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Search results for tag #adhd

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[?]Dragofix » 🌐
@Dragofix@veganism.social

ADHD is linked to a surprisingly wide range of digestive problems earth.com/science/adhd-is-link

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    [?]Ilona » 🌐
    @anotherdream@mementomori.social

    Niin tyypillistä. Mun täytyy tänään palauttaa kirja, joka on ollut mulla puoli vuotta ja uusintakerrat täynnä. En ole edes avannut sitä.

    Kirja on nimeltään "Aloittamista vaille täydellinen : ADHD työelämässä".

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      [?]Crumbee » 🌐
      @Crumbee@beige.party



      Life before ai

      Life before ai

      Alt...Life before ai

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        [?]Shye :Autism:🇬🇧:HeHim: » 🌐
        @shye@deadrobots.social

        I've always drawn these weird doodles since I was at school. I can see now is a part of it, where to keep my mind occupied I would half mindlessly doodle in my school books as a way to try and stay half focused in class. But I kept doing it, and 30 years later I still am. All these drawings, I have never really shown before, but I'm going to here. This is the earliest doodle I have, from September 2001, when the video of planes hitting the towers was on constant rotation.

        Doodle image using biro pen on paper. shows two twin buildings holding a plane. A man sits below them in an armchair holding a mug.

        Alt...Doodle image using biro pen on paper. shows two twin buildings holding a plane. A man sits below them in an armchair holding a mug.

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          [?]J. » 🌐
          @diametrijenesis@lgbtqia.space

          I have been thinking about and putting off making an appointment with a brand new psychiatrist for months and months and months. I finally made a move with this this week but now I technically have two appointments (the irony) because I had made a decision, booked the appointment, then found a better fit but felt like if I canceled the first before making the second I might never make the second.

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            [?]Church of Jeff » 🌐
            @jeffowski@mastodon.world

            A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter) by user zayden (@pemilo123) with a verified blue checkmark. The post text reads: "Being neurodivergent is when everyone is watching you get bullied by someone who is hitting way below the belt, crushing your soul for no reason, and no one steps in. But the minute you defend yourself with something you think is unremarkable yet kinda snarky, the whole crowd turns on you like 'Whoa! Too far! I can't believe you just said that! That's so mean!'" Context: A widely shared post within neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, etc.) online spaces describing a common double standard in social dynamics, where subtle or systemic provocation against a neurodivergent person is ignored, but their defense or blunt counter-response is heavily policed or socialized as excessive.

            Alt...A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter) by user zayden (@pemilo123) with a verified blue checkmark. The post text reads: "Being neurodivergent is when everyone is watching you get bullied by someone who is hitting way below the belt, crushing your soul for no reason, and no one steps in. But the minute you defend yourself with something you think is unremarkable yet kinda snarky, the whole crowd turns on you like 'Whoa! Too far! I can't believe you just said that! That's so mean!'" Context: A widely shared post within neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, etc.) online spaces describing a common double standard in social dynamics, where subtle or systemic provocation against a neurodivergent person is ignored, but their defense or blunt counter-response is heavily policed or socialized as excessive.

              [?]This Old Hiker » 🌐
              @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

              @hanspetermeyer After an entire career of remaining engaged in meetings by taking handwritten notes, I vote YES on the value of learning cursive handwriting. This is despite that fact that I returned to read those notes infrequently.

                [?]Goose of Dubious Value » 🌐
                @sahqon@beige.party

                Anyone know an Android app for timer that's for days? Not specific days, but for things like, "Remind me every 3 days", with reminder at day 3, and a reset button which will restart the timer for 3 days at the button press time, whether that was on day 3 or day 2 or day 10 (more likely lol), preferably with timer saying how many days overdue the stuff is already.

                Would be very helpful. The timer settings in calendars are too date specific for things like "water the newly planted tree if it hasn't rained in x days" and stuff like that...

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                  [?]Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍ [He/she/they] » 🌐
                  @aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space

                  Black text on white background that reads I cannot hear a word you are saying if your hoodie strings are uneven.

                  Alt...Black text on white background that reads I cannot hear a word you are saying if your hoodie strings are uneven.

