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In the modern world, language evolves quickly to accommodate new concepts and trends, which frequently explode on social media. Over time, this changes the way we refer to things, phenomena, and even diagnoses. Recently, the word neurospicy emerged as a more fun and creative approach to describe the neurodiverse community so it wouldn’t sound as intimidating to other people.
To get ourselves acquainted with neurodivergency and further demystify it, Bored Panda collected a list of memes from the Neurodivergent Geek Girl Facebook page that tell it how it is with a humorous twist. Scroll down to find the best posts that perfectly reflect life with a spicy brain and don’t forget to upvote the ones you enjoyed the most!
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Deborah 11 months ago
My 15 year old dog, my 50 year old plant, and my 70 year old self are a family.
Cat_King 11 months ago
How do you have a 50 year old plant? I can't even keep mine alive for a week. Might be cats but idk.
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Diandra “Mss Didi” Blackthorn 11 months ago
EXACTLY! Just hink of the holidays you just suffered through
Karina 11 months ago
be familiar with your inner thoghts(?) then every place will feel familiar, every song will be a longtime friend, and every new person is someone you are happy to share your entire shadow library of reflections, lessons and observation with. Because You are a full and enriched person even before you meet them.
Martin König 11 months ago
Sorry, the definition of a family is "two people with at least one child," so stop confusing marriage with a family. Period.
Alex Ruddies 11 months ago
Family is what ever you want it to be, with relatives or not.
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Hoi-Polloi 11 months ago
Two things can be true at once. In NYC when they defunded the police and stopped prosecuting certain crimes, you had a huge spike in those crimes.
Bob Brooce 11 months ago
Deterrence is overrated and almost completely nonexistent. Cops rarely walk a beat and interact with the public anymore. They driver around an gas guzzling SUVs and largely spend their time collecting revenue, either by writing traffic tickets or simply stealing it with civil asset forfeiture.
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Kathrine Gluvna 11 months ago
How many times can I upvote this? Also, The Police Officers are not responsible for the criminals being let out of jail early or the charges dropped. That is the District Attorney and the Judges. Just so you know.
Karina 11 months ago (edited)
This is why capitalistic sosialism works. Its a cheap by comparrison way to ensure people have a reason to be to satisffyed, and therefore lazy, to do crimes. PEople only do crimes when they need something. its always a somtheing that is lacking. But we have the means, the knowledge, the institutions, the rolemodels, the systems and the money. Its just all in the wrong hands..
DC 11 months ago
And ... it seems to me like we're not really wanting to do any about this. We have had the ressources needed since decades already, but there was always something in the way, usually it is "The Economy". The economy needs cheap natural gas, the Economy needs lower taxes, the economy can't afford that everybody can afford to live. Always the same cräp. Know what? If it needs all of this, then fück the economy, let it swim belly-up, let it drown, burn, ... it's not that we're there for the economy, it's there for us, and should act so, and adjust its outrageous entitlement.
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Rich Black 11 months ago
Let's start with guns and d***s, before we start giving out free food, clothing and shelter.
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
I just can't upvote this enough. Cheers to those who have found their 'person'.
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 11 months ago
I hate my ADHD. I was diagnosed afew years ago. I'm 48 now. But all my past troubles makes sense SO MUCH now!
BannedFromABoatShow 11 months ago
And the next person who asks if my daughter will outgrow it I’m gonna punch in the face.
Sarah Léon 11 months ago
Between ADHD and Autism, I have some OCDs, and one of them is I can't touch something dirty if I don't have water near me to wash my hand and the possibility to change my clothes. I tried different methods. I force. I repeat "it's nothing, it's ok" and I KNOW it's ok but I CAN'T. So I can't do the dishes (dirty water... not possible), specially if it's not mine. If one of my cats peed on my clothes, I can't put them in the washing machine, etc. One of my friends comes to help me clean the house, and lately another one came to help, but she started to tell me "oh please you CAN do it it's not so bad !". No. No I can't. She only realised it when she saw me put the dirty clothes in the machine as far as possible from me and immediately go wash my hands for 1 long minute. She told me "you really can't ?" No. No I can't !
8wsw2kz49b 10 months ago
I don’t know if this will work for you, but I often use a dedicated set of long kitchen tongs to grab things. I wash the tongs in the dishwasher. Take good care of you!
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CherylTunt 11 months ago
Unpopular opinion - There is a fine line between using your disability for as excuse for laziness - I understand depression, ADHD, autism. My niece uses these as an excuse for not holding a job and quitting after 3 days and her parent coddled it at 21 years old she needs to learn to be independent. As someone who is officially diagnosed with adhd as an adult you can do things your choosing not to .
Wondering Alice 11 months ago
I hear you. However, for many the 'laziness' is a result of - as the OP said - a massive amount of being surrounded by people thinking if you are positive and work hard you can overcome it, when experience shows that all that exhausting work sometimes gets you no where. If I told you the only reason you can't fly is because you don't flap your arms fast enough, would you be lazy to not even try? That said, it is worth encouraging ND children that if they can't do something one way, can you help them find an alternative. Unfortunately, many kids have quit trying before they get to a point where they are old enough to communicate what might work for them. Please understand that not only are there huge variations in severity but also experience plays a massive part. I see many parents 'coddle' children, and while it looks counterproductive, if the outside world is a cruel place, I can get trying to ease that at home.
