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Let's begin with the twin forces at work in every reader's life - the desire to re-read things that were good (or are remembered as good - beware the Suck Fairy!) and the anxiety that someone might have about their unread books pile and the desire to make that pile smaller.
Doctor-nurse romance novels as social commentary about idealized medical professionals and the National Health System, suggesting yet again that despite their continued stereotype of being material that is trashy and disposable, the romance genre is often doing a lot more behind the scenes than their stereotype would ever admit it.
A reminder that people with ADHD who have trouble with time are already very well aware of that, and are already very good at being self-critical, and they're still bound by the constraints of space-time, so if your and their abilities and priorities diverge, the best thing you can do for them is not judge. Which might take some effort on your part to sound like you're not judging, because those people are also often very good at understanding covert judgment and phrases that are judgey even if they're not intended to be that way.
( The more you expect to see in here, the more there is )
Last for tonight, a person that is drowning does not look like they are drowning, and in fact, they're fighting so hard to try and stay alive that they don't really have energy or awareness to do anything else.
A thread on trying to avoid the freeze response when presented with the climate disaster and trying to fix it, which is mostly getting an understanding of "It always seems impossible until it is done" and using that as the motivation to keep trying to fix things, both individually and societally. I forget where the thing was, but a post that I read on the Internet somewhere said that large amounts of social change seem to go nowhere for forever, and then they seem to rush down in a very short amount of time. The people in the middle of it wonder why it's crashing down so swiftly, but the people who can take the long view can see that it was slowly building momentum and convincing people until it finally tipped over the resistance line, and at that point, the snowball builds / the tsunami comes crashing down.
Doctor-nurse romance novels as social commentary about idealized medical professionals and the National Health System, suggesting yet again that despite their continued stereotype of being material that is trashy and disposable, the romance genre is often doing a lot more behind the scenes than their stereotype would ever admit it.
A reminder that people with ADHD who have trouble with time are already very well aware of that, and are already very good at being self-critical, and they're still bound by the constraints of space-time, so if your and their abilities and priorities diverge, the best thing you can do for them is not judge. Which might take some effort on your part to sound like you're not judging, because those people are also often very good at understanding covert judgment and phrases that are judgey even if they're not intended to be that way.
( The more you expect to see in here, the more there is )
Last for tonight, a person that is drowning does not look like they are drowning, and in fact, they're fighting so hard to try and stay alive that they don't really have energy or awareness to do anything else.
A thread on trying to avoid the freeze response when presented with the climate disaster and trying to fix it, which is mostly getting an understanding of "It always seems impossible until it is done" and using that as the motivation to keep trying to fix things, both individually and societally. I forget where the thing was, but a post that I read on the Internet somewhere said that large amounts of social change seem to go nowhere for forever, and then they seem to rush down in a very short amount of time. The people in the middle of it wonder why it's crashing down so swiftly, but the people who can take the long view can see that it was slowly building momentum and convincing people until it finally tipped over the resistance line, and at that point, the snowball builds / the tsunami comes crashing down.
