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Enter "How to Eat Well for Adults With ADHD" by Rebecca King.

I am about to sound like a sponsored ad, but this book is absolutely incredible. It's written by a nutritionist with ADHD, and does include some recipes, but they only make up a part of the third section of the book. The rest of it is focused on practical, broadly applicable advice for neurodivergent folks (and frankly, other disabled people) on unlearning internalized ableism around food, how to best organize your kitchen and meal plan (and what to do when meal plans fail), the connections between food and dopamine and how best to use food for stimulation in a healthy way, how hyperfocus and time blindness can get in the way of eating well, how to make sure you're eating enough while on stimulants, the fact that many ADHD people also have ARFID (and the book even emphasizes that ARFID is an eating disorder, not just "picky eating"!!), and takes the strong stance that we should do away with the idea of "picky eaters" altogether in favor of a more compassionate stance on people's complicated relationships with food and eating.

It is strongly anti-diet culture while still emphasizing that good nutrition is important. It has extremely specific tips that make my ADHD heart sing a little, like how best to store specific vegetables so they last the maximum amount of time in your fridge (since we are all very good at forgetting they are there) and what tools can make doing the dishes more manageable. And perhaps most importantly, as someone with severe sensory sensitivities and some very real trauma from having them ignored as a kid and being shamed for them, it made me cry a little bit with how understanding and compassionate it is.

Anyway. I am going to buy a copy of my own immediately, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you, like me, are trying to unfuck your eating habits and neat someone to hold your hand a little in the process -- while still making you feel like an adult, and still offering actionable tips along the way -- this book could be a lifesaver.

SP16 TShirt Dress Short

Aka a shorter version of the original 4t2 conversion by Victoriasims. I added vans to the fullbody outfit, because I thought it fits :) For adults and teens, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in the original 9 colors, and you can choose if you want the TF files repo'd to their AF counterparts, or not :)

Download SP16 TShirt Dress Short Repo'd - Alternate

Download SP16 TShirt Dress Short Standalone - Alternate

Download SP16 TShirt Dress Short Top-Only Repo'd - Alternate

Here are a couple mods to do with university and degrees and jobs! This is basically an overhaul of the Maxis majors system and a separate file for major-to-career associations so they make more sense with the new majors. (not that they make much sense in the vanilla game anyway)

I have a Google Doc readme with a comprehensive breakdown of all the majors, the class titles, the skills they use, and so on, as well as some information about making default and custom careers compatible, but here is a quick overview:

MajorsOverhaul This part is the majors. I didn't touch Undeclared, but the other eleven Maxis majors have all undergone some changes - some of them retained their name and description, and others emphatically did not. Which skills are needed, and how many points in each, is not the same in most cases. I did specifically plan for these go to with Cyjon's Semester Changes, but the odd-numbered semesters have class titles and skill points connected to them, so this should still work without Semester Changes if you don't mind a more boring university experience.