A research supposedly confirming that ADHD and autism share specific brain connectivity patterns.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260408225941.htm

Interesting if the connectivity changes they see in MRT have anything to do with the one seen on EEG(as in my teens on my EEG there were some connectivity irregularities noticed)
#autism
#adhd
#AuDHD
#neurodivergent

#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

Insulin pumps, but for brains and Ritalin. #ADHD

@zimzat It's a special kind of painful to watch someone who you *know* has deep critical thinking skills leap so far outside their zone they platform themselves faceplanting.

One reason I often keep non-critical views to myself is, like Hank, I have #ADHD so my default is excitable/reactive. He is incentivized to talk about popular & exciting topics, and it's *so* easy to find an expert" in any field who also misunderstands LLMs.

Another day, another disappointment. Gonna be a long year.

Creative ass question, reasonable answer.

I think I could go back to 1st year of college, which is now 15+ years ago for me.

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, now that I realize that my two biggest issues were:
being irrepressibly, unabashedly thirsty
and undiagnosed #ADHD

I think taking the 'catch-up' math class for engineers, talking to a doctor, and getting a headstart on how to see women as friends first and then as relationships would make that first year at UCLA waaaaay easier to survive. Also picking clothing and grooming with an eye towards "how do the kind of women I like interpret these choices?"

Get my diagnosis and my pills, do my bid in the past, come home with the cash.

#NGL

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real questions, real NaCl answers You magically receive $10k for every year backward in time you travel, but you have to live one year whenever you stop before you are returned to today. How far back you going?

@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 4.5 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.

Hey hey fellow ADHD folks and anyone else who regularly needs post-its or other written reminders! YouTube just put this in front of me. It's a band you can write on with a ball point pen, wipe off using friction (water won't remove it), and it snaps to your wrist.

It was originally designed for nurses in Japan who write notes on their wrists. But I can imagine about a thousand ways that a person who struggles with executive function could use something like this!

The website for the company is wemo.earth, and you can buy the bands on Amazon if you need that convenience, or also at japantrendshop.com as an Amazon alternative (they ship worldwide). They're about $18 USD.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/013OleNZW8I

#ADHD #AUDHD #Autism @actuallyadhd @autistics

Jeg er alene hjemme hele dagen og har aflyst skrivegruppe for at passe på mig og gøre ting, som er nemme og gode, og som jeg har lyst til hele dagen.
For en time siden var jeg glad og energisk og tænkte på al den tid, jeg har med mig selv og mine sysler, jaaah hvor dejligt, jeg elsker dagen.
Nu er jeg blevet trist og handlingslammet og ked af mit liv og sidder bare her og får ondt af mig selv. Imens går al den dejlige tid til mig selv med ingen verdens ting. #ADHD #AllTheFeelsAllTheTime

Did you know that neurotypical folks just can not think about anything for a period of time? Yeah, me neither.

#Autism and #ADHD lead to less synaptic pruning which results in a higher density of synaptic connections. This leads to brain hyperconnectivity, which is the cause of sensory overload and reduced filtering of irrelevant stimuli. It is as well a reason for difficulties with executive functions.

I wish I sometimes just could NOT think.

I’ve often wanted to make an ADHD screening test, written by me and other ADHDers (totally a joke yet also totally real), where you give different scenarios and then options for how things will turn out.

Like, oh, say, this one:

You have an amazing convergence of luck and executive function, and realize that a beloved old friend’s birthday is in three weeks (in case she’s reading this: the friendship is old, not you). In another unusual stroke of luck, you get a card, sign it, even remember to have your husband sign it, find that you have the perfect stamp, and address the envelope.

What happens then? Do you:

A) Put it on your desk, intending to mail it in a few days when it will arrive just in time for her birthday? And then...actually do that?

B) Put it on your desk, intending to mail it in a few days, then forget about it, lose it, find it in six months, mail it, after texting her an awkward yet skillful (thanks to years of practice) apology?

@actuallyadhd #ADHD

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The edge of a letter tucked into a shelf on a very messy desk, its heart stamp sticking out.

@Lightfighter

Welcome to the late-discovered club. Pull up a chair if you can find one that doesn't have a pile of books on it...

I had the exact same reaction when I found out I'm auDHD (autistic came first, then ADHD got tacked on because, wow). So much of my life makes sense now. It doesn't make any of it better, or the results go away or lessen really. But it all makes sense and having a label to put on that is amazing.

Some tags and a group to follow and use on your own posts as you dive in:

#ActuallyADHD #ADHD
@actuallyadhd

I have a friend who has made comments that I have #ADHD for years. Just every once in a while. I never thought much of of it until last weekend when I decided to look into it.

Holy Crap! That makes so many things make sense. From struggling in elementary school, why I frustrated my parents so much, why what they tried was like torture for me, serial hobbies, and so much more. Here I am getting close to 60 and I am just figuring this out.

they need to make a tv show called “does this button do anything?” where someone with #adhd goes to random factories when no one’s around and tries to figure out what all the machines do