Load More Replies... DC 11 months ago
I have thought for years ... decades, actually ... that EVERYBODY has that. Everybody has thoughts that interrupt each other, everybody's mind focusses on something else all the time, brings up stuff, even solutions, to things you really don't need at the moment. I thought everybody else was just better in supressing that. Nobody listened, but a few people who I hated, but considered knowing in such regards, reinforced that belief. Teachers, these are called. After getting to know what ADHD is, I never got officially diagnosed, because I told my then-Doctor to only sign it if it helps me any. It didn't - "You're an adult, there's no medication for you, and as you have Abitur, the highest education to be received from school, and are a student at Uni now, we consider you have that managed sufficiently...". Yeah, fück that, I don't really need a piece of paper that shoves me in a drawer, but otherwise is useless.
BossyCloud 11 months ago (edited)
If you're currently in uni, you can get supports if you have a diagnosis. Like extra time on exams/assignments, funding for various supports (laptop, tutoring, etc). It's not at all useless. And you can take medication as an adult.
Load More Replies...The term neurospicy is a playful addition to the already existing lexicon of neurodiversity, which also includes words like neuroqueer, neurodivergent, and neurodistinct.
The word neurodiversity emerged in the mid-1990s to describe individuals who diverged from the neurotypical society and was mostly used to refer to autistic people. Australian sociologist Judy Singer was the first to use this word in academia in 1998. The same year it made its way to the mainstream and continues to evolve and expand.
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Thalia Lovering 11 months ago
I used to think I forgot to flush the toilet until I realised one of my cats was peeing in the loo. She continued doing so until she realised that I was thrilled about it. Then she stopped. She actually thought that she was being naughhty.
detective miller's hat 11 months ago
Idk if I would notice. I'm one of those people who would never notice if you repainted my house a different colour (and wouldn't be able to tell you the previous colour), but if something in my living room has been moved 1/1000th of a centimeter, I will notice immediately.
Shelley Dawson 11 months ago
I am used to ghosts. The ones that move the things I definitely put in one place. The ones that knock things off the surface that where I carefully placed them close to the edge of the angled top. The ones I like are the ones who move appointments in my diary to the day after I was supposed to go to a meeting or have my hair cut, or even make me turn up the day before the event! I thought it was forgetfulness or stupidity, then I was diagnosed with ADHD at 70!
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Red Hair Blue Soul 11 months ago
I like to say "I hope you have the day you deserve " after some one has been particularly nasty to me
Neurospicy people have different thinking patterns compared to neurotypical people—those who don’t have differences in thinking or processing information. Neurodiversity is a catch-all term that includes all individuals who experience the world unlike others and covers a wide range of conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and others.
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Rebecca McManus 11 months ago (edited)
A lot of my friends are used to receiving letters 4 years apart, they respond with "so glad you're feeling human, we love you, when can we feed you and give you hugs", after 30 years the ones that understand are the ones that have saved me and deserve a sainthood for their forbearance
Maggie Fulton 11 months ago
Or even during the anxiety/depression fog because you are ashamed of how you let people down.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
For more than thirty years I thought I just had a nasty explosive temper. Now I know it was me getting overwhelmed and expressing it with anger. Which would explain why being stuck in a crowded supermarket trying to do my Christmas shopping makes me start contemplating murder two minutes in.
Joe Reaves 11 months ago
I am continuously amazed there aren't more gun rampages in US Supermarkets. Because I am routinely lowkey homicidal after shopping, but I live in the UK and can't easily access weaponry. Given how many Americans routinely carry firearms there has to be significant crossover between people who react to sensory overwhelm with anger and people who are armed.
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Ellinor 11 months ago (edited)
I was diagnosed with ADHD and Anger management issues. When I get angry, the best I can do is just to turn around and leave, go to somewhere quiet and stay alone until it pass, or else I know I'll break things around me.
whineygingercat 11 months ago
Mine either goes into a screaming fit of rage or an anxiety attack. There were times my boss found me in the cooler (Deli dept) trying to get myself under control. The best part about the cooler: with the door closed, I could scream, and nobody (customers) could hear me
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weird star kid 11 months ago
THIS! THIS! Finally someone who says it. While I do shut down sometimes, most of the time I respond with anger. For example, I will be experiencing sensory overload while I'm doing the dishes and there's too many human beings in the kitchen, one dog is underfoot while the other is barking at god knows what, it stinks because the dishes haven't been taken care of and of course it's on me to do them, I'm loading dishes that are coated in things I absolutely cannot stand, I respond to that by literally screaming and crying. And I'm basically told to calm down, it's not that serious.
My O My 11 months ago
Hello fellow sufferer. Being told do calm down is the worst
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Jayeff Vee 10 months ago
I'm pretty calm but I can reach a breaking point. I don't like it when someone pushes me there because they want to see it.
Wondering Alice 11 months ago
The sun makes me angry. Never got believed when I was younger, but as an adult I can ware glasses every where and no one can stop me. I work in a school, I have blue reading glasses for dyslexia but I also have blue glasses for walking about and bright classrooms. At first, I got a lot of comments - people thought as I wasn't reading it was a weird flex thing. I didn't give much explanation, just 'some lights make me angry'. This has normalised the idea for the children, some of whom found moving to different lighting when getting angry a game changer.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago (edited)
Same but now I just say "I'm feeling overwhelmed" and that usually works.
S 11 months ago
My partner and I realized that most of our high intensity arguments happened in the kitchen - turns out the stove exhaust fan causes sensory overload in both of us. Absolutely blows my mind that something so small and unexpected could be a huge contributor to the stress at home!
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Steve Robert 11 months ago
Knowing today's current events does indeed take away that vague will to live.
keyboardtek 11 months ago
Realizing that the one side of the media will lie about the problem and cover it up, and the other side will exaggerate how bad it is, you will finally understand you have to stop watching any news if you have any tendency to get depressed. None of it is reported fairly and accurately. Fighting the issues to solve political and social problems requires strong healthy intelligent dedicated people. Chronic worriers and depressive should lock themselves in their rooms. I definitely plan to do that the next four years.
