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@adhd-plus
not understanding hidden meanings or underhanded messages or sarcasm and jokes that rely on tone of voice is literally one of the most common autistic traits that most people are aware of, so maybe y’all ableds can take a second to reconsider making fun of people for those things
the neurodivergent experience is thinking you’re sharing fun, interesting or helpful information in a normal human conversational fashion while they think you’re an asshole lecturing them or looking down at them like they’re stupid and also that no matter how many times you have this experience you always think you’re doing it the right way this time
i literally do not understand why we must make fun of and mock those who don’t grasp/understand jokes and sarcasm. what is the point of being an insensitive asshole?
People with ADHD don’t seem to know that Emotion Dysregulation is a part of ADHD.
They live their life thinking that they’re just overly sensitive, but you’re not! It’s part of your adhd!
I think that knowing what something is can help you feel better about it, because you know it’s not your fault.
Tics
Tics are a compulsive, repetitive sound or movement that’s often difficult to control.
They are caused by neurons firing at incorrect and inappropriate times. Often times, tics worsen with heightened emotions, lack of sleep, caffeine, etc.
Usually, they are onset in early years, generally about 5-7
There are motor tics, vocal/phonic tics, and tics of the mind/mental tics. These are then broken down further to simple vs. complex.
Simple Motor (very few muscle groups): head jerk, facial grimacing, eye rolling, clapping, finger flexing, muscle tightening, etc.
Complex Motor (many muscle groups): jumping, thrusting limbs, multiple tics in a sequence, bladder/bowel + stomach involved, etc.
Simple Vocal/Phonic: grunting, sniffing, coughing, snorting, squeaking, tongue clicking, etc.
Complex Vocal/Phonic: repeating others words, repeating own words, singing, immitating noises, change in voice/speech, etc.
Mental tics: intrusive thoughts, fears/phobias, obsessive thoughts, negative thinking, random phrases and words, etc.
Dystonic Tics: slow, twisting & holding abnormal body posture
Tonic tics: Holding a limb/the body stiff and tense
Do you know what really gets me about inspiration porn?
It’s not the fact that we’re being exploited. I mean, that’s a huge part of it, but that’s not the biggest reason it’s so horrible.
It’s the fact that…nobody would have to go to the extra mile to do the things for disabled people if abled people would just treat us equally from the start.
Like when you see stories about disabled college students who beat the odds despite an inaccessible campus or a special ed teacher who gets resources for her disabled students because nobody else did or a company that hires disabled employees who have been unemployed for years like we wouldn’t be in that situation if you just treated us like human beings from the beginning.
Abled people will literally take away all of our rights and then coo and squee when we fight to get them back, like we’re a goddamn competitive TV show.
“Congratulations, Becky, you’ve successfully gotten past the twelve chambers of internalized ableism. Let’s give her a hand, folks. Isn’t she adorable? Tune in next week when Becky tries tackling the stairs of injustice.”
Fucking abled people.
i’d like to take a moment for people who struggle with “scary” mental illnesses. psychosis, did, substance abuse, schizophrenia, aspd, paranoia, spd, etc. horror movies and bad jokes can portray such an ugly picture, but you are wonderful and so much more than what you deal with.
The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.
#it’s so obvious they named it based on how we inconvenience them rather than what it actually does to us
There it the fuck is.
That last comment though like dang
Dr. Russell Barkley calls it Executive Function Defecit Disorder (EFDD). He has videos on YouTube and books on his site.
ESPECIALLY, when people don’t understand that sometimes “hyperactivity” can be internal and not external. Little Timmy may be bouncing off the walls but Erica hasn’t had a quiet moment in her brain since birth. But she is quiet and smart and isn’t really a bother. Hmmm….
What ADHD is to people with it: We cannot stop or go at your pace and if you make us stop or go at your pace we will hate ourselves to a point of a physical pain reaction
What ADHD is to the media: this person is a child through and through look at the annoying bitch baby
SOMEONE FINALLY SAYS IT
no more binder for school?? i’m so excited. folders only. each class gets its own folder and i can be so much more organized. it’s actually really exciting to me
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Hypervigilance can cause fatigue guys. PTSD can cause fatigue, anxiety and depression can cause fatigue, Bipolar can cause fatigue, any and all mental illnesses can.
