When Affirmation Turns Into Erasure, Neurodivergent Edition

The language meant to value neurodivergent people can accidentally dismiss their lived difficulties.

#neurospicy #actuallyaudhd #adhd #audhd #autism #disability #neurodivergence
https://ideatrash.net/2026/06/when-affirmation-turns-into-erasure-neurodivergent-edition.html

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When Affirmation Turns Into Erasure, Neurodivergent Edition

People with ADHD, how were you able to work on that hobby project from start to finish? #adhd

New #blog #post: Vim Carnival Entry: "The Motion that Changed Everything."

https://rldane.space/vim-carnival-entry-the-motion-that-changed-everything.html

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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

Thanks to @hyde for the blog concept, and immediate apologies if you get trapped in a #hellthread! 😄

#rlDaneWriting #blost #vi #vim #nvi #editor #VimCarnival #TheMotionThatChangedEverything #modal #ADHD

Today's cross-stitch.
An Elvanse 70 mg pill (or Trans Pill, as I like to call it). It will be a present for one of my partners
#embroidery #CrossStitch #Elvanse #adhd

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Photo of a golden frame with a cross-stitch embroidery. The embroidery depicts a blue and pink capsule/pill. It's the Elvanse 70 mg pill (for ADHD treatment)

https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/why-some-people-see-collapse-earlier it helps to know that you are not crazy to think the world is burning down right now, and no one is acting appropriately. I imagine a lot of the neurodivergent here would agree, and every day more neurotypical people will find themselves in the same camp as us. #neurodivergent #neurotypical #society #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt #Science #thisisfine #adhd #neuroscience

@punishmenthurts @autistics

"You’re Autistic, aren’t you?
You think your guys were, McLuhan and Campbell?
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Even if they were, they are drawing upon and interpreting a world of thought that post dates truly ancient thinking and predates the modern discovery of neurodiversity"

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My guy is James Joyce, #Irish author of Finnegans Wake year 1924. Page 3.

https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Page_3

In the message you JUST replied to, look close and you will see me reference "Tower of Babel" I asserted #Context as I have the OPPOSITE of more common autism #ContextBlindness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caetextia

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RE: " discovery of #neurodiversity " #NeuroDiverse

The DISCOVERY is VERY OLD. #Language #Communications

>>>>> Marshall McLuhan #Canadian is everything about ALL FORMS of communications. Not just oral, not just hand gestures and body language eye contact ( All #Autism issues ) - but ALL forms of communications. Writing, audio, electronic, etc. <<<

RE: " discovery of neurodiversity "

The #Metaphor of The Tower of Babel story is recorded in Genesis 11:1–9 - in the #Torah is #BrainDiversity the experience of people not being able to translate #BrainToBrain

"The Tower of Babel story is between 2,500 and 4,200 years old, depending on whether you are looking at the written date, the estimated time of the events, or the broader ancient oral traditions."

This is describing #MindBlindness and other #AutismSpectrumDisorder diversity #ADHD #ASD

It is not a modern concept, and people killing and murdering and war with each other over brain to brain #Egomania conflicts is not new. Husband wife murder-suicide, etc over language #Ego conflicts.

I wonder how much of the increase in the people diagnosed with #ADHD is due to an increased awareness and acceptance of the symptoms, and how much is due to our society constantly demanding more and more executive function from people just to survive.

Hello everyone, it's #introduction time ! (I'm not new on the Fediverse but I just migrate from another instance that didn't fully satisfy me... And I wasn't really active)
I'm Miza, a French artist and #Vtuber (I mostly create in French but I also talk in English) and I work on a #VisualNovel
I mostly draw digitally, model with Blender. I also rig my 2D Vtuber model by myself.
I'm #ADHD, #chronicallyill and #queer so I draw queer characters (mostly)

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digital art of two girls who hold hand. one of them has long blond hair and animal ears. the other has horns. they seem in love.

#makeShitMonday, crochet edition, in which I have a socially acceptable fidget toy...

@mbroome and I are taking a weeklong vertical cave rescue class, and it has been a looooong time since I tried to cram this much information into my head this fast. Fortunately one of the course leaders is a teacher as her day job and understands ADHD, so she's totally okay with me crocheting my way through the classroom instruction.

We're three days in, and I've already finished the hat for my BIL and gotten a good start on the [crochet lace shrug](https://www.ilikecrochet.com/magazine/crochet-shawl-patterns/jade-vines-crochet-shrug/) I'm making with the nice cashmere yarn I got on super sale!