                    [?]Adrian » 🌐
                    @thgie@post.lurk.org

                    Does anybody else have positive experiences with methylphenidate (Ritalin) and anxiety-management?

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                      [?]Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍ [He/she/they] » 🌐
                      @aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space

                      Waiting for a hospital call, so of course I have been in Waiting Mode™ all day😂

                        [?]StarkRG » 🌐
                        @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net

                        I'm not sure that dexamphetamine is the right ADHD medication for me. It does let me focus my attention but I'm finding it *really* hard to aim it properly. It's like trying to aim a 600x telescope without a viewfinder. More often than not I end up hyperfocused on procrastinating. Like what I'm doing right now. Maybe it would be good in a business setting where the direction is given from an external source and there are other people to keep you on task.

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                          [?]Simon Cozens » 🌐
                          @simoncozens@typo.social

                          I know there's a bunch of / / neurospicy people on here: anyone have any experience of Auditory Processing Disorder? It's becoming more obvious to me that I'm finding it hard to understand people, particularly in busy environments or when they speak quickly, but I'm aceing all the standard hearing tests so I'm starting to wonder if I have APD. I know there's overlap between neurodivergence and APD, and while I'm not diagnosed with anything it wouldn't surprise me. OTOH it has only started becoming a problem the past few years. Any adjustments which worked for you, experiences getting diagnosed etc., would be helpful to hear. (Ha, ha)

                            [?]starryeyes » 🌐
                            @starryeyes@mastodon.social

                            RE: mastodon.social/@starryeyes/11

                            Begrudgingly sharing my request again since I'm unfortunately still in need, and I'm sorry 😓 Any little bit of help, shares, or kind words would be SO appreciated! 😖

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                              [?]Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama » 🌐
                              @punishmenthurts@autistics.life

                              I don't see any need for CWs here - except he promised/warned us that he's going to deal with one of these days.
                              .
                              The second half is all laughs.
                              youtu.be/exAYxOR_sgM?si=Bh3tht

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                                [?]Owl Eyes Hoo » 🌐
                                @d1@autistics.life

                                @autistics
                                @autistics Announcement: multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 7 hours from now.

                                Voxelibre is a free and crafting and mining voxel game, available in the game engine. :blob_cat_heart:

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

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                                  [?]Jokinen Pipa » 🌐
                                  @pipanella_56@mementomori.social

                                  "Yhteenvedon mukaan laajalle suuntautuva huomio voi auttaa löytämään kaukaisia mielleyhtymiä ja synnyttämään uusia ajatuksia

                                  Luova ajattelu ei kuitenkaan perustu pelkkään huomion harhailuun. Myös kyky keskittyä yhteen asiaan on tärkeä, jotta syntyneitä ajatuksia voi työstää ja arvioida.

                                  Luovuuden kannalta olennaista saattaakin olla kyky liikkua joustavasti näiden kahden tilan välillä."

                                  - Olen itse autisminkirjolla ja lisäksi ihan selkeästi se levoton kieppuja kenen keskittymiskyky herpaantuu ulkoisten ärsykkeiden takia, hälinän, melun, valosaasteen, sosiaalisen ahdistuksen, jopa hajujen takia..

                                  Ikäänkuin kaikki suodattimet ja termostaatit puuttuis ja kaikki informaatio virtaa aivoihini suodattamattomina.

                                  Olen yliherkkä. Keho käy yleensä ylikierroksilla.

                                  Valtavan kuluttavaahan se on vaikka olenkin luova ja myös jo todistanut sen moneen kertaan tekemällä ja tuottamalla mielikuvituksellisia, monien ihastelemia tuotoksia.

                                  Koulussa paikoillaan istuminen oli yhtä helvettiä!

                                  Yleensä puhutaan että pojat syrjäytyvät ja pojille pitäis tarjota sitä sun tätäerilaista kuin kilteille ja kärsivällisille tytöille.

                                  Ongelman sukupuolittaminen on meidän "tuhmien tyttöjen" sivuuttamista. Meidät yritetään häivyttää ikäänkuin meitä ei olis lainkaan olemassa.