Please understand if youre mentally ill and physically or emotionally fatigued, that is not you being lazy! It is your body and brain being tired of fighting your illness! You are tired because youve been fighting.
This struggle you are going through is real, please do not let yourself or anyone invalidate you further by saying youre lazy.
me: *saying "WHAT?" seven times to someone giving me coherent face-to-face verbal directions*
also me: *hears a faint noise and randomly lifts head like a deer* hey did u guys hear that??? wtf how could you not hear it-
[image description: projection on a classroom whiteboard that reads “treating disabled people like people is basic human decency, not heroism. you guys are just ableist”]
Reminder that “tard” and all variations of it (“fucktard,” “libtard,” etc) are literally just a “PC” way of calling someone a r*t*rd and I’d really appreciate it if my mutuals stopped putting words like that on my dashboard.
Listen, listen, here’s a thing… you don’t have to have ADHD in order to use ADHD life hacks if they will make your life easier. Executive Dysfunction, regarless of cause, is a mother fucker that will ruin your life and make you utterly miserable, so if something helps? Good! I am so glad for you! Please do the thing! Life is hard enough as it is without giving ourselves extra invisible hurdles to jump.
So if you’re struggling? Please allow yourself to be kind to yourself. You deserve it, no matter what society may have conditioned you to think. You are allowed to not always be struggling. You are allowed to rest, and make things in your life easier. It’s not a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of self care and adaptivbility, and those things are to always be commended.
Reminder that neurodiversity is a spectrum, not binary. There will be some neurotypicals who have non-neurotypical traits and need help with those traits. It’s valid and perfectly reasonable, not “appropriation” or whatever utter bullshit I’ve seen some people saying to adopt the relevant coping mechanisms to help with them. And I’m saying this as an autistic, ADHD and OCD person. (Basically you should listen to thebibliosphere for she is wise).
Reminder that neurodiversity is a spectrum, not binary.
Yes! Thank you!
And it was exactly someone asking me if it was appropriation to use ADHD life hacks if they didn’t have ADHD that prompted me to write this. It is not appropriation to adopt good mental health practices, if anything, please normalize these things! The human experience is brief and fleeting, if using an ADHD life hack will make your experience a little easier and give you more time for rest and happiness, for the love of yourself, do it.
I was trying to think of what appropriating* from ADHDers would even look like, and then I realized: fidget spinners.
And the problem wasn’t neurotypicals using fidgets. It was neurotypicals not understanding how to use them as tools. It was neurotypicals using fidgets in ways that disrupted class with the fidgets, which led to them being banned in classrooms.
It was neurotypicals using them in a way that negatively affected ND folks who needed them.
Contrast that with bullet journaling, a system developed by ADHDer Ryder Carroll as a way of helping him deal with his ADHD. Bullet journaling is now widely popular, and plenty of neurotypicals folks do it.
And that’s awesome, because bullet journaling can be a good system for anyone, regardless of neurotype. It’s awesome that the widespread popularity of the system contributes to good bullet journaling notebooks and helpful extras being readily available. It’s awesome that a simple internet search turns up so many ideas for bullet journal layouts. It’s awesome that Ryder Carroll is able to sell books on the method.
Strategies for dealing with ADHD aren’t a limited resource, and you’re not taking away from us if you make a sticker chart or you focus better if you bring your knitting to class or you never go anywhere without your bujo. Just don’t be a jerk about it and ruin it for the next person.
*I’m not sure I love the term appropriation here, because I don’t think this is equivalent to like. White people dreadlocks. But I can’t think of a better term, so.
Would co-opting be a better word? I think that might work better when it comes to things like NT people taking fidget spinners and using them to create distruptions and getting them banned, thus negatively affecting ND people who would benefit from being able to use them.
Does anyone else do that thing while reading where your eyes are like 3 lines ahead of where your brain is?
Do you mean skipping to the next paragraph and not being able to stop yourself from reading a few lines but then you have to go back to where you were before and try really hard to read in a linear fashion but it's boring now that you know what happens next? Yes
oh you are me.
ALSO THIS. hello other me.
