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  1. Does anyone else make playlists for ALL of their closer relationships with people, not just their romantic/life partners??

    It doesn't even have to be for the person, just a private playlist you have for yourself with songs that describes them or your dynamic. Kind of like OC/ship playlists but for your irl contacts.

    #neurodivergent #nd #relationships #friendship #playlists #lovelanguage #dynamic #meme #neurodivergence #adhd #neurospicy #neuroatypical

  2. One of the many things I'd like to really think and write about someday is the tendency to cast behavior that is not consciously chosen in a "conscious choice" frame. I got a lot of this as a kid growing up religious: failures of self-control were frequently phrased as if they were deliberate, fully-considered acts, as if there was a 5-minute cost-benefit analysis before some kids decided to feel each other's delightful sexual bits or try some of the devil's drink. One take I heard more than once was "why would you choose to compromise your [eternal salvation / honor / soul / etc.] for a few minutes of temporary pleasure?" Even back then, even as a very stupid teenager, I knew that didn't feel right. It wasn't just because of the assumption that 16-year-olds are capable of rationally weighing gradual, slow-burn long-term benefits against short-term, fast-burn, intense benefits (though that's the core of it). It was also that weird assumption that there was ever a conscious choice.

    I know, for my part, I had a hundred thousand experiences of being me, doing my thing, then looking up in horror as some authority figure asked what the hell I was doing. Then I would look down, see my hands covered in mud from my mother's flooded flowerbed, or look past the delicious lips of the girl I'd been kissing for an hour, or look at the materials I'd used to create something that were actually someone else's important resources. I'd suddenly see what I had been doing in a new light--the what the hell are you doing? light--and get a very familiar, horrible feeling in my gut: consequences.

    But there was no point at which I'd weighed those consequences. I had never had a thought like "let's do this; it will be worth the risk."

    For a while, as a teen and young person, I was known as a risk-taker, a daredevil, a thrill-seeker. I really was none of those things. I would suddenly realize that I was hanging from a wild rose bush off a 50-foot cliff in the Cascades, or was flying hell-for-leather down a gnarly singletrack in Moab behind my cousin's boyfriend (an actual downhill MTB hucker), or about to try a somersault on waterskis at 40 mph.

    when I was a bit older, I did sometimes have at least part of the mental conversations with myself about risks and rewards, etc. Those conversations didn't often go in reasonable directions, but at least I had them.

    I sometimes wonder how I became an academic. I'm not introverted, autistic, or asocial; those characteristics are often excellent for academia. I've been cramming my square peg into Academia's round hole (I just realized how very inappropriate that sounds) for 20+ years.

    About 8 years ago I did a teaching observation with a colleague, trying to get tenure (again). After I taught the class she asked, "It was interesting that you decided to spend two minutes talking about a tangent subject instead of following your lecture plan. What prompted that decision?"

    I looked at her for a few seconds and said, "I don't know... personal pathology?"

    She truly seemed like she had just heard something she had never in her life imagined or considered (she was a bit asocial, very introverted, and probably struggling with OCD; she was perfect for academia).

    Now, with the hindsight of a few decades, some hard-won coping strategies, medication, and a slowed-down mind and body, I think I've started to learn some things about myself. In the few situations where people have asked what "choice" I was "making" with a clearly impulsive action I have tended to respond with a good deal of snark. I think questions like that are sometimes a flex, an attempt to dominate others, and the people doing that can go fuck themselves. The people who are honestly confused about why someone would "choose" to build a very low quality guitar out of a metal washtub instead of grading papers their students expected the next day could probably use a little consciousness expansion, too.

    There are more things in human behavior than are dreamt of in your weird and narrow philosophy, Horatio.

    #tmi #subtoot #personal #adhd #neuroatypical #old

  3. Pure dystopia that people can't tell the difference between :

    1. « AI slop » : "Artificial Intelligence" generated text, or, more precisely, large language model based chatbots text ; and

    2. « AI slop » : "(neuro-)Atypical Intelligence" overshared text, or, more precisely, oversharing neurodivergent's largely overthought language's markdowned or BBCoded text.

    Post Scriptum.
    This post redaction time : 20 minutes.

