#with reblogs and diagrams

[aerialworms-art]

Lifespans.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A three-way venn diagram floating against a starfield. The circles are coloured; one yellow, one light blue, one a darker shade of blue. The yellow is the smallest, the two blue ones over double its size, with the darker blue the biggest. The yellow is half covered by the two blue circles, while it takes up a small amount of the two blues. The centre overlap between all three is labelled "the precious few years we three were together".

There is very little overlap between the yellow and the darker blue without the lighter blue.

The work is signed 'aerialworms'./End ID]

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD vs OCD

Neurodivergent_Insights

[maryland-officially]

Ok I'm genuinely confused here so don't be mean please. All of this is /genq /nbr

I have a dissociation disorder and I'm questioning plurality (I would be considered traumagenic if I am 1). From my understanding of systems, they're formed through trauma that happens before the age of ten. The brain puts up amnesia barriers and the child's personality doesn't form correctly, so multiple alters are formed instead.

Endos confuse me. They're systems that say they somehow did this without trauma? How do they fit into this? Like, I want to be supportive but some of the rhetoric I've seen genuinely pushed me into a panic attack once (it was a post saying basically you can just make headmates whenever if you want and for fun, you don't need trauma or anything which I think made me upset cos... Why would someone want to be a system and how could they view it as a whole as fun?? & the idea you could just manifest it out of thin air confuses me deeply)

I'm sorry if you don't want asks like this but you're a relatively big blog and I've just seen you say you support endos so I figured you'd be a good person to ask.

Explanation below cut because it got long ^^

Ah, well. Most, if not like all endogenic systems, are non-disordered or use that term.

Endogenic systems can form in many different ways -- we're traumagenic, but we're pretty sure there are some endo alters, and we usually find them by talking into the void of the brain and getting a response that isn't from somebody established-- I'm sorry, this isn't very helpful, but think about it like:

Talking to yourself in your brain, and then suddenly you realize that you do not in fact control the person/alter replying, and that is not you. That's kind of what it's like.

Think of a cave:

At first, you think the echo is yourself. And it probably is, or it could be. And then the echo doesn't say what you say anymore -- it changes it and it isn't exactly 'you' speaking. Well the brain is the cave and the echo is a headmate forming.

This is the way that WE know about when alters form. It's a bit like this. We/a member thinks that we/they're thinking to our/themselves, and then bam. somebody different. not formed from stress or trauma

I'm sure there are other ways this could happen,, but none that we know of

so instead of uhm

I've seen this diagram/things like it to describe DID + plurality, so I'll explain with this.

This is an adult brain

This is a child's brain

This is the child's brain developing

With this model, DID (from what I've seen,,) looks like this.

The circles spread out, and might combine into large circles between themselves but not a full one as the brain develops

I'm not sure how accurate this model is, but I've seen people use it to describe DID. This is a sort of simplified version that makes more sense but is probably less detailed

Anyway let's say an endogenic systems starts as a large circle -- though,, this might not always be correct and is probably not majorly correct, since brains take a while to develop (im so sorry if this diagram is confusing. The circles are supposed to resemble child's thoughts/personality traits and how they assemble into a person. Or at least i think--)

Well anyway, an endogenic systems would look like this in my brain:

A part of the person kind of drifts off into its own thing

And then it might turn out like this

Sometimes there's a piece that there's no way to know where came from. They just kind of appear. They might have dropped from the brain, who knows? It can be hard to tell.

These can be fictives, or other alters.

Anyway this is my take/diagram on how endo systems form. It's probably inaccurate, but hopefully we got it mostly right ;;

[lilacerull0]

Lila & Enzo + Diagram of the Door Opening

[cerealmonster15]

I can’t believe you were hiding the fact that you’re a Present Mic enjoyer from me😭 how could you, Cereal😭

WJKFHSDLKFJ PLEASE HE WAS MY FAVORITE [him and kirishima lol] i havent interacted w/the source material in Ages but i had a brief period of being super super into it and present mic was my Beloved,,,, i think i kept calling him banana husband or something LOL love of my life mister loud silly man....

[averysmolkirbo]

NEURODIVERGENTS OF TUMBLR I HAVE A QUESTION FOR U

Have you, in the process of being tested/diagnosed ever been hit with a "you-cant-have-ism"?

example: "you cant have autism, you have a job" "you cant have adhd, you have good grades"

if you have tell me what it was/what the most outrageous one youve heard was

why? for science of course.

[ohhgingersnaps]

I know how I personally became familiar with coelacanths (loch ness monster book!) and I am curious about the experiences of others

* "Phase" here does not necessarily imply temporariness (I may not check out dozens of library books on cryptids anymore, like I did in middle school, but I still enjoy a good Wikipedia deep dive on Nessie, pun intended—the question is, have cryptids taken a Place Of Importance in your heart, at some point?)

[cathoderaymission]

HI! love ur art . ! wanted to know What body mods does band-au-gabriel have. or to be precise How many piercings... im obsessed w your au ...

HEEEYYY thank you so much for the question <333 i had to think about this for a bit but it comes up to ~15 piercings total, though most of them are in his ears

also — since you technically asked about body mods in general — i think he would have a split tongue because y'know. the viperrrrrrrr

[jonathanbyersphd]

Fellas, you ever a poor parentified eldest daughter with a mother who struggles with mental illness and a sibling four years younger than you who you'd die for

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD vs BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder)

Neurodivergent Insights

[mathematical-cheese]

Venn diagrams aren't supposed to be used show a spectrum of things....

[weepingfireflies]

I finally read Dear Door on recommendation, and holy shit, that was a really convoluted love triangle-road map thing

[bitsbug]

I’m mostly taking inspiration from something else, but can I take some design notes from your Five Pebbles puppet-y iterator puppet for an OC idea I have? With credit, ofc

oh of course!! I love people getting inspired by my stuff hell yes

First of all I never draw the face emoting in any way (none of my puppet designs even have eyelids), and keep expression to the antennae and body posture. This is because I'm super biased towards inexpressive designs and faces and I like them a lot, so it's not strictly necessary.

Uhh. For Pebbles' in particular, his puppet's literally like a plushie, made of fabric and mostly filled with stuffing, aside from some mechanical components. The arms are jointless and completely flexible.

He's modeled after muppet-style puppets, just without the mouth, so those are good references to look at.

I imagine he does have the wires and cord, I'm usually just.. kinda lazy about drawing it. To avoid interfering with the true arms, the wires are probably more organized than in canon. That's a pinching hazard waiting to happen I swear.

[erindromeda]

I created an Extremely Scientific Diagram to visualise a Tumblr User's reaction to An Opinion That Does Not Look Immediately Correct.

This creates a Critical Timeline Fork where the Tumblr User is directed to one of two alternate universes depending on how they respond.

This diagram is not instructional, merely observational. Please react to discourse as you please - I say this as someone who has enjoyed both prongs of the fork myself.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Tourette Syndrome

Personally, I find this very interesting. I never thought ADHD could cooccur/be connected to Tourette Syndrome.

Neurodivergent-insights

[metal-requiem]

what if i, someone who has not really drawn anything more intensive than a doodle (excluding a few scientific illustrations) since the pandemic, did redesigns of all the female daedric princes so they have designs on par with the male princes