adhdphysicist

[adhdphysicist]

to ADHD students:

• I’m proud of you. The education system works against us at every turn but you’re still hanging in there, and that’s amazing. 

• Long term goals are lovely but they won’t motivate you. ADHD brains know two times: now and not now. Long term goals fall under “not now”, so if you try to use them to motivate yourself your brain won’t buy it. Some things that help me get motivated: using coloured pens, bringing a tasty drink like juice or pop to my desk, playing music I can sing along to. 

• Get. Diagnosed. With an official diagnosis, you can access accommodations through your school. You don’t have to struggle through school being held to neurotypical standards. You can get things like extra time on tests, extensions on assignments, access to digital copies of textbooks so you can use text-to-speech software, the ability to write tests and exams in a smaller room with fewer distractions, noise cancelling headphones during tests. I live in Ontario so I can’t guarantee all of these things in other places, but you’ll never know what accommodations are available to you until you apply for them. 

• Work for the amount of time that you can. You can only handle five minutes? Do work for those five minutes. You can stretch it out to fifteen minutes today? Awesome! It’s excruciating for us to get work done without it being a crisis, I know. But doing work in small increments every day goes a long way. Doing nothing because you can’t work as long as a neurotypical is just going to leave you with more work to do the night before. 

• Keep fidgets and/or stim toys at your desk. If you get overwhelmed or can’t focus, grab a fidget and allow yourself to just sit and fidget for a little bit. Tactile stim toys are my favourite since they’re very grounding for me.

• Try not to beat yourself up for what you didn’t get done earlier. This is a hard one but it’s so so hard to get anything done while you’re upset with yourself, especially for us ADHDers who get easily caught up in emotions. You have a disability. It’s not your fault that you couldn’t get it done earlier. You’re working on it now and that’s what’s important. 

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me normally: completely unmotivated to do anything

me with caffeine: completely unmotivated to do anything, now with the added bonus of being Sweaty™️

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Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie by Feli

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“Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly, to another universe. So, if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.”

-Stephen Hawking

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i dont feel like its a disorder. i have adhd and mdd and those definitely feel like disorders because they make it hard for me to function and i take medications to try and lessen their symptoms. with my autism though its just a different way of functioning.

i do think that autism is a disability. society is built to exclude us. job interviewers can deny us employment because we seem “weird” ie we dont make much eye contact or we have different answers to questions than they expected. public transit is loud and overwhelming, making it hard for us to participate in our communities. networking is vital for getting a job, but socializing with allistics is exhausting to us. these and other barriers make me feel that autism is a disability.

To autistic people only

I want to ask you 2 questions:

Is autism a disorder to you?

Is autism a disability to you?

Trying to prove a point cuz almost every Polish person (even the autistic ones!) calls autism a “disorder” & I want them to know what we, autistic people, think about it. Also Polish autistics usually don’t consider autism as a disability.

(btw my opinion is that autism is NOT a disorder, just a different type of brain. It is however a disability b/c the world wasn’t made for us)

[adhdphysicist]

Ask yourself…

what would a positive test charge q do?

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Quantum physics

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“Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Aim to make your proof impossible to be misunderstood, rather than merely possible to understand.”

— Abstract algebra professor.

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You know what? Autistic lesbians are the most valid

[adhdphysicist]

having adhd does not make you defective

having adhd does not make you weak

having adhd does not make you lazy

having adhd does not make you stupid

having adhd does not make you a burden

having adhd makes you strong

having adhd makes you resourceful

having adhd makes you compassionate

having adhd makes you an individual

having adhd makes you resilient

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u kno that feel when u wanna do fun stuff that u enjoy but ur brain is like "Heh... You Fool...." like an anime villain and makes u walk around the house or go through ur closet instead

me: hey maybe i’ll uh,,, do something i like that makes me happy

the adhd goblin in my brain:

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Professors at the end of lecture: so that's about it, any questions?

Me: yes just one - what the fuck

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Electric field simulation with Unity’s particle system

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Fraunhofer’s lines - when we view light from the sun through a prism, we get the above outcome. This is how we know what elements are on the sun.

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Autism pride pixel-art. 32x32 piece.

The autism infinity symbol, with pink/magenta background.

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Rolling ellipses of different dimensions to measure their perimeters. The red line is the curve of perimeter versus how squashed the ellipse is. The curve is defined by an elliptic integral, and cannot be expressed with elementary functions. [code]