Load More Replies... WindySwede 11 months ago
And also nowadays, "I dont want to know about the atrocities around the world... 😵💫"
Karl der Große 11 months ago
Learning about atrocities around the world can cause "empathy fatigue." You should definitely know what's going on, but should also realize that getting out and finding ways to stop the atrocities in your own backyard is better than crying for hours about tragedies in the wider world.
Load More Replies... Chich 11 months ago
At one point in my life I would be away in the bush for weeks ata time. No radio, no news. Completely missed several major events. Sun till came up, still got wet when it rains. I mostly now only pay attention to local things. Getting worked up about some event happening far away that has no effect on me and over which I have no control seems so pointless. Of course this does limit my conversation with some folks but that is just fine.
The newly coined term neurospicy reimagines the brain as a culinary concoction with sensations, thoughts, and emotions blending together to create a symphony of flavors, explains Dani Rodwell, LCSW from Neuro Spark. “Neurospicy represents the spicy, tangy, and savory aspects of the brain. Being neurospicy is about depth and complexity. In essence, neurospicy captures the extraordinary, intense, (and sometimes fierce!) aspects of neurodivergent personalities.”
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Karl der Große 11 months ago
I think the goal shouldn't be to be fixed, but to find ways to cope given your distinctive traits. I think this is the insight of REBT - you are always going to have bad beliefs and thought patterns, but learning to rationally dismantle them is a way to better mental health.
Phantom Phoenix 11 months ago
Would these therapists profiles be as "truthful and accurate" as Tinder profiles?
sandrabmorison 11 months ago
No one needs fixed ... just support and encouragement. Coping techniques and being listened too
Harper 11 months ago
Can we also have tech therapists? I tell them my chaotic ND routine & they (a) ID what apps to use (b) show me HOW
HTakeover 11 months ago
Depends on the brand of ND but Gamify, Forest/Flora (similar apps), heavily rely on the calendar app, You Need A Budget (YNAB), Notion or its little brother Listonic, HabitNow, Paprika (particularly for the ability to add ingredients of a recipe to shopping list),
Load More Replies... Diandra “Mss Didi” Blackthorn 11 months ago (edited)
It's YOUR job -- and privilage -- to fix yourself. The therapist is only for guidance and to offer tools
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CK 11 months ago
It is lowkey true though. There are tasks that just need to marinate in the to do list. Eventually there comes a time when it kind of clicks and takes five minutes, but if you try to force it before, it won't go smoothly. I don't know why.
Kathrine Gluvna 11 months ago
Also, some of my procrastination is thinking it through.
Load More Replies... Jayeff Vee 10 months ago
I'm an artist, words and music. Sometimes my process is exactly like this. Let the idea ferment. Oh, also a home brewer...
Rich Black 11 months ago
At least you're not blaming your parents or partner. Congrats on that.
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Mary Beth Miller 11 months ago
When my psych symptoms get bad I develop a lot of body pain that decreases/goes away when my mental health improves.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
Me too. Sometimes my anxiety triggers a fibromyalgia flare up, sometimes the flare up triggers my anxiety.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 11 months ago
I changed my diet by cutting out unhealthy and sugar as much as possible this year and my mental and physical health have improved significantly! Most of our health problems derive from unhealthy guts and brains.
keyboardtek 11 months ago
Daily lap swimming raises my mood. If I don't fell like doing any exercise, I know right away that is a sign that I really need to get some immediately.
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Another Panda 11 months ago
I feel like my body is on an astral plane, and doesn’t connect up with what my mind wants to do.
sandrabmorison 11 months ago
And when they are associated with other illness such as epilepsy they almost never get diagnosed.....its the epilepsy
She further explains that the term emerged as a rebellion against the “mild” autism stereotype, which perpetuates the wrong idea that people can be less or more autistic. “Thinking in terms of food, spicy is the antonym of mild. Sometimes, people reclaim language that was originally meant as an insult to actually begin using it as a celebration of their identity,” she said.
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Data1001 11 months ago
I do this with movies and TV shows some times -- then catch myself and realize I was just looking at the pictures and letting the noises sort of wash over me, but had no idea what just transpired in the previous minute or two. Thank goodness I can rewind. (Might need that capability for life, actually.)
The Doom Song 11 months ago
Same. That's when I know it's time to give up for the day
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Karl der Große 11 months ago
Yeah. When I do this, I go back and re-read it to myself aloud. It annoys my wife a lot.
Hoi-Polloi 11 months ago
Way back in the day I read S. Hawking's "A Brief History of Time". Turns out if I spaced out for even one paragraph, I'd have to backtrack a whole page to reset! ;D Also... "spaced" out. Ha!
#14
Pencil 11 months ago
We need to stop acting like everyone has a "passion" and they just need to discover it. Even the ones that do probably won't be able to monetize it. We're setting young people up to believe that even having a regular job that they like makes them a failure at life. No wonder they feel hopeless.
keyboardtek 11 months ago
Jack of all trades and master of none. That is good for doing odd jobs.
Rich Black 11 months ago
Who convinced you everyone needs a calling? Di you believe in one true love, too?
Michelle C 11 months ago (edited)
I have mine, but still don’t feel up to the task some days, as I imagine that any person would experience. However, I’d say amplify that tenfold at a minimum on those days when I question myself!
