Probablement ma dernière commande personnalisée avant le départ : un emploi du temps avec "tâches" amovibles, rond pour les loisirs, carré pour les obligations, en bois de récup, bois du jardin et cuir recyclé :)
A friend shared this short film by her Autistic daughter, who’s about to start at college. This is her attempt to “capture [my] feelings that [I get] of anxiety or stress when under pressure.”
Yes, I have what are considered "diverse" interests for academia. My web page, scholarly profiles, and CV all reflect this. I do not fit nicely into a single field. I create bridges. I work across and with different disciplines. When is that going to stop hurting me?
1 - Think of a thing to post to Mastodon
2 - Pick up phone to post said thing
3 - Get distracted by phone notifications
4 - Read and clear notifications for 5 minutes
5 - Forget what I was doing and just mooch on phone for 15 minutes.
6 - Put phone down
** Some variable amount of time passes. **
7 - Remember what I wanted to post and pick up phone.
8 - Return to step 3. @actuallyadhd #ADHD#AuDHD#Neurospicy
1 - laugh at how real your list is
2 - stop & think how real your list is
3 - cry a little over how real your list is
4 - go to bed thinking about your posted list
5 - think of a reply that tells you how much I relate to your list
** Some variable amount of time passes. **
6 - wake up in morning having forgotten that the list even happened
7 - read a post from you with a list that is so real and relatable
8 - Return to step 3
With my case of ADHD, my brain will easily shove a notification to the background if I don't expect it or if the notification sound is happening too often. My threshold for "too often" is very low.
So, I use alarms sparingly. They break through my ADHD, and this is a #hack I use to set future alarms and it's pretty simple:
Have a timely event that must happen more than 24 hours from now
Fully aware that this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but the #neurodivergent (specifically #AuDHD) movement is so fascinating to witness through an evolutionary lens. We are quite literally experiencing how society comes to terms with an accelerating genetic mutation. Growing evidence points towards #adhd and #autism as differing presentations of the same underlying mutation. Highly co-morbid conditions like #depression, #anxiety, and #ocd could be #cptsd from ongoing social trauma? Wild.
When you hear a boomer say “we’re all a little autistic,” they are articulating a reality. They have always built social groups full of individuals whose brain processes information in a similar way because they likely share similar genetic mutations.
I personally have few close relationships with people who don’t consider themselves #neurodiverse in some form. Of course my ancestors and extended family have similar “mental health problems”—we all share the same genetic code.
@nmoo do you think it's accelerating/concentrating because literally like-minded people are breeding with each other?
My personal idea was that we're better at describing/recognising what has always existed.
In previous times we'd describe people as having different dispositions - the melancholy, the hermits, the boffins, the ornery (love that word), the idiots, the nervous (I haven't heard "nervous breakdown" used for a while), the savants, etc etc. Is there really more of it?
I have had a LOT of public and private feedback on this topic. People who have been diagnosed with ADHD and/or ASC, and people considering it. It’s been incredibly validating to my decision to write this up. 🙏
Just watched a seminar on #ADHD in older adults (planning for the future, yeah, that’s the ticket).
The presenter started with a slide that said “Why Is ADHD in Older Adults an Issue?” and had a speech bubble (presumably from some naysayer) saying, "They lived with it their whole lives. Why bother treating it now?"
The presenter is going to answer the question, and is an ally, but my first impulse is to correct that question… I didn't "live" with ADHD, I suffered from it, and still do. So, instead of “why bother treating it now" the question is actually “what took you so long?!”
Which is odd, given how much of a goldmine there is there with the number of potential study subjects, most of whom would be easier to get information from than a young kid given higher articulation about their experiences.
I see quite a few folks with #ADHD here and their struggles to keep up with tasks. I'm #ActuallyAutistic and can find it hard to not feel overwhelmed by what "must" be done resulting in more chaos, more dirt and more things to get #meltdowns about. Sigh…
Using this opportunity to get that off my chest and maybe offer some sort of solution for people like us.
#TrashPandaCleanup is a free #app that helps create small routines. It's a bit cutesy, but hey if it helps!
'[He] saw a patient who'd been referred for an #ADHD diagnosis. He realised 15 minutes into the consultation that the patient was autistic. “If I had no lived experience of #autism and ADHD I would have missed it completely,” he says. “I would have diagnosed either anxiety or a personality disorder."'
Wow. This is precisely what happened to me. In the 1990s I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder/panic attacks. Then, a couple of years ago, I was referred for...
@Richard_Littler it was my experience in Turkey throughout 2000-2010s. Diagnosed with anxiety disorder by multiple doctors and none of the treatments worked yet they insisted on it. Then I decided to do some extra research, figured out the ADHD potential and hunted for a doctor who knows about adult ADHD to finally get my diagnosis.
@ahmetasabanci@Richard_Littler I think this is the experience many of us AuDHD folks went through in later adulthood. I didn't get diagnosed until my 40s.
I went to Psychiatrist (ADHD doctor mostly prescribing meds)a few days ago, I told him my concerns about cognitive decline.(I’m 58)
I sometimes cannot simple addition ,or forget my late mother’s maiden name.
That doctor told me like he was trying to cure early dementia, “impossible to be cured for people who don’t live in certain schedules “. Even without testing me. I am writing this in my second language, my cognitive function is not 100% lost yet.
How can he say such a thing? #ADHD #Dementia #Earlydementia
Guys listen... Hyperfixations are no joke and yeah while it's so fun to be fixated on something you really really like I literally COULD NOT sleep at all without monitoring 24/7 content related to the thing and I still can't fall asleep and I ALSO needed to work but focused on something else UGH
@actuallyautistic
I’m in the middle of a big move to a small rental & I almost missed Late-Identified AuDHD’s first birthday. ALMOST!
About thirty minutes to midnight I looked at my bookshelf, saw my 1st copy, remembered I forgot to do a cover reveal for the upcoming second edition, and decided to celebrate with a post and a Reese’s egg.
The Federal Trade Commission is STILL accepting complaints from the public related to the shortage of #Adderall#Vyvanse#Methylphenidate#Concerta and ADHD medications generally.
“When you’re prescribed an important medication by your doctor and you learn the drug is out of stock, your heart sinks,” said Secretary Xavier Becerra.
I spent roughly $150 on a tester for combustible gases. This is so that we don’t accidentally kill ourselves by using the furnace I have installed. we are not going to turn it on without first performing this test.
I received the tester a couple days ago.
I overcame the procrastination to work on the furnace again and promptly spent 20 minutes trying to figure out where the hell I put it. I have not found it.
one of the interesting things about HRT (femme variant) is this chest filling desire to just fall down and cry when problems keep mounting, or when you're feeling defeated.
Like me, right now. 😿 I just feel so useless and stupid when i fuck up such simple things as not loosing the expensive and important thing I just got, and haven't even taken out of its case. :/
I found it. After removing it from the shipping box and the display box, and confirming the contents, I then placed it back in the shipping box with the packing material and other trash
I was passing through the garage saw the box there, and glanced inside.
Well, I am happy to have found it, I feel like even more of a fool.
Man it would be so cool if there was a support network who handle all the stuff #ADHD people are incapable of doing which would cause massive impact to their lives. I spend almost all my free time coding #FOSS to improve the global commons. It would be great if someone who gets value out of my work would help me in turn with state paperwork. 😢
