while i DID bring up hormones i do want to be clear that i don't think all those aforementioned statistics can be chalked up to biology. yes it's much easier for men to gain muscles and i Did mention feeling a greater capacity for anger and i DO think women have more of a propensity towards...
@Jet also reminded me of one last tangent i want to go on lmao, which is hormones. im going to list off the emotional differences trans ppl usually report when they start taking cross-sex hormones because, while this never changes Who You Are, it can give you SOMETHING of an idea of how an...
i hope it's okay for me to add my input? like i'm a transguy but i still lived the first 20 yrs of my life as a woman essentially so i feel like that counts at least for something lmfao
i super agree with everything that @monxmiracle said. i always knew it in the back of my head, but i never...
jfc some of those rp scenarios you listed are so fucking Yikes. it's been a pet peeve of mine for a longass time when people force romance, but ive never had to deal with anything THAT bad. it might be because i roleplayed on neopets for so long where romance was essentially banned lmfao, then...
at least so far, not really. looking back at it, most of my ocs have come from something that i was interested in at the moment, rather than developing an interest because of them. i recently made an oc that does stick & poke tattoos though and i Did start feeling tempted to buy a kit while i...
https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/
this should be the last thing i say abt adhd but i just found this article and it's actually the best & most concise breakdown of adhd ive seen yet. i didnt even mention rsd in my post because i didnt know i...
@Dionysius yeah yep lol! i can't personally relate or express the hyperactive part of adhd because if anything, i'm a lot more lethargic, but i'm glad to hear you could relate! what happened to you makes complete sense from everything i know. in my experience college professors are surprisingly...
rly quick i want to first plug for @kibou's tutorial he wrote to give some basic pointers on how/where to research disorders + a lot of lists for clinical diagnostics on the majority of mental illnesses. (we're both american which could be important bc the us uses similar but different...
omg i love you SO so much right now, thank you SO much for all the information! this has been SUPER helpful omg. i think this is exactly the kind of stuff i needed to know before even being a little confident about my representation of these things LMFAO. i'll need to process this, think it over...
ohhhh, thanks for the thread! i majored in psych so i know that perspective of chronic illnesses (particularly development-wise) and ofc have webmd at my disposal but i think something like this thread would really help get the full picture?
recently i made a character with asthma and even less...
I like them! I have difficulty visualizing things if I'm going to be totally honest, so having some point of reference is really nice. I would love to commission artists if I was a rich bich, but alas, I'm a po' schmoe.
The one thing I do kind of resent is when people use famous people for face...
A lot of things LOL but in the interest of time, one of the things that I find absolutely exhausting is... multiple conversations of dialogue going on at once? There isn't really any short term for what I have in mind, as far as I know LOL. This is going to be a confusing example, I think...
...to see the older crowd taking up this same practice. As my generation and below continue to age, I may very well witness some middle-aged people *sighing*, but we aren't quite there yet.
I might be overromanticizing the whole thing though and I'm hoping I didn't miss the point of the...
I would argue this isn't really a weak point. That just means you can just spot what's missing and continually work to develop a character, which is just another way of improvement/bettering yourself as a writer. Nothing you do will ever feel absolutely complete, I don't think.
I can only really think of one thing off the top of my head, which I'm assuming is because this is something I have to move past before I can go on to refine other areas of my writing. Essentially, I have no restraint with what I will write about. When I make a post, I think through everything...
Interesting. If anything, in my experience, I haven't seen enough people use those more conventional names. In a modern American setting, I would say that having characters named something like Brandon is perfectly acceptable. I've met many people in my life named the exact same things. Chris...
Tbh I switch between both genders pretty freely. The thing I remember learning in my psych class is that men tend to be more impulsive and apt to speak, while females tend to think before they speak. My anthropology class seemed to agree, with selection favoring those types of men in humans...