#autistic or have adhd hyperfixate

[get-grubered]

hey so just to be clear:

special interest ≠ thing you really like

special interest ≠ hyperfixation

special interest = thing pretty much your whole life revolves around, you get anxious if you don't interact with it enough, how you see the world

[idksjdhshdhd]

I wish they had an emoji to show my excitement about some things rather than just having to do a keyboard smash to show genuine excitement

[v1rtualv4mp]

Do y'all also avoid interacting with other media in fear of getting hyperfixated on it and losing interest in your current one?

[queerly-done]

So I just wat to say I love how the DBDA fandom has some seemingly universal truths like Edwin being autistic or I also see a large portion of people saying the Charles has ADHD, and I don’t think either thing has been confirmed but I completely agree, and love how as a collective we just were like there is nothing neurotypical about these two.

[clowningcrows]

i watched dead poets society literally 12 Hours ago and already i have a neil perry playlist that surpasses any other playlist i have in length EASILY

[willthespy]

why is autism so expensive

[deadboydetectives-confessions]

This show got me so obsessed I was worried for a while. I've had a lot of obsessions in my life but wow this right here got me like crazy, it was hard to focus on work/daily tasks for WEEKS. It's better now and I can function but it's still so weird how it happened. My therapist did tell me though that I have to accept having excessive feelings sometimes, so maybe I was overreacting thinking it was bad. Idk. I wonder if anyone else felt like this

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[oh-meow-swirls]

i think this was funnier in my head.

[xikyuu]

that feeling when you have one (1) encounter with a new piece of media and get flung into the sun with a new hyperfixation. anyways hi im totally normal and not foaming at the mouth.

[ricky-yaps]

My punk ass little brother has been absolutely SLANDERING me because he decided to go through my sketchbook and he saw this

“You’re autistic AND a furry??” IM GENUINELY NEITHER BRO STOP STOP STOPIT STJOP

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[noys-boise]

you know what would be really cool for autistic people/ADHDers and really annoying for everyone else? imagine if you could like randomly turn on "notifications" in your brain for whenever people anywhere mention your special interest/hyperfixation. like you could specifically see where the closest person who recently mentioned it is or if there's something related to it on the tv or it would guide you to an exact video with a random mention of it and you'd just. never miss it

especially useful if you have niche SIs/hyperfixations

[yea-baiyi]

symptoms of adhd that hua cheng displays:

1. hyperfixation

2. jumping from interest to interest/collecting a lot of random knowledge and skills

3. inability to focus on things that don’t interest him

4. rejection sensitive dysphoria

5. emotional dysregulation - bursts of anger

6. saying/doing things impulsively

7. fidgeting when bored

[cultofsappho]

Sneak Peak Sunday

tysm for the tags everyoneee @kiwiana-writes @14carrotghoul @heybuddy-drabbles @happiness-of-the-pursuit !!!!!

although I only post for about 1/4 of the wednesdays and sundays here, i am actually working on things! just at a comparatively very very slow pace.

I have (very recently, be nice) been diagnosed as autistic and am working through it my favorite way: writing fanfiction and projecting my issues on fictional characters. So, have the first few lines written for my So Far Untitled Late Diagnosed Autistic Henry fic with a dash of internalized ableism that he's really gonna need to work through

It's not a problem, it's just that sometimes Henry thinks if anyone speaks to him he’ll spontaneously combust. It’s fine, really, but if one more person looks at him like he’s a fish out of water, he might just believe it. He’s okay, but he also occasionally thinks about ripping his own skin off.  It’s fine. He’s fine.  It’s depression. It’s anxiety, or grief, or this is just what it’s like for all queer people trying to exist within a heterosexual world. Or... it’s any number of his other plentiful issues. Surely, there can’t be another thing wrong with him. 

there can be actually :) and it's not something wrong but its there buddy :) you just learned to mask through posture coaching and oppressive royal formality sweetheart :)

as usual, no pressure tags (and some who probably already posted, i'm constantly behind sorry): @affectionatelyrs @inexplicablymine @daisymae-12 @cha-melodius @ships-to-sail @sherryvalli @myheartalivewrites @cosmicalart and open tag to anyone looking to share what they've been working on!!

[blue-banditt]

does anyone else have to take like ten million breaks throughout the day?? Like I gotta do it every 30-45 minutes otherwise I can't function. It's not even voluntary I just start spacing out or get distracted. Fuck maybe I actually do have ADHD

[wanderingmind867]

I always have stuff I can vent about. I can discuss how i still feel sedentary and lazy online, i can talk about how i'm really nervous for school to come back in a few weeks, i can talk about how my stomach still makes me really nervous sometimes, I can even discuss the many ways that my mom's death and my the loss of my old tablet led to me being sedentary and also to me being so sad and existential. But there's still more vent topics! I can vent about not telling my dad i post on here, and how i'm now feeling too nervous and awkward about it to ever work up the nerve to tell him. I can talk about how i worry my hyperfixations are lasting longer (and that means i'm becoming more stuck in my ways or something as i age), i can even bring up now i'm very dependent on my dad and how i'm scared of ending up alone.

That's like 10 topics I could vent about! And although i know i should probably make some posts on these subjects, i also know that i never seem to find time to make posts on all these subjects. But i really should just write 10 big vent posts on these topics, and then just post them all and hope they get some attention. Because i really have a lot of things that i allow myself to stress over, and i probably need to get it all off of my chest. I have a therapist to talk to this stuff about too, but it never hurts to vent here as well.