set the damn phone timer for ten minutes or twenty. Get one of the calm-down things that puts you back in your body — a cup of tea, or a moment standing outside breathing deep, or a look at tumblr, or a snack.

You're so correct.

Your fancy human brain is very young. It thinks of ideas, yes! But you have in the very core of your being, a billions-of-years-old survival engine that ruthlessly keeps you alive.

I always find it funny on how intense the dramatic the intro is and how calm the outro is

The intro in question btw :

genuinely one of my top 3 tadc fics of all time