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WindySwede 11 months ago
And the dopamine levels went way down after Premium, and snatched DarkMode, was introduced.. 😛
Hoi-Polloi 11 months ago
What makes this a contentious statement is that dopamine regulation is just one several possible reasons for people abandoning their responsibilities. Some people just do neglect what they're supposed to do. You can't hide everyone behind the shield of "Oh it's not my fault, it's my brain chemistry."
Sobri Kate 11 months ago
A confluence of factors, inside and outside the brain, influence behavior. Even the era we were born into.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
I think my dopamine has crawled into a corner and died since summer.
PrettyJoyBird 11 months ago (edited)
What general area do you live. Maybe seasonal depression due to weather, sunlight ect. If a major shift happened during summer then more so sinking into a bout of depression. If you are aware of it you have prob sought help or know which regimen to follow. Not trying to fix you or diagnose. I just recognize and relate. Guess said my thoughts aloud. Thanks for sharing.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 11 months ago
My brother always tells me that everything a person does is a form of self medication to alleviate the suffering of human existence. We choose what we do because that pleasure or craving is driven by the brain chemical we need.
Michelle C 11 months ago
That is true in some cases. For example, clinical anxiety is about 70% genetic and biochemical in nature, but the 30% we can control can either be our improvement or downfall.
However, some people have doubts about such linguistic creativity that addresses medical conditions that, in some cases, require treatment or a lot of daily support. They think that such vocabulary downplays the severity of conditions that fall under the neurodiversity umbrella. Others also believe that it’s a cute and quirky way to avoid saying that a person is disabled.
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Luke Branwen 11 months ago
"That's just the way it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" aka. the most infuriating answer you can give to a defiant neurodivergent person
DC 11 months ago
I consider "We do it that way because we always did!" oe "We won't, because we never have!" to be a bit worse. Sometimes, stuff just isn't known to every extent wished or wishable, but ... often, it's just laziety, or the knowledge that the justification they're asked for does not exist in a sufficient, reasonable extent.
Load More Replies... Alvia Vseobecna 11 months ago
NO ONE GETS THIS!!!! no one.. telling me to "just forget it" is not going to work. amazing I still function
Nadia D 11 months ago
I get this. I am not on spectrum, but get this and happy someone said it, so I am not alone with that 😇 Hugs?🫂
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Eileen Gormly 11 months ago
I bless my mom because she explained everything and so I grew up thinking there was a rational explanation for everything. She essentially taught me to expect that there was and figure it out if others didn't know it. I used to joke that she 'ruined' me by that since hardly anyone else ever explained things. I now suspect my mum was out the outer edge of the spectrum and so she raised me the way she wished she had been raised. With explanations.
Fire Singer 11 months ago
Thank you! I don't have a diagnoses of ADHD or anything but I've always struggled with this! Especially in math class. This is why I did so poorly because only a couple teachers were able to explain WHY something did what it did. The others just told me "That's just how it works, unless there's an exception!"
Rich Black 11 months ago
Life has no meaning. We are just chimps with clothes and Instagram accounts. Accepy it.
Eugenia 11 months ago
Not everything has an explanation, not every explanation can be understood if we are lacking specific technical knowledge, not everything has been understood and explained - yet. An advice: if available in your area watch the tv series "Astrid and Raphaelle". They are an autistic police archivist and a policewoman who solve cases mainly thanks to the characteristic traits of a person on the spectrum
Deta Rossiter 11 months ago
i do not have autism, and people get mad when i ask them why is it like that, instead of like this.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I walk through mindfields, watch your head rock!
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 11 months ago
How to teach people on social media that when someone disagrees with you, you should not immediately start swearing at them and acting like a jerk.
Beak Hookage 11 months ago
"You have six months to get this done." Me: "I WILL NOT SLEEP UNLESS I GET THIS DONE IMMEDIATELY." And that's why all my previous employers have been amazed by how fast and efficient I am at getting things done that other people dawdle over.
Angela C 11 months ago
And then there's me at the opposite end: "you have six months to get this done" me: "I won't even think about starting this for the next 5 months and 28 days"
Load More Replies... Luke Pavel 11 months ago
or freezing and brain looping "do it. ok, but now that I'm thinking about it I can't do it"
Meanwhile, the happiness coach and founder of self-care stationery based on real therapy techniques, Sugar and Sloth, Anita, who is neurodivergent herself, encourages those in the community to embrace the term neurospicy if they like the sound of it. "When I hear the word neurospicy, I think of a cute little chilli pepper and it makes me smile. Also, extra bonus, neurospicy is way easier to spell than then neurodivergent, which is great for those of us with dyslexia.”
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Helena 11 months ago
I work from the assumption people are mad at me because I said or did something I didn't know could be interpreted as rude or weird or mean. So I assume everyone is mad. If they aren't it comes as a pleasant surprise.
Rahul Pawa 11 months ago
In case it's not obvious to some, the cat is using "mad" to mean crazy.
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
This just described my son's behavior all day yesterday. (Severe ADD)
According to Rodwell, whether or not to use the term neurospicy to describe neurodivergent individuals depends on personal preference. “The best way to find out a person’s individual language preferences is to ask them and respect their wishes,” she said.
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Sarah Léon 11 months ago
I'm autistic (officially tested), my father was, my big sister is, her 2 sons are, my little sister is and my little brother too. Not on the same level but still. So when my little sister started a therapy for her anxiety, I explained the reality of autism to her and she went to tell the therapist about that. The psy answered : "ou're not autistic, you can talk about your emotions". Yep... autistic people are psychopaths apparently...
PrettyJoyBird 11 months ago
Yikes. She needs a new therapist. That "therapist" needs some different training.
