Also I write and play pop music, which is awesome because I get to be stimmy.

Here are some of my plush toys that I have designed and made: http://ocelotofdoom.livejournal.com/#post-ocelotofdoom-2429

Here’s a sweater I designed and made: http://nightmarekitty.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d182he2

I also write. Or rather, I try to. The migraines are making it incredibly difficult to, and the more I don’t write, the harder it gets – because then I beat myself up about not writing, which makes me anxious, which makes me less inclined to write. Or I feel like I should just “push on”, and clearly, I’m not a proper writer if I don’t sit down and write even when I’m one-handed and can only really see out one eye. *rolls eyes*

I’d love some good tips from people who’ve been in a similar position – when I’ve researched writer’s block, there’s lots of “Set a time to sit down” – which is nice [i]if[/i] you can do that. But when you come to your time and you can’t see straight and you’re in too much pain to write, that’s just really off-putting. Same with the “Write every day” – if I could write every day, I wouldn’t be complaining I couldn’t write! Some days are not writing days, they’re “lay in bed hoping to be decapitated by a wandering orge so my head hurts less” days.

So yeah – anyone else in this position?

It’s also something I can do when stuck in bed – my lower body is much worse with arthritis than my upper, and I have learned to pretty much pin down the needle with my not-entirely-useful left hand and do the majority of the work with the right hand, which is fine. So I can even do it when I have a migraine. Which is nice because my migraines don’t knock me out, they just make me wish they did – so I need something simple, low-stress, that I can do so I don’t feel like I wasted the day.

I’ll go to steamfashion on LJ to look at pictures, but I hear you on the racism and sexism that is pretty much everywhere. The is so much cultural appropriation and among other things that make me a sad panda.

Singing is probably the most central to my existence as it currently stands.

I don’t know if this counts, but I have a bit of a flair for interior decor, a positive aspect of my OCD is that my need for order and symmetry in everything means I give a lot of thought to arranging ornaments, furniture, etc. (I can’t relax at home if everything isn’t exactly in its place, when we’ve had parties and I’m afraid things have been moved I’ve been known to get up numerous times in the night just to check that everything is in its place) which other people seem to appreciate aesthetically too!