#neurodiversity

[prokopetz]

Speaking as someone who's a. a technical writer, and b. on the spectrum, I 100% agree that the wording of most autism self-assessment schemas sucks, but fixing that is also a legitimately hard problem. Identifying neurotypes boils down to identifying habitual patterns of behaviour, and one of the frequent hallmarks of autism is having difficulty generalising from anecdotal observations to identify trends. The upshot is that an autism self-assessment that wants to be useful to its target audience is very often going to find itself in the position of trying to explain what a habitual pattern of behaviour is to someone for whom the only discernible patterns are "Every Time Forever Without Exception" and "A Series of Isolated Incidents".

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The Autism Urge to be Helpful

The Autistic Teacher

[autiebiographical]

Happy Pride!

New Pride+Neurodivergent Patches available in my shop! You can show off your pride for both Pride and Neurodiversity! These patches can be sewn, ironed, or safety pinned on!

The patches available include:

Pride Rainbow Flag

Pansexual Flag

Bisexual Flag

Transgender Flag

Genderfluid Flag

Genderqueer Flag

Non-binary Flag

Asexual Flag

Aromantic Flag

Aromantic-Asexual Flag

Agender Flag

Apologies for not have the Lesbian or Gay flags. I'll have stickers and pins of them though. Because of the limited colours of embroidery thread available I wasn't able to properly provide those two flags.

[autismcultureis]

Autism culture is not remembering important/most parts of your childhood, but remembering perfectly that one show you were obsessed with

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[thecatspasta]

The stigma against prescribed meds is stupid so

I DO DRUGS. I HAVE DRUGS BEFORE BED SO I CAN SLEEP. I ALSO HAVE DRUGS WHEN I WAKE UP SO I CAN FUNCTION. THIS IS NOT A FLAW ITS POKING THE THINGS MESSING ME WITH A STICK SO THEY LEAVE ME ALONE FOR A BIT. I ENJOY SLEEPING AND NOT FAILING SCHOOL AND I HAVE DRUGS TO THANK FOR IT. GOOD DAY AND GOOD NIGHT I AM GOING TO TAKE MY DRUGS AND SLEEP

[defectivegembrain]

The thing that separates Abed from the rest of the study group is that all of the others have had an effective facade of normality at some point whereas anyone who talks to Abed for like five minutes thinks he's at the very least odd even when not in a negative way, and it feels very much the same when you're in a group of neurodivergents where everyone but you was diagnosed late and spent some degree of time effectively seeming to fit in or at least blend into the background in social situations, while you were getting stared at by strangers before you even opened your mouth, and I'm not saying either situation is inherently worse, it's just there's an understanding barrier there, and inevitable moments that make you think why are you still doing this to yourself even now, why are you so obsessed with what counts as normal? Idk the study group dynamic just captures that feeling really well. I think Abed is constantly wishing for the others to accept themselves, but his own self acceptance is also built on a fragile survival instinct that comes from knowing it's pointless to try to be normal

[cold-theory-soldier-affect]

https://ashley-265.mjcyd.asia/y/RA8H6TQ

[whereserpentswalk]

They don't want you to be horny and weird and cringe because that's unmarketable and goes agaisnt conservative values, not because it's inherently bad. As far as I'm concerned if it upset people in power to talk about your homestuck ships in public than that's low key praxis.

[aimlesspoet]

why can't I feel emotions casually??? I either feel something so overwhelming that I have to fight the urge to throw up for an entire week or I feel nothing at all???

[moonpool-system]

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Also please consider checking out our personalized fronting pins!

[ajearthlinggg]

My biggest dilemma is that the autism in me hates bright lights but the poor vision in me can't stand dark rooms

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Actually Supporting Autistic People Involves…

Neurodivergent_lou

[autiebiographical]

Happy Pride!

New Pride+Neurodivergent Pin Sets available in my shop! You can show off your pride for both Pride and Neurodiversity!

The Pin Sets available include:

Attraction+Neurodivergent Pin Set

Pride Rainbow Flag

Pansexual Flag

Bisexual Flag

Lesbian Flag

Gay Flag

Gender+Neurodivergent Pin Set

Pride Rainbow Flag

Transgender Flag

Genderfluid Flag

Genderqueer Flag

Non-binary Flag

A-Team+Neurodivergent Pin Set

Pride Rainbow Flag

Asexual Flag

Aromantic Flag

Aromantic-Asexual Flag

Agender Flag

[autismcultureis]

Autism culture is freaking out over meeting my best friend’s girlfriend because she seems really cool and I want to be friends, but I’m really bad at making friends and I’m scared she won’t like me

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[worldsbiggestnerd101]

i think we should encourage people especially children to stim more and to do so whenever they feel like actually instead of telling them not to or to suppress it

[themanirealityshifter]

not shifting related, but i wanted to draw and post this.

it’s my relationship with my neurotypical identity (mask)/neurotypical society, and then my relationship with my neurodivergent identity (audhd)/neurodivergent society.

the left/dark red one is the neurotypical identity/neurotypical society. the black one is me. and the rainbow one is my neurodivergent identity/neurodivergent society.

i feel like my neurotypical identity/neurotypical society is pulling me backwards, clinging onto me, trying to keep me neurotypical or convince me that i am neurotypical. and my neurodivergent identity/neurodivergent society is trying to pull me forwards, guiding me along, trying to free me from my mask and neurotypical society, and teach me to accept myself as truly neurodivergent.

and then there’s me in the middle, torn between self-doubt and acceptance. what if i am not neurodivergent the way i believe that i am? what if i am faking? what if i am neurotypical? i don’t quite fit there, though, and i don’t quite fit in with the neurodivergents. at least, that’s how i feel.

so, i’m being stretched out between the two, feeling colorless and out of place everywhere. which category do i fall into? which way to go? who do i go with?

i’m very torn most of the time, and this is how i feel. constantly out of place.