    #AI #NoAI #Chatgpt #LLM #AIslop
    #Neurodivergent #NeuroAtypical #NeuroA #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ADHD #Dystopia #MarkDown #BBCode #EnrichedText #TextEnriched #FormatedText #textformat

  4. I did a poll here for a week. 141 people responded. I was interested in #mastodon users' preferred categorization of the term "neurodiverse." The results generally confirmed my a priori predictions but had some surprises. Some takeaways for me, right now:

    • Autism was in a tie for top position, unsurprising as, in my experience, autism was the first condition to be labeled "neurodiverse" or "neuroatypical", and is, I suspect, something of a prototype for the category.
    • ADHD was tied (given the sample) with autism. I was mildly surprised. I think a few years ago this would not have been the case; ADHD awareness, activism, and acceptance have increased dramatically over the past few years.
    • Schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and #bipolar disorders were the next group. The inclusion of anxiety disorders surprised me; I suspected it would be tied with depression disorders.
    • Personality disorders being endorsed at the same rate as depression and intellectual disability was a mild surprise.
    • Psychopathy being tied with depression and intellectual disability was a pretty big surprise for me. This poll was largely about opinions and preferences, so stigma is (IMO) a big part of it. "Being a psychohpath" seems to be less stigmatized (in a specific way) than I thought... it's also possible the results would change if I'd used the word "psychopath" instead of "psychopathy."
    • Intellectual disabiity (until pretty recently labeled "mental retardation" but, you know, the euphemism treadmill) was a wild card for me; I didn't know where it would end up. I would like to do a different survey sometime, with a different response format, so I could see the variability in responses. I suspect this condition (and a few others) would result in a lot of variability.
    • Pedophilia was of particular interest to me. The results confirmed my strong a priori hypothesis, and this (plus psychopathy) was a major reason for wording the poll as I did, prompoting for preferences instead of a more objective assessment of the research-based fitness of each condition for the "neurodiverse" category.

    More about #pedophilia: a nice, big mountain of research strongly suggests that it is a condition of altered brain development; in fact, it is probably a sexual orientation. A better survey than this simple poll might assess participants' understanding of pedophilia in addition to the question I did ask. I suspect many people confuse pedophilia with child molestation/abuse (nb: pedophilia is a pattern of attraction, not a set of behaviors, though many pedophiles have also abused children).

    Both the left and right political meta-groups in the USA have latched onto "pedophile" as a label for child molestation--usually of post-pubescent children, where pedophilia is very specifically a pattern of attraction to prepubescent children. There was flirtation during Trump's first term with the more correct(ish) labels "hebephilia" and "ephebephilia", but I think the need for a stronger, more dehumanizing label won in the end, and "pedophile" packs a bigger cultural/emotional punch than "child molester."

    Anyway, thanks to everyone who participated. This is fascinating enough for me that I might even do a real survey sometime. If I can get my dean to stop giving me extra classes for calling him out on his anti-labor nonsense.

    Notes:

    1. I phrased the question as *Which of the following conditions do you personally think should be included under the #neurodiversity umbrella? * instead of asking which conditions would be classified as neurodiverse, etc. for reasons noted above.
    2. I chose "neurodiverse" instead of "neuroatypical", believing that the latter would produce more restricted categorization.
    3. This is not (I hope) research according to federal definitions. It's a demonstration of a concept and I won't be trying to disseminate these results in scientific journals or at science conferences.

    #neurodiverse #neuroatypical #poll #adhd #autism #schizophrenia #anxiety #bipolar #PersonalityDisorder #psychopathy #depression #IntellectualDisability

  5. Clinic Director: We understand that people with ADHD can have severe difficulties with time management and keeping up with things. Reinforcement and punishment are extremely unlikely to produce any lasting change in these behaviors because, you know, ADHD. Really, the only thing that makes a meaningful impact on that kind of thing is medication.

    Office Manager: Of course, doctor.

    CD: We also know that punitive methods of behavior change are even less effective for people with ADHDthan for the general public, with even worse negative consequences.

    OM: Mmm hmm.

    CD: If the consequences happen hours or even days after the behavior you're trying to change, forget about it. Zero effectiveness plus anxiety, negative mood, lower self-esteem, loss of trust...

    OM: That's very interesting, doctor. How do you want to manage prescriptions for our ADHD patients?

