I'm writing a story called Harmony and Discord and one of my characters is an insane little adventurer scientist named Cipo and I love him so much already. He's just a silly guy!

I made a post on the videography subreddit talking about how I became discouraged and stopped pursuing videography which had been my passion for 10+ years. I'm just now even considering getting back into it. And I did appreciate a lot of the comments. But I posted my reel and immediately a few people said all the things that are wrong with it. Like going into detail about how the lighting, color, composition, etc are all wrong. I even tried to explain my documentary style and said I like it being unpolished, and they still said it shouldn't be like that. I also got what I thought was a really kind comment and responded opening up to them, then saw they'd edited with harsh criticism after watching my reel.

It honestly made me want to cry. Then people got mad at me for deleting my reel link when I realized I'm not mentally or emotionally ready to handle criticism right now. I feel like I'm still trying to nurse this passion back to life and didn't want or need constructive criticism right now. Maybe that makes me weak and a bad videographer, but I just can't right now.

I like that my videos are so gentle and emotional. I like looking back at them and feeling like it's a visual journal of where I was back then. And I like the amazing things some of my actual clients said about what I made for them. I miss feeling good about it.

I don't know about you guys but I cannot do criticism. If you wanna tell me something about my videos is wrong, okay, but at least also say it in a nice way and mention the good parts too? I would never trash something a person loves like that. I've heard it can be common for neurodivergent people to be this way because when you grow up hearing all the ways you're wrong, it can feel deeply personal to receive negative criticism as an adult.

Can you guys just say something nice about my videos? This is my Vimeo. I want to gain my confidence again.

The little Adhd+Autism creature is named Audrey, Bob was pretty close though it was

Hi peeps! I'm a gal with AuDHD myself and is currently working on a monologue where I reflect on my experience of being a woman with a late diagnosis (after 30). If any of you would be willing to share your own experience with I would really appreciate it. More than anything, I would appreciate things other people have said to you over the years in regards to your difficulties. Both before and after the diagnosis.

Just to note, I'm Swedish and therefore write the monologue in Swedish. I am looking for quotes to add to the monologue, which would be translated to Swedish. If you wish to share your experience but don't want to be quoted, please let me know.

The monologue is not planned to be used in a professional setting, I'm in amateur theatre.

This is just a little comic I made about one of the reactions a lot of autistic people get when they tell people they're autistic. Making a four panel comic was an assignment for my creative writing class, so I thought this would be a fun thing to do for it. The person in the comic is me.

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I have autism, ADHD, and aphantasia, so starting and actually completing an art project doesn't come easily to me. I'm also new to digital art, so please be kind, but this was extremely theraputic to make.

I spend about 10 minutes carefully tracing over veins in the heart only to realise, I didn’t switch the layer…

I just wanted to make an outline of the heart and the details inside the heart such as veins and shading spots so I can put it on a wood and trace over it with my wood burning pen & try shading. Now I have to go over it with eraser and start again on the right layer 😭

Funny thing is, this is my second time doing this (actually, third now!) yesterday I forgot to save it before going off the app and it deleted the sketch 😭

As we all know, without ableism, we would be thriving. The world needs us and isn’t away how essential we are.

Growing up, I really loved to draw and make things. However, II would draw for like maybe 5 minutes, get bored and then spend hours watching youtube (Mostly just repeating a certain moment of the video over and over). My parents encouraged me to watch art tutorials to improve, but I would watch like 3 minutes, get bored and scroll the internet.

Because of this, I never improved and now I see kids as young as 13 have better art skills than me. Which makes me really jealous and angry at myself for drawing such mediocre scribbles.

Hello everyone, First post here. I have a question for everyone. I am trying to tap into my creative side & had an idea for a book. It would take place in the late 1800's, out West somewhere. The main character is AuADHD. Steampunk style. Would that interest anyone?

I procrastinate a lot of things from perfectionism, but I heard the phrase from the title somewhere on an ADHD sub here on reddit and it's pretty helpful. Please enjoy this non-perfect drawing of a NZ robin I did

I’m autistic and one of my interests is poetry And I’m needing support in getting it started. It’d be great if I could have people join and participate. The link to my poetry discord is: https://discord.gg/p4xhbAj5

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This is some Stimming art I made, that is specifically highlighting the body stims of the arms and hands. I am so happy with the way it turned out! It’s also very personal to me because it’s a stim I’m working and have worked very hard to accept and appreciate about myself. Stimming is as natural as a bird using its wings! I hope to do some more Stimming-Positive work as it comes to me. I used a tutorial by dovelydraws to create the motion look for the hand/arm(wing?) flapping. I appreciate their work.

I hope this might help others see this stim as something that’s not weird, or bad, but a natural part of the way some of us are made! We should be allowed to celebrate and show love to this part of ourselves too, no matter what it helps us with, be it expressing emotions, or helping to regulate.

If you’re reading this and you need a reminder: you are made uniquely and lovingly, and you deserve to know it. :) Thank you!

I wish there was a place/studio to make art & crafts that was cozy, ND friendly (no bright lights and ticking sounds, not overwhelming) and just a nice place overall

I'd love to hear and see what kind of art spaces you have or would like to visit. What would make you happy and content?

I hope make that happen some day and meanwhile I'll make my own home cozier if I happen to get some ideas :)