“Catch several hares and you’ll catch none.”

#adhd

Need to rant today about neurotypicals.

The ambiguity, the information witholding is exhausting to me. How do they stand each other?

#acruallyautistic #ADHD #AuDHD

It is kind of crazy how over-stimulated we are in this era. I distinctly remember my childhood self having a more serene & calm state of mind. And that's saying something because as kids we're always learning, curious, playful and more aware of our surroundings.

I've been consciously trying to get back into reading in the recent past...in a way to combat this feeling to some extent (finished The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle this week, wonderful book btw) 😊

I want to put it into more words. Has anyone reading also observed this in the past?

I would love to hear your thoughts.

#books #reading #bookstodon #technology #adhd

Can anyone recommend sites or info on researching #EU member state’s laws, policies, and availability of #anxiety and #ADHD meds?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DS90210/117230489226525025

Any other ND folk vibing this? 😆

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent @autistics

🧠⏰ I updated one of my favorite ADHD automations.

The original version used Alexa to announce upcoming calendar events.

Alexa has now been relieved of duty. 🫡

My reminders are now handled by Home Assistant Voice + OpenAI TTS.

#ADHD #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SelfHosted #Homelab
https://s.adhdhomelab.com/_Obr

"Kiva" herätä kolmelta yöllä ja ahistua jostain teini-iän muistoista, kunnes nykytodellisuus alkaa tulla liian voimakkaina ärsykkeinä tajuntaan. Ei siinä, tiedän että tämä on vain ohimenevä aamuyön perinteinen ahdistus, ymmärtääkseni ihan yleinen ilmiö, mutta saisi edes imuroida, mutta koska kerrostalo.

Sitten taas toisinaan saattaa tulla sellaisia impulsiivisuuskohtauksia, jolloin lähden pariksi päivää seikkailemaan ja koti jää taakse. Kotiin on pakko palata, koska chilit juovat niin paljon, etteivät pärjää yksin - altakasteluruukut on kalliita.

Kukaan ei siedä minua, mutta joudun sietämään itseäni. Valitukseni jokapäiväisestä selviytymisestä on kuulema rasittavaa. En minä valita, kunhan sanon miten asiat ovat.

Mulla on listat kaikesta mitä pitäisi tehdä, mutta kaikki tekeminen on haastavaa, koska assosioin niin paljon, että väsyn nopeasti, siksi on hyvä, ettei tärkeät asiat unohdu, koska niistä on muistutukset. Pystyn hahmottamaan suuria kokonaisuuksia ja ajattelunikin on lähinnä visuaalista ilotulitusta.

Pakko tähän lisätä #skitsofrenia ja #erilaistumatonskitsofrenia -tägit vaikka termi itsessään ei kerro yhtään mitään, on vissiin natsien keksimä, haukkumasana ja leima, jolla saadaan leimaamisen ilosta määrättyä kemiallinen lobotomia, joka ei tähän maailmanaikaan haittaa yhtään /s. Todelliset syyt voivat olla myös #ADHD #PTSD #erityisherkkyys #autismi #vilkasmielikuvitus #ylivilkkaus #todellisuus #yksilensiylikäenpesän

Pahoittelen, jos loukkasin jollain, mutta tämä kertoi nyt minusta.

Totally came off as we were leaving.

Dinner wasn't wife's convoluted plan. Ended up at an all you can eat sushi place with a ton of rules. My #ADHD wife over ordered. The place has a $1 charge per piece not eaten. I hurt from eating 2.5 extra rolls.

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Two shoes. One without a sole.

#Autism #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #AutADHD
#AdultAutism #Neurodivergent #FWakeNeurodivergent

"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Doctor Martin Luther King Jr #MLKjr
Chapter 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Year 1963 book

Ever feel like you're just burnt out, or is it deeper? Knowing the diff is key for the right treatment. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

Burnout is more about being overwhelmed by stress, while depression is a more persistent sadness. Both can hit hard, but identifying the cause helps find the cure!

#MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Burnout is more about being overwhelmed by stress, while depression is a more persistent sadness. Both can hit hard, but identifying the cause helps find the cure!

Ever feel like you're the only one who sees the big picture, but everyone else thinks you're just lazy? 🤷‍♀️ #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

Executive dysfunction can make it hard to start tasks or switch gears, but it doesn't mean you're not capable. You just need a little more support and understanding. 🌟

#MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Executive dysfunction can make it hard to start tasks or switch gears, but it doesn't mean you're not capable. You just need a little more support and understanding. 🌟

@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 5 hours from now.

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource crafting and mining voxel game, available in the #luanti game engine.

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
(You can join with pretty much any device which **isn't** an iPad/iPhone)

#game #gaming #games

I had some mildly high blood glucose readings at physicals over the last few years and a VERY high fasting reading just before surgery recently.

I do. not. want. #diabetes. I mean, nobody does, but I additionally hate the idea of giving myself shots. My BP spikes just from normal #medical checkups, let alone shots, blood draws or surgery

So I changed my #diet to get my insulin response normalized, obvs.

But as an #adhd #engineer I need immediate, real-time measurements of the thing I'm trying to control. So I got a #cgm (ironic for someone afraid of needles, but it honestly did not hurt and I barely notice it)

It's very interesting already. Although it's also confounded by the fact that I'm still recovering from surgery...

Got plans but can't seem to make them happen? It's not laziness, it's executive dysfunction. BrainJoos can help you track your patterns. 🧠✨

Understanding your brain's quirks is the first step to managing them. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

#MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Understanding your brain's quirks is the first step to managing them. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

Alright, well I have spent enough time on an #adhd rabbit hole here on the fedi. I need to go be a quasi-productive human and feed myself.

I'm up to my nose in rubber ducks right now. 

My prose writing gives some people a wrong impression. I function a few hours a day... at least for mind-intensive tasks like writing or otherwise creating. 

So I'm a bit overwhelmed maintaining social media and actually trying to get my book out. My autobiographical frags from Autistic Noir are bringing a lot of public private comments my way.

I’m not doing you folks justice. At best you may be getting brief tossed off comments out of me.

Even as they mean a great deal to me. And several times have taken me in new unexpected directions. 

I'm easily overwhelmed. I'm that guy in the movie who rarely comes out of his apartment. Rarely talks with another human. The guy the neighbors kinda giggle about.

So? I don't talk with too many folks. I mostly leave comments here and there. Short interchanges.

That's all. 

I started writing in this adult autistic space in 2019. And i've always tried to work from the understanding that I can only. Represent my own experience. But there's certainly been a learning curve for me.

For the first couple of years, I put out my share of listicles and 7 Easy Steps to Being an Autistic kind of stuff. Trying to always maintain that these were tricks that worked for me and came out of my lived experience.

But as I talked with more and more adult autistics, I began to understand that all that work was perceived by some as ableist, even toxic positivity.

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Psychology #MentalHealth #ADHD

I had to think about that. 

I realized the only real, true thing I had to offer was my life. Not as an exemplar. Just an exploration of one life. 

In the hopes that many would feel seen. And others might see what needs seen.

Everything I've written over the last year or a little more has been based on that.

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Me.

Ever tried to fall asleep but your brain won't stop racing? 🛌🧠 Sleep hygiene is key! Try a calming bedtime routine & limit blue light exposure before bed. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

Taking a warm bath, practicing deep breathing, and listening to soothing music can work wonders for your sleep quality. BrainJoos can help track your patterns and see what works best for you!

#MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Taking a warm bath, practicing deep breathing, and listening to soothing music can work wonders for your sleep quality. BrainJoos can help track your patterns and see what works best for you!

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/dopamine-may-play-a-bigger-role-in-autism-than-we-thought-416151

It kinda makes logical the overlap between #autism and #adhd
Also, to me personally it’s interesting that it mentions connections between cortex and deeper regions, because in my teens, I had a bunch of encephalograms, and they said that I have irregular cortex - subcortex connections with increased cortex control, and I now wonder if those things are related
#AuDHD
@autistics

This is what planning my semester looks like for me.

