Being autistic is misery.
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@autistic-misery
Being autistic is misery.
Well this sure hit me like a ton of bricks
Breaking eye contact makes you a better conversationalist.
Studies show people who are forced to maintain eye contact take longer to recall words than those who are allowed to take a break from the mental stimulation of staring into someone elseâs eyes.
Though maintaining eye contact is important for building emotional connections, looking away is key for having focused and productive conversations.
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The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
THIS IS EUGENICSâŒïž
Doctors "struggle" to diagnose you if you're not a 4 year old boy because they're idiots. They ask adults the same questions as made for 4 year olds of adults and when the answers don't match they conclude "not autistic" đ
They just don't grasp how many people slip thru undiagnosed. And the fact more and more people are getting diagnosed every year now isn't an "epidemic". It's a revelation of how many people have been slipping thru without help!
A Constant Hum (found in a derelict factory)
Official ominous sign
@vague-magnus-archives
What do you mean, everyone is doing it? That the people making the hiring choices didn't write the job ad and don't agree with it either? That you're expected to fit (at most) maybe 2/3 of the advertised criteria and some more that they didn't state? Thanks I hate it.
not even necessarily just neurodivergent kids
kids who read a lot, especially archaic books, sometimes pick that up as their natural way of speaking and writing. I got points taken off an English assignment once for writing that someone was "given to" something (ie "given to lying;" it was a really bad teacher's class)- I don't even want to know what anti-AI checkers would have made of my papers
any kid who doesn't "write like a kid" for any reason is going to get targeted by this. just one more way generative AI is a plague on humanity (because it necessitates flawed programs like this)
[id: a somewhat messy 2 panel comic in black and white. in panel 1, four figures are having a discussion, 3 humans and what appears to be a silly little cat. the person on the far right has a speech bubble with a triangle in it and the silly little cat has a thought bubble reading "i have something to say about this! i'll wait for them to finish". in panel 2, the two people on the left both have speech bubbles with squares in them, while the silly little cat looks horrified and has a thought bubble reading "the topic!! the topic is changing! nooo!" in all caps. /end id]
artist cred here (link)
Iâve started to say âI need time to process this.â
Not only do we take longer to process things, we can take a lot longer to *act* on things that we have processed, too.
We buy games we know we'll enjoy, try them out, then put them down for a month, 2 months, 3, 4, a year, etc, until we finally pick it back up and *actually* get into it.
We say we're starting a project we won't actually start or finish for months.
Our brains take a lot of time to *do* things, as well as understand them.
This often leads to situations where people will poke us about a project we said we were starting 2 weeks ago that we haven't actually started, and won't start for another 2 weeks, and just
Being ashamed
Because we couldn't start when we said we would.
Executive dysfunction and processing delays, both terrible. Bleh.
Oh.
đ Truth.
bro im gonna CRY i didnt know this đ„ș
[Image descriptions in order: a twitter thread by @AdhdAngsty âadhd-angstyâ which says âDid you know fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of #ADHD? I didnât- I spent over ten years telling people I felt exhausted all of the time, and nobody connected the dots.
Thereâs a few ADHD experiences tied to fatigue that many of us struggle with:
âUnderstimulation: Ever try to start on a task youâve been putting off, only to feel fatigued? You might be understimulated, and your boredom is manifesting as brain fog. Often youâll find itâll fade after some positive stimulation, but return as soon as you try the task again.
âOverstimulation: Youâre out with friends at a bar, and the music is blaring and all of a sudden keeping up with the conversation is exhausting. Youâre overstimulated. While understimulation feels like brain fog, overstimulation can feel like overload, heat or static in your head.â]
[âInsomnia: This is less of a acute fatigue response, and more of a state of being, but ADHDers SUCK at sleep. This, when combined with the emotional turbulence and reactivity of the ADHDer, can lead to a pretty exhausted ânormâ which doesnât have much flex in it.
âHyperfocus hangover: Youâve gotten into a state of obsession for something, and youâve spent the last 24 hours ignoring all of your basic needs as you dig deep into it. When this feeling fades, youâre left with a sense of emptiness thatâs devoid of the energy youâd been enjoying.
âThere are probably lots of other ways ADHDers experience fatigue, but the above are SUPER common. I didnât recognise what they were before I was diagnosed, it all just felt like tiredness for me. I couldnât understand why I felt like I was wading through syrup all the time.
âFatigue is my most PROMINENT symptom, more than forgetfulness, or distractableness, or impulsiveness. Inattentive ADHDers are more likely to experience it, and ADHDers with menstrual cycles often get it worse during certain parts of their cycle. But itâs a COMMON symptom.
âSo yeah, if you, like me, have opted into lying underneath your desk from exhaustion instead of finishing a boring task, you might have ADHD. Double points if you sometimes feel like your brain is âoverheatingâ or has âtoo many tabs openâ. Get some rest, and look into ADHD.â]
People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didnât care for me at all.
I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldnât be more different.
I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didnât feel as real as Iâd hoped.
There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me