{"id":20892,"date":"2014-07-14T03:45:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/07\/14\/there-was-a-study-done-a-while-ago-about-kids-who-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:18:48","slug":"there-was-a-study-done-a-while-ago-about-kids-who-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/07\/14\/there-was-a-study-done-a-while-ago-about-kids-who-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20892 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/07\/14\/there-was-a-study-done-a-while-ago-about-kids-who-2\/attachment\/20893\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n8onrlpLKR1qglc0do1_1280-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n8onrlpLKR1qglc0do1_1280-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n8onrlpLKR1qglc0do1_1280-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There was a study done a while ago about kids who drew the same things over and over and over again &ndash; dragons, cars, dogs, etc &ndash; usually the same pose, creature, expression, etc&hellip; and linked it to emotional issues. Something about drawing the same thing helped. It was cathartic. Some semblance of control. Safe. Familiar. An anchor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know if that&rsquo;s what this is, but I sure draw a LOT of sad little Conans just like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a study done a while ago about kids who drew the same things over and over and over again &ndash; dragons, cars, dogs, etc &ndash; usually the same pose, creature, expression, etc&hellip; and linked it to emotional issues. Something about drawing the same thing helped. It was cathartic. Some semblance of control. Safe. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/07\/14\/there-was-a-study-done-a-while-ago-about-kids-who-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1871,1870,295,26],"class_list":["post-20892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conan-as-a-coping-method","tag-conan-sunday","tag-dcmk","tag-fanart","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}