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“If you have read this, Make a Wish, Do it with all your might, close your eyes, share on your blog, because it will be fulfilled.”

— poetry-siir ©

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Advice?

I’ve just started taking vyvanse 20mg capsules. I had my first dose today and barely had any side effects apart from being repulsed by food and So Damn Thirsty, so that’s great, but I was just wondering if anyone else on Vyvanse or anything similar could answer some stuff for me?

-Do I ever get to have caffeine again? I won’t be able to survive winter without approximately 7 cups of tea a day

-I’ve heard of ‘medication holidays’ where you like,,, stop your medication for a lil while? Do these help? Are they bad?

-Last question, slightly illegal, how much Vyvanse would someone have to take to get high? This is not for me, I am just curious

-Wait no one more question I forgot about before. Vyvanse and weed? I don’t do any drugs, but I plan on trying weed this year, should I not be on vyvanse when/if I try this?

TL;DR- I got questions about vyvanse because I’m new.

#vyvanse #adhd #adhd meds #vyvanse doesn't take away the gargoyle instinct huh #adderall

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Vyvanse

Took my first dose of Vyvanse 20mg about 6 hours ago after being diagnosed with ADHD very recently, here are some things I've noticed!

-Not hyperactive, but definitely still hypertalkative, I have talked to my mum way too much today. -Food is no longer appealing, hunger cues don't usually work for me but when I think of food I usually then want it, now I don't. -My head seems very clear, I didn't feel the Vyvanse kick in, but my brain feels smooth (I know smooth brains are bad but it's a metaphor) -I have had so much water. Usually I don't drink much at all (bad thirst cues) but today I've probably had about 1800mls of liquid -Executive function seems like it's a thing. Granted I have spent most of the day hyperfocusing on vyvanse and researching about it, but I can think about cleaning my room without having a feeling of overwhelming dread!

Obviously this is the first day and my body will adjust and have a different response to it, but it seems pretty good so far.

#vyvanse #adhd #actually adhd #adderall #ritalin #lisdexamphetamine

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RSD is Cucking Me

I went out into a city with friends today for the first time in a while and everything was so loud and hard to deal with and I was on the edge of a meltdown like 60% of the time, and on top of that,

My RSD decided to absolutely fuck me over

I was with a person whos opinion I vale (possibly too) highly and therefore was basically constantly seeking their validation the entie day, which was fucking exhausting, and I kept getting horrible stabs of RSD, which I mostly managed to ignore so that I could like, not have a meltdown in Sephora (btw why the fuck is the music in sephora so loud, could they just not). And then on the train home when I could “relax” a bit the RSD kicked in like Hell and everything was horrible. I’ve had two like, “attacks” of RSD this evening with a residual sense of failure all day and I just can’t deal with this.

I don’t even have any coping mechanisms for this, how do you cope with RSD??

#rsd #rsd sucks #rejection sensitive dysphoria #adhd #spd #tadhdfw

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Go you! I have an appointment tomorrow with a GP, so hopefully something comes out of that!

So, I am going to go to the doctor and try to get diagnosed for ADHD and/or ASD. Today during a free at school I wrote a list of symptoms that I show that are of each of those disorders. I have over 15 symptoms for each of the disorders (not combined 15 symptoms in total, 15 *different* symptoms for each disorder), and these symptoms cause problems for me. Now, the fact that I’ve got a literal list of the problems these disorders create may seem like solid evidence for getting at least pretty close to a diagnosis, yeah? Well, the main complication is that I am a girl, and I get good grades.

TL;DR: I have lots ofe evidence for an ADHD/ASD diagnosis, but I am a girl.

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I would argue that quite a few of these things can occur separately to neurodivergence, and would therefore be ok to refer to those specific things with the language needed for them. Like, hypersensitivity is a thing outside of neurodivergence, it’s literally a hyper-sensitivity, not somethings specific to neurodivergence. Granted, hypersensitivity to things is extremely common in people who are neurodiverse, but hypersensitivity isn’t limited to them.

no offense, but if you're neurotypical, you can't use words or phrases like "hyperfocus," "hyperfixate," "stimming," "executive dysfunction," "hypersensitive," "nonverbal," etc. when referring to yourself. you just can't. it's our language, and it's really insensitive and offensive to appropriate it into your own lives and psychology. these words are here for us to use, to describe our specific, unique experiences that NTs could never understand. using this language outside of its intended meaning deprives us of anything we had for ourselves, and our way of communicating with each other to express our unique struggles and culture.

I know it may disappoint you to be unable to use these specific words, but there are so many other words you can use and still get your point across! there are literally thousands! your life will never be made more difficult due to your neuropsychology, so please, leave our language alone. thanks.