    CD: Punitive methods, obviously. Those people have to learn to manage their time and tasks. Let's refuse to fill the prescription unless they jump through a few hoops within an arbitrary time frame.

    OM: [taking notes]

    CD: And let's make sure the punishment is separated from those time management failures by at least a few days.

    #ADHD #psychiatry #neuroatypical #meds #rx

  6. The to-do list waxes and wanes, swells and shrinks. The to-do list does not get "finished", despite individual items occasionally meeting this state. The urgencies and weights of the to-do list are suggestions only, but suggestions with power. The order of items on the to-do list appears meaningful but is at least 50% arbitrary. Ask not "which item shall I start with?" Start with literally any item. Any one. Even that one, yes. Any is better than none. The to-do list before you is but the projection into this dimension of the full and complete to-do list. No one can know the full and complete to-do list; if it were possible, any person who came to know it would go mad. The full and complete to-do list might be infinite; it is impossible to know. When you die the to-do list will remain, no matter what you do. The to-do list is not god and it is not the devil. It is not an angel or a demon. It merely is. It is not elemental or a force of nature, however; it is constructed. By you. From your life. From your relationship with and understanding of your life. That doesn't mean it owns you or that it even knows you. Does it think it knows you? It doesn't know you. It's got no cause to be talking shit about you. It's a punk. You owe it nothing. But you probably owe some stuff to some people, partly represented on the to-do list, so just beating its ass down is probably not the go-to move, here. On a related topic: the to-do list is not your boss; you are its boss. It is an unruly, disrespectful employee who says shit you really don't want to hear right now but who you cannot fire. It is a problem employee, as are you, FWIW. The to-do list is everything. The to-do list is nothing. The to-do list is honestly probably somewhere in between those extremes. You should stop writing this ridiculous faux-zen bullshit and actually look at your to-do list.

    #affirmations #neuroatypical #adhd #silly

  7. @Photo55 You're right, but it probably won't surprise you that I try to vacuum the carpet and websearch the internet. As the unofficial motto of so many scientific trades goes: "you don't have to be autistic to work here, but it helps". 🤪

    And yet I use eponymous words like "quisling" and "boycot" (and indeed I admire the Norwegians and the Irish for consigning those of whom they disapproved so enduringly to villainy), so I'm sure there will be commercially derived words that I use - just as you describe - but I am ignorant of their etymology.

    #pedantry #pedantic #autism #neurodivergent #neuroatypical #talkingVeryPreciselyAboutVeryPreciseThings #Feynman #Dawkins #language #linguistics #STEM #psychology #memetics #memes #neuroLinguisticProgramming #NLP #advertising #propaganda #cambridgeAnalytica #poetry #love #language #music #art

  8. @autistics

    So, one of my guilty pleasures is watching the TV show #HighPotential, which is based on another show (#HPI). #KaitlinOlson (who in real-life is married to #ND #RobMacElhenney) portrays "Morgan," who has an IQ of 160 and notices EVERYTHING! After she oversteps her position as a cleaner, Morgan is hired on as a police consultant -- where she helps to solve murders. Season 2 airs tonight on ABC, and Season 1 is available on Hulu...

    Kaitlin Olson Listed A Whole Bunch Of Things She Wants High Potential Season 2 To Dive Into, And There's One I Really Hope They Focus On

    By Megan Behnke published June 20, 2025

    Excerpt: "Olson also mentioned she wanted to highlight Morgan's #neurodivergent brain, coming to terms with the 'gift' she may or may not have and how lonely she feels because of it. Plus, we also want to know more about everything else going on with Ava's dad, Morgan's relationships with her kids and more.

    "It's hard to tell what exactly will happen in Season 2, but it sounds like Olson has more than a few ideas that will more than likely come to fruition. High Potential is keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the same thing is done with Season 2. Fans will just have to wait and see what the show digs into. In the meantime, the first season is available to stream with a Hulu subscription."

    cinemablend.com/television/kai

    #MurderMysteries #Neuroatypical #Curiosity #PositiveDepictionsOfND #NDWomen

  9. @autistics

    Dots Out of Line: On #Neuroatypical Curiosity

    Educators should ask not who is curious, but how is each person curious?