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Nosirrow 11 months ago
The worst diagnosis for women is the histrionic disorder. Purely subjective, no reliable test, a punishment for speaking out. 'You just want attention' became a diagnosis. It's so offensive but even more it's depressing that so-called specialists want a woman to just shut up.
Michelle C 11 months ago
Yup. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until my thirties….a lot more of my childhood makes more sense now than it did back then!
Wondering Alice 11 months ago
I work in an alternative provision in a high school. Kids are referred in the first instance from primary school. This year was not as obvious, but in previous years all girls referred had experienced trauma while the boys were usually ASD diagnosed. Beggs the question what happens to the boys in same households with trauma and the girls with ASD?
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A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ 11 months ago
Unfortunately, introverted doesn't mean antisocial..😑
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
Looking back, I probably gave off -quite- a few signs that I was autistic. Seriously, the amount of times I near enough pray to just run into my old primary and secondary school teachers in public just to tell them, “Oh, hey, I got diagnosed with Autism since you last saw me, did you -at all- expect that that little girl had ASD? Yes, no, please explain reasoning.”
S 11 months ago
THIS! I am a neurospicy elementary educator and I can "see" many, many of the tiny spicy kiddos who, like myself, will not show "enough" symptoms to be successfully diagnosed until later in life. :(. It makes me so sad and frustrated. I do my best to teach ALL my students about neurodivergent brains and how to work /with/ them - whether your own or someone else's, diagnosed or not.
Beak Hookage 11 months ago
My mother tells me I was already refusing to make eye contact as a toddler. Sadly she didn't know what autism was. At the time pretty much nobody knew.
However, she still believes that it’s more than just a word. The term celebrates neurodivergent individuals and advocates for acceptance and inclusion. “Whether you resonate with the term neurospicy or not, or can identify with the neurospicy meaning, we can agree that the many different ways of expressing our identities are just as diverse as we are.”
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WindySwede 11 months ago
https://www.sugarandsloth.co.uk/ though didn't see a t-shirt.
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Khavrinen 11 months ago
I'm 58, and I still feel surprised when people act like I'm someone mature and responsible.
Senjo Krane 11 months ago
I turn 65 this year and when I look back on how people this age behaved and looked when I was a kid, I wonder what happened, because I definitely don't fit that stereotype.
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Estelle 11 months ago
Brilliant....Hello Depression and Anxiety! no one invited you and here we are trying our best not to allow you pr!$ks to take over our brains.
char 11 months ago
my depression isn't really trying to hurt me, she's just sad and tired and needs help, and I just have to feel sorry for her. my adhd, on the other hand, is a b***h who is actively just trying to ruin my life.
Load More Replies... Senjo Krane 11 months ago
yep, don't listen to the voices in your brain. They are actually you, and you can argue with them. Yeah I know it's not easy but it's possible.
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Helena 11 months ago
Every year I get to sit through my annual review at work, "great work, efficient, you do the things. Now here are 3 pages of coworker feedback telling you exactly how bad your personality is and how awkward you are. Sure you've been like that your entire life and you've been trying to fit in since you were 5, but we're going to need you to fix that this year". I recover from it about a month later.
Mjskywalk 11 months ago
Last year on my review my manager wrote “needs to have more emotional intelligence when dealing with the executive leadership team.” But then he got fired and I didn’t 🤷♀️
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Hoi-Polloi 11 months ago
Many people have gotten caught in the trap of doing Step 1 of the Kondo Method... ;D
Eugenia 11 months ago
I' ve read that Mary Kondo confessed to have abandoned the Kondo method when she had children!
Load More Replies... Costa 11 months ago
If anyone is interested the photo for this one is a character from the UK's longest running soap opera.
Seán Baron 11 months ago (edited)
Gail Roberts Tildsley Whatever it is this Week. She always reminds me of a hamster.
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Luke Branwen 11 months ago
If a neurodivergent girl passionately infodumped to me about her special interest, there's a solid chance I'd hopelessly fall in love within minutes
Namea 11 months ago
Pretty sure that babbling about native snakes for ten minutes is how I snagged my husband.
Load More Replies... weird star kid 11 months ago
As a person with many neurodivergent friends, including autistic ones, I love listening to them talk about their fixations. And while I'm not autistic, I get an obsession that's so intense I need to infodump and shriek excitedly to someone about it until I'm exhausted.
Lene 11 months ago
I really want to talk about Danish folktales all the time. But I have taught myself to stop myself and tell people that I'll just stop there or they are in for hours and hours of me talking about this, when I get that tingling feeling in my spirit. The tingling feeling is the thing I get just before the point of no return. Lol. I hope that someone, one day, will just let me talk and talk and perhaps even ask me questions! That would be amaaaaazing! Lol
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Kaisa Satjus 11 months ago
Once when i was waking up from stomach surgery the nurse ask me about my pain level. My answer: "if my stomach was a 12 toast toaster, 8 of those would be on fire"" I did get more painkillers
CanadianDimes 11 months ago
I like this pain scale and will use it if I ever need one!
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Dumb teenager 11 months ago
The whole 1-10 rating thing has never made sense to me. How am I supposed to make a judgment when I don’t know what 10 feels like?
CanadianDimes 11 months ago
I’ve had what feels like level 10 pain for me and it’s skewed my perception so now everything seems like 1-2 because it’s nowhere near where that 10 was, even if it really hurts.
