If someone is telling me something important, I start taking notes wether they tell me to or not, and then aggressively stop them and make them repeat themselves on each point until I make sure I have everything written down.
I’m a very fast listener but I write very slowly and can’t listen and write at the same time. Got so much grief over that during my school years. Everyone including myself assumed I just didn’t like writing and that’s why I never had proper notes to study from but it was good old monotropism rendering me unable to multitask. The joys of being unidentified #AuDHD
I read about a new detailed map of the human brain. As expected, the "normal brains" were contrasted with "disordered" ones and how eventually they might learn "what's wrong" with them.
This could be the connection between Ehlers-Danlos and neurodivergence. (People with EDS, like me, are 7 times as likely to be autistic and 5 times as likely to have ADHD -- also like me.)
I know people with estrogen have said their ADHD gets worse during perimenopause/menopause, but I'm wondering if people with testosterone 50+ also notice their Autism/ADHD symptoms getting worse. Especially more "inattentive"/stuck in their thoughts.
I feel like we really need more research on all of this.
I had a Rockstar energy drink, coffee, and a small Red Bull can, and it made me so sleepy I passed out for 14 minutes and woke up feeling like I slept an hour.
Energy drinks are supposed to make me functional, not take a nap after 240mg energy drink caffeine + whatever 4oz coffee is.
My current world order, where my morning and overnight schedule has largely shifted to accommodate a crazy early start to get kiddo ready for alternate school pickup, has resulted in my not being up as late at night as I used to be.
What I’ve realized is this seriously impacts my productivity. I’m way more productive at quiet times in mg day, and now my working time is constrained to when others are around. This sucks.
“…severity is described in 3 levels:
Level 3 – requires very substantial support,
Level 2 – Requires substantial support, and
Level 1 – requires support.”
Doctor suggested I have #ADHD but I don't think I do because:
I am able to force myself to do things even if I'm not interested in it.
I do not like spontaneity.
When I have a deadline, I cannot leave it to the last minute or anxiety would cripple me.
But I do struggle to pay attention unless am hyperfocused. And I do have executive function challenges. And I have to have a project. And I crave dopamine hits.
@niamhgarvey@actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd I'm AuDHD only recently added the ADHD to my collection. Been meaning to watch this for a while now but one of my neuro spices isn't letting me.
Together, we'll explore strategies for thriving in a neurotypical world, understanding our unique brains, and building a supportive community.
All of my workshops are open to all autistic humans, whether formally or self identified. They are pay as you can, so that everyone who wants and needs support can get it.
Scientists restore brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder
A therapy that restores brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder may offer a strategy for treating conditions like autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia. #press
The background to this is that #AuDHD people have a choice: be yourself, and get rejected, or pretend to be NT, and get rejected, but not as quickly or as often. The NT population WILL NOT accept us for what we are!
What some people don’t seem to be able to understand is that for the ones with executive disfunction number of steps matters a lot.
I just put away all my dried laundry aside of duvet cover.
Why? Because for all the other things it’s easy one-step task: grab all the knickers and shove them into the drawer, get the home clothes and put it into home clothes cube box(that cubed Ikea shelf is such a helper for people like me, I just have a cube for every thing).
But the linen shelf is at the top of the bathroom closet, and it’s almost full. So I need a stepladder to be able to put the duvet cover there(I can try to shove it there without, I kinda reach the shelf itself, but in its current state the cover is likely to fall from there, and probably with some other things, so that would upset me which I am not ready to deal with now).
But the stepladder is now occupied by my winter shoes which were drying there before I put them away for summer.
But to put them away I need to get two big boxes from under my bed, empty one by putting everything that is there into the other one, put all the shoes there, put the boxes back under the bad, ensure all the boxes there are arranged in a way that is allowing my cat to play in that labyrinth, and probably clean up after that as I suppose there’s going to be a few dust bunnies.
Gosh, I got tired by just typing all that.
Going through all those steps may bot take too much time(if I don’t get distracted by something, including the urge to sort everything perfectly), but the very thought of going through all those steps just discourages me so much that I can’t find energy to start. “It’s just one duvet cover!” - they say. “It’s a shitton of steps!” - I answer.
Well, the cover is drying in a way that obscures a view from my bed which irritates me enough to maybe develop enough anger to put it away in the weekend.
@bookstodon@bookwyrm
If you read large print or dyslexic font paperback books do you prefer this to be indicated on the cover (say on a banner at the top) to help you identify the accommodation?
I compiled a quick poll based on different perspectives I've read.
➡️ Please consider sharing to help me reach more readers.
@bookstodon many months ago I received feedback that some readers disliked how I labeled my large-font edition of Late Identified #AuDHD workbook. So I could do better, I asked.
The majority that participated reported they wanted the accommodation labeled on their paperback in a visible way.
hello, I'm Jiub. I've been on fedi for a few months but this is my first introduction :3
I'm very gay, nonbinary/genderfluid, sex positive, poly, etc. I'm an elder millennial and I live in Chicago with my great long term boyfriend <3
follow me if you want to see me be a silly gay hot mess. I'm going through a lot of gender rn and will start HRT soon so there will be a lot about that where I'll be manic and sharing way too much information and infodumping :3
fedi made me realize I'm probably AuHD like everyone else here, and I also have anxiety and depression.
for interests besides being gay, I like computers (modern/retro), linux/open source, gaming (mainly RPGs and overcomplicated city/colony sims but I dabble in all genres), urbanism/public transit, leftist politics.
I'll CW politics posts as much as possible, for my and others' sanity.
I try to be a very kind and helpful person, but I have my limits and have no interests in interacting with bigots or reactionaries.
If you want to meet lots of lovely autistic people here (plus me 😆), you could do worse than follow the @actuallyautistic group and the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag. We're cool with self-diagnosis and with people who think they may be autistic and are interested in learning more. And many of us are #AuDHD.