                                  Minä olisin tarvinnut koulun missä ollaan paljon ulkona, missä opetellaan muualla kuin ahdistavan luokkahuoneen vankina.

                                  Minä rakastan VAPAUTTA!
                                  Minä vihaan kahleita!

                                  Naiseksi varttuneena se olin minä kuka tuli raskaaksi ja lapsi on valtava kahle. En minä lastani vihannut, mutta vihasin usein sitä saatanan ahdasta äitiyden normia joka oli.

                                  Inhosin kaikkia niitä normiämmiä, joita istui vanhempainilloissa jo päiväkodissa, he ja heidän "täydelliset" lapsensa. Vähä-älyisiä "ihmisiä".

                                  Aniharvoin olen kohdannut ketään ketkä olis samalla aaltopituudella kanssani.

                                  Olen uskaltanut elää erilailla. Olen rakastanut vapauttani niin paöjon etten ole suostunut jatkamaan ihmissuhteita joista on kadonnut idea.

                                  Olen luopunut materiaalisesta onnesta menttaalisen hyvinvoinnin vuoksi. Enkä kyllä edes usko että sitä materiaalista onnea olis olemassa varsinaisesti.

                                  Kauhuviso se on että olis pitänyt jämähtää johonkin valtavan asuntolainan takia, jumittaa parisuhteessa, jossa joutuu teeskenetelmään että jaksaa.. Teeskentelemään työpaikalla että jaksaa, teeskentelemään kaikkialla että jaksaa ja lopulta sitä olis pelkkä ihmisen kuori..

                                  Osaan teeskennellä, osaan maskata. Olen entinen harrastajateatterilainenkin. Estradille ne esitykset sopii, ei ihmisen arkeen.

                                  Tylsämieliset kai kykenee paremmin puuduttavaan, tasapaksuun elämäänsä, missä samat naamat luovat heille saman tyylisen turvan kuin oli lapsuudessa.. Epäitsenäiset ihmiset, ketkä eivät koskaan kasva aikuiseksi.

                                  Eihän sille kukaan mitään itse mahda millaisin aivoin syntyy. Ketään ei voi syyttää, mutta yhteiskunnan pitäisi olla kaikille, ei vain tylsämielisille, tai narsisteille ketkä laativat sääntöjä muille itse niitä noudattamatta.

                                  Läheisriippuvaisissa on myös narsisteja ketkä elävät kaksoiselämää. Salasuhteita, salalapsia, jalkavaimoja..
                                  Sovinistina kaikki vaikuttaa olevan mahdollista. Valehtelemalla valtaan pääsy. Narsitinen muiden manipulointi, kyky puhua muut ympäri..

                                  Onneksi en syntynyt sellaiseksi.
                                  En halua hoviväkeä, en halua kalifiksi kalifin paikalle. Rakastan vapauttani.. ❤️

                                  Juice Leskisen sanoin: "Ymmärrä en niitä, jotka luotuja on kaksosielämään, kun en kunolla saa eletyksi tätä yhtäkään.." (sanamuoto ehkä eri, idea sama..)

                                  hs.fi/tiede/art-2000012251865.

                                    [?]Thayer » 🌐
                                    @Thayer@mastodon.social

                                    Contemplating or diagnosis? May I recommend to you Dr Daniela Herescu. theprivatetherapyclinic.co.uk/

                                    I have personally used her services, also for my close family, and passed on to close friends who have subsequently. She is smart, kind, friendly, and fast. Fees are on the lower end of the range you'll find, and no tie ins to "subscriptions" that a lot of the shadier ADHD private firms will tie you to. No kick backs: but do say you're referred from me so she knows she's loved!

