What if autism and ADHD aren't "disorders," but the medical language we use is the real cage trapping us?
#Neurodiversity #Autism #ADHD #Linguistics #DisabilityJustice #Chomsky
https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski/autism-and-adhd-are-not-disorders-its-medical-language-that-oppresses-us-184365854d87

#adhd havers who tend to serially hyperfocus on various subjects: when the period of hyperfocus is over, do you tend to

Hello, I'm a middle-aged dad and dog servant, currently trying to navigate an impressive collection of late in the day diagnoses of both the neurodivergent, and mental illness types. Certainly, I've always had these things but being in the possession of answers is no less of a challenge than a head full of questions! My life is a small, and fairly simple one, I love my family, which includes our rather scruffy but nonetheless beautiful rescue dog, I love a good, entertaining book series, I'm a massive, lifelong music fan, with broad and eclectic tastes, and I also love to just be out and about, we live in a beautiful place. I've recently come to accept that I am getting older but I need to adapt and strengthen myself to it as opposed to allowing myself to be a slave to entropy.

#introduction #fiftyplus #audhd #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #cptsd #bpd #mentalheath #family #rescuedog #health #music #jazz #electronica #heavymetal #progrock #northcoast #cornwall #kernow #kernowlife #uk

I found a really good article on this topic!

https://www.simplypsychology.org/object-permanence-and-adhd.html

This is exactly what I was looking for.

#adhd #neurodivergent

In 2021 Greg bought me a mystery game advent calendar to do for Christmas. The plan was for us to do each day together, so I put it away to start on the 1st December 2021.

...in other completely unconnected news—did you know that people with adhd will often forget something exists, sometimes for years, if it's out of their eyesight?

#games #gaming #boardgames #escapegames #christmas #audhd #autism #adhd #relationship #LongDistance #LongDistanceRelationship

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A boardgame box with a cave on the front, there are icey steps leading up out of the cave. Exit—The Game Advent Calendar The mystery of the ice cave. With 24 exciting riddles.

I built a tiny little tool that generates pink noise and lets you blend it with isochronic or binaural beats.


For some people like those with ADHD, sensory overload, or trouble winding down this kind of steady sound can be really calming 💖🌸

Maybe it's useful for you too:

https://beepink-naural.vercel.app

#adhd #mentalHealth #neurodivergent #pinkNoise #binauralBeats #sound

First Day on ADHD med and it was a good one.
Finally. 🙂

#ADHD

The to-do list waxes and wanes, swells and shrinks. The to-do list does not get "finished", despite individual items occasionally meeting this state. The urgencies and weights of the to-do list are suggestions only, but suggestions with power. The order of items on the to-do list appears meaningful but is at least 50% arbitrary. Ask not "which item shall I start with?" Start with literally any item. Any one. Even that one, yes. Any is better than none. The to-do list before you is but the projection into this dimension of the full and complete to-do list. No one can know the full and complete to-do list; if it were possible, any person who came to know it would go mad. The full and complete to-do list might be infinite; it is impossible to know. When you die the to-do list will remain, no matter what you do. The to-do list is not god and it is not the devil. It is not an angel or a demon. It merely is. It is not elemental or a force of nature, however; it is constructed. By you. From your life. From your relationship with and understanding of your life. That doesn't mean it owns you or that it even knows you. Does it think it knows you? It doesn't know you. It's not no cause to be talking shit about you. It's a punk. You owe it nothing! But you probably owe some stuff to some people, partly represented on the to-do list. The to-do list is not your boss; you are its boss. But it is an unruly, disrespectful employee you cannot fire. It is a problem employee, as are you. The to-do list is everything. The to-do list is nothing. The to-do list is honestly probably somewhere in between those extremes. You should stop writing this ridiculous faux-zen bullshit and actually look at your to-do list.

#affirmations #neuroatypical #adhd #silly

Hey lovelies

We'd like to ask you all for your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas to help us resolve an ongoing issue.

The issue

At a high-level, we are a neurodivergent (AuDHD) spoonie with a mixture of health issues that are preventing us from being able to get or do a "typical" job and earn an income.

By "typical" job, we mean one where the company and role just aren't well-suited to many folks who are disabled (including being neurodivergent), have support needs, and/or have other health issues.

Most "typical" jobs broadly:

• Have fixed hours (start/finish times and total working hours required).
• Require a minimum fixed amount of time in a physical office.
• Require a lot of interaction with other people (including colleagues).

... and so on, so you can probably understand how difficult it is for us to find any suitable paid employment that we can do 😅

This is made harder by the fact that:

• We only know how to search for "typical" jobs.
• There is zero support within the UK for finding suitable employment outside of "typical" jobs.
• The welfare system within the UK is fundamentally (and intentionally) broken

The request

We have zero idea where to even start, so we are genuinely asking for your input and recommendations here.

