I started an Etsy shop!
I'm selling stuff I make for a little money I can save and hopefully use one day for uni or to move out :)
Atm I have bell bags I crocheted on there, take a look (ships to UK only for now :( )
Hey I posted some new items and it would mean the world to me if you could check out out or share 🥺 I also take commissions ❤️ https://www.etsy.com/listing/863355460/baby-newborn-bunny-crochet-baby-rattle
one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”
this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep
instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”
sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference
WOAHH actually posting
Anyways heres to my new hyperfixation, WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE
God is not merely sympathetic to our suffering. God is empathetic, compassionate. He suffers with us. That, for me, is the meaning of the incarnation. Likewise, we add to the enjoyment of God in our joys and successes. We feel with God as God feels with us.
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Things can be easier. You do not have to be stuck forever.
not to be insane but what is the evidence that executive functioning can be improved (in adults) in the first place? there is a difference between children and adults in personality trait interventions. to my knowledge EF is an essential personality trait related to conscientiousness that never changes (in adulthood until old age, where it slightly increases). research on personality traits shows that personality largely remains stagnant after young adulthood. all interventions to my knowledge are experimental and non-proven.
if there is evidence towards it being possible to improve executive functioning in adults, or research on personality change interventions working PLEASE let me know it would change my life. you don't know how much i want it to be true that EF can be increased
not to say the methods are inherently bad, or that they don't help! im just concerned with measurable change over long periods of time recorded in scientific literature.
Sincere answer to your question: There is evidence that it is possible to improve executive functioning in adults, some of it quite significant.
Though my understanding is definitely that 1) a lot of hyped up methods for "brain training" don't do anything, and 2) the significance of results in research varies, and 3) there's much stronger evidence for EF improvement interventions in neurodivergent and disabled people than in people who don't have an EF impairment.
Executive functioning as a personality trait is definitely not a model that there is consensus on. The brain is too complicated for us to say for sure how a lot of things work; I have always been taught that executive functioning is a skill and a series of neurocognitive processes.
Look into cognitive, neurological/neurocognitive, and developmental perspectives on executive functioning; pretty sure you'll get much more optimistic results.
This book appears to be a very thorough overview of the field, and contains both advocates and detractors of cognitive training, for a balanced perspective. From the table of contents, I would really recommend jumping straight to Part 3: Developmental Perspectives, as it sounds like the first two parts focus on a very specific range of mostly commercial brain training methods (or "methods" in some cases), whereas part 3 focuses on EF interventions in a much broader sense and specifically evaluates evidence for which types are most promising and which are least promising.
Also certain therapy modalities are specifically designed for skill-building in areas like impulsivity, decision-making, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility, all of which are EF skills or very dependent on EF skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is probably the best field to look at for these - skill-building in those areas is its core goal.
Some DBT workbooks from an extremely credible and evidence-based publisher:
There are also a lot of workbooks for ADHD that are sometimes more broad but also can help with executive functioning:
My favorite pirate joke is “why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at c” not because it’s THAT funny but because it’s a relatively simple joke that nobody ive told it to has ever correctly guessed the punchline for because they all think it’s gonna be a joke about arrrr
Another classic is
“Why couldn’t the pirates play cards? Because the captain was standing on the deck!”
For more hilarious pirate jokes like these go to google and type pirate jokes into the search bar and click search
Sorry for the double reblog I just wanted to let everyone know that I told the first joke to my dad and he hung up on me.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE NEANDERTHAL CHILD WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME? Because they're all I've been thinking about when I'm sad for the past few days. Their existence makes me less sad.
Did you know that this is not a rarity? We have found remains showing catastrophic injuries - permanently disabling ones. With fully remodeled, healed bones.
It is NOT the default, it is NOT human nature to exclude disabled people from society. By nature we look after each other, by nature disability is just a natural part of the human variety that's made us so successful as a species.
By nature, people love.
just a little sex
CC:
Kermit: Oh, oh, uh... well, fine. Listen, after these messages we’ll be back with a lot of great funny sketches and, and some neat songs... hm, and, and maybe some sex-
Yellow Muppet: What?
Kermit, reassuringly: Hm? Well, just a little sex-
a series of unfortunate events is really the blueprint for characters doomed by the narrative like i think that series changed my brain chemistry forever… the title tells you how the story will end and the author repeatedly tries to warn you away but still you pick up the book. the first sentence is that it’s a tragedy and you keep reading anyway.. you read through the whole story and it’s terrible and tragic and unfortunate and then after you’ve stayed up late reading it under your covers with a flashlight, you go to your school library as soon as class is over and check out the next book in the series because you need to know what happens even though really, you already know. the end is right there in the title, it’s there in every page .. before the story even begins you know it’s a tragedy and you read it anyway and—
This is an absolute religious experience that I was not prepared for
Whoever did the caps for this deserves an award
Can never not reblog this, a Scottish national treasure 😂
lister and rowan say: TRANS LIBERATION BEGINS WITH SHOWING LOVE TO YOUR TRANS FRIENDS WHILE THEY'RE STILL HERE
tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse
snowy asf today (asf = as foretold, by the weatherman)
GUYS I FOUND THE ENTIRE LIST THAT PUTS THE BIBLE IN ORDER
(´-﹏-`；) SRY I DIDN'T SHOW U BEFORE! I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS MORE TO THE LIST (thx Pinterest)
