#bodydoubling — Public Fediverse posts

Neurotypical people don't get why #neurodivergent people do #BodyDoubling but meet in pairs and groups when learning for exams …

#neurodivergence #neurodiversity #ADHD

For decades, I chased in-person belonging through choirs, church groups, and community events. I performed the expected roles while drowning in sensory overload, masking, and accessibility barriers. I have finally stopped forcing it. I am accepting that my true home has always been online.

In the mid-90s, it was the early web and BBS systems where I first found disabled peers. Then came IRC, where hours of text chat kept depression and burnout at bay. Facebook followed in 2006, though I only kept it for family. Twitter became a lifeline later on. A group of us who are blind shared our days in real time. When accessibility was dismantled and third-party apps died, I moved here to Mastodon. Finding this autistic and neurodivergent community has been a revelation.

Online spaces give me information, rhythm, and connection without the unbearable cost of physical navigation and social performance. Realising this brings grief for the years I spent striving to fit a mould that was never built for me. It also brings immense relief. This is not a retreat. It is a return to where I fit.

I am curious if anyone else has reached this same acceptance. I would love to hear how you manage the physical realities of a predominantly online life. I am figuring out how to handle exercise alongside managing meals and daily health routines. I am also very interested to hear if anyone uses body doubling to get these physical tasks done.

Please share your experiences and strategies in the replies.

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #Blind #Disability #Neurodivergent #Monotropism #BodyDoubling #Accessibility #LateDiagnosed

The same individuals can accomplish more, with less, when we do it *together*. Body doubling is mutual aid in action. Community mutual aid is body doubling scaled up to a neighborhood, or broader.

There are various apps that facilitate body doubling with strangers. These are mostly subject to the same enshittification problems as dating apps, etc. Can we do a body doubling social network using federation between services?

#BodyDoubling #SocialNetworks #federation

@autistics @actuallyadhd

Encore deux séries de lapins de bibliothèque avec le groupe actuel, et je solliciterai au fédivers des franciliennes et franciliens déconcentrés pour #bodyDoubling dans le silence de #BnFTolbiac

#NEET et artistes, freelances et étudiants, qu'un groupe solide se constitue pour avancer chacun de son côté et ensemble.

J'ai un système de navigation à créer, des fichiers à comparer, des données à trier, des papiers à classer. Nous avons le pouvoir de tout faire avancer.

Bon bah j'ai le manifeste.

👥 Body Doubling Apps

You sit alone for two hours and can't start. A friend joins — suddenly you're productive.
It's not coincidence. ADHD brains need external presence to activate dopamine and trigger task initiation.
You don't need a friend in the room. Focusmate, Flown, or any virtual coworking app does the same job.
Solo focus was never the answer. Shared focus is.
#BodyDoubling #ADHDProductivity #ADHDTools

Body Doubling wanted? English below
Ich hatte eine schöne internationale Body-Doubling-Runde, wo wir 1x die Woche 5-10 Min gequatscht haben, dann 1h Mikro (& Kamera optional) aus und deep work.
Leider hat die sich aufgelöst - hat jemand Lust? Dann würde ich evtl. selbst eine starten.
——-
Anybody interested in a weekly (no strings!) body doubling session? Mine stopped, but I loved the setup: Check in, banter, mic off and deep work for 1h, check out.

#neurodivergent #BodyDoubling

Letztens habe ich hier irgendwo gelesen, dass eine Fediverse-Instanz weggebrochen ist, die gerne für Body-Doubling bzw. das verabreden dazu verwendet wurde.

Der Verein #WohnzimmerNeurodivers bietet dafür eine eigene Plattform inkl. Chat- und Video-Option an.

Habe es selbst noch nicht getestet aber vielleicht kann das ja bei jemandem eine Lücke füllen.

https://wohnzimmer-neurodivers.de/selbsthilfe/body-doubling-auf-deutsch-bei-adhs/

#BodyDoubling #Body_Doubling #ADHS #AuDHS

@AncTreat5358
> The YouTube ADHD Love channel creators have an app/service specifically focused on ADHD body doubling

The app is called Dubbii and there's info about it here;

https://www.adhd-love.co.uk/

Sadly it seems to be mobile-only, proprietary, and only available from Goggle Prey Store or on iThings. So not an option for me.

