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A little Christmas collab with me Burd @angrylittleburd

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[ID: a six image comic of an anthropomorphic bird.

1: “F💡CUS [plaintext: focus, but the o is a lightbulb]

By: Burd

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2: Imagine a lightbulb over your head. When you are mentally stimulated that bulb lights up. This lets you focus on whatever activity you're engrossed with. [a fox has a lightbulb over their head, which turns on and sheds light on the book they’re reading.]

My problem is, I don't have just one lightbulb. So even if one lightbulb is lit up, I have other lightbulbs that are not. This makes it hard to focus on the task put before me. It creates this feeling of being under stimulated. [the bird has four dim lightbulbs above their head, and then one lightbulb is lit, barely shedding light on the piece of paper they’re staring at. They mutter “Come on. Just focus already.”

3: When under stimulated, even things I actively enjoy I find too difficult to focus on. Often I need multiple sources of stimulation just to focus on one task. [They have one lightbulb lit and are reading a book. “Come on, you've read this page five times now.” Then they are happily reading with headphones on and blowing bubblegum.]

This is where I run into my other problem with focus. Too many sources of stimulation but not enough lightbulbs end up blinding me. When it feels like everything is vying for my attention it quickly causes over stimulation. [They frantically look every direction as they are bombarded with notification pop ups and someone off screen yelling “hey!”]

4: The hardest part of all of this? I don't know how many lightbulbs I have at any given moment. I never really know until I start adding or removing sources of stimulation. [The bird has three dark lightbulbs over their head, then gloomily holds them in their arms, where there are now six dim bulbs.]

This makes committing to plans a very daunting task at times. [The fox is saying to the bird: “movie reel icon? Video game controller icon? Clock icon?” The bird is holding three bulbs in one hand while anxiously giving a thumbs up. They’re thinking “I hope I'll be able to pay attention that long.”]

5: At the same time, its also why its so easy to hyper fixate on things. When you find something that lights up all your lightbulbs you give it all your time and attention. [Bird is watching a Godzilla movie with fox, and all three of their lightbulbs are turned on. They now have two lightbulbs, both of them lit, as they talk to fox about the movie, then make fanart, and play with Godzilla toys in their Godzilla-themed room.]

6: But when the number of lightbulbs you have changes without warning, you end up dropping hobbies out of nowhere. They still light up the same number of lightbulbs they always have. It's not that you are no longer interested in these things, but your number of lightbulbs changed so you can't focus on them like you used too. [sic]”

[Bird is toying with the figurine, but only two of their three lightbulbs are lit up. The toy tips over as Bird gloomily holds their extra unlit bulb. They leave it next to the dinosaur toy. The signature reads “Burd”]

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[ID, courtesy of @levymcgarden55​]