This shrug pattern is *perfect* for classroom #ADHD management - simple stitch, no finicky counting, just cluster into the chain-2 space over and over until I run out of yarn... 🥰 It's so much easier to concentrate on the lecture material when my hands are occupied! I even managed a halfway-decent Russian splice, from memory, when I ran into a break in the yarn.

@cannibal @crafters

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completed crochet lace hat in a blue & black gradient yarn, sitting on a task book for NCRC Level 1 cave rescue

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an ugly but serviceable Russian splice in red yarn, next to a paperback Manual of U.S. Cave Rescue Techniques

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completed crochet lace hat in a blue & black gradient yarn, sitting on a task book for NCRC Level 1 cave rescue

@gamingonlinux I run a small-time #Voxelibre server (a #Minecraft clone) with weekly meet-up (a window of only 4 hours/week), for the @ActuallyAutistic and #ADHD community (who are into #OpenSource). I have tons of fun doing this. I also post a few video clips and highlights each week.
More info:
https://docs.autis.toque.im/
#gaming

I've been away editing & proof reading. But I'm happy to report that Countering the Hands of Crime is finished, and out today. It's got the intersection of #SciFi and #Fantasy setting, crime and mystery threads in the plot, and #aromantic, #asexual, autistic and #ADHD identity exploration subplots, I was hoping for. The found families turned out well too 😄

Direct From Me: https://payhip.com/b/snX5E

All Links: https://elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/

#books #bookstodon #queerbooks #actuallyautistic #SciFiBooks

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Selfie of smiling Elise (tall white person with short curly hair), holding up a copy of Countering the Hands of Crime, Sythe Series book 2, wearing a warm knit jacket in a backyard with autumn trees.

OK, project list.

1. Learn C++ [ongoing],

2. Organize & convert a thousand tabs of miscellaneous research I never sorted over the years, to pdfs [ongoing. Priority: 1],

3. Sort over 7 TB's of backups scattered across various scavenged SSD's & HDD's without having a solid place to store everything and sort from there [ongoing],

4. OptiPlex Hackintosh [paused],

5. LITERALLY DRIVE MYSELF INSANE trying to build a UEFI-supported BIOS image for a ThinkStation D20, knowing full well I'm nowhere near skilled enough to pull something like that off yet [not started],

6. Bunny robot [could be a fun break from the madness, but not started],

7. Learn Blender to make my custom #protogen model [paused because OpenGL 4.8 support doesn't exist for this machine apparently. Workaround is needed],

8. Hack into a Wi-Fi router I bought specifically for this purpose [paused, but sounds like fun. Priority Update: 2],

9. Protogen helmet with a built-in Pi 4 B or 5 that has multiboot EFI support [paused], and

10. Build my own Operating System with a similar design philosophy to Plan9 for the heck of it [surprisingly, started on the researching phase].

...and then comes the part of documenting my journey.

These notebooks are about to get a lot of use, granted I don't keep grappling with getting stuck to one screen all the time. -w-'

#autism #adhd #overlyambitious #tech #technology #help #linux #BIOS

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

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited.

#luanti #game #gaming #games

https://autside.substack.com/p/the-frequency-of-belonging-on-autistic

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I’m (mostly?) autistic, and this really resonated with me.

I’m wondering if someone wrote something similar, but from the perspective of those of our ND tribe who are more strongly from the #ADHD

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type?

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https://bsky.app/profile/jaimehoerricks.bsky.social

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I truly loathe the “Deficit & Disorder” acronyms for us. I would love having descriptions of our ways of being without the pathologic framing!

@actuallyadhd @autistics

#actuallyAutistic #Adhdlife

A friend of mine just told me: While standard brain walks into the room and picks up 10 things, we (#ADHD) tend to notice 50 or 100 of things.

So while for them it looks like we're not attentive for not noticing the spilled coffee on the table, our reality is that they seem to be functioning weird by not noticing the t-shirt that was intentionally left to be re-used, which means I really need to buy detergent, so I better collect the garbage that is under the sink, which needs ...

You know, not all of us have ADHD.

Some of us have plain old ADD. 🥲

#ADHD #ADD

Suddenly I'm wondering how many cases of cognitive or memory decline, or other psychological problems that were attributed to old age were in fact due to some form of neurodivergent (or possibly other) burnout, but weren't seen as such due to this not being well understood?

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics #neurodivergent #adhd