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Why do you hate that word?

So I heard that NT’s can’t unfocus their eyes on command and that ND’s CAN unfocus their eyes on command. I, an neurodivergent, CAN unfocus my eyes on command. So, neurotypicals and other noeurodivegents, does this trend follow?

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So, I am going to go to the doctor and try to get diagnosed for ADHD and/or ASD. Today during a free at school I wrote a list of symptoms that I show that are of each of those disorders. I have over 15 symptoms for each of the disorders (not combined 15 symptoms in total, 15 *different* symptoms for each disorder), and these symptoms cause problems for me. Now, the fact that I’ve got a literal list of the problems these disorders create may seem like solid evidence for getting at least pretty close to a diagnosis, yeah? Well, the main complication is that I am a girl, and I get good grades.

TL;DR: I have lots ofe evidence for an ADHD/ASD diagnosis, but I am a girl.

#undiagnosed adhd #adhd #adhd problems #asd #diagnosis #female #autism

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Please, keep me updated

Fun fact of the day!! do not under any circumstance think that it may be a good idea to play Master Blaster on the bass trombone!!!! It’s a bad idea!! a very bad idea!!

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this user has dysthymia

#this user has dysthymia #dysthymia #Persistent depressive disorder #depressive disorder #depression #mood disorder #mental illness #userbox #my box

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this user has dysthymia

#this user has dysthymia #dysthymia #Persistent depressive disorder #depressive disorder #depression #mood disorder #mental illness #userbox #my box

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hey what earphones did you get? I’m looking into buying a pair soon

HEJXBDKDJDBDJ ok so my earbuds stopped working bc I accidentally washed them in the pocket of my jeans right?? But I HAVE to have my tunes to get through the day so the first gas station I drove by on my way to work, I went in look for new earbuds and bought wireless ones bc none of the others will work with the iPhone’s headphone jack now and I don’t have a dongle with me right? (Ajejcjbsej I fucking hate the word dongle)....ANYWAY,

I’ve never had wireless before??? idk why, I just always assumed they wouldn’t work as well as regular ones??? Or that they would last as long or something fil I literally have no idea why I thought that.... Lol so anyway:

THESE ARE MY FAVORITE EARBUDS EVER NOW WTF LMAOOOO

it was soooo easy to pair them with my phone and the sound is so good and I don’t have a friggin wire constantly in the way and I don’t have to worry about headphone jacks and dongles or any other shit lol I’m in love 🤣🤣🤣 I should’ve tried this foreverrrrr ago 😍

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A little advice??

Hey! I want to get a face mask (corona, etc.) but I would love it to have a good design on it. There are lots of good designs that I like on redbubble, but shipping for masks on there is really expensive, does anyone have any advice?

#covid_19 #coronavirus #face mask #redbubble #shipping #finance #i really want a face mask with karl marx on it but not if shipping is going to cost $20 #communism #I lack communist propaganda

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Writing systems in the world

A writing system is a method of visually representing verbal communication. There are about 4,000 languages that make use of an established writing system.

All writing systems require:

at least one set of defined base elements or symbols, individually termed signs and collectively called a script;

at least one set of rules and conventions (orthography) understood and shared by a community, which assigns meaning to the base elements (graphemes), their ordering and relations to one another;

at least one language (generally spoken) whose constructions are represented and can be recalled by the interpretation of these elements and rules;

some physical means of distinctly representing the symbols by application to a permanent or semi-permanent medium, so they may be interpreted (usually visually, but tactile systems have also been devised).

Generally, threre are three major types of writing systems: alphabets, syllabaries, and logographies. There are a number of subdivisions of each type, and there are different classifications of writing systems in different sources.

Alphabets use a standard set of letters representing the consonants and vowels of a spoken language. The correspondence is almost never one-to-one. Usually several different letters represent one phoneme and/or several phonemes are represented by the same letter. Alternately, a sequence of two or more letters can represent a single phoneme. Abjads differ from alphabets in that vowels are not indicated, and in abugidas or alphasyllabaries each character represents a consonant-vowel pairing.

Syllabaries consist of symbols that represent syllables (which are considered to be a basic building block of the words).

Logographies use characters corresponding to words, morphemes or other semantic units.

Alphabets typically use a set of less than 100 symbols to fully express a language, whereas syllabaries can have several hundred, and logographies can have thousands of symbols.

Segmental systems

A segmental script has graphemes which represent the phonemes (basic unit of sound) of a language.

Alphabets

Alphabets, or phonemic alphabets, are sets of letters that represent consonants and vowels. The word “alphabet” is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.

Alphabets currently in use include Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian (Mkhedruli), Greek, Korean (hangŭl), Latin/Roman, N’Ko, and Tifinagh.