#professor #organization #adhd #teaching

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A 2-foot by 4-foot sheet metal drain pan stood vertically with a schedule grid drawn on it in marker. Weeks of the semester proceed from 1 (top) to 14 (bottom; we only have 14 instruction weeks this semester, which is weird; usually it's 15). There are columns for the date, and for five separate classes. Labels on magnets of different shapes appear in the spaces for the individual days, indicating things like assignments, lecture topics, exams, quizzes, and activities. Some of the magnets are painted mat board and others are 3D-printed. All have magnets glued to the back. In the right margin of the calendar are currently-unused extra pieces.

Ever wondered why you can't stop switching tabs? Your ADHD brain loves new stuff! Here’s how to work with that craving for change.

Track patterns and triggers with BrainJoos - it's exactly the kind of thing it was built for!

#ADHD #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent

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Track patterns and triggers with BrainJoos - it's exactly the kind of thing it was built for!

You won't believe this MESSY #MAKEOVER - Renter and #ADHD Friendly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aty0pMIyv8

My c.im #introduction post (I always pin my first post when moving servers)...

I'm an escaped Brit, late 50s, childfree, #AntiTheist, former #musician, living in 🇵🇭 since 2019. I'm #neurodivergent with severe #CPTSD. You can ask me about it, I'm trying to get better at discussing it. I can also be abrasive and inconsistent. *shrugs* I am what I am.

I'm married, I work in #tech and I love animals and nature. My wife and I bought a run-down farm to have a peaceful place to live and now we're accidental hobby farmers. My one-page personal site at https://www.drewtowler.me tells my story.

I may post about: #DogsOfMastodon #Tech #WebDev #Linux #RaspberryPi #Apple #Starlink #NoAI #FuckAI #Privacy #InfoSec #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #Alexithymia #Synesthesia #ChildhoodTrauma #MentalHealth #Stroke #SubarachnoidHemorrhage #Arthritis #Trains #TrainTrackTuesday #Railways #ModelRailway #NGauge #SilentSunday #Today #3Things #Bookstodon #Books #Music #DIY #FarmLife #GoatsOfMastodon. I edit posts a lot (including this one).

I'm bullshit-phobic and keep my feed as free from politics and religion as I can. That said, I would welcome the annihilation of #China by any means. If you lived here in the #Philippines you'd understand.

Anyone following me whose bio asks for money will be blocked instantly. I don't have any patience for the fedi police either. "Don't read this, don't buy that, don't patronize the other"... just fuck off already. I listen to my own conscience and nobody else's.

When you snap out of #ADHD hyperfocus and need to find clues to remember what timeline you’re in…

Ever tried sitting still and it felt like your brain was being tickled by a lava lamp? Try mindful walking or yoga! Moving can help focus your mind just as much (if not more)!

Research shows that movement-based mindfulness practices can improve attention and reduce stress in people with ADHD. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

#Mindfulness #ADHD #MoveToCalm

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Research shows that movement-based mindfulness practices can improve attention and reduce stress in people with ADHD. #MentalHealth #ADHD #Neurodivergent

Why do autistic people often catastrophise?

I've been thinking about this deeply. I've had this habit since I was a child.

Lying in my bed at night thinking, “what if…?”

⬇️

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Neurodivergent #ADHD #AuDHD #Autistic

@HarmonySeeker I’m very similar to you. Cognitive profiles are really interesting to explore, especially as an AuDHD’er.

