#poor interoception

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

yay water

[ID: Two lorikeet birds bouncing around a water bowl being filled. /END ID]

time to drink water woo hoo yay

[itsaspectrumcomic]

What's your go-to 'I need to eat but I cannot face making an actual meal' food? Right now mine is an apple (fruit healthy) and cheese slices (protein)

I'm not talking about having a little snack btw, I'm talking times when you forgot to eat for several hours and need something that could technically constitute for dinner

[magical-soup]

Poor interoception will have me dissociating to hell, asking “Huh? I wonder why I’m feeling so out of it? I guess I’ll just wait for this feeling to pass” all because I’m hungry… Like! Bitch!? Just fucking tell me to eat?! Why you gotta be to damn complicated???

Oh lalala lemme just stare at the ceiling, blankly, numb as hell, until I finally realize that my body just needs to food and Then I’ll feel like a person. Thanks… body… for doing your job and telling me what I need in a straightforward way! 😃

[delinquentbookworm]

"ohhhhh I'm the body I'm gonna communicate my needs through pain and discomfort"

fuck you. stop giving me the biochemical equivalent of interpretive dance to puzzle through and just give me a little printer in my side that goes beep beep beep and then dispenses a bit of paper that tells me I'm - (gets to the end of this post and realises I still haven't figured out why my stomach is hurting) GOD DAMNIT

[indecisiveavocado]

I'm trying to figure out if I should do an explanation of alexithymia (in comic form, or maybe just written -- probably just written, i suck at art). I'm trying to tell if there's a need for it so uhhh yeah.

Reblogging for a wider spread is appreciated, especially since the circle of people this will go out to is probably highly biased.

do you know what alexithymia is

yes

no

*googles* HOLY SHIT THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING! WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME?

Voting ended onJun 27, 2025

[in-the-cannibal-glow]

I feel every fabric, every wrinkle, every seam, every crumb, any change in air pressure, any temperature shift… I feel it all & I’m constantly trying to Not feel it all.

Yet when I have to pee, do I get up to use the bathroom right away when I feel that?

No, why?

[spenjelly]

Poor circulation and adhd be like:

The numbness in my arms is seeping into half my hand and fingers but I’m not going to move till I physically cant type

I sat here picking at this thing for so long my legs are now refusing to respond

I leaned against the arm of the chair for too long and now ants are stabbing me in the ribs with tiny swords

I switched to lounging with my legs over the arm of the chair and now the ant army is coming for my back

I’ve been compressing this tool for so long my hand has locked up and gone cold

I fell asleep at a bad angle and now my whole arm and part of my neck is asleep

[2outta3aintbad]

What’s the word for the neurodivergent thing where you recognizing pain/physical discomfort wayyy later than you should (poor interoception) but then somehow still decline to do anything about it even though you want to.

Like when the ridiculous way you’re sitting that you thought was very comfy 5m ago suddenly really hurts and now you’re hyperaware of it, but you still stay that way and continue to suffer for no real reason

Or when you get kinda dizzy and realize you haven’t eaten all day and you have snack variety in arms reach, but instead you starve while thinking about snacks

Wtf is that