Moved here in the wake of the great tumblr nsfw purge of 2018. What's currently here are my archived posts from that blog. Multi-fandom artist and writer. I also have a DeviantArt under the same username.
She shows throughout the movie that she is forgetful, impulsive, emotional, distracted, always late, creative, nonconventional, awkward, hard working, and very hard on herself. She constantly tries to fit into a society that really doesn’t accommodate someone like her.
Throughout the movie she works as hard as she can, but always comes up short. It is only when she embraces her true self and uses what she has come to know as her weaknesses to her advantage (creativity, nonconventional thinking, impulsivity, emotional reactivity, etc.) that she turns things around and actually saves her country from its biggest threat.
She reveals that she didn’t go to the army to save her father, but rather to prove that she could do something right for once and be someone worthwhile. Her self esteem is fragile from start to finish and she never truly accepts that she can do something right (until the end, arguably) because she’s so used to being a screwup. The scenes at the end where the crowd bows to her and her father hugs her choke me up to this day because she finally gains acceptance for who she is and what she can do, and she’s never felt that before.
Basically what I’m saying is this: Mulan is a character with ADHD who displays a lot of the internal turmoil that people with ADHD actually feel. She compensates for her weaknesses, feels shame for being different, feels the sting of rejection when she fails to meet expectations, and has a hard time accepting herself and her achievements. She doesn’t bounce off the walls like the stereotype of ADHD is always portrayed, but she is a good example of the actual effects of unidentified ADHD on a woman who just wants to “prove that she can do something right” for once.
when people tell me “wow you’re so sharp, you think of everything” yes, I do. I quite literally have thoughts of everything in my head at one time. help
Concept: A dystopian novel where the government is able to read the minds of its citizens in order to spy on them. The protagonist is a person with ADHD and the mind-reading technology doesn’t work on them because their thoughts are too disjointed and change so rapidly that they’re impossible to read.
The thing about how horrifyingly, lethally hot this summer is (across basically the entire northern hemisphere) is that yes, it is, and yet if I live for another 60 years maybe 40 of them are going to be hotter than this one. Maybe even that’s optimistic. Any acknowledgement of how bad it is right now is inseparable from the realisation that it not only can be worse, but absolutely will be worse.
I’m not saying anyone should be panicking, but I am saying that as a society, as a planet, we ought to be pouring resources into finding ways to keep people alive under these unprecedented conditions; it’s going to be one of the major public health and civil engineering challenges of this century, and we can see it coming. Yet instead, because capitalism, what we are in effect doing is pouring resources into finding ways to make these conditions worse.
Boys are allowed to be feminine and that includes trans boys, pass it on. Girls are allowed to be masculine and that includes trans girls, pass it on. Nonbinaries are allowed to use feminine or masculine expression, pass it on.
Hey, do me a solid and really pass this on. Please give this lots of notes, thanks.
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