Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autisticinertia, aggregated by home.social.
Time is more than a clock. It is neurology.
ADHD often causes time blindness. The concept of time simply splits into "now" versus "not now."
Autistic individuals face autistic inertia. Changing tasks creates intense friction.
Which do you experience?
"Autistic Inertia" borrows a basic law of physics.
A body at rest stays at rest. One in motion stays in motion.
Starting a task demands massive executive energy. Stopping requires the exact same effort. Task switching physically exhausts you.
More background info here, in the first-ever research article on #AutisticInertia, also by her: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631596/full
The survey for my partner's PhD research on #AutisticInertia has already done quite well, although there have been no new responses in the last couple of weeks.
It closes at the end of tomorrow (31st March), so if you would like to contribute your experiences to this research, here's your chance; click the link to get started! https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bJl0HjTghBcg71Y
(The "do it now principle" sometimes works for some of us who experience inertia...)
There was a morning as I distinctly remember waking up & it being morning.
Somewhere in between get up, sorting my hair, moisturising, finally fixing a not functioning pCloud app on the PC & going to sort breakfast it changed to being the afternoon.
This is how my plans for my days just get shrunk down & the guilt trip that I now don't have the time to do half my things is a spoon (& probably dice) thief.
Will keep plugging away at somehow being more useful in the AM but it's going to take some time.
I've heard of #AutisticInertia mainly in the context of starting or switching tasks, but I wonder if it could apply to environments too. One thing I've found is that every time we move flat, I find the flat hunt the most stressful part because I have to *invest* in the potential new place we apply for. I have to see myself living there & I start imagining how my life will change to accommodate it. And until the contract is signed, I'm all nervy because my new reality might shatter at any moment.
1 thing I've been working really hard on is being more #neurotypical with #work
Not in the socializing watercooler way because #Autism says f that noise
More in the frequent, mindless scrolling the internet way so I'm not working at 150% for 9 hours straight
So far I'm still working at 150% but sometimes I remember to make food during these forced breaks. Occasionally I even remember to eat it before the end of the day.
Just realized why I can't do #yoga even though I want & need to -
because I found the right 1 & it worked
Between #Burnout #alexithymia #Perimenopause and being pretty much disconnected from my body all the time, yoga is almost like a guided #meltdown
I know it's good & I crave those releases but damn its asking a lot of my #AutisticInertia to get it to voluntarily take a stroll through the ruins of Trauma Town.
Trying to shift into work mode, with no success so far.
Not even work-work. Fun-work.
#ADHDproblems #actuallyAutistic #executiveFunctions #autisticInertia
Was supposed to spend time before supper relaxing, maybe watching a movie but once a task gets in my brain, and as long as my brain marks it as, "hey! I can Frelling do this! 😃 " it will insist on doing it or at least spending as much time & dice (spoons) on making progress towards the end goal.
Result: No pre-supper chill out, Tomorrow's schedule needs rearranging as I am soooo watching a movie with supper!
Just the perks of #AutisticInertia
#Life #MyLife #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic
@theautisticcoach ‘Morning’? What’s that? 😉
(I do sometimes get up in the morning these days, but not often by choice)
Whatever time of day it is when I summon the energy to drag myself out of bed, getting showered and dressed (etc. – or sometimes just dressed) takes an unpredictable amount of time
I can do it in 15 minutes
More often, whether because of Autistic inertia or not yet having taken ADHD meds, it can take much longer: I’ll get distracted in the middle of getting dressed, or even just sit on the edge of my bed for ages doing nothing
#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD #AutisticInertia #MorningRoutineTime
Autistics are the real experts.
Nothing about us without us.
(PMM)♧
@Neurodivergent Socks 🧦page🧦🙂♾️ (Facebook)
🙂🧦♾️☘️🖖♥️🫖☕🎶🧦
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #Autism #CPTSD #GAD #AutismAcceptance #stimming #stim #Overwhelmed #ExecutiveFunctionDisorder #ExecutiveDysfunction #RejectionSensitiveDysphoria #RSD #Hyperfocus #Hypervigilant #SensoryOverstimulation #SensoryIssues #SensoryPain #Speechless #mute #PathologicalDemandAvoidance #PDA #AutisticInertia #BrainFog #Daydreaming #Focus #AutisticBurnout #ReactiveAttachmentDisorder #RAD #MajorDepressiveDisorder #MDD #Depression #Suicide #Suicidal #Alone #Dysgraphia #Dysthymia #Dyscalcula #Dyslexia #Dysphoria #Dysplasia #Dualistic #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #Overthinking #BlackAndWhiteThinking #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #PDD #EmotionalDysregulation #ChronicFatigue #ChronicPain #NervePain #Insomnia #Parasomnia #Nightmares
@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
Usually until about 2 hours before I should really be thinking about getting some sleep :/
Meds I'm on don't help in that regard.