    MIT Press Reader

    by Perry ZurnDani S. Bassett, December 2022

    Excerpt: "Born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism of a 'severe' and 'nonverbal' type, #NaokiHigashida attended a number of educational institutions in the course of his youth, including a neurotypically centered primary school, a special needs junior high, and a distance learning high school. Observing the many ways in which people with disabilities are fast-tracked out of normal life and shuttled into special needs circles (and low-wage jobs, if they are lucky), Higashida, the author of dozens of poems, short stories, and nonfiction books, wanted to make his own choice. After 'questioning things' for himself, and identifying his gifts and hopes, he decided to become a writer.

    "While in school, he had become increasingly frustrated with the steady infantilization and 'schoolmaster-type instruction' that denied his creativity and squashed his curiosity. Indeed, scientists and educators alike repeatedly characterize people with autism as lacking any measurable — and therefore meaningful — curiosity. Resisting this narrative in his writing and activism, Higashida repeatedly asserts his own curiosity: 'I’m always hungry to learn,' 'hungry for knowledge,' he writes in his bestselling memoir 'The Reason I Jump'; 'I want to grow up learning a million things!' Other autistic people, he says, are much like him in this respect, 'constantly challenging and asking questions of themselves.' This should be no real surprise, he writes in a poem called 'Curiosity,' given that curiosity is fundamentally human; it 'is why we carry on.' "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/dot

    #Poets #LifeWithAutism #Autistic #Autists #ND #Curiosity #ABeautifulMind

  10. So #neuroatypical people now need a translator to communicate with others?
    Perhaps it would be easier if we just accepted each other as we are. Neurotypicals would not assume bad intentions and overinterpret messages. That would help a lot.

    reuters.com/lifestyle/its-most

    @actuallyautistic

    #autistic
    #neurodivergent
    #ActuallyAutistic
    #ADHD

  11. It doesn't matter if you have proof or you carefully and tolerantly curated your list. As far as #Bluesky is concerned, you don't have proof and you are defaming them. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticActually #Autism #Neurodivergence #Neurodivergent #NeuroAtypical #Ableist

  12. It doesn't matter if you have proof or you carefully and tolerantly curated your list. As far as #Bluesky is concerned, you don't have proof and you are defaming them. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticActually #Autism #Neurodivergence #Neurodivergent #NeuroAtypical #Ableist

  13. La créatrice du populaire "Anti-Planner" vient d'envoyer une newsletter, très stressée par tout le bordel réseaux sociaux et notamment ce que pourrait provoquer l'interdiction de TikTok sur sa communauté.

    Si vous être neuroatypique et en particulier vous avez un #TDAH, n'hésitez pas à enregistrer son site dans vos favoris : anti-planner.com/shop/the-anti ; mais surtout à parler de l'Anti-Planner autour de vous, et à la suivre sur ses réseaux sociaux pour la soutenir :)

    J'ai pris le bundle pdf mais comme je suis un sale cas de "je ne fais jamais les choses même si je les mets sur un post-it sur l'écran de mon ordi" je ne l'ai toujours pas utilisé 😭

    Et si vous ne connaissez pas l'Anti-Planner, eh bien, vous devriez aller sur le site et lire la description :D
    (Faites gaffe l'Anti-Planner est tellement populaire qu'il y a de très nombreux scams, n'utilisez que le lien officiel pour le commander !)

    #Neuroatypical #NeuroA #AntiPlanner #ADHD #Neurodiversity #DaniDonovan

  14. Professional Refinement - Passing CompTIA Security+ (2023)

    youtube.com/watch?v=BRQ-uILXAg

    This episode is about the author's study process for passing the foundational Cyber Security "CompTIA Security+" exam in 2023. It's all about the timeframe, study materials and the live testing approach. One book has the knowledge. Another book has the tests. An online course compliments this. Answering a couple thousand quizz questions helps. Making mind maps assists in weaving sense from the realm of computing machines which themselves are interconnected as part of their existence, so in a way this helps make the theory real, because it is founded on what is known about reality through physics.