These are my differences and some more details about each one:

Instead of composing music, which is something I haven’t learned, I love other forms of art. For this, I need to be able to feel it. I’m very kinaesthetic. So I love the movement required to make art. But I’ve also painted detailed miniature paintings that required intense focus and very little, highly controlled movement, so I think hyperfocus is a skill I love to use as well. With some art I would see a blank sheet of paper and already see the picture on it, so it felt more like I was just following a guide, filling in the gaps. I wonder if composing music is like that for you. I haven’t experienced this though since I first got burnout many years ago in a job that forced me to be creative every day alongside workplace harassment, and later I got ME/CFS, which affects cognitive ability. I’ve managed to get most of it back, but not all and it fluctuates with my daily symptom level.

I can almost always do maths or coding or analyse data. It seems this part of my brain keeps going even when I’m stressed. It feels like logic and order, so very calming to do. I can sometimes code while watching a movie in the background, even hold a conversation at the same time. Although not right now because I’m learning a lot of new stuff on a masters course so I need my full attention on that. But it seems this part of my brain is like a separate computer to the rest - haha!

I do enjoy writing, but as you said for you, it takes me days or longer to structure what I want to say. I managed to improve this by learning some writing strategies in my recent undergraduate degree but I still find it hard to write longer pieces. I think the issue is related to needing to see multiple perspectives at once: from zoomed right in for crafting the individual sentences to zoomed right out to check the structure and even purpose of the writing as a whole. Switching between zoomed out and zoomed in for words is really hard, can even make me feel nauseous. I can do it, can even do it very well, but I would hate it to be all I do as a day job, for example! Satisfying once done, but draining in the process!

Spoken conversations, and especially unexpected questions, can be a nemesis of mine too like you said for you. I can shut down or go non-speaking, or often somewhere in between where I force garbled words out and don’t even know what I’m saying and stutter a lot, etc. I loathe audio-only calls for this reason and avoid them as much as possible. But then that’s a lot to do with being able to see someone and their body language helps me contextualise their words, otherwise I can really misunderstand. If I must do a telephone call, I sometimes use a relay service in the UK where a real human acts as a relay to speak my typed words to the person on the other end and then types responses back to me. In person, if I can’t speak, I sometimes use my phone to type what I want to say and show someone the screen, or use any messaging app with them even if the other person is right next to me. Planned one-to-one spoken conversations are the best for me, any more people than that and my brain melts and I go into listen-only mode. I can sometimes remember a lot of conversations, but then other times nothing at all. I can’t follow verbal instructions. I remember only one step at a time, and if multiple steps are spoken to me at once, my brain can mangle them all! I can listen to audiobooks and podcasts sometimes because the content and contexts are predictable and I don’t need to speak, but I will always be more interested in my environment than what I’m listening to, so I can only listen well when my environment is very predictable and not stimulating. E.g. while cleaning, walking, etc. Health limitations right now mean there are not many opportunities. I prefer to watch videos and join video calls when they have captions or subtitles and always ask to be able to use the chat function as a back up. Without captions I can miss quite a bit.

I enjoy reading and comprehend what I read well, but keeping my focus on anything except a current hyperfixation has become increasingly difficult with age. I’m hoping to try ADHD meds soon. I can practically inhale some writing that interests me intensely right here and now, but then I can labour for days over reading something that doesn’t have that relevancy and urgency.

I’m adding some extra tags and hashtags to help give your post more visibility. It’s a very interesting topic!
@autistics
#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD

> Your company is not your family.
> Prioritize mental health.
> Don't volunteer work.
> Learn a little bit of social dynamics at office.
> Do not send emails when you're angry.
> Never install work software on your personal machines.
> Appearing smart is half the battle won (yes I know).

I've got my work place to match two offers from competitors in the last 7 years. Your only loyalty is to your loved ones and yourself.

#work #culture #adhd #mentalhealth #infosec

Ever notice how working next to someone helps you stay focused? It's not just about the company, it’s body doubling - a legit ADHD focus hack.

Science says having another person around can decrease distractions and increase productivity for those with ADHD. #MentalHealth

#ADHD #FocusHack

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Science says having another person around can decrease distractions and increase productivity for those with ADHD. #MentalHealth

What have you lost on top of the car?

#adhd #adhddad #adhdfunny #dadlife #baby