"INTENT doesn't matter when the impact is HARM."
(PMM)♧
@Neurodivergent Socks 🧦🙂♾️page
_____________________________
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #Autism #CPTSD #ADD #AutismAcceptance #stimming #stim #ExecutiveDysfunction #RejectionSensitiveDysphoria #Hyperfocus #Hypervigilant #SensoryIssues #masking #PathologicalDemandAvoidance #PDA #AutisticInertia #unmasking #Echolalia #EmotionalRegulation #AutisticBurnout #SpecialInterest #depression #anxiety #suicide #AutismSpectrum #NeurodivergentSocks #PádraigMichaelMann
_____________________________
(PMM)♧
Pádraig Michael Mann
@Neurodivergent Socks 🧦 page
Written & Posted 26 March 2023.
What is autistic inertia?
https://autismawarenesscentre.com/what-is-autistic-inertia/
#extremedemandavoidance #executivefunctioning #Education/Classroom #Parenting&Family #AutisticInertia #timemanagement #interoception #AutismQA
@matthiasl good choice! That one is very redolent of #AutisticInertia, for me.
I'm going to suggest Shameika, by Fiona Apple (but I could have gone with quite a few of her other songs).
https://youtu.be/yM63Tzv-uZg
How do autistic girls present differently than boys?
https://autismawarenesscentre.com/how-do-autistic-girls-present-differently-than-boys/
#internalpresentationofautism #EatingDisordersandautism #diagnosingautisticgirls #Parenting&Family #AutisticInertia #autisticgirls #AutismQ&A #masking #Autism
I now know why my father's comments wer memorable. #AutisticInertia makes me slow and at times I sit on the couch and do next to nothing for hours on end. And I resent having to do anything.
I was like that as a kid, and I'm like that as an old woman. I held down fulltime jobs and had just about nothing left to give to anything else in between.
@autism101 pushing past #AutisticInertia , and being socially invisible or disliked just for my general demeanor, are my two biggest challenges #ActuallyAutistic #AutADHD
@awsamuel I'm not a fan of the label, which feels stigmatizing to me ... I prefer to think in terms of #AutisticInertia
Supposedly we #ActuallyAutistic people thrive on #Structure and #Routine. I beg to differ.
I find that if there's too much structure in the day, meaning "this thing at 10, this thing at 2, this thing at 5, and by the way, food has to be consumed, eaten, and dishes washed," I get VERY stressed and resentful. I feel trapped.
This could be where I verge into #ADHD or #AutADHD territory. Or maybe it's #AutisticInertia .
What's it like for everyone else? @actuallyautistic
@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic Total nightowl here with delayed sleep phase syndrome, plus #AutisticInertia making it absurdly difficult to stop what I'm doing sometimes. Quite often I end up going to bed after you get up, or even later (less early). Jet lag has always been meaningless to me as I basically live in it permanently.
ive been wondering why #autisticinertia is so widely known and talked about in the #actuallyautistic community, but virtually unknown in autism research
And I think the answer might actually be simple: It doesn't affect them.
Inertia often means that you can't do a thing without something external giving you the final push. Sometimes when Im stuck, someone simply telling me to "get up" can help
Earlier I wanted to go to my room, but I couldn't leave the couch. I was trying, but I couldnt, like I was waiting for something without knowing what for.
My mom was watching TV, and at some point, there was a countdown. I somehow decided that, at 0, I would get up. And it worked! I had told my brain I wanted to get up, it was asking "when?" and I needed this external thing to give the answer.
But autism research isn't about helping *us*. Its about making us convenient and less of a "burden".
Autistic inertia only disables *us*, bc other ppl can get us out of it. So it doesn't affect them.
