Skills & Disability Thinkin' (~+)
I think one of the hardest parts of learning any skill field when you have disabilities that affect it (especially in non-obvious ways) is working out: what's
"Practice fixes that"
"Practice will fix that.. But it'll take a helluva lot longer for you"
"You need to work out the pitfalls yr disability causes, and find adaptations"
and what's "No this is just not going to go away, you need to find an alternate route or technique"
B/c it's the kinda thing that more often than not you just can't.. Find accurate advice on (you'll always get A).
It's a tonne of individual self-learning and maintaining kindness towards yourself so you can recognise potential obstacles.
re: Skills & Disability Thinkin' (~+)
Liiiiiike it's kinda embarrassing how long it took me to work out that
A) I'm not gonna ever be good at drawing while not looking at my hand, that's not a practice-thing for me (dyspraxia, hand-eye co-ordination, all that jazz)
and then
B) Why even when I acquired a screen-tablet, I kept getting disaffected & going back to sketchbooks or lapsing entirely (slippery surface amplifying poor motor control).
This has taken years! I only started using adaptations /this year/ for A causing me to constantly misclick things when using a mouse. I only noticed it wasn't an 'Everyone does that.. Probably?' thing this year!
But I'm not pissed at the wasted time, just.. Happy I'm identifying this stuff, and finding workarounds.
re: Skills & Disability Thinkin' (~+)
@pastelbat
Okay like. I have the same thing in term of adhd as for practice, long time practice and work around.
I find long term *anything* as a long term writing project.
It turns out, if I don’t write in plan order for something, but as I’m interested in the subject it goes much better!
I do this for uni writing work. Still trying to apply to creative writing with less success.
re: Skills & Disability Thinkin' (~+)
@pastelbat oooh this is all v good like, toots, thing to think of!
...have just had adhd meds. Language typing processes still warming up.