#learn swim

[ifartconfetti]

Hello neurodivergent people. I was wondering if I'm just weird or it is common to not being able to learn certain motoric skills at the same time as my peers and learned them MUCH later

#poll #a friend of mine only learned to ride her bike in her 20s #i didnt manage to snap my fingers until i was like 18 #i still cant reliably whistle or swim #i was a latebloomer with almost everything that involves having to copy someones physical movement #pretty sure i was the last one to learn to tie my shoes in kindergarten #oops i forgot the option for 'nope' sorry lmao

[theophagie]

I thought I was losing it but no, kh1 Sora's fast swimming animation really does change after you've been to Atlantica. It's a small detail, but also a cute and smart one 🥺

#edit nobody say anything i didn't realise that the dolphin kick ability extended to beyond atlantica ok i am dumb #and i didn't even think to read over its description twice. ok #but still!!! by lore he Did learn to swim better there so (*copium*) #kingdom hearts #video games #mytext #what i learned since making this post is that people don't read tags

[inkskinned]

something bad happened to you, and you died, and you came back wrong.

not wrong all the way. the little ways. you forget important dates, stopped going out with friends. it's harder to make you smile. you're apathetic towards things you used to love, afraid of places you used to go to cheer up. quieter. flinching. different.

you came back for love. you're still here for love. what pulled you back was a brightness so loud that even death couldn't outshout it. death heard the call and smiled at you and said okay. go home. somebody is waiting for you.

but you came back different. like lot's wife; you've turned into salt. you used to chirp through life in hops and skips; but now you lose skin just standing up. you have to move slower, skimming across this world without-touching-it. most things feel dull - until they're suddenly all-too-much. life, and being alive just rushes up and over you and you get hopelessly crushed.

you try to explain it to them: it is ugly, but this is what you are, now. the huge golden hoop of your halo now a little bronze ring. you are still watering your plants and wearing the same clothes. after all, you worked hard to come home. this life; so odd and off-color, now that you are wrong.

but they waited for you - it's just that they wanted the "you" that happened before this. the "you" that could sing in the show and hug people tight and look at a blade without breaking down to cry. the you with a smile in pictures. god, holyshit, it's like looking at a completely different person, isn't it. that other-you; the one they actually wanted.

you are the consolation prize. you are the body that forgot the ghost. you are the memory of the bad thing, and the death after; like you are wearing that memory as a banner. you are a fragment, an assembly. simulacrum. you don't make eye contact in mirrors, afraid the light will glance off and your true nature will flash back at you.

you hear them talk about it in their hushed, desperate whispers. sometimes they even admit it to your face; harsh and violent, acid thrown at christmas dinner. god, can you just fucking be normal again. you do not remember what normal is. you had to climb so far to get back here; you are far too exhausted. you want to open the glass door of your heart and show all the gears. can you help resolve whatever got messed up?

you try so, so hard. you came back for them. because you believed they would love you, even when you were so horribly broken. because you believed they would be patient. because you believed unconditional meant "without exception." you cannot do things the same way. you just get tired too quickly these days.

you want to put them on a couch and pour them the tea with hands that shake more than they remember. you want to line them up and draw them a map of where you have had to wander. you want to show every bruise in a backsplash; the little helpless ant of your soul carrying all that weight, over and over. you want to say: yes! it is different! but i did it for love!

you want to say: "i'm not the same, but i'm yours and i'm here. can that be enough?"

#this is very obviously about my battle with #ptsd #but i think it's also like a pretty apt metaphor for a lot of things like setting boundaries or going to therapy or choosing recovery #i was thinking about the 'comes back wrong' trope and i was like. oh no i have feelings about this bc i have mental illness #and once i stopped masking - i was WRONG. i was different #here's the good news: i am now INNUNDATED with love. fucking swimming in it. excelling at it. the people who stayed #learned my new self. my new different body and how i am different but i am trying. they have held me so tightly #and my life no longer feels quiet. it is not based in my suffering. it feels like i have been growing a tree in my chest #and now it is flowering. #it is so lovely to be surrounded by people who have said - oh! you cut off so many branches i was worried you weren't the same. but now... #... this is just a new you. and i love you. and i love that you're different and happy. #(but yeah also im nb so i was absolutely influenced by Trans things)

[aly-doodle]

I’m only absolutely obsessed with them—

#going for his first swim #listen learned— don’t draw eye strain art at 2 am with the lights off #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel #hazbin lucifer #hazbin adam #adam hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #lucifer hazbin hotel #guitarduck #adamsapple #I’m gonna shake them #please don’t ruin the quality tumblr

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil! I run a Doctor Who club at my university and this week we are watching The Doctor’s Wife. Are there any specific points about that story that you feel I should bring up?

Love your work!

Just that if Karen Gillan had been able to swim we would have had a scene in the Tardis swimming pool.

#she has since learned how to swim

[sky-ham]

concept art shadowheart taking a swim (in my brain)

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #shadowheart #bg3art #skyhamdraws #she learned how to swim ok!!

[bolly--quinn]

being a girl dad means that you have the privilege of knowing at least (1) beautiful woman who hates you

#rick and morty #rick and morty fanart #rick and morty season 7 #how poopy got his poop back #rick sanchez #beth smith #space beth #birdperson #birddaughter #morty smith #amramart #adult swim #the ep was ok but all i think about is how both of these losers have beautiful daughters good for them #also i am learning how to draw more on model now so mwahaha

[edgeasaurus-art]

this is the real reason we haven't had an episode about these three yet. It took two episodes just for force ashton into the pool, not to mention the floaties...