#BodyDoubling #Dubbii

@niamhgarvey @actuallyadhd @autistics

I recently learned that a uni where a friend of mine is working as an adjunct lecturer is experimenting with paying people to body double for students with ADHD, and other conditions it can help with. I want this job!

#BodyDoubling

@niamhgarvey @actuallyadhd @autistics

Body doubling with a friend while they do a job application they've put off for days. There's music to be danced to, but OTOH it's the hottest part of the day. Plus you've got to support your festival crew, and once they've sent this application, they can totally relax and let loose!

#BodyDoubling

Agreed to body double with my partner for a fixed hour to get her through a difficult part of a project. I announced that I would be working on a commit that I started in 2024 and abandoned in a half finished state. By the end of the hour I’d made serious headway, and after another hour it was done.

So yeah, body doubling with a statement of intent definitely recommended for both parties.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_doubling if this is a new concept for you.)

#bodyDoubling

Any recommendations for programming/gamedev #Coworking / #BodyDoubling streams?

OMG I’m seriously having ADHD brain today. Three times I thought, “I’m hungry I should order something for lunch.” Then one of my various priorities bounces into my thoughts and off I go on that task.

Oh wait when is lunch arriving? Uh it’s not because you forgot to order it.

But having taken the time to publicly remark on it, I have a last ordered lunch. Social network body doubling?

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #BodyDoubling @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

#gamedesign #bodydoubling #bodydouble #indiedev #gamedev #GameCircular

Ich benutze folgende Webseiten fürs Body Doubling:

3x pro Woche kostenlos: https://focusmate.com und https://www.cofocus.one
Kostenlos an Freitagen: https://flown.com

#BodyDoubling #mentalHealth #mentaleGesundheit

Edit: C’est bon, une bonne âme s’est dévouée ! 😊
Je me déconnecte pour une heure

Message original:
Recherche d’urgence : quelqu’un pour faire du #BodyDoubling virtuel pour que j’arrive enfin à me mettre à bosser aujourd’hui 🫣
#TDAH #ADHD

Featuring a bonus shout-out to the #neurodivergent friendly practice of #bodyDoubling (fun tidbit: coding, engineering, and data science are all fields thought to overrepresent neurodivergent folk, many of whom thrive on the clear goals and structured workflows - I'm pretty sure I've seen data on it but I don't have it to hand)

@randomgeek @theaardvark If you were there with your ADHD friends and their lists, you'd be unstoppable. #BodyDoubling

@adelinej

Yeah, that's classic #BodyDoubling, or at least, my version of body doubling, as I don't usually have someone who can just pop over to watch me wash the dishes XD

I wonder if most #ADHD folks don't have a strong communal instinct like that, and if our object impermanence when it comes to people is actually a result of our deep desire for connection such that we develop a defense mechanism of entirely forgetting people, rather than missing them so much.

🚫🔍 Behold, the riveting tale of 'Body Doubling'—where even the server decided it wasn't worth its bandwidth. 😂 Apparently, #ModSecurity is the unsung hero here, saving us all from content that can't be found or understood. 🙄🥴
https://bodydoubling.com/ #BodyDoubling #InternetHumor #ServerIssues #TechTales #HackerNews #ngated

Body Doubling — https://bodydoubling.com/
#HackerNews #BodyDoubling #BodyHacking #Productivity #Hacks #Focus #Techniques

@Zumbador @actuallyautistic

I usually need a YouTube video or something like that to get the dishes done.

#BodyDoubling (an awkward term, for sure, but a very helpful concept)

Just had a thought… y’know how famous artists always had “muses”? And there’s fairly broad agreement that a most artists are some flavor of neurodivergent?

What if art muses aren’t magically inspirational, but rather body-doubling the artist, so they could get past their own executive dysfunction (aka, creative blocks)?

#FediArt #MastoArt #CoWorking #BodyDoubling #ArtistsMuse #CreativeBlock