Abjads

The first type of alphabet that was developed was the abjad. An abjad is an alphabetic writing system where there is one symbol per consonant. Abjads differ from other alphabets in that they have characters only for consonantal sounds, although vocalization is used in specific contexts, such as in religious books and children’s books. The term “abjad” takes its name from the old order of the Arabic alphabet’s consonants ‘alif, bā’, jīm, and dāl.

Arabic, Hebrew and Thaana are the only abjads currently in use, but Samaritan and Syriac are used to a limited extent.

Abugidas

An abugida is an alphabetic writing system whose basic signs denote consonants with an inherent vowel and where consistent modifications of the basic sign indicate other following vowels than the inherent one. The graphic similarity of most abugidas comes from the fact that they are derived from abjads, and the consonants make up the symbols with the inherent vowel and the new vowel symbols are markings added on to the base symbol. The name abugida is derived from the first four characters of an order of the Ge'ez script used in some contexts.

Abugidas that are currently in use include Bengali, Burmese/Myanmar, Cree (Nêhiyaw), Dehong Dai (Tai Le), Devanāgarī, Fraser, Ge’ez (Ethiopic), Gujarāti, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Inuktitut, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Naskapi (Innu Aimun), Ojibwe (Anishinaabe), Odia, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, and Tibetan. 

The ones used to a limited extent are Balinese, Batak, Bilang-bilang, Blackfoot (Siksika), Buhid, Carrier (Dulkw’ahke), Chakma, Cham, Dhurwa, Ditema, Gondi, Grantha, Hanifi, Hanuno’o, Hmong, Javanese, Jenticha, Kaithi, Kerinci, Khoiki, Kirat Rai, Kulitan, Lampung, Lanna, Lepcha (Róng-Ríng), Limbu/Kirati, Lontara, Lota Ende, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek), Mon, Mwangwego, New Tai Lue, Ranjana, Rejang, Sasak, Satera Jontal, Saurashtra, Shan, Sharda, Siddham, Sorang Sompeng, Soyombo, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tikamuli, Tolong Siki, Tigalari, and Varang Kshiti.

Syllabic systems

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words.

Syllabaries currently in use include Cherokee (Tsalagi), Hiragana (Japanese), Katakana (Japanese), and Yi (Nosu).

Logographic systems

The symbols used in logographic systems often represent both sound and meaning. These scripts can also be called semanto-phonetic, logophonetic, morphoprhonemic, or logosyllabic.

They may include the following types of symbol:

Pictograms and logograms

Pictograms or pictographs resemble the things they represent. Logograms are symbols that represent parts of words or whole words.

Ideograms

Ideograms or ideographs are symbols which graphically represent abstract ideas.

Compound characters

Compound characters include a semantic element, which represents or hints at their meaning, and a phonetic element, which shows or hints at their pronunciation.

The semanto-phonetic writing systems currently in use are Chinese (Zhōngwén) and Japanese (Nihongo), while Naxi is used mainly for decorative, ceremonial or religious purposes.

Directionality

Scripts are also graphically characterized by the direction in which they are written. Egyptian hieroglyphs were written either left to right or right to left.

The early alphabet could be written in multiple directions: horizontally (side to side), or vertically (up or down). Prior to standardization, alphabetical writing was done both left-to-right and right-to-left.

The Greek alphabet and its successors settled on a left-to-right pattern, from the top to the bottom of the page. Other scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, came to be written right-to-left. Scripts that incorporate Chinese characters have traditionally been written vertically (top-to-bottom), from the right to the left of the page, but nowadays are frequently written left-to-right, top-to-bottom, due to Western influence.

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Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):

The lives of great classical composers.

Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy and attitudes towards women, homosexuality etc.

Poisons.

The tea trade, and how it became so important to British culture.

18th century fashion and the production of clothing.

How corsets aren't the terrible patriarchal torture devices everyone thinks they are.

The use of recreational drugs in the late 19th century.

The French revolution.

Methods of forensic investigation at crime scenes.

Controversy in psychological studies.

Matriarchal societies.

How nostalgia influences fashion, media, and literature.

The nature versus nurture argument.

The history of trains and railroads.

Symbolism in art.

Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)

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Corbin: I live for two reasons.

Falen: And... they would be?

Corbin: I was born, and I haven’t died yet.

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Fact 1: In most versions of Dungeons & Dragons, when infected – as opposed to natural-born – lycanthropes transform under the full moon, they assume the default alignment of their type during the ensuing mindless rampage.

Fact 2: In most versions of Dungeons & Dragons, the default alignment of werebears is Lawful Good.

Conclusion: When an infected werebear transforms under the full moon, they go on a mindless Lawful Good rampage.