I hope you find your peace

she has to explain a/b/o to her audience 

she managed to get TWELVE other youtubers to voice act for reenactments, including hbomberguy, jenny nicholson, todd in the shadows, sarah z, princess weekes, and an entire legality segment with legaleagle 

every time she has to explain knotting she just blows up a balloon that, unfortunately, has sonic the hedgehog on it,

she says the word “superwholock” about four and a half minutes in 

absolutely insane amounts of legal fights over het a/b/o including perjury

the author of the offending book is attacking lindsay and it’s a war now 

she tried to dmca takedown lindsay’s video 

youtube got the takedown notice and actually said no 

patreon offered to pay lindsay’s legal fees should anything happen

jenny nicholson reprises her oscar-worthy role as the villain 

“I FEEL LINSAY ELLIS IS A MENACE, A THREAT TO MY CHILD, AND IS MONETIZING DEFAMATION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL GAIN”

a shitton of other authors get dragged into this

AO3 GETS DRAGGED INTO THIS 

lindsay is called a “patreon personality” 

she awoos 

lindsay wears a wolf hat for almost all of the video 

which just reminds you that this is all about wolf erotica 

ADHD is living in a constant state of sleep deprivation as we try to fit our lives around a 9-5 work/school schedule not designed for us as our circadian rhythm kicks in much, much later than neurotypical peoples, making us natural night owls.

ADHD privilege is forever feeling overwhelmed and like you’re never achieving anything, because unlike neurotypicals, you don’t get a hit of dopamine for doing simple tasks like folding laundry or remembering to take care of yourself. You’re not bad, lazy or worthless. You’re literally not getting enough dopamine fo your brain to work.

ADHD privilege is having our meds be extremely hard to get because neurotypical people who don’t need the same chemical brain support as we do abuse them the shit out of them then claim they’re bad. And no, reliance on a medication that helps you is not addiction, you are not weak or failing because you need meds. Also side note: addiction is a mental illness and it’d be super swell if people could stop demonizing it and using it as justication to deny people help!!!

Like, I’ll be really good and make it a point to put my keys on the key hook by the door every day in a row until it becomes automatic, then one day I get interrupted so I forget to do it, and then it’s just…gone. I don’t automatically remember anymore, and I have to relearn it all over again.

Part of how we can learn to overcome this is to examine why we might be struggling with the system we’ve tried to implement. So for example, you hang your keys up for 27 days in a row and on the 28th day you forget and come day 29 you can’t find your keys again. If you can’t seem to restart that habit, then perhaps the habit needs either modifying or changed.

Are there ways you can make it easier for yourself? Would you be better off having a basket by the front door where you dump all your stuff? It might be messier than hanging things up, but if it means you never lose your keys again, who cares? Would labeling things help? For instance, the place where my husband (also ADHD) hangs his keys, literally says KEYS in big bold letters. It not pretty, but function over form is a priority with ADHD. That’s also why I ripped all my cabinet doors off in my kitchen. It’s ugly as fuck, and I’m sure lots of people would struggle to find it appealing or even neat. But for me having things on display is the only way my “out of sight, no longer exists” brain can find anything. One day I’ll maybe get round to installing nice open shelves or glass doors, but in the meantime this works, and that’s more important.

Also, some folks can find medication helps give their brain the extra boost it needs to help with things like task completion and regulation. I can’t speak from experience on this because I’m unable to take meds for my ADHD due to heath complications, but for some people it can help. Provided they remember to take them, of course :p

Yeah so stimulant ADHD meds (not SNRI’s) work by releasing d-amphetamine or dextroamphetamine from the presynaptic neuron. It acts as a prodrug, increasing the release rate of norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA). In addition it also diffuses across the membrane, and works to competitively inhibit the re-uptake of NE and DA.

so what that means is when your brain releases dopamine from small tasks, it releases a greater amount of dopamine and that dopamine stays in the synaptic cleft for a longer period of time, and thus can bind with postsynaptic receptors longer. Thus the magnitude of the transmission (measure in the frequency of action potentials) resembles that of something closer to what a NT would need to initiate a task and claim a reward to reinforce it.

The exact, detailed action mechanism of most stimulant medications is unknown, but this is how it works from a general overview. Because of that we can’t know exactly what dopaminergic pathways each different stimulant happens to activate. But we do know what dopaminergic pathways the medicine could activate and the related symptoms that would treat.

Here’s the pathways, what symptoms it could explain, and co-morbidities for the nerds out there:

Story time: I’m a vet tech and one time I was [???] this lady for an appointment with her little dog who was covered in bugs

I searched this dog high and low for bugs, couldn’t find a single one

I said ma’am can you please point out these bugs to me

She said oh my gosh can’t you see them they’re right on his belly

She showed me her dog’s nipples and proceeded to try to rip them off

I said ma’am no stop

Those are his nipples

She said

There’s no way, he’s a boy

I said ma’am that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have nipples

Those are definitely his nipples, notice how they’re so symmetrical

She said no way, he’s a boy I said

I pet the kitten as I give this lady pamphlets and a personalized Cat Owner 101 lesson.

The kitten is leaving a great time, nearly comatose with happy in my lapm

She goes “That’s it!! That’s the sound!! What’s wrong with him?! If there’s anything we can do, we’ll do it! He’s my son’s best friend, we love him!”

I stare at her helplessly, fighting every impulse because this woman is so genuine in her love and concern for this, the first cat her family has ever experienced.

“Ma'am,” I say, so, SO gently.

me: hello