    #BitcoinSecurityMaps #meshcode #BSM #MattyK #cyberpowertelenoia #theskyishigh #civilianintelligence #MindMaps #Security #CyberSecurity #culture #intelligence #civilian #certification #professional

    #InfoSec #Information #Technology #Computing #Software #Digital #DigitalLiteracy #cypherpunk #appsec #WebAppSec #Testing #EthicalHacking #BugBounty #DevSecOps #SSDLC #SecurityOperations #CompTIA

    #aspie #asperger #autism #neuro #neurodiverse #nontypical #neuronontypical #neurotuypical #atypical #neuroatypical #ET #elf #lightworker #magic #wizard

    #attune #state #consciousness #subconscious #realm #sphere #dimension #layer #level #point #attention #beinghuman #time #freedom #privacy #anonymity #peace #justice #value #clarity #safety #alignment #coordination #disclosure #harmony #holistic #ecosystem #ecology #thriving #sacred #sustainability

  15. Web App Security Testing Series: RECON Foundations - INTRO

    youtube.com/watch?v=T5NLyAC2XG

    ARTICLE:
    medium.com/cyberpower-telenoia

    AUDIO:
    serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/b
    youtube.com/watch?v=T5NLyAC2XG

    This introductory episode to Recon covers foundational theory including tactics, techniques and actual command-line procedures. From manual passive indirect information gathering to automated scans and into stealth packet manipulation. Examples are given of this particular first stage of a Vulnerability Assessment in a sequential manner in order to enhance the effectiveness of mapping the attack surface of the target web application.

    The amount of times my eyebrow reacts to my voice is remarkable within the first minute. Recording myself helps me continue to work on this.

    #BitcoinSecurityMaps #meshcode #BSM #MattyK #cyberpowertelenoia #theskyishigh #civilianintelligence #MindMaps
    #Security #CyberSecurity #WebAppSec #AppSec #Recon #Vulnerability #Risk #Assessment #Analysis #Advisory #Bitcoin #BTC #culture #intelligence #civilian

    #InfoSec #Information #Technology #Computing #Software #Digital #DigitalLiteracy #System #P2P #cypherpunk #appsec #WebAppSec #Recon #Reconnaissance #Testing #EthicalHacking #BugBounty #DevSecOps #SSDLC #Pentest #SecurityOperations

    #aspie #asperger #autism #neuro #neurodiverse #nontypical #neuronontypical #neurotuypical #atypical #neuroatypical #ET #elf #lightworker #magic #wizard

    #attune #state #consciousness #subconscious #realm #sphere #dimension #layer #level #point #attention #beinghuman #time #freedom #privacy #anonymity #peace #justice #value #clarity #safety #alignment #coordination #disclosure #harmony #holistic #ecosystem #ecology #thriving #sacred #sustainability

  16. Aspie Hackers, Bug Whisperers

    youtube.com/watch?v=imr10PHM7t

    This episode is about the existing open bootcamp potential of highly-functioning neuro-nontypical autistic people, specifically Aspies (those previously diagnosed with Asperger's) who may wish to work as Ethical Hackers by collaborating with peers in the form of an online community organization. Specifically the aim is to work together on Bug Bounty Hunting platforms in order to professionally help businesses secure their websites by finding and reporting security vulnerabilities in their products. There are dramatic reasons to believe that Aspies in particular are natural daily hackers in the ordinary world. Such an Aspie group always works at its best and brightest.

    #BitcoinSecurityMaps #meshcode #BSM #MattyK #cyberpowertelenoia #theskyishigh #civilianintelligence #MindMaps
    #Security #CyberSecurity #Bitcoin #Lightning #Node #Money #Finance #Economy #BTC #hashrate #culture #intelligence #civilian

    #InfoSec #Information #Technology #Computing #Software #Digital #DigitalLiteracy #System #P2P #cypherpunk
    #aspie #asperger #autism #neuro #neurodiverse #nontypical #neuronontypical #neurotuypical #atypical #neuroatypical #ET #elf #lightworker #magic

    #attune #state #consciousness #subconscious #realm #sphere #dimension #layer #level #point #attention #beinghuman #time #freedom #privacy #anonymity #peace #justice #value #clarity #safety #alignment #coordination #disclosure #harmony #holistic #ecosystem #ecology #thriving #sacred

  17. If you're into facts and dimensions from a self-induced caring need, this series is for you!
    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKk

    Let me know how you relate. If you don't relate at all then I'd be happy to hear of your reality because it would mean you are quite mature. I just started but I'm learning fast.

