Picked up a snack from the carcineria (EDIT: wait no "carniceria"). #ADHD quest for novelty strikes again.

I’m sure it’ll be fine.

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A packet of Kelova brand prunes with chili

some while ago before I got my #adhd and #dysthymia diagnoses I read some stuff about how “caffiene doesn’t give you energy, it just tricks your brain into thinking you’re not tired; give up coffee and do $THING instead”

and this morning after I have taken my SSRI prescription and Vitamin D dose (it also turns out I’m one of about 40% of US adults who are Vitamin D deficiant) and finished off the pot of coffee after my partner had her cup, and I’m making myself my second cup of black tea for the morning,

that’s the point. Tricking my brain into thinking I’m not tired is *the point*. My *body* isn’t tired, and despite genetic markers for slow caffiene metabolism (my mom, for example, can’t have chocolate after lunch) I metabolise it rapidly – I can have a cup of coffee at 10pm and easily go to sleep an hour later

the point of the caffiene isn’t “energy”, it’s “pulling my brain out of its perpetual fog so I can think clearly”

in thinking about the role of coffee in our culture, I suspect this is a very common pattern

@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 8 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.

PS: There was a security announcement affecting Luanti:
https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=32443
I've upgraded my server to 5.15.2. **Please update your #Luanti client if possible.**

As a side thought: i wonder how many people have been misdiagnosed #bipolar when they are actually #audhd . It is probably more than is being discussed. For those who don’t understand people who have #audhd are both #autistic and have #adhd. If you don’t understand what each does i would explain the impact as:

I really want to jump out of that plane (adhd) and at the same time you have got to be sh%tting me (autistic).

Not highs and lows but counter attitudes. It would be very depressing because they really don’t like each other.

If you do get diagnosed late in life you have the wonderful experience of going on #adhd drugs and discovering that your #autistic side, which will dominate, is a pretty paranoid person. Many people have discovered they aren’t sure if they like this.

So it is very important that you get diagnosed young because you need to understand and appreciate your strengths and weaknesses of both and work out when you want the dominant one.

My son needs autistic kid in school and when doing complex games but he is a bummer watching stupid tv shows and handling bullies. On drug free days things can get wild.

As a mum i love both. They both make me laugh.

Fair comment on Elon Musk mischaracterising Autism and using it as an excuse to be a jerk. Using disability as a shield for bad behaviour is disgusting and disrespectful to people with disabilities.

#ElonMusk #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD

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Meme that uses the template known as "Yes Chad", also known as "Nordic Gamer". The person on the left side of the illustration is initiating the conversation. A caption above his head identifies him as "Elon Musk". His hands are clasped under his chin and his head is tilted sideways as though he's trying to look like he's a deep thinker, but the expression of his eyes and face show he cannot comprehend the conversation. On the right side of the illustration, the head and shoulders of Chad from the meme is facing left. The caption above Chad's head shows his response to Elon Musk is on behalf of "Everyone Else". Elon Musk: I'm a weirdo because I’m autistic. Everyone Else: You're not weird because you're autistic. You're weird because you're a billionaire daddy’s boy larping as an inventor and entrepreneur, whose intergenerational wealth is based on slavery and apartheid. Leave the autistic community out of your cringefest.

Are there #musicians who have #ADHD or #autism who are very #visual learners that were able to find ways to learn an instrument... or music theory in general... that were easier than the norm?

I'm really struggling. I was practicing daily for a couple of months and I learned some basic chords (CAGE) barre chords.. I'm self teaching/learning so I'm running into a lot of moments where I'm stuck like "I don't know what to do that doesn't feel frustrating and like my brain is rejecting it all"

Since I changed my med dose, I've been getting more unsettling dreams every night. Is this how I would normally dream with little to no drug influence? How fucked up is my mind really?

#mentalhealth #actuallyautistic #adhd

Neurodivergence may be an evolutionary adaptation.

https://ioneurodiversity.org/is-neurodivergence-just-trauma-why-complexity-science-says-no/

I am glad to have found this, which makes a case for something I have felt intuitively for sometime. That may sound like confirmation bias, but actually the case made here challenges my prior belief in #trauma-acquired #ASC and #ADHD traits, both of which I find in myself. 1/n 🧵

not #ActuallyAutistic #evolution #psychology

"A good thing you can do is have a stable and clear opinion so you can provide clarity to others when they are lost or in doubt"

"You don't have the right to steal all the struggles from the others and rob them from improving"

Not the best wording, I admit.

I try to deal with my ADHD+insecurities and still manage people. I tend to avoid awkward pauses, rush ahead and I'm a pathological helper so I always tend to steal it from people, so I have these two :)
#adhd #manage #people #mindfulness

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?