#neurodivergency — Public Fediverse posts

Our call for speakers is now closed. Thank you to all who reached out. Stay tuned for our panel announcement. #a11y #umbraco #webinclusivity #accesibility #webdesign #neurodivergency

For the change of seasons, I used to do all relevant #spellwork, #cleansing, decor, card pulls, and other seasonal #rituals in one day during the Solstices or Equinoxes. I've realized that's not really the move given my #AuDHD brain lol. So lately I'm slowly doing some cool tasks leading up to the #Fall #Equinox.

This is also my first change of season since deciding to do semi-regular screen breaks/dopamine detoxes, and I'm looking forward to it! I took my first ever intentional detox back in July, and holy shit, I felt so calm during it. Going forward, I'm planning on doing them for 5-7 days during Solstices and Equinoxes, so my first seasonal detox is coming up this Monday. I get overstimulated easily, so I'm hoping that disconnecting from so much stimuli semi-regularly is enough to keep me regulated. I'm thinking about adding a short 2-3 day social media break mid-way through seasons too if I need it.

#autumn #fallequinox #seasons #ritual #mystic #witch #witches #magic #magick #witchcraft #witchy #spells #Tarot #oracle #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #actuallyadhd #audhdetox #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neurodivergency #neurodivergentcommunity #screenbreak #dopaminedetox #socialmediabreak #MentalWellness #mentalhealth #break #SocialMediaDetox #detox #detoxing

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Living with ADHD: Between Stereotypes and Neurobiological Reality

Over the past months, I’ve been sharing observations about ADHD in the fediverse. Raw, unfiltered posts about the daily reality of living with this neurological condition. These posts have resonated with many people, but they’ve also prompted requests for sources, elaboration, and deeper analysis of the phenomena I’ve described.

What follows is an attempt to bridge the gap between lived experience and scientific evidence, between personal observation and structural analysis.

https://jascha.wtf/living-with-adhd-between-stereotypes-and-neurobiological-reality/

#ADHD #ADHS #brain #neurobiology #Neurodivergency #neurodivergent #Science

«[…] something else that hit me in the gut: “It really is easier just to not talk openly and hide in plain sight.” I’ve done that. Still do, sometimes. Not correcting people. Letting the mis gendering slide. Choosing not to mention it in certain rooms.

And that quiet omission, it accumulates. Not because I’m ashamed, but because the calculus of safety and ease still runs in the background. And the silence is its own kind of grief. […]»

—Sam Alderson, «Building a better welcome: Reflections on inclusivity in WordPress»

#WordPress #diversity #inclusion #neurodivergency #queer

Good evening, peoples.
Here's my latest blog post on substack. Give it a read if you fancy a quick, tongue in cheek take on my rather chaotic approach to my work, and I guess, life in general.

#ceramics #art #neurodivergency #adha #asd #artist #studio

https://ltimmis.substack.com/p/the-chaotic-creative-why-my-distracted

At this years @uksg.bsky.social conference, 3 @nlisn.bsky.social committee members discussed lived experiences of #neurodivergency & how they leverage this to support #neurodivergent #library users and staff There is a recap in this write up of the event: www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...

Notes from the UKSG Conference...

Hot take about one thought process that makes me sceptical of psychiatry and psychotherapy as a whole:

Your average psychiatrist's or psychotherapist's university education has been over a decade ago, often several.

First of all, all that knowledge is now horribly outdated, especially concerning only recently properly researched traits like autism or ADHD, but that's not the whole problem.

My own university experience also taught me that most students (sometimes including myself) just study to pass the next exam without really understanding or keeping most of what they're reading. Flawed science on the level of a school project is often still given a passing grade, especially to Bachelor's students.

That's all still assuming that your average psychiatrist or psychotherapist really even remembers most of their formal education! Who really remembers what they learned in school 20 years ago?

Most of them are just coasting along with Google and their "life experience", aka personal biases and heuristics. Your average psychiatrist or therapist is not sitting there studying new papers and reading up on cutting-edge neurodivergency findings after-hours. They'll just make assumptions.

If you add to all this the fact that most doctors and therapists are middle-class or upper-class middle-of-the-road centrists, liberals and conservatives with a traditional picture-book cishet spouse, kids, house and family dog... what can they really tell me about my very much different life?

Their only experience with trans people for example will usually at best be the textbook idea of "person born in the wrong body". They at best only know archetypal binary transsexual women and transsexual men and how to treat them.

