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Having a neurodivergent brain often comes with a whole other way of seeing, feeling and processing the world. A way that some others might not always understand.
Whether you're autistic, dyslexic, or fall into any other neurodivergent category, there's a good chance you've had at least one moment where you've wondered, "Is it just me?" And we're here to tell you it's not.
If you don't believe us, head over to a Facebook page called Neurodivergent Memes & Camaraderie. It's a tightknit community made up of over 169,ooo members all supporting each other through the quirks, struggles and oddities of having a brain that works in mysterious ways. As the name suggests, the group shares hilariously relatable memes that scream "Nope, you're not alone!"
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best posts from the page. We're talking memes about masking, sensory overload, hyper-fixations, general dysfunction, and social scripts gone wrong in the most hilarious ways. Some might have you howling with laughter, others could leave you feeling seen like never before. All are reminders that the neurodivergent brain isn't broken. But rather, something to be celebrated.
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If you've ever told a joke that fell flat with an autistic audience, don't take it personally. And don't assume they don't have a sense of humor or that they lack intelligence. People with autism don't always respond to certain jokes in the same way as their neurotypical peers.
According to experts, the autistic among us process humor differently possibly due to their social, language and communication difficulties. Many jokes require the use of figurative language and abstract thinking, and this isn't always easy for individuals with autism. They may need a more explicit explanation, or a joke to be spelled out, in order to understand the laughing matter.
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Those on the spectrum may also engage less in ‘social-interaction’ laughter, meaning they're honest. They laugh when it is genuinely funny, and not out of politeness or social pressure.
"In addition, they typically display rigidity in thinking, prefer sameness, and experience difficulty in seeing the big picture," notes the Healis Autism Centre's site. "Consequently, it could be difficult for them to create and understand conventional humor that requires flexible thinking.
"Puns can be difficult to understand because they require you to think about something in more than one way at the same time," adds Steph West, social coach for neurodivergent children, and the founder and director of Starfish Social Club.
"I noticed a lot of my students just don't really understand puns or other other wordplay jokes. Jokes that require prior knowledge that our kids might not have are difficult for them to understand sometimes, jokes that have to do with pop culture, references that our kids might not always get."
There are a lot of factors that go into why humor can be difficult for those with autism, she says.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
"I voted for Donald Trump" kills any conversation around here.
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Lost Panda 3 months ago
Learned to always grab the cuff of my sleeve before putting on a jacket/hoodie
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Helena 3 months ago
Did I breathe too much? Talk too much? Talk to little? Did I unknowlingly say something stupid? Has my pants been undone all day? Is there anything visible in my nose? Did I just scratch my bo ob without realizing it? Am I in public scratching it? C**p, is this the kind of environment where it is or is not ok to twirl my hair. I really want to twirl my hair.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
That shade of green at the very top looks familiar. This is from The Onion.
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
I remember other’s embarrassing moments unfortunately and they always make direct eye contact with me as they know I know so this has led to some good acquaintanceship
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MontanaMariner 3 months ago
"The horrors persist, but so do I" has become my favorite recently.
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Farah (she/her) 3 months ago
Or being the food court! The thought of Mcdonalds lil consistent beeps make me shiver...
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Lisbeth Guz 3 months ago (edited)
I write exactly what baking pans I used for each recipe. Edit: I have many
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Senjo Krane 3 months ago
I'm not ADHD but I don't contact friends often enough because I just don't know what to say. I'm not one of those who can babble away.
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Jeremy James 3 months ago
If you stay up late enough, you can hear music in the hum of electrical appliances. My box fan has been singing classical Indian covers of Radiohead songs for the last half-hour.
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
And *that* is how I spent rather a lot of my summer holiday. Scratch that, the summer. Scratch that, 2025 so far. Scratch that...
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RomanceRadish 3 months ago
This may qualify me as old, but I'll only listen to music made (primarily) with instruments, not computers.
Mike F 3 months ago
So Kraftwerk isn't your cup of tea? You're missing out.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 3 months ago
ah, this was from Baby Driver. great film. not my genre at all, but I loved it.
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Secret Squirrel 3 months ago
This picture bothers me: Where are the two yellow pieces? There's 1 red 3 green 4 blue 5 orange and 6 purple. ....Clearly there's two yellow pieces missing! Fix it
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Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
Oh hi book I started to write a decade ago, and the one completed mitten from 8 years ago, and I see the game I started to make 5 years ago has also made it to the picture. Sorry I forgot who the rest of you are
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MontanaMariner 3 months ago
What do you call it when the people you love aren't interested in spending time with you? Is my social charger broken?
