#nerodivergency

[goodgooseygifts]

I got some fantastic news!!!! ⚠️

Stim pillows will be back and better than ever!!! 😱

I finally found a soft fabric that does little to no smudging! And wouldn't you know it? It's a very thin minky! 😁

I still needa run some tests, such as durability, before selling them! 👀

[cloudofbutterflies]

ADHD is one of the most fundamentally misnamed disorders. 

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Let’s unpack that.

Attention-Deficit. This in of itself is misleading. I, as someone with ADHD, do not have a deficit of attention. What I do have is an extremely hard time choosing where to focus it. I can focus, for hours, with more intensity and more productively than most neurotypical people, but only on things like good books and video games and my writing and wikipedia rabbit holes and music. I cannot focus on things like homework and my job and keeping my room from turning into an absolute hurricane-level disaster and ordering my groceries. It’s not a deficit of attention, the attention is there, it’s just that I do not get to choose where it is focused. 

Hyperactivity. Hyperactivity is a type of ADHD. I have combined type, so I am hyperactive, but my best friend? They have inattentive ADHD. They can sit still, and don’t need to fidget, and they are not hyperactive. But they still have ADHD. Hyperactivity is a type of ADHD, not a fundamental part of it. It’s like calling all cake “chocolate cake” even if some cakes are vanilla. 

My suggestion for a new name? SRDD. Self-Regulation-Deficit Disorder. If you disagree, I’d love to hear why, and if you have another suggestion instead! Just be civil. 

[radiostatic166]

Please stop infantlizing autistic people

Stop being weirded out when we cuss. Stop being weirded out when we talk about nsfw topics. Stop being weirded out when we are semiverbal or nonverbal.

We can smoke too, we can drink, vape, and cuss and do anything normal people can do. We can have (concented) sexual relationships. We can kiss people. We can have kinks. We can like BDSM or have fetishes. We are not innocent little kids.

Just because we have a disability doesn't mean we aren't people.

Just because we sometimes need to live with someone else doesn't mean we aren't people.

Just because we don't pick up on social clues doesn't mean we aren't people.

STOP INFANTILIZING US. STOP CALLING US INNOCENT. STOP THINKING YOU NEED TO PROTECT US. WE ARE REGULAR PEOPLE TOO.

[ageremoji]

[starlight-bread-blog]

One of the symptons of ADHD is emotional dysregulation MEANING I get to tell people "I love you so much I need pills to manage it".

[burningvoidsblog]

The pipeline from little angel to rage filled cunty badass is a very common queer neurodivergent pipeline

[the-maddened-hatter]

Honestly Monk was SUCH a good show for me to see as a young teen I'm ngl. Like yeah, it's not an overly accurate representation of OCD and I'm sure there's things that probably didn't age very well, but OH MY GOD can you even comprehend how amazing it was to get to see a canonically disabled, ND, and, more specifically, PROFOUNDLY ANXIOUS badass main character when you're a freshly diagnosed autistic & anxious young 12-13 year old with the only real advice from a crappy psychiatrist being to "learn to step out of your comfort zone or consider beginning prescription medications."

To get to see "do it scared" depicted in cinematic action in both heroic and relatively mundane contexts. A touch-averse, routine adhering, socially awkward, sensory issue having character as a SMART AND COURAGEOUS PROTAGONIST!

Hell, it was pretty amazing (for me at least) to see a character use those disinfectant handwipes every episode! I have severe food allergies and I have to carry a pack or canister with me for when I need to eat in town or when I've had to go into a grocery store and now that there's a pandemic and food allergies are rather more of an understood issue it's not all that weird a thing to have, but at the time it was definitely yet another step apart from peers and by god was it awesome to see a (again, smart and awesome) character use them too, even if it wasn't for quite the same reasons.

There's things that took longer to germinate too (and tbh still are).

That you don't owe people being "normal and easy". Yes, you have to be cognizant of their needs, boundaries, and how your behavior affects them, but it's still okay to need help and to do things in odd ways and have unusual needs.

That sometimes you're going to fail, do things badly, not be able to be as reasonable as you logically know you should. That logic can't always beat fear even when it should, and that it doesn't make YOU a failure, it means you have to try again another time or try differently.

And that sometimes people aren't as good for you as they seem, no matter how much history you have, and it hurts, it truly does, but sometimes it leads you to connect, by pure chance, with a compassionate stranger, and time will make the disparities between them clearer to the point that when you look back you don't know how you ever thought they were your ally just because they put up with your problems

[owchie-wowchie]

Every spider person is nerodivergent, bi, and trans. I don't make the rules.

[goodgooseygifts]

The first fluffy version of the stim pillow is up! Thought using a hedgehog would be appropriate 🥺

Also, slight changes are going to be made to the elastic keychain. It's going to be moved from the zip tag over to the top right corner of the pillow 👍

[cloudofbutterflies]

lestat and louis are the two ends of the adhd spectrum and i will not elaborate

[ao3-shenanigans]

Me, recording myself speaking to listen to it back in order to get a sense of how other people perceive me: ah yes, this is such a neurotypical thing to do. I sure do love being neurotypical

[troythecatfish]

[helen-magpies]

FUN FACT NUMBER #1

Autistic people are better are learning and remembering things because we have more brain cells then neurotypicals.

To elaborate: Autistic people go through less synapses pruning compared to the average neurotypical brain. Autistic people lose 16-19% of their synapses instead of the usual amount (that being what the typical brain experiences) this means that our brain absorbs information like that of a child leading to knowing a bunch of random facts much like this one.

Although, if there are any stressers on the brain that can cause forgetfulness then obviously this information wouldn't be accurate for the stressed mind.

Remember, don't always believe what you see on the internet, do double check this :)

[fightxxmexxshiggy]

He holds your face in his hands firmly and looks deep into your eyes.

"I love you. I love your body. I love your mind. I love how you move around the house. I love you so much I can't explain it without my heart beating like a drum. I might not say that I love you in a crowd of people but I will always feel it."

You never imagined that this would be how Katsuki confessed to you, but you couldn't say you were upset about it. He looked like his eyes could burst into flames from the passion behind them and you were overwhelmed with wanting to be burned up in that passion.

"Well fuck are you going to say something? I just layed my feelings out for you."

You just smile at him and hold his hands to keep them on your cheeks. He knows you, He knows what it means for you to keep the contact up. He has a small smile of his own spread across his face before kissing you and giving into the passion that had been plain to see.

I was just feeling a little lovey so here's a reader with hinted touch sensitivity.