Someone Whos Never Read/seen Goosebumps Explain This

Someone who’s never read/seen Goosebumps explain this

an example of rsd (rejection sensitive dysphoria) for me is when i was playing doom eternal and i couldn't get past the marauder and i started sobbing cause it was so upsetting to me for some reason?? so im glad i know what caused that now cause i have adhd and i didn't know that rsd was a part of adhd

Adhd things that need to be talked more about (because adhd is more than just not being able to focus)

Short term memory loss. Seriously, I forget things that are said to me 5 minutes ago or will forget I opened a soda and will have 3 open cans by the end of the day with none of them finished. A lot of people don’t know about this, and so they think that I don’t care enough to listen to what their saying (which I do!!! I just can’t remember it) or that I’m lazy because of all the things I don’t end up doing because I forgot I had to do them.

Lack of motivation. Listen, I honestly can’t do anything on my own for the most part. I have to have someone else tell me to do something or have them set goals for me because it’s so damn difficult for me to do it myself. Again, I’m not lazy, I just have trouble doing things on my own

Language processing difficulties. Sometimes, English and words in general don’t work out in my head. Reading or even listening to someone talk can be extremely difficult for me to understand because my brain just won’t work. Why? Can’t tell you 99% of the time! It’s not that I need to focus, it’s that my brain is just buffering.

Needing multiple forms of stimulation at all times. I have a tin of putty that I keep in my book bag and a smaller one I keep in my purse at all times because of this reason. If I want to learn anything at school, I have to be able to look at something, hear something, and have something to do with my hands. Otherwise, it’s probably a big nope for me. What’s frustrating is that since this isn’t talked about enough, I often get called childish or get looked down upon because I have to play with silly putty in a highschool class.

Hyperfixation. Adhd can mean not being able to focus, but it’s also focusing too much on something! This can mean anything from a certain interest someone is in to at that moment, to something like a song that has been stuck in your head for a week. People seem to not understand this and think that we’re boring and have nothing else to talk about or that we’re annoying because we keep bringing the same things up over and over again but that’s not the case. Trust me, I’m annoyed with the hit or miss song too, but at least it’s not playing in your head constantly like it is for me

These are all the ones I can think of right now, but it’s really important we talk about this stuff more. All of these things that come with adhd can be very frustrating for those around us because they don’t understand that we can’t help it. To an outsider, it may just look like a person with adhd is just lazy and doesn’t care, when it’s actually just how our brains are wired. None of us want to be frustrating to others!! In fact, all of this frustrates us too!! But since adhd is just known as “not being able to focus”, people don’t realize what all comes with it and how it can really fuck everyone over.

Please add more if you can think of anything else!! I’m horrible with lists lol

thank you so much for this i’m uncultured and now i know better

Social skills: noticing when repetition is communication

So there’s this dynamic:

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I *know* that. It’s hot in here.

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: I already explained to you that it’s hot in here!

Autistic person: The door is open!

Other person: Why do you have to repeat things all the time?!

Often when this happens, what’s really going on is that the autistic person is trying to communicate something, and they’re not being understood. The other person things that they are understanding and responding, and that the autistic person is just repeating the same thing over and over either for no reason or because they are being stubborn and inflexible and obnoxious and pushy.

When what’s really happening is that the autistic person is not being understood, and they are communicating using the words they have. There’s a NT social expectation that if people aren’t being understood, they should change their words and explain things differently. Sometimes autistic people aren’t capable of doing this without help.

So, if this is happening, assume it’s communication and try to figure out what’s being communicated. If you’re the one with more words, and you want the communication to happen in words, then you have to provide words that make communication possible. For example:

Other person: Do you want the door to be closed, or are you saying something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Do you want to show me something outside, or something else?

Autistic person: Something else

Other person: Are you worried about something that might happen, or something else?

Autistic person: Worried

Other person: Are you worried that something will come in, or that something will go out?

Autistic person: Baby

Other person: She’s in her crib, and the baby gate is up. Is that ok, or is there still a problem?

Autistic person: ok

yeah imma be stuck at marauder forever im never gonna get past him

SAME NOW I FEEL SPECIAL

also yeah please respect audra i really hate how much shit they’ve gotten and it makes me sad

Do you know/Recommend any other Tumblr pages that cover Goosebumps?

There aren't a whole lot that are currently active because the fandom really has died out a while ago but here are a few people I know who post/share goosebumps related stuff:

@letzgetsilly

@soniathedummy

@missfear13

@gwynheimer

@thatrandomartistscarletarts

@unclejellyfish

@mentallmadness

@burningcollectionsandwich

@joanathedummy

@probablyok1

I know there are a couple more I can't think of at the top of my head but if you reblog goosebumps stuff and I didn't mention you please reply or reblog! It would be cool to kind of get the fandom going again maybe

Also just to be clear, y'all should already know this but please please please don't try to harass Audra (@/itsaaudraw) because they used to post a lot of goosebumps art but they left the fandom and don't want to draw art for it anymore, please be respectful of that

snappy: i just saw a rat over here—

slappy: yOu SuRe iT wAsNt yOuR rEfLecTiOn??

snappy: it's gone- hey, slappy, i don't really appreciate what you just said.

slappy: st o p-