#neurodivergent problems

[galacticscrotum]

Neurotypicals all need to be reminded that if you made fun of someone in school for being “weird,” you were making fun of autistic people and that’s ableist and wrong. If you don’t educate yourself and change, you’re a bad person.

Things I saw kids get made fun of for:

Walking on their toes

Communicating directly

Not making eye contact

Making too much eye contact

Having special interests

Not having the right interests

Having few friends

Trying to make friends

Being “too” happy

Feeling overwhelmed

Being shy

Not talking much

Talking too much

Having fun being silly

Being serious

Doing well in class (nerd)

Doing poorly in class (stupid)

Any noticeable stims

The way we eat

A lot of other shit

Yeah, those kids were neurodivergent and you were an asshole to them. Do you see all the contradictions in that list? You never actually had a problem with anything we did or didn’t do. You had a problem with our existence. The way we talked, walked, breathed, you bullied us for it.

What’s even more disgusting and insane:

Lots of these kids chose to spend their elective periods with the special ed kids class. Lots of them grew up to be teachers, SpEd teachers, psychologists, etc. not because they want to help autistic people, but because they want to feel superior.

A big fuck you to all of the bullies and jerks that treated us like shit simply for being different from you.

I hope you’ve changed, but I know you probably haven’t. You’re doing the same shit, all that’s changed is you’re getting paid for it now. Go to hell. (A very particular section of hell where you’re marginalized for your neurotype and forced into ABA therapy and treated exactly how you treated us).

[imaginarylungfish]

i constantly forget that stimming will help me. like sometimes i feel so overwhelmed and start catastrophizing about my job or a partner or my family or friends. BUT THEN I STIM. and life's okay

[lothalrebel]

Anyone else understimulated but overstimulated

Like I need something or I’m gonna go crazy but I also need everything to stop or I’m gonna go crazy

[currently-getting-a-diagnosis]

The World: You gotta figure things out on your own. Nobody's gonna hold your hand throughout your life.

Me: BUT I WANT THEM TO. WHY WON'T YOU HELP ME 😭

[m4rs-ex3]

FUCK adhd man i was multitasking while watching smth and i missed a moment i wanted to see (which i have seen a million times already btw but nevertheless) and i ended up rewinding no less than 8 TIMES. each time forgetting to pay attention.

best part was when i FINALLY payed attention to paying attention and realized I HAD ACTUALLY BEEN PAYING ATTENTION THE ENTIRE TIME AND DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE

[kittentwinkles]

me when i randomly run out of spoonz halfway thru my shift

[a-sip-of-milo]

People will freely criticise my taste in music and then wonder why I don’t feel comfortable sharing it with anyone 🙄

[katy-l-wood]

So I finally got on food stamps, right? And it was SIGNIFICANTLY more than I expected. Today I went shopping for the first time since I got them and I was able to get myself a lot of stuff I basically never get.

AND YET.

AND. FUCKING. YET.

The neurodivergent brain weasels still have the audacity to stare into the fridge, freezer, and pantry and come up empty on anything they'd be willing to consume.

Pick something you little bastards. I've provided you with so many more options than we usually get, and half of them require no more effort than a microwave IF THEY EVEN REQUIRE THAT.

Honestly.

[king-wilhelm]

Robin having to explain her way of talking to Nancy just in case she gets the wrong idea is just. That's exactly what it feels like to talk to neurotypical people you know? Gotta let them know beforehand that you're aware of your bs and they're gonna have to deal with it anyway because masking is exhausting.

[art-of-mathematics]

Question to other autistic and/or ADHD folks: Do you also experience that when you have nothing to do your thoughts become increasingly incoherent - as in jumping from topic to topic, up to becoming absent-minded and semi-tired - but when you have something to actively do, and concentrate on working on that it is fine and you can actually focus and form coherent thoughts?

it is that idle mode where the thoughts just flow/race like diarrhea...

Or is that just me?

[imaginarylungfish]

you ever leave your mask on too long and realize your face is all chafed? (this is a metaphor.)

for me, keeping up with executive functioning skills is masking. i probably seem like i'm doing it well and coping just fine, but i am so stressed. like, i'm having trouble sleeping and eating.

"high functioning autism" is just autism that looks "fine" on the outside. but i don't think many neurotypicals would say what's going inside my brain as "fine."

[gaypirate420]

Let me guess- me not feeling human is also a sign of autism?

[audhdramatics]

[trans-king-of-slytherin]

When you see the car of a Parent of a child with autism, and it's covered in puzzle pieces and the license plate says autism. Just the little things, ya know.

[treasure-goblin]

I want to make a character who's disabled like me so bad but I don't want other people coming in like "ThaTs nOt WhAt (insert disability) lOoKs LikE."

Oh, it's not? My bad, let me go reframe my experience with my own disabilities really quick so they match your expectations.

[scarefox]

multilingual study problems: when you try to figure out the thai writing of the rhetorical "right? / huh?" but only know how it's verbally pronounced. So you try to translate it from english and german to thai but translators can't differentiate between right as 'being right' or right as 'the direction' or right as 'law'. And apparently "right" can be translated back into different words in thai too depending on the meaning.... So you try to say it into the app yourself with no success. Then play a video of a native thai speaker saying it but google translator gives you again "right" in english but no clue to the meaning and in german it translates to "right / rechts" as the direction....... and then your brain comes in with "all I can offer you is something that sounds like "nespa?" which may be the same phrase "right?" in yet another language but I won't tell you which language that is."

But also neurodivergent problems because my pattern noticing brain got hooked on that word since it's James new favorite filler word which he says at least once per live stream and I find that funny.

Which brings me now to the question: does he have a dialect maybe??? Because google captures his "tcheme" as "chi him" = "right" in english but "right / rechts" (direction) in german.... T__T all I want is the Thai writing of that little word...

here ... @ 2:28

Anyways welcome to my brain. That's how we operate here on a daily.

P.S.: does someone know a thai < - > english dictionary that considers context? (similar like the english dictionary site dict.cc)

EDIT: I GOT IT over the japanese "desu ka" lol because with that I know 100% that it only has the meaning of "right?" so yea ใช่ไหม (Chı̀ h̄ịm) it is but that's still not how HE says it lol.... (also why is Chı̀ h̄ịm pronounced like tchaimay)

fu google translator stop gaslighting me 😑