    Since my daily life is affected by the ongoing news at the local and global level, usually in direct relation to national security and the cost of cornflakes, clean air and water, I find it important to understand what I am and what the meaning of the internet is today. Having clarity where moist psychology meets the dry technology is essential for the ethical hacker. Tune into my hacked box Infosec series for 25 years of observations compacted into a few hours of maps of mental models. It's a ten part foundation set in the first season of "Bitcoin Security Maps", a podcast I started as part of my professional refinement because these days that's what it takes to attempt next-level vocational engagement in Cyber Security. After turning 25. First I wrote the articles for my Medium publication, then I mapped them and recorded their readings in audio-visual format which was then syndicated on separate podcast channels, such as youtube and others available on an increasing numer of advanced podcast listening apps empowered by bitcoin. For censorship resistance and sanity.

    When I tune into any other top podcast in (and outside) my professional field, these other podcasts often discuss the issues and challenges that I present abstract solutions for. This includes the Jordan Peterson podcast and Peter McCormack's "What Bitcoin Did", two excellent intellectually high spirits. This is how I know that my friends on the Meta-facebook network are receiving very valuable content from me while I currently excite six subscribers and certain videos with zero views after a couple of months. My podcast is meant to inspire rather than persuade anyone of anything, I merely make statements of observations deeply rooted in reality, and even label these as "cosmic laws" or "direct personal experience" and "clarity of meaning in the experience of consciousness" etc.

    I have identified the main issue to be a lack in successful communication about the tools that are available through spiritual practice and interactions with computing machines. For this reason this series culminates in the design of a new human communications protocol for those interested in debate, discussion and ongoing exchange about what is happening.

    I am continuing the podcast with the second season coming soon but I do not plan on another series like this because first of all the burden of spending more time than necessary in darkness is not as interesting as allowing myself to thrive, and secondly because I feel that this covers everything from how to access reality all the way to the end of it all for life on Earth. I am working on my articulation in order to collaborate with those living and doing the work. The meanings of the words I use are often not the same as the average layperson's. It is right to have a need to know how to articulate better.

    The point is that if the "human" world falls apart any time soon within the meshcode memory of this series, then I will not feel a need to help or explain anything to anyone and my conscience will be clear as it is now, when I feel I am doing my best to live for myself and for others. Through that lens it's possible to see what's going on.

    See more links in the video description.

    #BitcoinSecurityMaps #meshcode #BSM #MattyK #cyberpowertelenoia #theskyishigh #civilianintelligence #MindMaps
    #Security #CyberSecurity #Bitcoin #Lightning #Node #Money #Finance #Economy #BTC #hashrate #culture #intelligence #civilian

    #InfoSec #Information #Technology #Computing #Software #Digital #DigitalLiteracy #System #P2P #cypherpunk
    #aspie #asperger #autism #neuro #neurodiverse #nontypical #neuronontypical #neurotuypical #atypical #neuroatypical #ET #elf #lightworker #magic

    #attune #state #consciousness #subconscious #realm #sphere #dimension #layer #level #point #attention #beinghuman #time #freedom #privacy #anonymity #peace #justice #value #clarity #safety #alignment #coordination #disclosure #harmony #holistic #ecosystem #ecology #thriving #sacred #sustainability

  18. I wrote this today, and figure my fellow neural ‘atypicals’ out there might be able to relate. I only noticed in retrospect it might pass as poor man’s poetry…

    Today (It Is Always Today)

    Today I heard that voice in my head ask (yet again): is it too late? Can you pull this life of yours out of the fire?

    1/2

    #adhd #neuroatypical #aspergers #autism #messagetoafriend

  19. @ashleyspencer This is exactly how I felt when I found out I'm Highly Sensitive.

    #HSP #neuroatypical

  20. Because the search for talent is a key issue for any company. The use of algorithms in this quest plays a key role.

    linkedin.com/pulse/muse-newsle

    Muse™ highlights how #algorithms can help decision-makers and recruiters find the right people. And how algorithms can help find “rare pearls” among #neuroatypical. After all, a linear #CV is not necessarily a guarantee of finding the right person for the #job

  21. If you’re bright and you ever doubt yourself or your ways (almost all bright people do), contemplate this list of intellects and contributors who were all self-taught.

