see being autistic while being an animator is massively to my benefit. (/hj) many of my hand stims just Happened to be stretches/exercises you can do to help prevent carpal tunnel from drawing a lot, like i did those stims myself and found out they were hand exercises later LOL

Long Story Short long-term childhood trauma led to a chronic dissociative disorder which ended up in my brain Now Having multiple people in it who can swap places as the "primary conscious" In A Sense.. basically Im Multiple People Babey!! some of us have unique art styles too!

the only thing im "faking" is the idea of me being a single person LOL, for Me the other people in my head/body exist whether i want them to or not, and theres no point in me rejecting them; my mental health increased 1000x after learning i was plural and how to work with it !

we're really glad our system "coming out" heartened some!!! heres some extra funy insight to the Daily Life of a traumagenic system: our "front" (basically Who's controlling What) is shifting and blending ALL the time so our short term + working memory STINKS on top of ADHD /lh

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Genuinely Helped Us Manage Our Stinko Memory, we've done a form of This for a Long time where nowadays we do it most regularly by "putting our pill organizer right smack in front of our keyboard Unignorable when we need to take pills soon otherwise we forget"