#brain stuff

[qapleulia]

saving my favourite twitter thread here just in case

#m #autism #brain stuff #twitter

[sparklemaia]

I'm two full weeks into comic book school now (spoilers: it is E V E R Y T H I N G) but here's a lil journal comic about the move from west coast to east coast I drew a coupla weeks ago 🌕

if you wanna see art from life at Comic Book School (omg) plus early access to comics like this, you can sign up (it is free!) for my substack, which will send emails full of my drawings right to your very own inbox!! (there's also a $5/mo option to get Extra Secret Content but like 80% of my posts are free and publicly available because ily)

#feelings #journal comic #art school #comics #cartooning #moving #transitions #brain stuff #mental health #personal #autobio comic

[gravehags]

my brain: hey girl do you think you slipped into the habit of maladaptive daydreaming as a child and continued as an adult because you were so incredibly lonely all the time even while surrounded by others due to your then undiagnosed autism and anxiety disorders :)

me, in the middle of a maladaptive daydream and not paying attention: huh

#just cruising through life pretending i don’t understand why i do what i do #✌🏼🤙🏼👋🏼 #brain stuff #maladaptive daydreaming

[sybilius]

#polls #brain stuff #please share your answer in the tags! #im 24/7 soundtrack

[duelwieldingraccoon]

#credit in source #raccooncore #raccoon memes #raccoon meme #memes #brain stuff #actuallymentallyill

[gailyinthedark]

Four is such a great number when executive dysfunction is kicking my butt. Sometimes five and ten are too daunting and anything beyond that is clearly impossible, but four is barely a number. I can go for a four-minute walk or fold four pieces of laundry because that hardly qualifies as a task. Sometimes it's still enough to break me out of paralysis but even if it doesn't, I've accomplished four of something. And then I can arrange them in a square in my brain if I want, which is pretty. I love four.

#brain stuff #executive dysfunction

[t-a-c]

the flipside of 'autistic picky eater' is sometimes you find a fruit or vegetable you really like, prepared in a way you really like, and whoops now you're teaching yourself how to make something like tempura eggplant because you can't justify spending money at a Japanese restaurant once a week

#tack rambles #brain stuff #actuallyautistic

[axiseart]

Hypervigilance

#brain stuff #human brain #eyes #eyestrain #mental state #mental health #dark surreal art #sketchbook #sketches #traditional drawing #dark surrealism #dark art #traditional sketch #my artwork #my drawings #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #support human artists #might translate this one into a painting

[askagamedev]

You have talked about certain things young designers can do that will set them up for failure, namely not studying in college, not prototyping ideas, and trying to burn themselves out by working to hard at the beginning and then slowing down later. What are other common early mistakes that will make a game developers job harder?

One common mistake I see with young devs is that they invest too much of their identities into what they do for work. I can understand that quite well - for most of my early career, I did the same thing. I was the game dev. I worked on famous games that most people had played, or at least heard of. It's a really big ego boost when total strangers you meet know of your work and are impressed with your job. I would caution young devs to avoid this.

One very hard lesson I learned over my career is that the industry is volatile. It's very easy to lose your job - the company financials start looking bad and there's layoffs. The game doesn't sell well and there's layoffs. The game is sunsetting so there's layoffs. When the vast majority of the costs in the industry are salaries, the vast majority of cost-cutting is how many workers to let go. We've seen a huge number of layoffs in 2023 and this year so far. I doubt we've seen the last of them. Job losses are commonplace in the industry, which is what makes the next part a really big deal.

If a large part of my identity is based on my job, I'm suddenly forced to deal with a significantly changed identity when I don't have a job anymore. That's extremely difficult to deal with when the chips are down, because being jobless puts a lot more responsibilities on my shoulders for my survival - I need to be operating at my best. At the very least I need to project confidence and competence in order to find a new job. If I must go for an extended period without work (e.g. an economic recession), that gap in my sense of identity from being a game dev encourages depression and melancholy to occupy that space. Overall it's much more healthy to separate who I am from what I do so that I don't end up in this feast or famine situation, especially when I need stronger mental health levels to find a job than I do to keep a job.

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#working in the game industry #in my experience #brain stuff

[rimmer-ish]

"I need him" "I need him" as if his wife is not right there

#brain stuff #me w rimmer. poor lister

[vexwerewolf]

Wow I did the correct sequence of actions in the correct order to make my brain make the good chemicals so maybe we'll actually be able to get some writing done today

#mental health #neurodivergence #brain #brain stuff

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

I love El Goonish Shive because you can have a talking stage-magician's wand which was created to teach people magic, and which doesn't understand that people don't have "purposes" the way it does, and then it learns that a character who is Very Autistc has been pulling all-nighters researching stuff, and drops everything to teach them the Japanese word "karōshi", meaning "death from overwork", as a way of convincing them to Stop Doing That. and then you scroll down look down at the author commentary, and the author is like "Yeah, I learned that word from the anime I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years, the first episode got me to stop staying up past sunrise to work on the comic and then getting out of bed 3-4 hours later to immediately continue working on the comic."

like I need you to know that this is not a hypothetical example or an exaggeration. I am describing something which literally happened, today.

#shenanigans #canon shenanigans #philosophy #el goonish shive #kevin egs #kevin the wand #tedd verres #autism #brain stuff #dan shive #I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years #overwork

[lyraoctavia]

You ever just see someone talk about why something you absolutely love is actually terrible and then you rant silently to yourself while pacing around the room for about two hours detailing every single reason and nuance as to why you love that thing in an effort to justify why you ever loved it in the first place?

So anyway, I saw a post about Starco this morning

#brain stuff #hyperfixations #star vs the forces of evil #star vs. #starco #star butterfly #marco diaz

[not-lame-llama]

Ghoulia Yelps fanart! She was always one of my favorites

#ghoulia yelps #monster high ghoulia #mh ghoulia #ghoulia fanart #digital fanart #fanart #monster #monster high #ghoul #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital art #brain stuff #pretty face #face #head shot

[chaoschaoswriting]

Writing is an eternal fight against a 1kg-ish electrified jelly that only hallucinates when you don't have a blank page in front of you. No wonder it sucks so much.

#writing #writeblr #writing humor #writing humour #brain stuff #writers block

[diamoric-comix]

I should make a zine of just therapy comics it would be called "this bitch is so wise"

#comic #therapy #special #neurodivergent #mental health #brain stuff