who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

okay

these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction

In light of some stunningly Bad Takes I’ve seen about this post, and posts like it, here’s a clarification I would personally like to add.

Yes, executive dysfunction does frequently result in people wanting to do stuff, but not doing that stuff. That’s why people use the term that way.

IT ALSO MEANS A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. Including but not limited to: trouble remembering facts, trouble monitoring time, trouble stopping of finishing things you have started, struggling to regulate emotions (ex. getting very upset by minor setbacks)

And that matters. It matters that we have an umbrella term for this group of functions because they are related, and it matters that people not spread misinformation, even if they mean well.

Hasan Minhaj testifies before Congress on the student loan crisis

wow i’d love to show this to all the “adults” on my facebook

I have a rant about how smart kids are treated by the American school system let me hit this blunt a few more times and I’ll write it

ok I’m ready

Speaking as someone who has been being told I was “gifted” by schools since I was literally in preschool and who grew up to fail out of his college engineering program and consequentially suffer from the worst mental breakdown of his life, i fucking hate the assumption that all smart kids want and need to be challenged

Which translates in a school setting as “take the hardest and most demanding classes you can possibly take”

I distinctly remember always been pushed by my teachers to take the highest available level of all of my courses, and the few times that I resisted and decided to take an easier one they would shame me. They told me I was “better than that”, or expressed disappointment in me. In particular I remember one of my favorite teachers doing it when I said I didn’t want to take honors history and was politely declining the recommendation

I fucking HATE history. I had so much else going on in my life during that time besides just school. Why would I want to make it even harder for myself? Why would I want the extra load of stress and work? Just because, at the expense of my happiness and mental health, I could do it?

Like so many other students in the US I have grown used to watching my classmates sob and have panic attacks over exams and classes and school in general. That’s become disturbingly normal to us. And then people have the audacity to look at a student who actually has time to live and relax and not be constantly stressed out and say they aren’t “pushing themselves hard enough”. They should take more classes, or harder classes

And I fell for it. Growing up surrounded by that expectation of me I originally went into the college of engineering. You know why? Because I was smart. Because it was the hardest of the hard, and because I could do it, I was obligated to

And I couldn’t do it. I’m not the kind of person who can handle engineering. I have the intelligence, but I don’t have the personality or the mental health. The people who do? Fantastic. I’m happy for them and thankful they exist. But I’m not one of them, and I had to learn that it was okay that I wasn’t

End rant

ALSO, I don’t know about anyone else, but having this done to me as a young child led me to internalize the (false) notion that intelligence was the only thing I had going for me

And when I started struggling in school, failing classes, I had that breakdown because I felt like I had lost a huge part of my identity. I felt like the only trait that made me worthwhile was suddenly ripped out from under me, and the shell shock of that was devastating

“But you’re so smart – ” Yes but I also HATED school and I certainly didn’t want to spend any more time having to do work for it.

When you call somebody’s name but they don’t know where it’s coming from

This is genuinely frightening

You know when a horror movie has so many jokes it feels more like a comedy? This is the exact opposite of that

It Follows (2014)

I remember reading somewhere that there’s a fine line between comedy and horror, this video crossed that fine line like 10 times.

“I was raised Catholic” just translates to “I’m an atheist, but I feel kinda bad about it.”

This post came into my home and murdered me with a crucifix

@machtaholic

The Haunting Of Hill House (Dir. Mike Flanagan 2018)

Hey so fun fact, my dad is good friends the woman who currently has this job and she told him that Trump’s admin is trying to force her out. They started advertising the job before they actually told her they were transferring her so she’d have to reapply.

Her name is Catherine (Cassie) Conley, and she’s a badass MIT grad that works as NASA’s planetary protection officer, which sounds super cool (though she says not as cool as the galactic administrator). The job is basically the only one in xenobiology (space life) and it’s her life’s work. She’s been doing this job for over 10 years and now Trump wants her out.

I’m beyond pissed that this keeps going around. I know it sounds like a joke job, but it’s a legitimate career that’s being taken away from literally one of the most intelligent women in the country by this asscactus of a presidency.

If ya’ll could signal boost this that’d be much appreciated. They need to know that this kind of bullshit isn’t acceptable

I was actually reading about this job in an NPR article and it sounds REALLY important. the job basically means you make sure we don’t contaminate any planets and anything we bring back like rocks or soil, etc doesn’t do the same here.

