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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Nope. Never will. We are legit #neurodivergent. Everything psychology thinks it knows about how our minds work, what motivates us? All based on the wrong model. Delayed gratification is not our friend. In fact it rubs us raw.

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Joey | mojosec | The Least, Maybe @mojosec.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

I need to figure out what brings me joy…

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Yes!! One strategy I’m confident that most #neurodivergent folx NEED to begin implementing for our own mental health is what i call “scheduled unscheduled time” Time specifically set aside without a pre-determined focus goal. Time to intentionally let our minds and attention *wander freely*

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

A friend posted this with the observation: Sometimes the best we can do is to reflect the beauty of the universe to others when they can’t see it for themselves

A four panel comic of an axolotl and a chameleon under a starry sky
Panel 1:
Chameleon: Such beauty in the stars.

Axolotl: I can only imagine.

Panel 2
Axolotl: I have really poor vision.

Chameleon: Oh.

Panel 3
As the axolotl sits there, the chameleon gets an idea

Panel 4
The chameleon changes its skin to blend with the night sky, and is dark and covered in stars

The axolotl is surprised and delighted to be able to see and enjoy the starlight, together

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

So essentially what i’m suggesting is that neurodivergents (and anyone else who wants to) set aside time to allow our minds to wander the same way. Whatever has your attention at the moment, that’s what you focus on. If it’s nothing, that’s fine too. It’s really just off-leash time for the mind.

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

ACAB, especially that voice in your head that says You Don’t Deserve This You deserve to devote time to *your best life* whatever that can look like today We don’t exist to make corporations money Every second of our life doesn’t need to be capitalized Creativity, rest, exploration are all needs

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

#EmotionalSupportSpood A little Tutelina "Crested" (currently undescribed) boy from this morning, showing off his little blue chelicerae 💙 Goodnight y'all 🌿 🕷️

Little grey-bodied jumping spider with orange legs, dark blue chelicerae, and two little black and white crests like eyebrows over his big eyes, giving you a small head tilt from his leaf

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

In support of Morale - a brief essay on #glimmers by Fen Duradìn ☺️ To all #neurodivergents (and maybe some folx who aren’t!) during this #Disability Pride Month: Light yourselves up! For morale 😉

Fen Druadin
Feb 14 • 6
Aha!
Dopamine first.
That's the key.
Okay, hear me out.
Several things clicked into place for me yesterday as I was puttering about setting my kitchen in order.
I was thinking about how it all started with the fish tank. I hesitated to set up a fish tank, even though I really, really wanted to.
Because I knew it would cost money and money is in short supply.
I did it anyway because I have finally learned that following my joy always leads to good things.
While I was setting it up, taking a bathroom break and scrolling marketplace, the Hoosier popped up. I'd been waiting for one to pop up in my price range, but the timing was bad. I was in the middle of a project, the price was right but it needed… (1/4)

project, the price was right but it needed work, and furthermore, I was already spending money I didn't feel like I had.
I did it anyway. It was just too perfect. I dropped what I was doing, drove to Marion, loaded her up, and brought her home.
In the less than a month since then, I have:
* Set up a planted aquarium
* Repaired, cleaned, and refurbished the hoosier cabinet
* Deep cleaned and organized my kitchen
* Organized my bathroom (this was a small job, made possible by moving that wire rack into the bathroom)
Alongside all my usual things.
The kitchen has been a thorn in my side since we moved here, mostly because of that wire rack and how impossible it was to keep things organized and tidied.
Now it's beautiful and it makes me smile.
But I couldn't do it before. I just could not do it.
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So all that, and then yesterday I saw a post by The Occuplaytional Therapist, about punishing autistic children by refusing to give them things until they have completed tasks. How it's like telling someone to build a tower with blocks before they're allowed to go get the blocks. You can't do it. You need the blocks.
And then that clicked into place with something I learned about dopamine from Alex Korb. Dopamine is not just a reward chemical. It's a MOTIVATION chemical.
Aha.
Aha aha aha.
The reason setting up my fish tank cascaded into all these other things is that I got massive dumps of dopamine from it.
Every step just ping ping ping dopamine dopamine dopamine.
Which gave me the courage and motivation to take on a bigger project when I saw the hoosier come available. And it was a big project. Under less dopamine-intensive conditions, it would have been an impossible series of executive function… (3/4)

Impossible series or execuuve luncuon tasks that would have shut me down entirely.
But I did it, and I did it with joy and excitement.
And now I understand why.
Dopamine first.
Which is just a scientific way of saying what l've been feeling for the past three years: Lean into the joy.
Every time I choose to step forward into something that just freaking lights me up (hello, dopamine!), it cascades into more beautiful things and more beautiful things.
But our culture tells us from infancy that we're not allowed to have the nice things until AFTER we do the hard things.
But, y'all! That's backward!!!
You need the nice things to fuel the hard work.
Holy shit. (4/4)

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Or after the oil companies that cause them. Hurricane Chevron Hurricane Exxon Hurricane Shell

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basbleu(té) @basbleu.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

I made spiced coffee at midnight and sipped it sitting in the moonlight. For morale!

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Glimmer Fish @glimmers.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

During our wedding we had someone announce, “Freakazoids, please report to the dance floor!” over the loudspeaker

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Glimmer Fish @glimmers.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Glimmer for morale, y’all. ✨For morale✨

@secondbeatsongs posted:

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so l will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

hidefdoritos replied:

OP I hope you know that this changed my life and nearly eliminated my guilt over enjoying things.
And I've delighted almost everyone I know with the phrase, leading a few of them to use it back to me.
Anyway just letting you know about this little sparkle of wonder. For morale.

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Glimmer Fish @glimmers.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

It appears to be dragonfly day here on bluesky #InvertebrateGlimmers

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Hi 👋🏻 I’m entering yr 2 as a PhD student! My research focuses on producing acoustically-based species distribution models for baleen whale species in the NW Atlantic. I’ll be exploring resource partitioning, movement ecology, and the relationship between habitat suitability and population density 🧪🐳🔊

A humpback whale mom and calf at the ocean’s surface with mountains visible in the background.

A large frame housing scientific instrumentation for underwater data collection sitting on the deck of a boat with sunset visible in the background

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

It's #WorldOceanDay ! #TeamOcean, introduce yourself and what you do in the world of ocean science, education, or conservation! I'll re-post. I'm David. I'm a shark conservation scientist who studies shark ecology as well as conservation and management policy. 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟

Me securing a nurse shark for a research workup

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 15/06/2024

Over on @womensart2.bsky.social … Do you ever wish you knew about an artist earlier so they could bring more profundity to your life? Kia LaBeija- the AIDS survivor, photographer and voguer is that person for me. Head on over👇.

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Ilis Trudie 🏝 @ilistrudiepalmer.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Good morning friends, and happy Wednesday all day. 🌱🧑🏿‍🌾🇰🇳 #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience

Cows on a pasture. One brown and white, the other white and brown

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Glimmer Fish @glimmers.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

#MovieGlimmers Kevin Smith is a good dude, can confirm

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

New mockingbird dropped. Literally. These babies fledged this morning. This one was a bit stunned and needed some initial help, but she soon flew off with Mama and her nest mates. #Bird🪶 #BirdGlimmers #birdbutt

Ridiculously adorable little black and white striped chubberfluff in the greens beneath a magnolia tree. Her big black eyes stare at the camera in slightly stunned wonder.

Same little chubberfluff mockingbird baby, rather gripping onto a branch for dear life.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

But I hate the idea of killing something merely because its existence is inconvenient to me

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