#actually-adhd — Public Fediverse posts

For God's sake, is it so difficult to ask someone to drink a couple of glasses of water before they go on the radio?

It's really nice to not have sticky saliva sounds distracting you from what someone is trying to say, or giving you a disgust reaction so strong you turn the radio off.

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Today is nerves day & I'm procrastinating like a complete itiot as I really, really do not like phoning people even when it's a case of this house fix is urgent & needs doing ASAP!😭
I will probably end up going via email on frelling Check-a-trade again, even though I told myself not to last time.If it helps me get over the first hurdle (locate appropriate workmen/women/persons) it's worth it... 😬😰 Still nerve wracking.

I guess I better get brunch as I procrastinated so much I missed breakfast 😔.

#ExcecutiveDisfunction #Phonophobia #Procrastionating #AnythingBut

#ActuallyAutistic / #ActuallyADHD reminder: if someone asks you for directions in navigating a labyrinthine complex and you tell them "you can probably ask at the front desk", you're not helping, you're sabotaging.

Coming out of a music hyperfocus is so weird. It's like watching a really long film in a really dark cinema, and you get totally absorbed and into it. Then you come outside into really bright sunshine and realise you have to navigate your way through the world again.

*blink*

*blink*

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I also understand why some autistics break down crying when in meltdown. I experience intense anger to the point of rage, at times. Underneath that anger and rage is profound grief. Likely owing to a history of trauma, I don't grieve easily. And so the rage is typically rhe dominant emotion. My resistance to/difficulty experiencing grief sometimes compounds contemporary as more trauma.

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I *FINALLY* understand why we tend to self-harm. Our senses can become so overwhelmed that the only way to manage them is buy causing intense localized discomfort to force us to focus ourselves to a far smaller set of sensory inputs. In that way, self-harm is a form of sensory-deprivation, as counter-intuitive as that may seem.

I realize that I have had these kinds of behaviors, in different forms, almost my entire life.

The more I reflect on the entirety of my life, the more past autistic experiences and behaviors reveal themselves. Back then, what I lacked was the autistic frame of reference. After all, I was diagnosed at age 50.

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Question for the Fediverse: are there any texts on how neurodivergence, especially autism and ADHD, is perceived and/or dealt with in cultures other than western European/North American culture? Scholarly sources, fiction, whatever (preferably in English).
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Bei einer wichtigen, aber mühsamen Arbeit das Wort cumbersome im Kopf gehabt. Dann an die Cumberland-Soße gedacht, die meine Ma zum Fondue selbst machte. Dann an deren Geschmack und den Cayennepfeffer, der da drin ist, und, tja, was soll ich sagen, eine Stunde später weiß ich jetzt alles über Cayennepfeffer und den Gewürzhandel auf der Seidenstraße. 😶‍🌫

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Sometimes I think the reason why I am not horribly addicted to all those chatbots is my ND trauma.
I have very strong negative reactions when someone praises me, so the bot sycophancy had the inverse effect on me, a sort of inoculation.

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On Friday, I had my #actuallyADHD birthday - and now I'm a solid 3yo! 🥳🥳🥳

Still is and has been quite the journey, at the same time being #actuallyAutistic [almost 3yo], they both fight with each other + regret a lot; maybe THAT's the reason why I've always talked to and with myself in "we", without being multiple like in a dissociative personality?!

As Senne & Ackrill wrote in The ND Lovers Club, 2025, p. 13:

"Membership [in ND] is lifelong, the costs are high, and you don’t get to opt out."

Question for my fellow #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAuDHD folks:
Are you able to consistently engage online with communities that you *want* to be a part of, like for a hobby, a special interest, or a guild for a multiplayer game? If yes: how?
I find myself either hyperfocusing on a community and then not doing anything else, forgetting that it exists while I engage with my hobbies alone, or needing so much alone time that almost any kind of social interaction seems too much.

A rather frustrating part of #ADHD is I can do tasks when there is an obvious external urgency to it. The adrenaline of this urgency somehow activates the executive function. The rest of the time I cannot do the executive function and everything feels like the world's worst slog and so I curse myself for being lazy because obviously I can do the task but why can't I do it not-last-minute?

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