#audhd creature

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

yay water

time to drink water woo hoo yay

[arson-artist]

here have this silly doodle i just drew

[cuteplushy]

Dash arrived today!! He’s really very cute!

[xenocg]

Y/N, Jeff, & Liu as neurodivergent creatures!

[clown-around-and-find-out]

my autistic boyfriend hates asmr but as the autistic girlfriendthing i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[konesamotaon]

brb creature (AuDHD) it is my son

[grahamqrackers]

art is my passion (this is the first time i've opened my tablet in months)

[crustycrow]

they're welcoming it

[mxmorbidmidnight]

I got that DAWG (audhd) in me. I get destructive if I stay at home or do the same thing for too long but I get anxious at the smallest changes.

[misspermitted]

The fun thing about strategically masking rather than just going cold turkey, is that you spend a lot of your life workshopping when masking is worth it. It’s like an ongoing scientific theory. How and when to mask.

(And by fun I mean god I wish I was in a socioeconomic position where I could just unmask all the time. I’m so tired.)

So as evidence for my fellow masking scientists (I’m a humanities major), allow me to share my newly developed hypothesis:

Masking in Long-Term Jobs

Scientists know that the panic instinct to mask in a job interview and first few weeks of a job is strong, however, our hypothesis is that if you don’t need to mask to do the actual job, please consider resisting. Because the evidence shows that it really sucks to trap yourself in a persona. There are two observed phenomena that cause this:

Magneto’s theory from that scene in X-Men First Class that because Raven’s camouflaging she’s only paying half attention to everything else: Magneto is once again correct. The participant cannot fully focus on the job because they’re too busy masking for their coworkers. The outcome of this is massive frustration, exhaustion and eventual burnout.

Invitation to imposter syndrome: If you make any friendly acquaintances or get any positive reinforcement, evidence shows that you will feel like it’s not real. Participants describe being haunted by the idea that they are not an acceptable employee and/or person, only their mask is. Due to phenomena yet to be examined, this somehow leads to one believing their work actually sucks and they’re just pretending it’s good. This phenomena is objectively terrible. Participants in this experiment would not recommend.

Outliers to this hypothesis include the following:

Social service or customer service jobs: Job compliments are reportedly received fine, because masking is incredibly relevant to the ability to do the job well. Reported responses include: 🥰 oh thank you 🥰 I am trying to emotionally manipulate people 🤗 However, research also shows that the outcomes “burnout” and “exhaustion” are sooner reached by these jobs. This research is only preliminary and as of now it is unclear what phenomena cause this.

Jobs you’re just doing for money and you don’t actually care about: This is a false outlier. Autistic people never give 50% on anything. All evidence shows you will end up caring about this job.

The two current theories as to why Autistic participants can’t not care about their job performance are:

Holders of the “Autistic black and white thinking trait” are more likely to think they have a duty and responsibility to the job. (They don’t. We’re in late stage capitalism. You have no responsibility to any business.)

It is one of the behaviours that correspond to the Autistic core emotion: “desperate need to prove themselves worthy and superior because otherwise the damage they got for being different isn’t worth it.” (Other behaviours include: never giving self a break; always pushing self to do better; believing one is both the smartest and worst person in the room; fear and panic about doing something one could be bad at; and inability to sit with own thoughts.)

[eclipsewilliam]

Autistic bottom up thinking

Autistic “bottom-up thinking” refers to a cognitive style often associated with autism, where an individual processes information starting from the most basic sensory or raw details and building up to more complex understanding. This is contrasted with “top-down thinking,” which typically involves starting with a general idea or framework and filling in the details.

In bottom-up thinking, an autistic person may focus intensely on specific details or sensory input—such as sounds, textures, or individual components of a situation—before forming a broader understanding of the whole. This approach can be particularly helpful in tasks requiring precision or attention to detail, but it may also make it challenging to quickly grasp abstract concepts or apply prior knowledge to new situations without fully analyzing the smaller elements first.

For example, in social interactions, an autistic person might process specific facial expressions, tones of voice, and individual words before interpreting the overall emotional context of a conversation, rather than intuitively picking up on the general mood of the exchange from the start.

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[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

*displays textbook symptomatic behavior of my own disorder that I am well educated on* what’s my deal why am I like this

[skettchyartendevours]

Hehehehehehe

I drew the six main Gobots as various neurodivergent creatures :]

[barkmaxing]

When she’s dorky autism ranting about corn and you’re just frothing at the mouth staring at her throat thinking how yummy her blood would taste

[mentallyderangedrats]

ADHD culture is "oh shit I was reading manga an hour ago wtf I don't remember that"

[granger-dangers]

Anyone else ever have that audhd moment where you can literally see the dust particles in the air?

Just me?