We have decent reading comprehension, writing ability, and neurospicy pattern recognition, but we also have an inconsistent level of executive function and energy (physical and mental), so we can't do a job where we have to clock in and out at set times, even on a part-time basis.

Even whilst writing this post, we're already out of spoons and on to knives today, meaning that we're pushing through to ask for help.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, and we'll add additional details to the post based on any questions or thoughts from others 🥺🫶

Thank you in advance for your thoughts, as well as your empathy, understanding, and kindness

#AskFedi #GenuinelyAsking #GetFediHired #neurodivergent #neurospicy #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #spoonie #disability #disabled #LateStageCapitalismSucks

We #adhd folks should start calling all the useless knowledge we gathered while avoiding other work and/or while in hyperfocus „collateral knowledge“

Institutions have robbed me of my own emotional awareness and recovery by drugging me with sedatives and SSNRIs. Society has been trying to silence me and keep me in constant pain.

#adhd #actuallyautistic #healthcare #mentalhealth

How it feels when neurotypical people give advice when I tell them I'm #autistic / #ADHD

[screenshot from X-Men movie: Iceman / Bobby Drake's mother says "Have you tried not being a mutant?"]
#ActuallyAutistic

@structuredsucc

IMHO no one experiencing ADHD themselves can tell those living with it, what to do

It's like telling someone you understand how do they feel that their mother died of old age, without having experienced that passing themselves

#ADHD

Title: You can refuse illegal orders.

#art #racism #slavery #pencelDrawing #bipolar #autism #adhd

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Abstract black pencil drawing, against racism, slavery and discrimination.

Not finishing projects has always been a bit of a challenge for me, especially if it’s purely personal with no deadline. There seems to be a point when it moves from “ongoing” to “ unfinished”.

I think the difference is when it moves from something I do because I enjoy it, to something I “have to get finished”.

And maybe that is something I can change. Maybe, instead of judging myself harshly for taking so long because I have got distracted &/or started something else, I can just tell myself that I’ll come back to it when I feel like it. Keeping a list of ongoing projects might help too, as long as I see them as ongoing delights, not unfinished.

#ADHD
#Neurodivergent

Being AuDHD feels a little bit like constantly parenting yourself.

ADHD: Hungry. Sweets.
Autism: Not before the lunch which is ready in 5 minutes.

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neurodivergent @autistics

Adult with #ADHD, like myself, have learned to self-manage. I think of it as my Superpower, not an affliction.
I sense things others don't, quick to spot something out of place, or something shiny. I'm the one you should call, if you've lost the back off an Ear Stud, in a thick 1980s shag carpet.

But not without challenges.
Those who have ADHD, know what I mean?

I always have 7-10 open projects, 5 will never get finished and the others will be in perpetual creation, rather than completion. I've finished many big projects, some worth millions of $s.

And still no door on the greenhouse.

I'm impatient with Mr. Sun, he shows up later every morning. I've sang more songs in my head in the last hour in bed, than you will hear today. I've made my shopping list, I have a bill to pay, and I've still managed to read a book each day.. the whole book some days. Getting a lot of work done!

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upside to ADHD having a full-time amusement park in my head Downside to ADHD

It’s not even noon and I had such an intensive and inspiring day so far.
I got up at 2:30 am and called a friend who is a night owl, just to realize that I am not able to make phone calls today, he was very tired, so we decided to talk later and I switched to chatting with a friend from another time zone until he had to go bed.

The chat reminded me oft a song from the past (music by John Miles), so I started listen to it the while processing the chat. Then I recorded several voice messages and started to make a playlist for another friend who spends a lot of time on the train today and “don’t wants people in her head while listening to music”, while switching to listening to “music” by John Miles in between until I was in a listening to this one song over and over again mode. All this included several pacing and dancing sessions culminating in exploring how fast in circles my office chair is able to spin.

As the chat was still open on my laptop I started to think about a good German word with a “Z”, because my friend is interested in the German language and phonology. I recorded and typed “Zufriedenheit” (satisfaction/contentment) and found it interesting that it contains the word “Frieden”, which means peace. As words have a very strong effect on me, I started to calm down a little bit, which immediately changed when I realized that it is not only 7:30 am already, but also November 24th which meant that my online-therapy session at 9 am was actually today, not tomorrow, so I started my morning routine, went for a walk with Lumi and gave him a good brush afterwards. I just had enough time left to have breakfast, listening to the song again on the balcony and feeding my crow friend.

At the beginning of my therapy session my therapist told me that I scored very high in my ADHD assessment last week, so I am officially AuDHD now. What a surprise.

She is so amazing, I will write another post about the session itself, but it ended with the word “zufrieden”.

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neurodivergent