we could have been the next pdf

You probably thought today was a normal Thursday. Nooooope. Big Papa Huge Time actually.

Except diagnosed neurodivergent kids don't have it much, if at all, better.

Yeah, some people don't know better than to think that someone without a diagnosis is neurotypical and therefore purposefully lying about their strife. But the thing is, there are also people who view the diagnosis as evidence that the person with the diagnosis is not neurotypical enough to have basic human rights.

A lot of people don't view kids as fully human, and that also has an effect on how the diagnosis is viewed, and also which diagnosis the child gets; And the diagnoses carry different types of stigma, and at different prevalences.

It's a multifaceted issue, but it basically chalks down to the fact that the dominant mindset of people in positions of power such as parents, teachers, doctors, etc is to dehumanize those who do not fit their overly narrow idea of what makes a person worthy of personhood.

Diagnosis alone is not enough to stop the cycle of pain. It's not a lack of diagnosis that compounds the pain that neurodivergent kids go through, but rather the attitudes of ableism and ageism, and many other prejudices.

Until humans in general learn to treat each other, including kids and including those they find to be "weird" or "annoying" or "incapable" with dignity, diagnosing more kids is not the answer.

ever since i was little i knew i wanted to make up little guys in my brain and play on my puter all day

so cruel of this sourceror to cast such wicked spells on an innocent beaste

Mordenkainens Forced Boo Boo Roll

Bothering the beast

my modern and elegant style

[Begin ID: "White and orange cat stretching his neck to look up to the top of the room, he seems to be mostly neck" End ID]

the curse of adhd:

this is something that I think a lot of people don't understand abt adhd. and like. this shit can get scary, especially if it happens often. I hate that I can't remember what I'm doing for the entire time it takes me to do it. I hate having to pause in the middle of conversations to desperately attempt to re-trace my train of thought because I don't remember what we're talking about. like. if you don't have adhd. just try to imagine what it's like to be unable to carry out a full conversation. try to imagine your memory resetting at random intervals. what are you doing right now? do you know? because often times, I fucking Forget. in the middle of doing things. and then I'm just standing there like an idiot desperately trying to wave away the thick fog that exists in my brain 24/7. and sometimes that shit just doesn't work. and I forget for good. it's terrifying. to me, at least.

i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

I think im groceries?

Every time I see a duck I think to myself that I want to pick up that duck. There is a sort of quality of the duck that makes it feel like the act of picking up the duck would somehow be analogous to those strange videos where people use knives to cleanly cut through multilayered cakes. There would be a sort of accumulative act even without taking permanent possession of the duck. It would rather be more like pulling the lever on some ancient machine which makes a counter increase by one. The duck is the lever. I hope my meaning is clear to you all?

You wanna come over and just go to sleep?

it's the weekend baby

Having even slightly popular mutuals is so cool. The king has bestowed upon me a like. Perhaps even a reblog

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

so I was thinking about my character type and then I spent the evening making a character sheet.

Sending the Traumagram back around bc it cracks me up

You better not be up making that sinister potion

Me asf:

boil away the liquid and you've synthesized Spice