Not a single lie in sight……

The Ancient Code

You’ve heard of “thanks, I hate it,” but allow me to introduce to you:

So my psychiatrist wanted me to take an IQ test and I wasn’t really sure why, the dude is pretty eccentric but I suppose it’s for demographic purposes and you’ll never fuckin guess what I got

OP don’t leave us in suspense

“jk it was 158″

I’m not sure if that tag is itself a joke or not but 158 it already an incredibly high iq.  You better not be pulled our collective legs here.

No that was the score I got. I’ve taken IQ tests before in high school and was always around 140. It’s just logical intelligence, though. Not social, not artistic, not really even book smarts. It’s basically a score of how good you are at problem solving and isn’t really indicative of your overall intelligence. Honestly I consider myself in all other aspects to be of average intelligence. I have problems with social queues as well and problems retaining information.

also rmemeber the fact that op is a literal fucking astrophysicist. i fucking hope they have an iq like that.

That’s a good point lol I’m good at physics but like….. can’t work an oven and I’m not allowed to use weedwhackers

“Not allowed to use weedwhackers”…plz elaborate

They move fast and cut things including ankles and shins

when your otp has an honest talk only in dire situations, like when they’re running full tilt being carried by the wind shouting at the top of their lungs

(the movie made this flying thing so romantic, but the book version is basically ‘howl and sophie scream into the wind as it slams them back to the castle’)

Romance the Ghibli way:

Romance the Diana Wynne Jones way:

#i saw a post that was like#‘the hmc movie is told from howl’s point of view#and the book is from sophie’s’#and it changed my life (via @gil-estel)

@identityconstellations @jayykesley

Howl’s Moving Castle was written by Diana Wynne Jones?  I’m going to have to look for it now.

IT WAS A BOOK???

There’s three books in the universe they’re friccin good my dude

hey guys, op here, dwj’s books are sometimes really hard to find physically so im here to tell you that there’s a free audiobook of Howl’s Moving Castle and its sequels Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways on youtube by jenny sterling, who is a fantastic narrator. 

HMC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzkRCHc03V0&t=14s

CitA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opz8ReKrsSk&t=5s

HoMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iErTffLmx20

enjoy! and welcome to the DWJ fandom :)

I will say that HMC as a book is actually the EASIEST of the DWJ books to find literally anywhere. Very very recently I’ve been able to find the Chrestomanci Chronicles in stores, after mmm…maybe a year of trying to find copies without having to order them. But HMC is usually one of the books available in any chain bookstore, and even in most indie ones because of the movie. They’re usually shelved under “J” for Jones, and in the children’s section. 

not taking constructive criticism because nothing can improve this 

oh my god the forest spirits are awake! hello!

you know this fucking tune

They made it into a ringtone because it was old enough to be public domain, and Nokia (I think?) didn’t want to have to pay royalties.

… I like the full version.

are you SHITTING ME. This is one of those posts that makes you question your worldview a little bit, tbh

okay, not quite. not quite. but the truth is better.

the original tune is not this. the original tune is, however, public domain, so they’re not wrong. it’s francisco tárrega’s gran vals - check 0:12.

but THIS, what he’s playing, is the Valse Irritation d’après Nokia, also known as the ringtone waltz, written by Marc-André Hamelin, who is a terrific canadian pianist and who wrote this as a snap reaction to having people’s fucking cellphones go off at concerts.

here’s hamelin talking about it. and playing it himself.

and the instant i first heard the valse irritation, you know what i had to do, immediately, and what at least three other people i know also did?

of course we made it our ringtone, didn’t we. because humans.

holy shit this keeps getting better

…

ugly little man

DO NOT CALL HIM UGLY

“Why I Wasn’t Contracted to Write Beauty and the Beast” by I have no idea who, and desperately want to know.  If anyone does, please tell me! Edit:  Through knmajorblogs I have discovered the genius behind this piece of art.  The genius in question is LordJazor !  Thank you!

“she warned him not to be such an apocalyptic fuck hat to strangers” “for who could ever learn to love such a cock waffle” BLESS THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

Every time I see this I laugh.

COCK WAFFLE

your heart is a muscle the size of a rat

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

Your brain’s about four times the size of a cat’s

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

Your lungs can hold 5.5 liters of air

The soles of your feet can never grow hair

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

SPONGEBOB…

SQUAREPAAAAAAAANTS

*~deedlee-doot-dee-doot doo-oot~*

boyle is the best friend every person needs