What could they possibly have to tell me about my detransition experience or liminal experiences with my gender fluidity? Their entire idea of a trans woman is "man who feels like a woman, wants to live and pass as a woman and therefore needs medicine and social support to be happy." While that is even the best outcome, it doesn't even encompass the whole topic in the slightest.

The only thing that most of them are good for is prescribing medicine and bog-standard problems like burnout or depression.

The only psychiatrist or therapist I would trust is one who is still actively participating in the scientific community.

The decoupling of medical practice from medical theory has devastating effects. As much as it is unfeasible with the shortages we already have, there should simply be no practising doctors who aren't also constantly learning and up-to-date on scientific findings.

#psychiatry #mentalHealth #MH #psychotherapy #therapy #health #neurodivergency #ND #university #science #medicine #autism #ADHD #trans #queer #academia

Sometimes I knew musical artists and their work for years, even decades, before I discover them with a passion and intensity that my senses jump up and down and I'm electrified.

That's when the music crosses a threshold and becomes #stimming.

And yes, it is relevant for me to set this in a #AuDHD context. Becoming aware of my #neurodivergency and my needs is part of understanding myself and practice self-care.

Today I «discovered» … Tool and their 2019 album «Fear Inoculum».

And now I'm good because my mind is drumming and jumping and smiling. Thank you #Tool.

Seeing a lot of posts lately talking about parents not telling their kids about their #autism or #ADHD diagnosis. The thing is, it’s not only with #neurodivergency, the trend is much wider.

I went to rheumatologist recently because of joint pain. Mentioned that to my mom, and she’s like “Oh, you’ve been a frequent visitor of a rheumatologist when you were kid because of heart murmurs and some other things, until we moved and changed the clinic”.
I’m over forty. I have an adult kid who suffers joint pain. I have been diagnosed with valve insufficiency just a few years ago, and knowing that I had heart murmurs could have helped with my diagnosis.
Why am I only being told about these things now? How much more medical information I don’t have about myself?

I know, many people are opposed to the idea of some universal health info system because of privacy issues and the fear that the state or corporations being able to use it against them. But I feel that it’s incorrect approach.
We need to develop mechanisms against misuse of our data, but there should be some way for us ourselves to be able to access the info about our health.
It’s so fucked up that there are numerous people around us - parents, school personal, doctors, nurses - who have the info about us, about our mental and physical health, that we have no idea about, and that is left for their(!) judgment what to give us and what not.
It strikes me as absolutely absurd when I see doctors or some “patient’s rights groups” saying sone info should not be shown to people because they can “misinterpret” it. WTH? As long as I am legally considered mentally capable to take my own decisions: to vote, to manage my property, etc - I should be entitled to any info on me, and should be given indisputable right to make my own decisions based on that. No one should take decisions concerning my health on my regard.
I don’t understand why people in general are ok with that. It scares me actually to see how widely acceptable that is in the society.

Anybody knows a dedicated #Neurodivergency #AuDHD #ADHD #Autism #Mastodon instance?

Please #share .

Years ago, I’ve seen a phrase saying that some people always remember that “I am not like others”, but always forget that “Others are not like me”.

For #neuroqueer me, the first one is because, well, the society just doesn’t let me forget: I am always reminded that I am weird, wrong, not adequate, not appropriate etc
The second one, I suppose, is firstly because of exposure: #neurodivergency usually runs in the family - plus it’s more likely to be surrounded by somewhat relatable people, so #neurodivergent traits are seen as more common, and, secondly, because of innate human trait to see oneself as a baseline, to measure the world in relation to ourselves.

For me, that second thing makes it sometimes hard to believe that the things represented in the culture as normal and common are actually real:
- Wow, guys, you have your real selves? How do you know it’s not just another mask?
- No, it can’t be that loud music in shopping malls is not overwhelming for someone!
- I’m sure, that spontaneous love-at-the-first-sight is totally made up by poets and writers!
- Why would they even care about that person’s gender, it doesn’t matter?

And, from time to time, it would create some common dismissive phrases to raise as a center of doubt:
- Isn’t everyone having the same problems? Do NT people actually exist and are not just the same NDs like me, just masking better, with NT stereotype being nothing more than just a fairy tale made by exploitive society everyone is chasing hopelessly?
- Isn’t everyone pan by nature and just putting themselves into certain frames according to societal expectations?
- Doesn’t everyone just decide first that they want to fall in love with this particular person - based on their merits or potential candidates availability, and work towards feeling something later, and all those crazy spontaneous love stories being just late justifications of bad choices?
- Doesn’t everyone sometimes have dreams about having a different kind of body?
… and so on

The worst thing is, that despite knowing how ridiculous such doubts are, despite knowing all of the reasoning and all, part of me will still often have this doubts - because it’s not about actual reason, it’s much more about that basic instinct of having yourself as the origin, keeping all the coordinates relative to yourself.