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                                      [?]The-14 Media » 🌐
                                      @The14@mastodon.world

                                      Using ‘neurodivergent’ as a catch‑all term is problematic – here’s why

                                      the-14.com/using-neurodivergen

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                                        [?]Journaling » 🌐
                                        @journalingwrite.wordpress.com@journalingwrite.wordpress.com

                                        What Rest Actually Is

                                        Most people confuse rest with not working. Not working is necessary but it isn't the same as rest. Rest is the state in which the nervous system runs below its demand threshold long enough for real recovery. For neurodivergent minds, the conditions that make that possible are more specific than the usual advice allows for. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                        He’d had the weekend off. Two days with no work commitments, no major demands. And yet by Sunday evening he felt no more restored than he had on Friday. He tried to work out what had gone wrong with the rest. Then he realised the question was wrong. He hadn’t rested. He’d been absent from work. Those aren’t the same thing.

                                        Most people confuse rest with not working.

                                        Not working is necessary. But it isn’t the same as rest, and treating it as though it is leaves a lot of people spending their weekends doing things that occupy time without restoring anything, and wondering on Monday morning why they still feel depleted.

                                        Rest, genuine rest, is the state in which the nervous system runs below its ordinary demand threshold long enough that real recovery begins. Not the surface recovery that allows you to function tomorrow. The deeper recovery that reduces the accumulated deficit. That recovery requires specific conditions. And for neurodivergent minds, those conditions are more specific, and more different from the default assumption about rest, than most general advice accounts for.

                                        The Types of Rest

                                        The concept of rest as a single thing is too simple. Different kinds of depletion require different kinds of recovery.

                                        Sensory rest is recovery from sensory load. For neurodivergent minds, the everyday environment often carries a sensory cost that neurotypical people don’t experience in the same way. Noise, light, visual complexity, the physical sensation of clothing, the ambient demands of a busy environment. Sensory rest means genuine reduction in sensory input. Quiet. Low light. Space without complexity. Not silence necessarily, but a significant reduction in the load.

                                        Social rest is recovery from social processing. Every social interaction carries a processing cost for neurodivergent minds. Decoding communication, managing how you’re being received, monitoring the unspoken rules of the exchange. Social rest means time without social demand. Not isolation as distress. Solitude as resource.

                                        Cognitive rest is recovery from sustained thinking and executive function load. The kind of work that requires held attention, task-switching, decision-making, and planning depletes a specific type of resource that isn’t restored by activities that just feel different. Playing a video game that requires rapid decision-making is not cognitive rest. Sitting outside with nothing required is closer.

                                        Creative rest is something different again. It’s the state in which the input comes from somewhere other than the demands of the ordinary week. Time with nature, with art, with music. Input that fills something rather than requiring output. This is distinct from entertainment, which can be passive in a way that doesn’t quite reach the creative depletion.

                                        Emotional rest is recovery from the sustained management of emotional load. The awareness of others’ needs, the monitoring of relational dynamics, the effort of emotional regulation across a week of demands. Emotional rest means time in which you don’t have to manage your emotional state for anyone else’s benefit. Time in which your own emotional reality is simply allowed to exist without being filtered or managed.

                                        Most people, during what they call rest, are restoring one or two of these while continuing to spend the others. Social rest while depleting sensory. Sensory rest while continuing to cognitively process the week’s problems. This is why a weekend can pass with no work done and still leave you depleted.

                                        What Rest Looks Like for Neurodivergent Minds Specifically

                                        The mainstream advice about rest, which tends to focus on sleep, holidays, and leisure activities, often misses what neurodivergent adults actually need.

                                        Sleep is necessary but not sufficient. Sleep restores certain kinds of resource and doesn’t touch others. It doesn’t resolve sensory debt or social processing debt or the particular kind of exhaustion that comes from sustained masking.

                                        Holidays can be restorative or profoundly non-restorative depending on what they actually contain. A busy holiday with social obligations, new environments to navigate, and constant sensory novelty may produce more depletion than the working week it was supposed to offset. A holiday that includes genuine sensory rest, social rest, and undemanded time is different.

                                        The activities most neurodivergent adults find genuinely restorative tend to be specific, often solitary or in small trusted groups, and predictable enough that they don’t require the navigation energy that novelty demands. The same walk. The same music. The thing that has become automatic enough not to require management.

                                        Identifying your specific restoration profile, what actually restores you as distinct from what you spend your rest time doing, is some of the most practically useful self-knowledge this practice can produce.

                                        The Overlap With Journaling

                                        The journal is not rest in the sensory or social sense. It is a cognitive activity that requires attention and output.