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Helena 3 months ago
[wow I haven't heard this earworm since highschool. do you remember high school social politics, that was insane. Remember real high school politics that was also insane, but there was voting? freshman year, remember the guy who won senior class president because he was popular and his entire speech was just singing the most earworm song of that year. Should've caught on that politics wasa giant popularity contest where your want your team to 'win' back then. Unfortunately in a democracy you're forced to care and voting is your duty. I wish I could put politicians in an mri machine, ask them all their stances on the same subjects and then post the results side by side, so everyone could see exactly where they stand on any given topic, so much better than listening to speeches designed to manipulate their audiences. Oh god is this person still talking, nod and smile, start backing away slowly]
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Senjo Krane 3 months ago
I always thought that was called 'laziness' which is what I suffer from.
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Farah (she/her) 3 months ago
Okay but sometimes I'll be talking to my friend and babble about random s**t without thinking and once I start to think I stop and go "my bad, my brain wasnt awake. Carry on"
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MontanaMariner 3 months ago (edited)
"Be polite. Be professional. Have a plan to kïll everyone in the room." - Gen. James Mattis
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Joe Reaves 3 months ago
Is there a pet I can baby talk instead of interacting with actual humans?
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
My future partner will be forced to listen to my hour long rants about space whether they like it or not
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SouthernGal 3 months ago
And I was wearing a shirt with a tag in the neck. A TAG!! Give me scissors now!
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SouthernGal 3 months ago
I can definitely relate to this one! When I finally realized this, all of the pieces of the puzzle finally fit together perfectly.
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Silence of the Lambs. The director Jonathon Demme had the actress sing this particular song because he just plain liked it! Then she got kidnapped by Buffalo Bill, poor thing.
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Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
You joke, but the sad part is that typically declining self-care is a pretty easy trap for someone suffering mental illness to fall into and does actually contribute to worsening mental illness. So the picture's not far off...
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Gregory Garcia 3 months ago
This has been a terrible year, even the century. When does it get better?
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
And if they're using old fluo tubes with worn out ballast units *and* they are powered from different phases... hoo boy... This was my local (tiny) supermarket back in the 80s. My mom used to wonder why I flat out refused to go in there.
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SouthernGal 3 months ago (edited)
I’m usually the one doing the interrupting. If I don’t blurt something out, I forget and it never gets said. I try to work on it, it’s like a dog seeing a squirrel.
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MontanaMariner 3 months ago
I'd dress like Stevie Nicks to be Stevie Nicks. That is Stevie Nicks?
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MontanaMariner 3 months ago
Accurate AF. I realized I was having to invite myself into the lives of my favorite people to be around. I stopped and haven't heard from most of them since.
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Joanne Long 3 months ago
If you are called stupid or dumb, you are hanging out with the wrong people.
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
My past was not magical. It was just a bunch of stuff that happened.
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
There’s this girl in my class who matches my thought patterns and is more talkative than me, people trash talk her all the time and make up rumours which is just sad as she’s actually really nice
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
Me......trying to work out how long it would take to light all those candles.
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
Nope. Just aim for "don't be rude". Be polite. Save "nice" and "approachable" to people who put effort into understanding you rather than the "you're weird" you've heard a billion times before.
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Mimi M 3 months ago
I'm convinced that nerds are on the low (more subtle) end of the spectrum. I call it being 'nerdodivergent'.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago
My type of being a nerd is fueled by my ADHD. You don't need autism to hyperfixate! Mine are Wings of Fire (long-term) and Honkai: Star Rail.
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ThePinwormsrock 3 months ago
Oh the irony...making this list so long. Face it, you stopped at 42
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
It was probably just a coincidence that so many of these were movie screencaps, but my autistic self had a great time identifying them all so I can show off my knowledge of movies. :D
Mimi M 3 months ago
I'm convinced that nerds are on the low (more subtle) end of the spectrum. I call it being 'nerdodivergent'.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago
My type of being a nerd is fueled by my ADHD. You don't need autism to hyperfixate! Mine are Wings of Fire (long-term) and Honkai: Star Rail.
Load More Replies... ThePinwormsrock 3 months ago
Oh the irony...making this list so long. Face it, you stopped at 42
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
It was probably just a coincidence that so many of these were movie screencaps, but my autistic self had a great time identifying them all so I can show off my knowledge of movies. :D
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