Ive Been Having A Bit Of A Rough Day With My OCD, I Tried Something New With My Medication And It Was

I’ve been having a bit of a rough day with my OCD, I tried something new with my medication and it was definitely not helpful, so I switched back, but I’ve still been having some problems these past couple weeks. Well folks, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Take your meds.

I know autism acceptance month is over, but it still makes me feel better to turn my attention to autistic characters! Let’s celebrate and say mahalo to a very cool autistic character, Lilo Pelekai! One thing I really appreciate about the movie Lilo and Stitch is Lilo and Nani’s relationship. She’s not in an easy position to do it, but Nani is a wonderful caregiver for Lilo and always gives her her best. She does whatever it takes to take care of her. I also love (what I understand to be) Lilo’s special interest in Elvis Presley. The whole “leave me alone to die” thing was an exact snapshot of me at 14 years old. Going home at the end of a rough school day and just getting lost in the special interest sauce. And I love how Elvis forms a reference point for things that have nothing to do with music or dance (“Elvis was a model citizen”) because lots of special interests come in handy like that, where you’re approaching an unfamiliar situation but can go at it from the angle of your special interest. I don’t think that Elvis was a model citizen, but I’m not the expert.

This was just a quick doodle I was gonna do before bed, until an hour went by and it was colored and shaded. That’s me with my signature, autism-issued headphones and flip-flops

also! I just got volume 1 today! I’ve been flipping through it happily : )

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Help a Palestinian family directly:

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Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

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crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

Here are some more autistic pals! This is Pinkie and Maud Pie, two sisters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! As you can see, they are as different as night and day, but they love each other dearly and they are each other’s biggest cheerleaders. Autism is a genetic condition, so it runs in families. Lots of autistic people also have a sibling with autism! But that doesn’t mean that their traits and symptoms will be the same— two autistic siblings may be on totally different areas of the autism spectrum, and like any other siblings, may have completely different personalities too!

This looks phenomenal! I really like it! The only suggestion I have is that you texture the smooth tail a little more, I like what you did with his ears and cheeks, and the little puff of fur on his collar, so I think a few well-placed ruffles on his tail would be a good touch. Another thing you could think about is to darkening the shading a bit more. It looks very gentle, but increasing the contrast might play up the drama of the new art style!

Been messing around with a style that I like, used Roark as a little guinea pig to test it out

Any feedback or criticism would be greatly appreciated

Cheers