#what reason would ashton have to learn to swim #none thats why he has the floaties. #critical role ashton #ashton greymoore #critical role laudna #laudna #critical role orym #orym of the air ashari #critical role ashton greymoore #pool party #critical role art #critical role fanart #critical role #ashrym #laudmoore

[eggsploded]

tweet that really spoke to me

#egg art #limbus company #yi sang #dante #dante lcb #ship art if you desire #yi sang has the gentle sorrowful eyes of a baby seal learning how to swim

[muzzleroars]

happy summer from the sunny shores of purgatory 🌞🌴🍹

#ultrakill #v1 #gabriel #i know i just complained about summer BUT it's also a vibe #i've just been having fun lately making up color palettes #and i've been feeling very vibrant bc of the weather!! #plus i just. couldn't stop thinking about v1 learning to swim #but all it can do is doggy paddle. with a life jacket to keep it afloat #also i think it hot glued the flower to its head #doodle tag #(binary reads “wish you were here!”)

[eyesteeth]

imo every water metaphor people throw at faulkner gets better when you remember he can't swim. “stories are currents, and he plunges headlong into those rushing waters, time and time again" yeah and he can't swim. he's drowning in the narrative he's making for himself. "speak now of the man you will leave behind, the man you have been... drown him in the river’s depths" yeah he's been trying to. he kinda always is, a little bit, just by virtue of being there.

it just speaks to such a fundamental incompatibility in my eyes. he's still scared - he ran out of the hotel when he sainted the hotelier in season one and he runs away from the angel he summons in s3e6. it seems like he can only partake in violence through abstraction - it's just water and symbols until someone's dead or changed in front of him, and then it's real. the withermark is a holy triumph until he counts the houses and the people inside, and then it's something no one should ever have. sacrifice is foundational to all faith in this universe. this isn't something he can avoid, even if the upcoming schism lets him steer his part of the faith where he wants.

(and, to tangent, someone telling him that they finally killed her in some distant town isn't real because he didn't see her face when she hit the soil. if that happens then she's just someone who's not there anymore and he can keep on missing her like he's been doing. i am convinced this is why he gave the shoot on sight order.)

it’s mentioned that he's left alone in his room at the gulch for hours at a time, just like when his father would neglect him and his brothers and leave them to their own devices. he wants a real and genuine love like family, but instead gets worship and idolatry from one hand and schemes to kill him from the other. he keeps climbing the ranks, distancing himself from the potential of gaining the closeness he craves, all in the hope of getting closer to the god he's losing faith in. he's crawling towards the river and he can't swim.

he is trying to love something that wants to drag him under. even if there wasn't a god in the river, the water would greedily swallow him anyway. river currents do not care about your love. he is putting the sunk in sunk cost fallacy. he’s participating in reverse self-immolation. he is drowning in deep water and has only just learned how to keep his eyes open without goggles. he needs to reach the surface but he still can't fucking swim. he is going to die thrashing in the river he loves so much, trying to get out once he realized it wasn't ever going to love him back the way he wanted.

and if he can’t learn how to swim in time, he’s going to need the help of someone who can to pull him out.

#while i acknowledge that an approximate year has passed between s1 and s3 and he could have learned in that time. i don't think he did #one cause the beach script mentions him wearing an oversized lifejacket. and two because him not being able to swim is fun X] #for the reasons listed above. and others. stares directly into the camera #anyway thematically i think carpenter should teach him how to floa[is hit with a steel bat] #tsv #the silt verses #brother faulkner #meant to post this last week but i cringed myself out of it. I Am No Longer Cringing Now.

[mushtoons]

leveling up and learning new drawing techniques like a boss

#hehehehe we are learning #soon we will be unstoppable #our drawings will be so fluid u will be able to swim in them #leo if ur seeing this thank u so much for ur advice and help 💖💖 #rottmnt #mycel doodles

[neurotheologist]

#petrigrof #simon petrikov #betty grof #adventure time #i wanna sleep for weeks like a dog at her feet even though i know it wont work out in the long run #I learn how to speak forgotten language #I fall in the sea but forget how to swim #my art

[shepfax]

since autism & neurodiversity is mostly about developmental disability but is also a really broad spectrum of conditions I'm curious about something

things to note:

the word "milestones" includes typical language (speech with mouth or sign language both count), walking, using food utensils, using the toilet, bathing, and dressing yourself. you may also consider "advanced" stuff like swimming or riding a bike too

you don't have to have a perfect knowledge of child development; you can also guess based on stuff your friends or family mentioned about you

you don't have to be autistic to answer this poll but I was particularly curious about the autism community

if you have a related neurological thing like ADHD, I/DD, sensory processing disorder etc, feel free to answer as well

if you feel comfortable please tell me about your experience in the reblogs, I think it helps people understand how different we all can be

#autism #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #disability #developmental disability #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autism acceptance #autism acceptance month #in my case I was early to talk (<12 months old) but late to walk (18 months old) #didn't learn to swim until I was 12 years old

[shelbyinubakilee]

Lylla and Rocket. Requested by @hadesinsane

Never gotten a request before. So this was new for me. But here it is! Mainly based off TallTale’s style of Lylla. Hope you like it!

#rocket raccoon #fanart #gotg fanart #guardians of the galaxy #request #lylla gotg #rocket and Lylla #Learning to swim #Napping