    If you never have doubts, absorb their material.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o

    #autodidact #neuroatypical #adhd

  22. Wow. I've recently been introduced to the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and boy do I feel seen. Also, fantastic storytelling. #neuroatypical #scifi #adventure

  23. Interesting quotes from a Hanzi piece on the #neuroatypical as ”the shamans” of late modernity.

    ”And so, this late-modern shamanism interconnects the classes of society. It interconnects the most divergent personalities. It includes people who frequent the psychiatric ward, the people who work there as doctors and therapists, and the theorists who in turn inspire those.”

    The people who exist beside the social hierarchy: making the normies of us much more connected.

    medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/neu

  24. I was this many years old before it sank in just now--literally just now--that
    I AM NOT #NEUROTYPICAL.

    #WhoKnew?
    I'm #Neuroatypical!

    And I should have had #Accommodations.

    That Explains So Much.

    I was mostly a good student (middle school not so much) but damn it was hard. And work! Don't even get me started.

  25. Very soon I became attracted to a small 10 key c acrylic #kalimba that was there. I am #neuroatypical (#autistic and #adhd), and soon found me staying in the rooms during breaks to play stim with the kalimba, because the sound, texture and repetition were soothing to me. I asked one for Christmas and my mom went fully with it, I have now a wooden 17 keys kalimba with a hole (soundboard? Not familiar with English music vocab sorry). The two firsts weeks I would just stim with it.

  26. #Introduction! I'm Sam, I write #weird #SpeculativeFiction by night & work at saving the world by day. BSc #Oceanography #SouthamptonUni, MSc #Cranfield. I enjoy chasing #Garmin badges, mostly by #bicycle, #outdoor #adventures & #gaming. I'm #neuroatypical & opinionated, but mostly use social media for random thought dumping, #cycling chat & #husky photos. More about my #writing at ravenbait.com & more random nonsense at ravenfamily.org/sam. Opinions entirely my own.

  27. Seems like introduction posts are the way to find one's people around here, though my introvert side has been procrastinating. It's one thing to talk about yourself when meeting new folks directly - we ADHD folk are often TOO good at that. But, to just blast a "THIS IS ME COME BE MY FRIEND" with a pile of hashtags relevant to my interests seems a bit...thirsty. But...ok, "When in Rome, etc"
    My favorite things about the bird site were connecting with other neurodivergent / neuroatypical folks, getting book recommendations in scifi, fantasy, mystery, history, historicalfiction, ecology, science, and really anything else good. I like to read. I also loved seeing quality fanart come down my feed, poetry, and any other creative expressions from the non-famous, but crazy-talented masses putting themselves out there.

    I have a couple of great kids, and a lovely husband about whom I don't share details in public forums. I try to get out into nature, particularly forests here in Eugene, Oregon, as much as possible. I'm trailrunning, slowly, and I have a dog companion who wishes I were faster. I love singing, and I play the ukulele (badly, but I'm getting better). I also have curlyhair, and the internet has been a lifesaver for that, so maybe that's a thing here too? Also baking, cooking, cake, hygge, mindfulness meditation, and more kinds of music than I can list in here (but ska might be my favorite, today at least).

    I'm an LGBTQI ally, antiracist, progressive, feminist, atheist, and I give freemomhugs. I sometimes get things wrong, but I'm listening and learning. I can't stand a bully.

    I am likely to get really excited and infodump if you ask me about Salesforce, Shakespeare, foxes, embroidery, The Stormlight Archive, or Muppets.

    Whew! That's a lot! I'm kinda a lot some times, but so are most of my favorite people. Hi, Mastodon!

    *Edit* I've heard that in-text hashtags can make reading posts a nightmare for those who listen to the internet rather than read with eyes. Accessibility is a good thing, so I moved all my hashtags down to the bottom.

    #introvert, #ADHD, #neurodivergent, #neuroatypical, #books, #scifi, #fantasy, #mystery, #history, #historicalfiction, #ecology, #science, #reading, #art, #photography, #poetry, #creativity, #nature, #forests, #Eugene, #Oregon, #trailrunning, #dogs,#singing,#ukulele, #curlyhair, #baking, #cooking, #cake, #hygge, #mindfulness, #meditation, #music, #ska, #LGBTQI #ally, #antiracist, #progressive, #feminist, #freemomhugs, #atheist, #infodump, #Salesforce, #Shakespeare, #foxes, #embroidery, #TheStormlightArchive, #Muppets #science #humanism #skeptic

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