Do you guys sometimes have these doubts about ‘maybe I am not so different after all, and others are just masking better?’ Are you also sometimes frustrated ‘It can’t be that some people actually do that’? Which are the things that you stumble upon most?
@actuallyautistic

I've been thinking about Skze's post on "abnormal" circadian rhythms (https://toot.cat/@skye/113180364317401349), and someone called that in the replies "chronospicy" based on the term "neurospicy" and it just occurred to me that this actually *is* a neurodivergency! It's not just a similar word, it's an example of it!

#neurospicy #neurodivergency #chronospicy #chronodivergency

«#KinkedIn»!?

… Just a #typo while I started to compile a #list of people on social media who write about #neurodivergency worth #reading and #following.

Btw. any #recommendations here on #Mastodon or the #Fediverse for worth reading and following people who write about #AuDHD, #ADHD, #Autism … #Neurodivergency ?

«Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia (MTS) is a rare form of synaesthesia which causes individuals to experience a similar touch sensation in the same part or opposite part of the body to that they witness in another person. […]»

https://reframingautism.org.au/i-feel-for-you-living-with-mirror-touch-synaesthesia/

#neurodivergency #autism #synaesthesia #mts

@antiaall3s yep, explain, but not excuse. How I see the world, how I feel, what are my initial impulses are all things impacted by my #neurodivergency. But how I chose to act, how I chose to treat other people is my own choice and my own responsibility. My #autistic perception sometimes makes me incapable of correctly understanding others, and I may accidentally hurt them, but if after explained I don’t try to avoid repeating - it’s not me being ND, it’s me being an asshole

From the decades running classic series «Me and my Coffee» comes a spin-off: »Me and my Food«, starting w/ episode no. 1 «Right, I made brunch … why it's dark outside?».

#adhd #neurodivergency #coldfood

Hey peeps: what would be a neurodivergence friendly instance around you could recommend please? #fediverse #FediTip #ActuallyADHD #AuADHD #ADHD #instance #queer #NeuroFabulous #autistic #neurodivergency #nonbinary #recommendations #lgbtqia #neurodivergent

From the decades running classic series «Me and my Coffee» episode no. 3567 «Ah, someone made me a coffee, but why a cold one?».

#adhd #neurodivergency #coldcoffee

This. And thanks.

#autism #neurodivergency #adhd #AuDHD

From: @johnnyprofane1
https://neurodifferent.me/@johnnyprofane1/111535801342025629

Thinking about it, probably the earliest sign of my #neurodivergency as a kid was my general lack of comprehension of (which lead into disinterest FOR) #soccer / #football

Being #brazilian -- It was the first moment in my early childhood of "I do not understand this socially important thing. I am not certain I care about it. Those two facts cause conflict. Therefore I am now angry at it instead", yanno?

ok ok so just *hear me out*

So theres this thing called Bionic Reading, its basically a way to make reading stuff not suck, especially for neurodivergent people, i've used it myself and it's amazing, but what if it was put into an IDE or something?

- It might make skimming through code a lot easier
- Programming is a lot more static that natural language, which could make bionic reading even better that it's regular use

🔗 open source implementation can be found here: https://github.com/Gumball12/text-vide

🔗 And the original (patented) bionic reading can be found here: https://bionic-reading.com/

#programming #neurodivergent #neurodivergency #adhd #dyslexia #dev #developer #a11y

With some upgraded weapons and abilities, I’m just dancing all over these monsters.

MajorPlays: Monster Hunter Rise (Part 2) (01/27/2023)

https://majorlinux.com/majorplays-monster-hunter-rise-part-2-01-27-2023/

#ADHD #Autism #Capcom #GamePass #MonsterHunterRise #Neurodivergency #PC #Streaming #Xbox #Twitch #YouTube #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #Blerd #AutismDads

With some upgraded weapons and abilities, I’m just dancing all over these monsters.

MajorPlays: Monster Hunter Rise (Part 2) (01/27/2023)

https://majorlinux.com/majorplays-monster-hunter-rise-part-2-01-27-2023/

#ADHD #Autism #Capcom #GamePass #MonsterHunterRise #Neurodivergency #PC #Streaming #Xbox #Twitch #YouTube #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #Blerd #AutismDads

90% of dealing with #neurodivergency is learning to not care what people think