Psychology

This month I got my official diagnosis for Adult ADHD. It’s fun to share experiences with friends. While ADHD presents some new waters to navigate, it isn’t exactly news to me. Thanks to Dr. TikTok, I’ve suspected this outcome for a few years now. It’s nice to have a proper diagnosis though. If I’m struggling to focus or feeling overwhelmed, I know the probable root cause is how my brain processes dopamine and norepinephrine impacting my executive function.

Last month Katherine called out the tension inherent in a “personal” website which is that it is both public and personal, and one’s public (or professional) persona is often different from that of their personal life. Robin Rendle riffed on the concept and said that it’s totally fine for personal websites to be messy or imperfect or weird (i.e., not necessarily how you’d want to present a “professional” front) and declared, in a pretty great and punchy/pithy statement, “You’re a poem and not software”. Manu also picked up the thread and brought up a good point which is that people are complex and are allowed to have multiple selves that they present in different ways (and one great thing about your website is that it’s yours and you can choose which self or selves to present, and how).

About This site is about silence. Keep it to yourself and only speak when you are ready to act. Not before, not after. Learn to speak and provide a valid, useful opinion only when the time is right.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The first episode of Hidden Brain explores switchtracking: a common pattern in conversations you'll be accusing your partner of in no time! Plus speedy science, a cup of tea and a song from Adam Cole.

Tell a secret, hear a secret. “If you could have a conversation with someone who’s no longer alive, who would it be, and what would you talk about?”

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: • Err and err and err again but less and less and less. • – Piet Hein …

I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After reading more about it I realised belatedly (in my 40s) that I have been coping with this my entire life. Strangely just finding a name to something formerly ambiguous can bring so much clarity and comfort, along...

Only Speak If It Improves Upon The Silence

Select advice from your uncle in the big city.

Part of my autistic experience is that I am often told that I project a calm aura and have a calming presence - even at times when I do not feel calm myself.

Philographics: Big Ideas in Simple Shapes is a series of designs that explain 95 different philosophical theories using the language of graphic design.

When your ADHD meds kick in but suddenly: - Your sensory issues get LOUDER - Routine changes feel OVERWHELMING - Social interactions drain you FASTER - Transitions become CHALLENGING This isn't medication failure. This is the AuDHD experience - when managing one part of your brain brings the other into sharp focus. A thread on navigating this unique neurotype...🧵

This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Monotropism is a theory of autism. It is used interchangeably as a theory and also a trait that describes a style of attention. It suggests that Autistic people tend to have singular but highly detailed tunnels of attention, as opposed to spreading their attentional resources

I created a 3D tool for How To ADHD, a youtube channel dedicated to knowledge about and advice living with ADHD. Part of the channel's style is animated cartoons of their main character depicted as a brain. To suit their 2D workflow using AfterEffects, I created a 3D model for their new logo and made a utility that could render it out from any angle. .

What grows from the ashes of your old life?

emotional.codes is a collection of tools that I've found useful for processing emotions and having interpersonal interactions.

Autistic burnout is an intense, chronic state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. Typically caused by prolonged masking, sensory overload, social demands, and the constant struggle to na…

Create your personalized menu of activities to replace mindless scrolling.

Create your personalized dopamine menu

Emotions guide our lives. Exploring how we feel is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to understand themselves or even build a successful brand.

A theory of life about searching for your best.

The personal website of wargaluk, a conscious physical being and a person.

How to stop worrying about the worst case scenario.

Hold on a second. I'm like a two-out-of-ten on this. How strongly do you feel? I'm probably a six-out-of-ten, I replied after a couple moments of consideration. Cool, then let's do it your way.

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending

The Creation of a Self is a series of visual art and quotes inspired by the notion of booting a computer, creating a self, programming its memories and destroying memory monsters created from those memories, where the action of psychological death equals the discovery of love, truth, or what J. Krishnamurti calls "the awakening of intelligence."

Disclaimer: Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about h...