#analogbrain

[krisrisk]

I just found out about The Analog Brain and I love this so much! I might try to make one of these for myself, but with one of my actual notebooks (😭 noooo notmypreciousnotebooks)

[adhdanalogbrain]

The first ADHD Analog Brain survey is live, with questions such as:

What formats should it come in? (Ebook? Editable PDF? App?)

What formats should absolutely be free, and which ones would you be willing to pay for?

What content should be included?

Do you want to sign up as a Version 1 beta tester?

Have at it!

[bastardplanet]

Annual Class Bastard Roll Call

We're one week into the new year! Here is an international list of outstanding and extremely knowledgeable class bastard adoptees that everyone definitely needs to be following in the coming year:

(In Alphabetical Order)

AMAZING-HOW-YOU-LOVE

ANALOGBRAIN

BRANDX

DICKENSIANWEREWOLF

FIFTHBLACKBIRD

INDIGORADIX

INTHEPOCKETOFHERRAINCOAT

THE-QUEERDO-BRIGADE

Make no mistake, this is not a complete list of adoptees on tumblr. This is a selection of artists and activists who have identified most strongly with the global #class bastard adoptee community and the world adoptee revolt.

Happy 2014!

[maghrabiyya]

analogbrain replied to your post: “the teachers have been leaving out all of our past sketchbooks on a...”:

how could someone not collect a barely used moleskine?! o.0 oh well, that's super awesome for you! :D

ik, it's a shame.... i'm going to paint over the pages that have been used

i want to feel guilty but i don't

[landunderthewave]

hi! :D i don't remember unfollowing you and apparently tumblr did that for me! i was wondering why you weren't on my dash!!! ok, so i followed you and hopefully we will see eachother again?

Yes, I can see you now! So glad :D

[teenboydog-blog]

what kind of animal would you like to be? or are there a lot of animals you would like to be?

ohhhh umm definitely a hyena or a thylacine orrrr an andrewsarchus !!! n maybe a gobi bear or a honey badger !!!! !! man too many to choose~

[adhdanalogbrain]

Heyo! I got a tumblr and now I can ask you... how is the analog brain going? I'm super keen to be a beta tester too

Thanks for checking in! Thanks to the pandemic i have been working a LOT LOT LOT so many outside activities have fallen by the wayside.

However some Big Life Changes are coming up this fall, so hopefully at that point I will be able to shift focus back to the analog brain and get things rolling again.

I will post an update when things are back on the front burner, i promise!

[djawadi]

analogbrain a ragi votre billet : daily reminder that your safety and overall...

thanks, i needed to hear that. :3

lol if only i could take my own advice....

[eeriewitchling]

everytime i see a picture of hannibal now i think of u. :3

oh gosh that made me blush o////u////o

[landunderthewave]

Activism vs. Self Care

So lads, English version of my earlier post.

This is going to sound a little weird because I took my German text, put it into Google translate and didn’t take the time to straighten out every detail. But it should make the content available for people who speak English. Here we go.

I have not blogged for ages and do not know how to do that – but I ‘m going to try it. Today, I want to talk about the interaction or the contradictions between activist work and self-care. Activist work is not only to go out the door and to distribute flyers/ organize demos / to paint creatively on advertising, but also online discussions, to operate a blog (see what I did there?) or simply just to confront which prejudices you were fed. I would now link to my clever self care post, if I had completed it. But I did not, so have a brief summary on self care. Self care can be done in many ways, but always contains taking care of oneself. Basic types of self care are to eat, drink and sleep enough. Above all, you should recognize when you have reached a limit and should postpone a task instead of doing it right now. The latter consideration is very important for activism.

Inside or outside

But before I’ll further address the issue that there may be conflicts between self care and activism, I would like to consider briefly whether this conflict is the same to all of us. You might have guessed it: No, it is not. To make the decision whether you want to take care of activism or rather have a free weekend, this is only possible for a particular group of people. If my activism is to fight every day for the right to do the same things in public others who are not part of a minority do, there are only limited time periods off. If I do, however, mainly do activist work in my organization, but I can drop the issue when I go home – then I have completely different opportunities to rest. You can only really ask “activism or self care”, if you are sufficiently privileged. I write from a white and privileged enough perspective to actually ask me the question most of the time.

To Work, to rest or no choice?