                                        But it serves rest in a specific indirect way. Writing the week’s accumulation out of your head creates space. The things that were circling, the unresolved concerns, the unprocessed interactions, land on the page rather than continuing to run in the background. This is not the same as resolving them. But externalising them reduces the cognitive overhead they were producing.

                                        The five-minute check-in, specifically the “right now” component, can also function as a brief moment of sensory and cognitive presence that interrupts the automatic forward-processing that runs even during supposed rest. Not meditation. Not mindfulness in the formal sense. Just a moment of honest contact with where you actually are, which is itself a small form of rest.

                                        Building Rest Into the Structure

                                        Rest works better when it’s structured than when it’s left to whatever’s left over at the end of a busy week.

                                        Protected rest is different from incidental rest. If rest only happens when everything else is done, it rarely happens in the form that actually restores, because the energy required to actively choose restoration is itself depleted by the time the rest becomes available.

                                        Identifying your restoration profile specifically, and building small amounts of each type into the ordinary week rather than waiting for the weekend or the holiday, produces a different baseline. Fifteen minutes of genuine sensory rest mid-day, which might look from the outside like doing nothing, restores more than a two-hour television evening that never quite reached the recovery threshold.

                                        Small, consistent, specific. The same principle as the micro-adjustment, applied to restoration rather than change.

                                        Journaling Prompts: Understanding Rest

                                        • 1. What do you currently do when you’re supposed to be resting? Write honestly. Not what you should do. What you actually do.
                                        • 2. Which types of rest are you most consistently missing? Sensory, social, cognitive, creative, emotional. Look at the list honestly.
                                        • 3. What activity in your week most reliably produces the feeling of having genuinely recovered something? Name it specifically. How often does it happen?
                                        • 4. What is your current sleep actually restoring, and what does it leave unaddressed? Sleep is not sufficient by itself. What else is needed?
                                        • 5. What conditions make genuine rest possible for you? Specific. Not “a quiet environment” but what quiet actually means in your case.
                                        • 6. What would fifteen minutes of genuine sensory rest look like for you, built into an ordinary working day? Low-friction and specific enough to actually do.
                                        • 7. What has been going unrestored for the longest in your current life? Name the type. Then consider what a small, consistent intervention would look like.

                                        Rest is not the absence of work. It’s the presence of specific conditions in which specific kinds of recovery become possible.

                                        You’ve been tracking your signals long enough to know what depletes you. The next layer of that knowledge is understanding what restores you. Specifically. Honestly. Built into the structure rather than hoped for at the edges.

                                        Your nervous system has been working hard for a long time. It deserves something more precise than what’s left over.

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                                        [?]Emeritus Prof. Christopher May » 🌐
                                        @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

                                        So, is a proposal to 'triage' ADHD diagnosis a way of introducing rationing into this expensive & crisis ridden part of the health service, or a recognition that pre-diagnosis interventions & support may be sufficient for milder cases of ADHD?

                                        Even if it is the latter, trust in the ADHD diagnosis process has been so skewed by the support implications of a successful diagnosis that such reforming proposals are always going to prove contentious.


                                        theguardian.com/society/2026/s

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                                          [?]Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻:ri: 🇨🇦 » 🌐
                                          @murdoc@autistics.life

                                          @tamazon
                                          I'm so torn... I love vampires, and I love Star Trek... but would they really fit into Star Trek?

                                          Wait, what if it was about finding tolerance of those most find repulsive, and science being used to solve this biological/social problem (perhaps like True Blood)? That could work... :blob_cat_thinking: Yup, it could basically just be True Blood in space, and that even had several romance arcs in it.

                                          Ah dammit. Now I have another story idea. I guess I'll add it to the ever increasing pile. And good luck getting this out of my head for a while. 😩

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                                            [?]G4Media 📰 » 🤖 🌐
                                            @G4Media@mastodon.world

                                            Persoanele cu ar putea avea o creștere cu aproape 50% a problemelor intestinale.
                                            Instabilitatea emoțională și sensibilitatea crescută la stres, printre posibilele cauze.

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