new journal woo!

[actuallyclintbarton]

sooooo, here it is! first post on a new journal, let's hope i actually remember to keep up with this, yeah?

I am torn between making sure I'm doing like, y'know, proper capitalization and punctuation? or just being like ah fuck it i'm goin the tumblr route

I guess we'll see.

This will probably not be used TOO much, but I will undoubtedly post a lot of random headcanony things here. Possibly crossposted from my tumblr (actuallyclintbarton) but idk idk.

Still tweaking the style and filling out the profile, but we'll see how this goes. WOO!

(note to self: don't use tags like on tumblr. This is not tumblr. You have limited tags.)

Comments

[iamshadow]

Hey, would you mind if my partner friended you? She's awesome, I should know. She's a fanartist, and she writes about disability stuff, and posts the odd links round up of interesting things.

irlen.com is the site for accredited tinting specialists, they have a search engine for finding someone near you who can do the screening. I found both the screening specialists we went to over the years through them, and I'm in Australia, so I think it's pretty comprehensive. They have a self-test questionnaire, too. You'd be surprised at some of the things on the test that you experience but don't think are actually part of sensitivity, but are.

That sucks about the hearing. Mine is fairly good, especially at the upper register of pitch (which means I can always tell I something electrical is on in a room, even if it's on standby), but I had a severe inner ear infection when I was a teenager, and lost a lot of aural comprehension for some speech pitches in one ear for at least a year or two. Even now, I don't know if it eventually healed, or if I just learned to compensate. My comprehension and tolerance level in crowded spaces is pretty bad, though, and sudden loud noises physically pain me. Sometimes I'll miss when someone's speaking to me, but much of the time it's because my focus is on something else and it doesn't register, rather than because of any physical reason. I have attention issues which I think are of an inattentive type ADHD flavour in my autism fruit salad, and they mean sometimes my attention will wander mid conversation, and my working memory is rubbish. Give me a list of four things and I'll immediately forget three. Nope, too slow, now all four are gone. Could you repeat that?

[actuallyclintbarton]

Will reply to the rest later when not about to pass out but your partner may ABSOLUTELY follow me. <3

[kath_ballantyne]

*WAVES*
Hi hi. I'm Emma/Kath, Shadow's girl.