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January Tempis 11 months ago
Moving something from one pile to another and back and forth and back and forth again. Something that should take 20 minutes takes days. And then of course there's the reverse when you think something should take 20 minutes but that is humanly impossible.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
Took me forever to realize I couldn't tell my kids to "clean you room," especially my oldest. He would literally stare at it frozen as to what to do. Mondays I had him pick up trash and throw it out. Tuesdays were books and toy organization. Wednesday dirty clothes & change sheets. Thursdays fold and put away clothes. Friday dust and vacuum. Had to split it up into small, manageable pieces. But if his friends need anything? Can't do it fast enough
S 11 months ago
I realized I can clean other people's places because I don't overthink it. I see an item and 'Robo Cop' scan for the answer of where it goes. Easy peasy. On the other hand, my stuff ALL needs to be within sight otherwise I'll forget about it, but also I can't have everything in sight because that wouldn't be organized or practical but I also can't get rid of anything because I don't know what I'll need in the future since I don't know what my future interests will be. TLDR; one side of my brain is minimalist the other is maximalist and they rarely agree on anything without mass amounts of dopamine to play referee - I don't have that problem the the items don't belong to me.
weird star kid 11 months ago
The more I scroll through this thread, the more I feel called out and the necessity to get diagnosed.
WindySwede 11 months ago
Invite the friend over and have them watch you as you clean, and they do their stuff on their computer. Or have them call you: "be over in 30 minutes"...
Sue User 11 months ago
I tried this. Just come over for coffee. No takers yet.
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I cannot stand what i think is executive dysfunction but dk hpe to help it.. BP does anyone have advice?
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Phantom Phoenix 11 months ago
When you figure out where to get them from, please share that info
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
Yeah.. cause why not? Who doesn't want to have an emotional support dragon!
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Ellinor 11 months ago
But then surprise, you have ADHD and caffeine makes you sleepy...
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This is why I hate staying at my mother's house. I am fairly certain she has no inner monologues, because the second I come downstairs in the morning, she's just yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip and then she gets mad when I'm not more responsive.
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CK 11 months ago
Because you get to revise things, and you don't have to divert your attention to focus on body language.
Maggie Fulton 11 months ago
Also you don’t have the immediate stress of wondering how the person in front of you is going to react.
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I envy people who can quickly come up with glib, witty comments in conversation. It usually takes me days of brooding to come up with what I should have said.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
Need another column for 'in writing while falling asleep' which is in the middle, but the most common for me at the moment!
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
This used to be me but then I took public speaking and improv classes and now I can speak without overthinking.
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Huddo's sister 11 months ago
This is what I find hilarious about conversations with my mum, because the new thought often isn't more exciting to me. Then three hours later she will reference the first conversation and I won't know what she's talking about because she never finished the story.
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January Tempis 11 months ago
I think it's more fun to know a a little bit about a bunch of things!
Cosmos in your eyes 11 months ago
My husband! I call him a "Renaissance Man" because he knows a lot about a lot and can do a lot of things. It can be hard though when I want to start something new for myself, because most likely he already knows a lot about the new-to-me thing and he'll tell me all about it which kind of sucks the fun out of trying something new.
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago (edited)
It’s cool to know a little about a lot of different things. The problems arise when people start to think that their tiny amount of knowledge makes them an expert on par with those who do have mastery over the subject.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
It's harder when your brain does both and neither make you smarter, wealthier, or happier.
Senjo Krane 11 months ago
hmmm. How does one get diagnosed with ADHD? I think I may have it reading all these posts.
char 11 months ago
my gf w asd: knows literally everything there is to know about like five subjects. me w adhd: knows some random pieces of trivia, every word to hundreds of niche songs, a decent amount of math, a lot about certain popular fandoms but not enough to be impressive, how to cook as long as it's not complicated, and how to have a 100% success rate in minesweeper.
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JudyfromAccounts 11 months ago
If I'm as hot as they say, why do they ghost me? Oh yeah, my s**t personality.
weird star kid 11 months ago
Me and my partner fr. To them, I'm the hottest human being on the earth. To me, I am a dirty sewer rat.
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🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 11 months ago
I love my husband and I want to share the exciting info I just learn because I want him to feel the joy and excitement too. He is not neurodivergent, and he doesn't get why I share all this info - it's just that I love him and want to share fun things :)
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Betsy S 11 months ago
Yes. My love language is infodumping on whatever topic is of most concern to someone I love. I don't think of it as fixing the problem, but I feel like it's important to know every single possible option for reconciling the problem, so I rabbit-hole the research until I can feel "useful" to the person experiencing the problem.
Sobri Kate 11 months ago
Info tidbits are gems. I'm not ND, but I enjoy giving people the shiniest gems I suspect they will enjoy. If they like the first one, I give them more from the same mine.
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keyboardtek 11 months ago (edited)
I worked with a guy who told us he used to take meds for bipolar disorder. But he stopped taking them because he did not like how they made him feel. He had been fired or laid off from every job he ever had. He nearly came to fist fights with every person who ever worked with us. His anger outbursts were intense. He never once apologized to anyone after them. Neuro divergent people really need to take their meds or get therapy. Their anti social episodes can be extremely disruptive for friends and fellow workers.
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Feathered Dinosaur 11 months ago
As a former child model with a a PhD I feel this. Did I mention the AuDHD? Or being aromantic? Yeah, I don't know why, either
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
Don't overthink. It's probably nothing. Don't overthink. It’s probably nothing. Don't overthink. It’s probably nothing. Don't overthink. It’s probably nothing.
HTakeover 11 months ago
Doesn't work for me, 'cause then I fixate. Gotta change focus. "Don't overthink... I wonder what the biology of a centaur would be? The horse part needs the stronger horse heart to pump blood, but the human part couldn't handle that increased pressure, so are there two hearts & separate circulation systems? What about the spine, is it one long spine or two separate ones? What about the signal from the human brain to the horse legs? How much does one need to eat to feed that horse body?"
