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BZBrainz

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AuDHD. :rainbowinfinity: NeuroQueer. Creative.

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@audhd @actuallyautistic
My brain picked a motto this week as I applied for a temporary out-of-state job and considered formalizing the first draft of my next workbook. I don’t know where I heard it from, but I’ve been telling myself, “DO BIG BRAVE THINGS.” My rigid need for sameness is always at odds with a restless desire for adventure.

BZBrainz,
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@audhd @actuallyautistic What stops me from adventure? It can be dangerous, not just difficult. When I’m away from home it’s difficult or impossible to mask or offset my executive dysfunction, life-skill deficits, poor situational awareness (“poor safety awareness”), or meltdowns/shutdowns.

BZBrainz, to ADHD
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@actuallyautistic @audhd @Adhdinos Sometimes a listener will respond to my disclosure of with hostility because we share traits. This is not about me and does not reflect on me—it’s about them being confronted with something about themselves and their negative beliefs about .

BZBrainz,
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@servelan @actuallyautistic @audhd @Adhdinos They don’t always get along do they? 😂

duanetoops, to books

Stopped by my favorite used book store today. To the victor goes the spoils!

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BZBrainz,
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@duanetoops @bookstodon I love second hand bookstores! Also, out of that stack I thought Horns was interesting.

BZBrainz, to ADHD
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When you’re an independent author, you are your own marketing team! And my marketing team forgot to post my weekly Late-Idenified : A Starter Workbook post.

I asked my marketing team to make a plan for next week. When no satisfactory plan could be found due to a fortune cookie was consulted. “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”

BZBrainz,
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@carl_klitscher @writers @audhd @actuallyautistic I may need one of those for activity analysis paralysis.

BZBrainz,
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@seanwithwords @UrsulaKatS @writers @audhd @actuallyautistic The root to understanding—it really feels that way to me. I had an informal dx of as a child, by decade two I was dx with cPTSD, and in decade three a formal dx of and ADHD. They are inextricably linked. Despite my committed effort to get help when I was younger, without the complete understanding of my neurotype there was no real help for my PTSD.

BZBrainz,
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@UrsulaKatS @writers @audhd @actuallyautistic When the system fails, it fails hard.

duanetoops, to books

No matter how many times we do it. No matter how much we've seen. "Failure," E.M. Cioran says, "always seems fresh." It reveals something just beyond our vision. It is the surest access to deeper discovery, to a deeper magic, the one we need, the one we can use. A strange transmutation that changes the texture of the effort into something sweeter, something more determined, something new...

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BZBrainz,
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@tobias @duanetoops @bookstodon Somewhere along life I learned the phrase “fail forward.” It’s how I learn.

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@rune @audhd @actuallyautistic I love this approach—it’s similar to what I do currently at home and professionally though not as well articulated. It’s clear and respectful. For the longest time, since I thought I was the broken one, I tried to accommodate others and ignore/suppress my own needs. It rarely ended well. I really feel I have a lot to learn here, especiallly I’m expanding the scripting I have for opening dialogue on this topic.

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Question for any autistic people:

When you were in middle school and high school...

a. Did anything teachers did give you particular difficulty?
b. Did you have any teachers who were particularly helpful? In what ways?
c. How did you feel about "group work" ?

BZBrainz,
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@futurebird @actuallyautistic. @audhd

a. Yes, as a kid, many teachers said I was stupid or willfully ignorant or asked to many questions. I was placed into special education classes for reading & math.

b. I had teachers in middle & high school that identified strengths and encouraged me to get my GED and go to college.

c. I intensely disliked group work and often ended up bearing the burden of most of the assignment.

BZBrainz, to ADHD
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@actuallyautistic @audhd @Adhdinos
What inspired Late-Identified AuDHD: A Starter Workbook?

My notes from my early in the (autism +ADHD) AuDHD diagnosis process…short essays, drawings, notes, and tables of information I created as I processed what I learned about being from the world around me. I lent those notes out and after feedback… some of it turned into a workbook.

➡️ https://books2read.com/audhd

BZBrainz,
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@dan There is a version formatted for eBook! It includes downloadable color PDF journal sheets. You can find the eBook version at this link for Kindle, Kobo, Apple and more ➡️ https://books2read.com/audhd

I have not released a full color PDF version of the workbook. Unfortunately, I’ve had a difficult experience with theft and piracy websites. @audhd @actuallyautistic @Adhdinos @bookstodon

BZBrainz,
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@Oniricollector @actuallyautistic @bookstodon Good question! Late-Identified : A Starter Workbook is available as a glossy cover 8.5X11 paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble—the paperback has 140 pages (plus some blank pages added by the printer).

Libraries & bookstores can order a through their usual ordering methods-such as an Ingram Spark Catalogue. This is the workbook's unique identifier: ISBN: 979-8-9872320-4-0

https://books2read.com/audhd

BZBrainz, to actuallyautistic
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I need to know the why-of-the-why-of-the-why sometimes to do simple or complex tasks. I can’t always explain why it’s relevant. Sometimes the whys are so intense my brain gets stuck in something—super sticky brain/perseveration—at this point I need an expert or I need to be handed a manual, put in the corner, and left alone.

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@del @obrerx @TheAutisticTooter @actuallyautistic “Perfectionism has its place but we have to work hard to keep it there.” 100%

BZBrainz, to bookstodon
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@actuallyautistic @audhd
Was deeply engaged in a difficult conversation today when a book caught my attention across the room. “Is that Unmasking Autism? I read that earlier this year.” It was an optional opening for optional disclosure. It changed the questions he felt comfortable asking, changed how I provided education, and it ended be a deeply satisfying and helpful exchange. Today was a real win. @bookstodon

BZBrainz,
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@axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I was taught growing up that writing in books is having “a conversation with the author.” I loved writing in books that I feel a connection with… Unmasking Autism was definitely one of those books for me.

BZBrainz,
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@geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I love my Kindle app for a similar reason! 🥰

BZBrainz,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I had a good long daydream about what an archeologist would think of my “conversions with authors.” I sometimes appreciate the notes of others and sometimes not. I will also go find videos of people reviewing books I enjoy as a way to extend the conversation.

BZBrainz,
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@lapingvino @Grizzlysgrowls @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd In trying to understand this comment, I fell down a rabbit hole that ended (because my last go TF to sleep alarm went off) in a last theorem meme. I am going to go to bed pondering this…

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@geographile @Grizzlysgrowls @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I’d like a book chain like that. It reminds me of a Live Journal project from decades ago where art journals were shipped across country and each person created a page before shipping it on to the next person.

BZBrainz, to actuallyautistic
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I had an interesting conversation with a good friend about states that require diagnosis of to be registered with the state and the future implications this could have paired with laws that restrict access to care for people. I’m only familiar with a couple of states that require registration and that’s New Jersey and North Dakota.

BZBrainz,
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@darren @actuallyautistic I am very curious if people have to be told they have been registered to help the state affect policy, allocate resources, etc. I am aware of providers that decline to provide diagnosis in states that require registry, and while I may not have the information they do, I am very curious about the whys (though I have a pretty long speculative list just from ruminating on it). https://www.hhs.nd.gov/autism-spectrum-disorder-asd-database

BZBrainz,
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@darren @actuallyautistic I am very happy he was able to get what he needed. ♥️

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