Dominic

October is ADHD awareness month! 🎉

ADHD nukes your working memory.

I actually risk overdosing because I can’t drive behind the wheel without my medication.

My zone outs are more akin to black outs.

Like I’ll completely zone out and not only not remember what I did but there will be a complete time skip between when I first zoned out and when I came back to reality.

And sometimes I’ll do weird shit on auto pilot during these.

Like I once stuck a bag of lettuce in my bed, had no memory of it.

Went to sleep and my foot touched something wet and I flipped the fuck out till I realized it was lettuce.

I dont experience that when I take my ADHD meds.

But no you are not stupid.

Your brain is wired diffrent.

ADHD is a disorder of the frontal lobe.

It affects all of these listed areas.

It’s not just “not being able to focus or being too hyper”.

It’s also a dopamine deficiency.

You can’t make tonic dopmine.

In laymen’s terms.

You can only get dopmine in short spurts by doing certain things.

This is why so many people ADHD struggle with Addictive personalities and turn to drugs or alcohol to self-medicate.

Which is bad.

This is what dopmine does.

Source.

And being fucking understimated is horrid.

You ever feel so board and so empty and helpless that you’d rather die?

That’s a classic symptom.

That’s why people with ADHD are 5 times more likely to kill themselves.

Source.

THIS is why ADHD awareness month is important.

It broke my heart that so many people with ADHD reblogged my posts not even realizing we have a month.

You deserve to understand you have a disorder that drastically impacts your life.

You deserve access to medication, and good doctors, and good resources, and managment skills.

You deserve to understand that you have probably been horribly abused or gas lit by the people in your life that dont understand your struggle because they never stopped to try too.

You deserve to understand that you are not stupid.

personal sonic the hedgehog headcanons!

sonic: bisexual + boyflux

tails: foxgender

knuckles: bisexual + agender

amy: bisexual + transgender

blaze: nonbinary lesbian

silver: bisexual + nonbinary

shadow: gay + gendervoid

eggman: bear

rouge: transgender femme lesbian

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❝ VULAMOVILIAN! ❞

a gender relating to foxes, being wild/feral, the sound of growling and bared teeth, sunshine dappling a forest floor, and (non-romantic) intense love for your friends/loved ones! ⊹ ⁺

flag/coined by me! requested by anon!

[[ IMAGE ID: 2 flags with 11 stripes, with these colors from top to bottom: dark red, red, orange, yellow, pink, pastel yellow, pink, yellow, orange, red, dark red. the flag on the left has art of a yellow sun with heart shaped rays with a fox in front of it in the center of the flag. ID OVER ]]

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❝ ETYMOLOGY! ❞

— “vul” from vulpes, the scientific name for fox! “amo” meaning love! “vil” from vild, which means feral/wild in swedish!

❝ COLOR MEANINGS! ❞

— dark red representing the sound of growling and bared teeth! red representing being wild/feral! orange and pastel yellow representing foxes! yellow representing sunshine dappling a forest floor! pink representing intense love!

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Ship’s kitten of HMS Kelvin, 1941

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so… i made this post because, like a lot of us on the internet, i’ve run into a lot of transmeds/truscum. [i’m sure many of you have seen the infamous “damian and skye” comic featuring a very masculine trans guy contrasted with a young, feminine trans guy to “prove” the more feminine one isn’t trans]

i wanted to talk about this becuase, as a trans person with dysphoria, i am ashamed of these groups. 

there is so much more information i could cover about this (and would be happy to in dms) but there are several points i want to get across as plain and simple as i can:

►divide some of us, and it can only hurt all of us. if a cis person’s going to think there are any fake trans people, you are putting it in their hands to decide that for every one of us. stand up for all your trans siblings, not just a few. 

►if you ever catch yourself thinking, “that trans person isn’t suffering enough”, stop. no matter how much you yourself are suffering. you lose literally nothing by just living and let live and you cannot police others identities. period.

►popularizing the idea that you need to meet some intangible bar to be trans doesn’t just affect the people you’re trying to target. it affects all trans people, especially young teens and kids. identity is individual and personal and no one can decide it for you but yourself.

in the end, this is as much a message to transmeds/truscum as it is to the general public. the message is this: dont let suffering make you bitter. dont let it make you into someone who wishes suffering onto others. find happiness in knowing others aren’t suffering, not resentment. and most importantly, take care of your community. your whole community. god knows we need to stick together.