I am writing this article because I feel this conflict regularly myself. All the things that I do ” at leisure ” on the Internet, are filled with activist themes. On Twitter, on Tumblr, in my feed reader – everywhere I follow people who deal with similar issues like me. Between cat pictures, there are posts about the deaths of refugees or new research on sexist violence. When there is always something to do, it is difficult to answer where to make a cut. When will “I feel a little queasy” turn to ” if I do not close this page soon, I will be done with this week”? And most importantly: How can I close the page if the problem does not go away? If you notice that our world is in a shitty place and you make the decision to do something about it, then you take over a responsibility. Not necessarily for a specific person but a responsibility to yourself. The question is, when do you take a break from your responsibility for a day or a week or even longer? When you get headaches? When the motivation to do anything disappears? When you have problems getting enough sleep and eating enough? When does activism become self harm? As mentioned above “giving up the responsibility” does not look the same for everyone. Many, perhaps most, start activist work because they are personally affected – be it by racism and / or cissexism and / or ableism etc. Ie even if they decide not to fight at large scale, they are still not free from activist acts, but must continue to deal with the small bites and hostility society attacks them with. So how free are they really?

I have no answer to all this, of course . Resp. no answer that would work for many more people than myself. But I think it’s important that we pay attention to ourselves and each other. Where there is effort, there has to be rest, otherwise the power reserves go eventually empty.

[alcesangelus]

analogbrain replied to your photoset: Me and four of my hats. I love hats, especially...

Hats are awesome!

Yes they really are :D

[teenboydog-blog]

um *awkwardly walks over and stares at yr shoes* i just wanted to say your blog makes me happy a lot. :3 that is all.

ahhh woah thank u kindly!!! i rlly like yr blog too!!

[adhdanalogbrain]

update 2/20/20

Hokay. So.

I started coding the browser version and soon realized two things: 1) I did not much like the feel of the program I was using, and more importantly, 2) I was starting this project in the middle and doing so was going to make me cry later on if I didn’t back up and think this through.

I need to finalize the logic, all the possible paths, and get some outside feedback before I can start diving into code. Alas!

So here’s what you can expect, moving forward:

1) I’m going to survey the heck out of y’all. Be prepared to be asked for feedback on things ranging from what formats you would like the option of having (excel spreadsheet? Editable PDF? Kindle book?) to what topics ought to be covered. I’m a data scientist, I love data, just accept this about me and move on.

2) Once I have Version 1 drawn up in an easy-peasy format, I will solicit a bunch of you to be beta testers for the questions, logic, paths, etc etc. Most likely this will be via google sheets or something similar (that question will be asked in a survey, lol). Yay, teamwork!

3) Once we’ve all put our heads together and come up with an analog analog brain that functions as well as we can get it to, I will pull a Coding Weekend of Doom and create the digital analog brain app. 

4) Around about here is when we’ll start getting it sent out to some translators so that it can be available in other languages.

As we proceed with the above, expect more of the usual blog content and occasional whining from me about my sprained ankle. I’m on crutches, y’all. It’s ridiculous. My dog thinks I’m trolling her.

<3

update 2/12/20

Obvs, I have purchased the domain name adhdanalogbrain.com (it was like twenty bucks, no worries)

MORE IMPORTANTLY, I have started coding the browser version of the app using https://textadventures.co.uk/, and have sent the first 10 or so pages of the skip logic to a select group of nerds friends for initial feedback.

I have absolutely no idea what the timeline is for getting the public beta version out to you all to start playing with. As mentioned, I am a human being with ADHD and a dog and a sprained ankle [John Mulaney voice] so you can imagine the kind of stress I’m under.

Luckily, I flippin’ love coding. 

Also, I have set up a ko-fi account at  ko-fi.com/analogbrain. Not sure how I feel about the platform - it is awful pushy about signing up for a paid account, like, take a hint guise - but I’m giving it a shot. Once again, the analog brain app will be absolutely free and I do not need you to yeet money at me, but if you absolutely want to, you can. 

ok I’m going to bed now, for real, I swear….

[adhdanalogbrain]

is it ok to follow if im autistic and not adhd? i still relate to a lot of the same things and the app youre making sounds like itd be really useful for me

Yes yes yes yes! This is for all of us with executive function / decision paralysis issues no matter what the underlying cause is, whether it's adhd or autism or TBI or sleep apnea or whatever. Everyone is welcome and there will be absolutely no exclusion.

(i tacked "adhd" to the front simply because "analogbrain" was already taken on tumblr and as a domain name. otherwise i would have left it off. i'm, uhhh not good at naming things.)

[teenboydog-blog]

purple, teal!

(✿◕‿◕) (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[adhdanalogbrain]

The ADHD Analog Brain will ALWAYS be FREE.

If you have the means and wish to donate to support the Analog Brain, you can donate here:

This tool is designed to overcome your executive dysfunction by asking you questions and leading you to a helpful answer.

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