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ThreePunchAxel · September 17, 2023 20:44:17

Homemade bread is great

additonalky, if you think you’re neurodivergent, ask your parents to get you tested by a psychiatrist. it can get you a lot of good benefits

Basket Cat · September 18, 2023 08:42:44

agreed

can you explain these said benefits so I can use them in my argument against my parents

SpecterTheGreat · September 18, 2023 08:57:51

Mmmm bread good I agree 101%

I was just about to write a post in reply to your previous concerns but more in general I agree with Axel. I've been wanted to get tested for a while too (still can't because of life stuff tho) and my argument for trying to get an appointment was that I just want to clear out doubts. Like, it might be a neurodivergency, it might not be, but you wont't know for sure until you get tested, yes? In the case it is, you'd get help with that, and if it isn't, then you can still get help for other things that you feel are hindering your daily life (my psychologist helped me out with my anger issues when I was a lot younger) and in general you don't really lose anything by seeing an specialist.

Until/if you get an appointment though, there's a bunch of things you can do to try to make your daily life a bit easier! This may sound cliché but pausing for a bit and taking deep breaths really does help when there's something that makes you very angry. Something I was taught to do was that when I felt that deep nervous-like anger in mye, I'd stop and try to figure out WHAT was making me angry since a lot of the time it's not really "someone else" making you mad but a specific action or sometimes even something you don't think you did well. It might even be something that happened by chance.
And something I used to do to vent out my anger (like when it seriously wouldn't let me sit still or leave my mind) was to just to something physical like run around a bit or jump for a while or something like that. I've found that moving around a lot or doing something where you have to use a lot of skill in your hands/full concentration can really help ease the nerves after strong emotions. Or get one of those squishable balls or a fidget spinner. I like my fidget spinner for this.
In my case what hinders me the most on a daily basis is my poor memory/lack of attention and while I don't know if that's the case for you too, something I was advised to do to try to counteract that was to write things down as soon as they came into my mind. Doesn't always work because often I will forget to just write stuff down, but I got my mom to give me reminders for stuff and I set a lot of alarms on my phone/watch and now I have a board and big calendar in my room so I can accurately visualize what day it is and write a list of every single important thing I have to do daily. That keeps me from 1. forgetting what day it is today, 2. losing track of time/weekdays, 3. forgetting homework and when it's due, 4. forgetting important stuff like meetings and washing my face and stuff. But also, seeing everything laid out like a list makes it so I can see what things I have left to do and so I don't get distracted as easily by any other thoughts that might come into my mind.

I hope the above tips can help out somewhat!

Basket Cat · September 18, 2023 14:25:12

thanks for the reminders, I tend to do these things a little already, but I'll try to be more proactive about it, especially the frustration coping skills. I also do things like fidget but...that results in my chewing my fingernails and cuticles which is not good so I should probably get an actual fidget toy to keep on me or something

Something I discovered is that if I build something into a routine, or "flow," I can usually get the things inside it done, but the second something else comes in and disrupts it or I forget to do something it all falls apart lol

ThreePunchAxel · September 18, 2023 16:43:17

i can recommend some good fidget toys that are also useful. there's a pen i like that's made up of magnets that you can move around and mess with

Basket Cat · September 18, 2023 16:51:50

yes pls fidget toy recommendations

GalaxianExplosion · September 18, 2023 18:46:44

Basket Cat wrote:
yes pls fidget toy recommendations

sorry but I read this as "pls fidget my recommendations" and was kinda confused to say the least.

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · September 19, 2023 09:23:28

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
Basket Cat wrote:
yes pls fidget toy recommendations
sorry but I read this as "pls fidget my recommendations" and was kinda confused to say the least.

-Galaxian-

oh god

Basket Cat · September 19, 2023 09:24:00

asked my mom and she said that in theory she'd be willing to get me tested for things except for the fact it would cost thousands of dollars

so

that's fair

Basket Cat · September 19, 2023 09:25:25

to be specific this would also include testing me for some kind of audio processing disorder which both me and my mom vaguely suspect I have, but there's some symptom overlap with that and ADHD so there's taht

either way you put it there is something that is Not the Norm going on in my brain

Basket Cat · September 19, 2023 09:26:32

probably

Basket Cat · September 19, 2023 10:33:09

alcohol tastes like expired water why do people like drinking it

Basket Cat · September 20, 2023 09:57:29

I'm like 100% sure you all have seen this already but like

Basket Cat · September 20, 2023 09:59:06

its slightly offbeat which bothers me a little but its not that bad

this is one of my favorite videos

Basket Cat · September 20, 2023 10:00:58

it probably doesn't bother me too badly because it still lines up with the choir (which was the intention)

Basket Cat · September 23, 2023 17:04:33

I've had work for the last three days + school and I'm exhausted how do people do this every day

Time · September 24, 2023 04:50:22

Who knows, maybe its growing pains, but like, for emotions, you know?

Basket Cat · September 28, 2023 12:31:50

ah yes getting jumpscared by Galaxian changing the boardhost again

GalaxianExplosion · September 28, 2023 12:40:01

quake in my presence, mortals, and revere me.

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · September 28, 2023 13:24:39

bold of you to assume i didn't already

Basket Cat · October 1, 2023 07:32:40

THE SPOOKY MONTH BEGINS LETS FREAKING GO

Basket Cat · October 4, 2023 12:03:19

My literature claims The Alligator War is a dark short story so obviously I went to go read it and its genuinely one of the funniest stories I've ever read that story is a TRIP

you can't look me in the eyes and tell me a story with a sturgeon helping a bunch of alligators fire a torpedo at a warship and blowing it up is symbolic for something dark and depressing

I though from how the book described it was supposed to be something like how indigenous peoples were being pushed out of their native lands and the alligators were a metaphor for that bUT THE ALLIGATORS WON

WHO WROTE THIS STORY I NEED TO MEET THEM

Basket Cat · October 4, 2023 12:10:54

My siblings are literally going to go to war over the Minecraft live mobs this year

ThreePunchAxel · October 4, 2023 19:14:58

crab for the win

i need to see ten million waving at me

Basket Cat · October 5, 2023 07:57:13

but armadillo

mainly because of dog armor

but I like armadillos

Basket Cat · October 5, 2023 07:57:23

though I will admit the crab does look fantastic

Basket Cat · October 5, 2023 11:13:26

The penguin was announced and I think they're all cute but I still want the armadillo

I would but most upset if the penguin won bc it seems like its just a dolphin but it can go on land

at least the crab has the meme potential

Basket Cat · October 9, 2023 08:36:27

ROCKS ARE COOL

Basket Cat · October 9, 2023 08:36:39

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN CLIMB THEM

Time · October 10, 2023 03:17:29

Did you go... wait, lemme guess... rock climbing?

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