Let Me Show You Some Things That Helped Me Tons With ADHD Functioning/adulting.

Let me show you some things that helped me tons with ADHD functioning/adulting.

There's a to-do app called TickTick

🍅 It has built in Pomodoro (with customisable timers, a strick mode with an app and site blocker, and a whitelist),

⏱️ a timer that you can set on specific tasks or subtasks,

📅 it has a calendar,

📚 lists, tags, an Eisenhower-matrix, Kanban Board,

🤩 you can customise with colors and emojis,

🚩 you can set priorities and set the lists to show the items sorted by date or priority or name or custom, etc.,

🏡 you can create sections within the lists too,

📮 you can set notifications that pop up on your screen giving you the option to start a timer, postpone it for later, check it off, or skip it.

📈 You can create both subtasks and checklists for your tasks, and when you check of an item, by them it shows a tiny pie chart with the prescentage completed. It also shows how many days are left.

- With school tasks, I've listed everything I had to get done for the exam and added all the information and details, e.g. for all my readings, I included the link/where to find it in the library, the pages I had to read and the number of pages for quick access.

- To make it more fun/gamify the process, I added a little emoji (e.g. a waterdrop 💧 or a colored book 📙) before the name of the thing I have just completed and e.g. a bucket 🪣 or river 🌊 or plant 🌱 for the raindrops, or a bookshelf 🗃📚 emoji for the books, and as I complete an item, I collect the books/drops, etc. in there.

For example:

✉️💌📧📦🗞 >> 📬📮

🌧💧 >> ☔️ or 🌊 or 🪣 or 🌱 or 🪴

📕📙📔📗📘📖📚📒📑📜 >> 🗃🗄📚

🌟🌙🌠🪐🚀🌕☁️ >> 🌌

Etc.

Illustration: (my app is in a mixture of English and Hungarian)

🪣 Then there's the app Tody!

An app for housework, it encourages you, it puts little splashes on the area when a task is due, you can set "effort level", it also sends you a notification and meassures how dirty one thing might be based on the last time you cleaned it, (I did the emojis myself)

Then there's WonderFridge!

It's an app to keep track of the content of your fridge and pantry, it has plenty of beautiful illustrations for every sort of drink or food. It keeps track of the expiration dates of foods and sends you notifications so you can eat/use them up before they go wrong.

Then there's Boosted! 🕑

Boosted is a very simple app, originally created to measure the time spent on different projects and their subtasks. I personally use it to break down tasks in the moment and do a speed run doing them as fast as I can. (Especially when I'm about to hit a deadline.)

The simplicity of the app doesn't make it overwhelming like typing it into a to-do app would and it also changes my mindset from "I have half an hour so I'll have to take half an hour to do these things" to "let's do them as fast as I can." It saved me from being late for an exam.

Then there's Finch!

Finch is an adorable self-care app in which you hatch a baby pinguin/finch bird and as you do your tasks, you give them energy to go, explore and every day come home with a new thing explored, chat with you about it and grow a little.

It has task suggestions, a built in journal with or without prompts, breathing and grounding exercises, acts of kindness, and many more. You can also set/group your tasks into journeys.

Then there's Daylio!

Daylio is a very simple journal/diary to keep track of the days ('cause I rarely remember what happended yesterday or which day can a memory be dated back to.) You can set up little buttons for activites, moods, symptoms, the weather, or anything you fancy and just tap over the ones that fit the day. You can also freely ad text, photos, or create a sound entry.

It's fully customisable (even the colors and mood) and makes you plentiful of different statistics so you can check long term tendencies. It's super useful for monitoring mental health.

I have the chategories "good things" (reading 📗, music 🎵, watching the stars 🔭, time in nature 🌱, offering a helping hand 🫶, etc.), "weather", "hours slept" (this one I rarely use), "goals" (checking of something from my bucket/to-do list 🥾, working 💼, volunteering 🐚, etc.), "university" (study session ✏️, reading session 📕, etc.), "healing" (step out of comfort zone 🌼, let myself feel 🍒, felt numb ☁️/cozy ☕️, etc.), "hobbies", "health" (exercise 🤸‍♀️, vitamine 📆, face wash 🧼, etc.), "housework", "food" (had breakfast 🥐, lunch 🍛, dinner 🥪, ate fruits 🍒, ate sweets 🧁, etc.), "people I love" (who did I spend time with/expressed love towards), "love" (the 5 love languages listed both for giving and receiving [gratefulness]), "other" (negative moods and emotions, down ☁️, existential ⛅️, tired 🌬, guilty ⚡️, etc.), and another for positive and healthy emotions (including healthy sadness 🌧). You can fully customise it for yourself.

There's also Tiimo

Tiimo was developed by and keeping in mind the needs of neurodivergent people. In it you can set up routines and tasks with their duration and an emoji (they have a beautifully colored emoji set!). You can schedule your tasks at a specific time or set them "to do anytime" and set them to repetition. Once the scheduled time comes you get notified and the app starts a visual timer (even if you don't start the task...) and once done, you can check it off.

I hope I could help some!

If I made any typos, let me know!

Until next time! *friendly salutes*

Stopped dead in my tracks in the parking lot of my co-op by the ‘MILF’ sticker but it’s the ‘please let me merge’ possum that made me pull out my camera.

Summary of some answers from today's Q&A with Ron Corcillo!

Bullet points are below the cut, since it's a pretty long list! Some combine multiple answers, and they're categorized for ease of reading (obviously not every single answer is included, but I tried to get most of the ones I thought people might find interesting!)