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I'm in a long distance relationship and as a person who frequently overthinks, the second they're a bit dry in their texts my brain immediately thinks the relationship is over, even though we've been together for over 15 months and are doing really well.
Robert Beveridge 11 months ago
But then, saying "don't overthink it" is like singing one round of It's a Small World and expecting it to not be in your head all day.
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Sue User 11 months ago
I once whipped out our weekly poetry assignment 15 minutes before it was due. They published it in college literary yearly.
Ellinor 11 months ago
For my High School diploma, I had to make a presentation and work on it all year, write every single sentences I wanted to say. But I knew I was awful at writing and memorizing things, and very good at improvising and making people laugh. While everyone in my class spend the year being anxious and memorizing their 3 to 5 pages, I just wrote the title, 1 sentence for each subjects, and improvized. I got a 19/20.
Wally Mahar 11 months ago (edited)
I failed every quiz in physics for entire year in high school the night before me and my friend studied the regents and I got like a 98 and the physics teacher accused me of cheating exams and I guess after I just painted the gym floor with a realistic photo of our mascot in the center, someone of importance just told him to drop it LOL.
Maggie Fulton 11 months ago
Yeah, this habit didn’t work as well later in life, but I was queen of the last-minute school assignment. I don’t think I have ADHD, though, although my psych nurse practitioner is getting pretty convinced of it. Reading a.. the various posts about ADHD on Bored Panda over time, I’m beginning to wonder if she has a point. 🫤
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
I don't have ADHD but this is how I got through my uni degree. Do a little bit of research the night before, so I have things to reference. Then get up at 4am and bash out an essay. If it doesn't quite meet the word count, so be it, but it is 'done' and can be handed in on time. Ps (passes) get degrees is a good mantra lol. My mum and sister on the other hand, who do have ADHD, would start the night before, work through the night, not finish, panic, ask for an extension, leave it until the night before the extension is up, work through the night again and either finish or get another extension. That is way too stressful and draining for me, I want it over and done with.
Bremusa4u 11 months ago (edited)
Wrote my master's dissertation five days, finished it three hour before due time, turned in an hour before due time. By doing so, I almost drove my OCD, clinically anxious classmate bestie into a full blown panic attack. Thankfully, we both got our degrees, and he forgave me.
Michelle C 11 months ago
I’ve done this before and ended up getting a B on the paper, if I remember correctly.
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CK 11 months ago
When people say "everyone's a little bit autistic," they mean it to invalidate autistic struggles. The technicality of whether it's true on any level isn't even relevant. If tall people were talking about having to live in a world of things that aren't designed for their height, "everyone's a little bit tall" would be a technically true response on some level (because even short people have height) but it wouldn't be appropriate.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but my interpretation has always been a little different: to me, saying it's a spectrum means that while everyone experiences and exhibits autistic traits, they don't experience or exhibit them to the same extent or with the same frequency. So when people say "but everyone (insert trait here) sometimes!" trying to dismiss something, the answer is, "Yes, but not as often/not as severely/not as uncontrollably etc. Since you know a little of what it feels like, I'm sure you can empathise"
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 11 months ago
Thank you!!!! This is something that gets on my nerves
alloutbikes@yahoo.com 1 month ago
No we mean it to say everyone should be able to understand and cope with those who are diagnosed. We are all different and that should be celebrated.
Deborah 11 months ago
At 69 I was finally diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. The best thing about this for me is that it explained a hell of a lot about my life.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
My dad (and I, and my psychologist...) thinks he has autism after watching a program about it (and he is very similar to my sister who has been diagnosed) at about 67, but he doesn't think it's worth getting the diagnosis because he's come this far in life and it won't make a difference. I understand that but I also think it would be good to know because he might not be so hard on himself about things from his past.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
In Rocko's Modern Life, they dealt with it by introducing the Triangle to Trafalgar Square and they fell in love and went off together to get married. ...In hindsight, that show was even weirder than I thought.
Angie May 11 months ago
I have vivid childhood memories of that show. I can't believe they got away with giving Rocko a sex phone line job. I'll randomly have his voice going "Oh bay-bee, oh bay-bee, oh bay-bee" play in my head and I haven't seen an episode of that show in well over 20 years.
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Jenny Lind 11 months ago
I honestly thought that the Bermuda Triangle and quicksands would be bigger problems in my life than they are
Sarcastic Panda 10 months ago
Have we just learned to avoid the Bermuda and the Dragon? I haven't heard anything about them in a while.
keyboardtek 11 months ago
And the sad part is when you are an adult and learn that the number of boating incidents in the Bermuda Triangle are statistically no greater than anywhere else. It just has a higher concentration of traffic, thus a higher number of incidents.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
No, I was a sceptic from the day I was born. The Bermuda triangle was one I thought about and dismissed very early.
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Pernille 11 months ago
And once you get to a certain age you start worrying about early onset Alzheimer while looking for your phone that has ended up in the fridge again.
Dumb teenager 11 months ago
Facial blindness and an inability to remember names is worse. People can do whatever the hell they like to you because you literally won’t know who they are. And you won’t know to avoid them next time either because you have no bloody clue what they looked like.
TheElderNom 11 months ago
I've always been scatterbrained but after and especially during my burnout my memory was shot to pieces. It is so frustrating and takes so much energy.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
I struggle with being clumsy. Is anyone else like that? Sometimes I swear my hand just opens on its own and I drop whatever I'm holding. All the time, every time. I pick something up and feel it slip out of my grip. I walk into things like I deliberately aim for them. I've done that all my life and now that I'm older, I worry about it being a sign of incoming senility.
