RE: https://norden.social/@Sagesse/116409497560854022

I'll toot this in english, too, bc I love it so much:

I've got a new favourite answer to the question:
"Why are there so many new people diagnosed with ADHD/autism nowadays?"

"For the same reason why, after the invention of the telescope, there were so many more stars."
(found on youtube)

#autism #actuallyautistic #adhd

Just curious. For the purposes of the poll, count coffee / mate and other caffeine (and any illicit stimulant substances) as self-medication.

(In high school and college I remember saying "coffee makes me sleepy" and IN RETROSPECT, OMG.)

#adhd

When you fail to arrive on time, or at all, because of your executive dysfunction… does that mean you’ve been mentally bahned?

#ADHD

I drank so much coffee today to wake my brain up, so I can be functional and get work done, but the more coffee I drink the more tired I get making me even less functional.

Some days my autistic ADHD brain just moves so slow, and other days my mind is clear and alert and the hyperactive part of ADHD comes out.

Will I wake up an idea machine brain and productive all day, or will I wake up and have a day where I’m completely nonfunctional. It’s all random but I just roll with it daily.

#ADHD

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