my mom said her sister would insult people by calling them bird names such as “yellow-bellied sapsucker” and “red-headed woodpecker” (last one reserved for people with red hair)
they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells
they are hurting you with spellsthey are hurting you with spellsthey are hurting you with spellsthey are hurting you with spells
Travis, mid-rant: “—gathering dice has no limit! Right? You haven’t said like ‘when I get a thousand dice—’”
Laura, interrupting: “No! No! ‘Cause here’s the thing! Have you been in Wil Wheaton’s game room?”
Travis: “Oh I’ve heard about the big ol’…”
Laura: “He’s got barrels, you guys! He’s got barrels of dice! Barrels!”
Travis: “Right! But short of, like, you know, Roger Rabbit throwing a bunch of, like, dice on a floor, making villains go like ‘who-o-oa!’ and fall, what are you gonna do with barrels of dice?!”
Laura, inexplicably Scottish: “I don’t know, I just want them!”
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This clip comes from a panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2017. Longer clips from this panel can be viewed »HERE«!
Erika: “Okay. Okay. Okay. Um. I’m getting—I’m gonna get—I’m gonna commit to these, uh, dishes. I’m getting dishes. It’s my first set of dishes. Um, they’re flat black and cool and each of them is a little bit [voice breaking] chipped and imperfect, just like me, and I’m gonna commit to these and I love them and I’m gonna buy them.”
Taliesin, offscreen: “Repeat after me.”
Erika: “Okay.”
Taliesin: “Flatware’s not a metaphor for my life.”
If you’re one of those people who thinks executive dysfunction only happens for things we don’t like (school, cleaning,) then please consider the fact that I’ve been meaning to plug my phone in for 20 minutes and I’m now at 2% and still putting it off to write this post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My anime/video game list consists of over 100 titles, easily, and yet I almost never get around to watching/playing any of them.
Executive dysfunction is not just for boring or unenjoyable things. It’s for everything. Even eating.
What is executive dysfunction? O.o
Put simply, it’s difficulty/inability with initiating tasks. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive functions, like decision-making and impulse control. People with ADHD and other neurological disorders that affect the prefrontal cortex often experience difficulty making decisions and performing tasks, as well as exercising self restraint. Part of why people with ADHD tend to procrastinate so badly is out of genuine inability to begin tasks, even if they’re very important.
It feels, for me at least, like I’m constantly waiting for something and I can’t start X task because I’m waiting. I never know what exactly I’m waiting for, but that doesn’t stop me from wasting hours and days not doing the things I need to do, even if I have a desire to do them.
It feels, for me at least, like I’m constantly waiting for something and I can’t start X task because I’m waiting. I never know what exactly I’m waiting for, but that doesn’t stop me from wasting hours and days not doing the things I need to do, even if I have a desire to do them.
Oh thank god, someoneput it into words.
For me it’s also waiting for the “right” time to come to complete the task because for some reason my brain thinks doing the task at any other time is horribly, horribly wrong, weird, and out of order. The “right” time might come eventually, might not. It’s a lottery.
Yeah. This.
Y’all make it sound so deep but tbh to me it feels like tapping on the ‘Do the dishes’ button but a screen pops up saying ‘you must be lvl 27 to do this activity’ and I’m like ‘well shit I’m only lvl 26 so I guess I’ll just dick around until my exp goes up
And then next time I tap ‘do the dishes’ it demands I’m lvl 28 and by that time it’s getting a bit moldy and I’m just staring furiously at this pile of dishes, slapping the ‘Do the Dishes’ button to no avail. The stars aren’t in position.
The stars are never in position.
sometimes there’s a Just Fucking Do It special move available but it depletes your entire power bar and the recharge speed is completely unpredictable
I click Do Thing and it loads to 78% and then stays that way for 3 days
For me it’s like a notification pops up saying “The dishes need doing. You have 4 seconds to comply. If you do not comply within the allotted time, “Do Dishes” feature will become unavailable for 3 weeks.”
And if I don’t get up literally that instant and force myself to do the task, and wait even like 3-5 minutes, it becomes like when u open an un-dismissible window and accidentally click outside the box and your computer makes that chime noise to let you know that the option to click outside the box (do the dishes) doesn’t exist.
And then I’m just laying there like “ding…ding……ding….” until 3 weeks has passed and I’m given another 4 seconds to seize the opportunity to do the dishes.
That last one is 100% yes.
All of these.
And there are methods for working around it, but my brain keeps patching the loopholes I use to exploit it and get stuff done so I have to keep finding new ones
My body lags.
Yes. I know this feeling. I know I have a lesson to prepare but I can’t drag myself to do it and I wait and wait and now it’s five minutes after we’re supposed to start and I have to start the video call even though I have no lesson plan at all.
I feel like a manual-transmission car with the clutch pedal depressed. I can shift into gear, I can press the accelerator down, I can turn the wheel, but nothing’s happening because the clutch is disconnecting the engine from the wheels and until/unless I figure out how to make that clutch pedal stop doing its thing, I’m not going anywhere.
for me it feels like my body is no longer accepting input from my conscious mind. i’ll type in ‘get out of the car and go inside’ but it turns out the keyboard was disconnected and i’m not the one who can plug it back in, but nobody else can see the problem
a man: hm. see I wouldn’t have phrased it exactly like that. I might have said “hello” or perhaps “salutations.” but the way you said it is cute though.
Is it because I’m a precambrian mass of bacteria forming a grotesque monster being that reeks of rotting flesh and causes madness upon all who see it?
I even grew an appendage with several eyes for you.
I know why it is. It’s because I’m not like all the other precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them that all the women like. See-
Other precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them:
Me:
I never stood a chance.
I know what it is. It’s all about looks. Because women all love DARREN:
Yeah, Darren’s all hot and hunky but he treats you all like DIRT. Women love precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them who treat them bad. That’s all.
Darren is mean to me and all the other precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them, and he beat up Zargzaxanorg in front of everybody but Michelle still went out with him and then he was all mean to her and dumped her and Christine went right for him next. Women just don’t care about the kinds of precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them they date so long as they look like Darren.
Screw you Darren and all the women who went for you even though you just want to discharge your spores into their brains. I’m not like all the other precambrian masses of bacteria forming grotesque monster beings that reek of rotting flesh and cause madness upon all who see them, I’m a NICE precambrian mass of bacteria forming a grotesque monster being that reeks of rotting flesh and causes madness upon all who see it. But a lot of good that does me :(
One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