Apocalyptic Future

The turtles were fighting side by side with Cassandra when Casey Jr was born, and Leo trained him to be a warrior. Casey Jr only has brief memories of his mother from when he was very young, and he was mostly raised by Leo.

The chips on Leo's plastron are probably battle scars.

Mikey was likely the equivalent of being in his 70's. He was powerful enough that he could unlock almost any mystic ability you could think of, but using them took a toll on him physically. The more powerful the ninpo, the more potential it has to sap your energy.

Mikey can open up portals through all of space and time (as opposed to Leo, who can mostly portal over relatively short distances), but it took him a long time to get to that level of ability.

Mikey probably grew a little taller than seen in the movie, but shrank as the use of his powers depleted him. Donnie would be slightly taller than Leo, and Raph would be at least 6'6".

The characters have obviously taken hits and lost some things from years of fighting the Krang, but Leo still does have his ninpo.

They never worked out the specifics for how Raph and Donnie died, just that they lost their lives in the war against the Krang.

Future Leo was mortally wounded in his bleeding side, and that was why he didn't go with Casey to the past.

If season 2 hadn't been cut short

The sudden declaration of Leo as leader wouldn't have happened, and was more of a joke because of how abruptly the show ended. The original plan was for the transition to be drawn out over much of season 3. Raph and Leo probably would have been co-leaders for a while, and the transfer of leadership wouldn't have caused tension since Raph would like to share the burden. There might have been some situations where Mikey or Donnie took the lead, too. Ron never saw the turtles as a group where there had to be one absolute leader.

Karai would have lived for much longer, and been training the boys in person for a number of episodes.

If there was a season 3 / plans they had for future seasons

They probably wouldn't have ever taken a dark turn with the show, but may have gotten into more of an extended plot line after the movie.

The missing sister who was Big Mama's henchperson would probably have been a very disciplined super serious ninja, to the point where she's actually funny. She was going to be named after a female artist, possibly Frida Kahlo, and the turtles would have had to win her back from Big Mama by helping her to see that she had been brainwashed as a child.

Their other missing sister was going to be trapped in another dimension for years, and might have been "a little kooky" from being there so long. The turtles would have split up to rescue their sisters, but there were no definite plans beyond that.

We would definitely see Casey Jr again. Ron would love to see a spin-off where Casey and Cassandra roam the world and fight the Krang and remnants of the Foot.

It was going to be revealed that a Krang spaceship had crashed into the back of the crying titan in the Hidden City. The ship's fuel was the source of the ooze that gives the Yokai their power, and possibly the origin of the Yokai themselves. The crashed spaceship is what drew the invasion there a thousand years ago.

Mikey's powers could have opened the door to some multiverse episodes.

We might have seen some redemption from Big Mama, but then also seen her relapse to her villainous ways.

The Rat King likely would have been the next big villain. Shredder's story is pretty resolved, so they wouldn't have gone back to him, but maybe they could have revived the dark armor. There were no existing plans for Bishop, but once the turtles became better known heroes, he could be a thorn in their side. They would have done a lot more with the Krang.

Donnie probably thinks he's much smarter than Raph, so it would have been fun to do an episode where he got to see how Raph beats him in common sense and emotional intelligence.

The turtles would probably talk to Karai's Hamato spirit when they need guidance.

Season 3 would pick up where the movie left off. They would have launched a new story right away, but the aftermath would have been in the background. We would have seen how they changed as a result of the movie events, as well as how they deal with now being in the public eye as heroes.

Miscellaneous

The 2012 series was very traditional TMNT, so a big goal of Rise was to mix things up. Making Raph the leader opened up a lot of possibilities for both Leo and Raph: Raph didn't have to be angry all the time about not being the leader, and Leo was free to be cocky and fun-loving. It was a breath of fresh air for writers who had done previous TMNT versions.

As for how the turtles take after Yoshi: Donnie got a lot of his cockiness from him, as did Leo. Mikey senses that Yoshi misses his family, and that's part of the reason he always tries to hold the family together. Raph got his courage and sense of duty from him.

For Halloween, Raph would be a kitten, Mikey would be a lion, Leo would be a rock star, and Donnie would be J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Raph's favorite music is R&B, Leo's is glam rock, Donnie's is techno, and Mikey likes boy bands.

When asked about the turtles "favorite" brothers (obviously they all love each other): Mikey is Raph's favorite. As much as Leo gives Donnie a hard time, he really likes him. Ultimately, the three younger brothers all really look up to Raph.

The turtles all had their mystic powers inherently, but they didn't know it and couldn't unlock them without a little boost. Their mystic weapons acted as a conduit.

Splinter has a lot of power that hasn't been revealed, and there's a good chance he can do anything the boys can do if he really tries (which is how he could use Leo's portals). Their powers all would have grown and expanded over time.

Ron really likes fanart of the turtles, Splinter, and April in emotional family situations, as that is the heart of the show.

They didn't really get into romance in the show, but fans are free to use their imagination.

Hueso would never admit it, but he and Leo do have a close friendship.

While Ron doesn't think the show will be brought back any time soon since Nick's focus is on Mutant Mayhem (which he thinks Rise fans will enjoy, since they seem to have a lot in common), he does think it could be brought back further down the road. The most helpful thing is fans' continued support through watching, posting, and spreading the word!

I needed this today. 

I hate myself often

comic about someone’s strange dream (and daydreams)

... just throwing this out here as well, while I'm at it!

Since birth you could see a counter above people’s heads. It doesn’t count down to their death. It goes up and down randomly. You’re desperate to find out what it means.