Leoninus Fate 11 months ago
I have short term memory loss {from Pseudotumor cerebri} It's not just "lol I forgot the time/object!" its .... "I don't know what day it is / Where was I just now? / Did I eat? / What happened yesterday? /Did I take my meds? did i take too many or too lil? / Do I do the thing? / Do I like this? / Did I learn this?/ When and where did i learn it? / Who am i again? Who are you?" Its not fun, I forget my kids and my husband at times, I will sit down and it will be only moments for me, but it will be hours later, I cant remember to eat {from the Pseudotumor cerebri, the nerves in my brain that tell me "your hungry" don't work}
char 11 months ago
one time in class I looked down to find a pencil in my hand that wasn't mine and I didn't remember picking up, and it was a legitimately panicking experience. in the SAME FREAKING CLASS, not much later, I once started a lecture with one pencil in my hand and ended it holding two pencils with no idea where the other one came from. I was losing my mind. my friends were baffled.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
My brother, who had OCD as a child, jokes about how he can't remember pretty much whole years of his life. I think under that joking he is frustrated and concerned but he won't admit it.
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WindySwede 11 months ago
Or just if I accidentally shut off the firstborn while half sleep and wakes up 2 h later..
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Sobri Kate 11 months ago
My cousin and I but only when watching KDramas. Sometimes it appears as if they have a small pool of actors to draw from and other times we're wondering how the heck they gathered almost a full cast of actors we haven't seen.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
That’s probably one of the more fun ways to think of it, especially since Batman, in one comic, is hinted at possibly being autistic with diagnosed OCD and PTSD. Are there any comic book heroes that are canonically neurodivergent (and not in the stereotypical ‘House’ or ‘Sheldon’ way)?
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
And having Asperger Syndrome is like going to a party where everyone wears sunglasses and no one smiles.
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Bored Retsuko 11 months ago (edited)
Oh, I have. I'll wait until the other person ends it, then feel bad because I must have taken too much of their time.
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Aleksandras Tvardauskas 11 months ago
Just be honest with people. I often end a conversation with "I've had enough of you, bye" ^^
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Steve Robert 11 months ago
Look at their forehead. They'll think you're looking them in the eye and won't even in notice.
Lene 11 months ago
I started with looking at their forehead. Over the years I learned to look at their right eye. On a good day I even manage to look at the left eye as well! It has taken me about 30 years from deciding to work on eye contact to get to this point. Seems I may have even fooled a psychologist who tested me for autism because she said that I have several autistic traits but I am not autistic because I'm too good at eye contact. 🤷♀️
Load More Replies... Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago (edited)
I used to struggle with this so here is my cheat sheet: 1. Watch intently and make hard eye contact when they're talking. 2. Make occasional eye contact when you're talking.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
I find if I try to maintain eye contact, I make people nervous because I'm staring at them and THEY look away.
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Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I love talking to people, and I'm objectively pretty good at it! But I'm terrible at making friends. Between forgetting to message people back for months if we only message occasionally, texting hundreds of times a day and driving people crazy, not conforming to societal norms for someone my age, and being broke all the time, I just can't figure it out. I feel like an alien watching humans live their lives, and a few of them are fond of me, but we're not alike
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
What is an autistic person supposed to look like? I think they forgot to tell me during orientation. Or I got distracted by an interesting bird.
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Atom Bohr 11 months ago
Then, "why didn't you say that you didn't understand?" "because you said I need to ask less questions and do as I'm told"
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
As an Asperger person, it's always, "You should have known!" when I didn't have a clue.
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Data1001 11 months ago
As a man, I can say this would also work with me. Level of fascination would depend, of course, on what sort of cheese you're offering.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
Boursin cheese will buy my attention (such as it is) every time..
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Ellinor 11 months ago
I usually forget about people if I don't see them, even my own family. It's a lot.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
Me too. I can only sustain one relationship or group conversation at a time, because I'm either in constant contact with someone or I forget to get in touch for months, and I don't have the energy for that with more than 1 person at a time
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Kelly Scott 11 months ago
"Do you want advice or are you just venting today and you need me to listen?"
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Sue User 11 months ago
So about 3 months into lockdown, i finished the laundry. Everything was washed, folded, put away, even the handwash. I consider it one of my greatest accomplishments.
Beak Hookage 11 months ago
Oh laundry basket, where would I be without you? (I'd be in a bedrroom that has underwear all over the floor is where I'd be).
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Mary Beth Miller 11 months ago
Yup. That's me. And then I forget the original point I was trying to communicate.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
My friends asking the time. Me building them a clock. A large grandfather clock.
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Cosmos in your eyes 11 months ago
100%. I get mad at my husband when he gets mad at the kids. I have to remind him they are not trying to p**s them off, they are trying to figure things out.
CK 11 months ago (edited)
They're new to literally everything. Adults traveling to a different country often struggle to fit in, even though the fundamentals are the same (e.g. people in both countries eat solid foods, dress themselves in the morning, speak a language, and walk places - all things that are new to a toddler).
Pencil 11 months ago
So many times I've seen parents in total frustration with a little kid that just won't settle down. Well did you teach them how to do that? Demonstrate it? Practice it? Kids don't want to be frustrated and have meltdowns any more than you want them to. Stop expecting them to know things they've never been taught.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
Once a thirsty crow came across a jug of water, but the water was too low for him to reach. He tried many times to tip the jug over, but was not strong enough. Then he spied a pile of small stones nearby, and he dropped them one by one into the jug until the water rose. As he drank of the cool liquid, the crow thought "PATIENCE OFTEN SUCCEEDS WHERE FORCE FAILS".
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
Now, see, I'm the "when in doubt, use force" kind of person. I'd have picked up the rocks until I broke the jug then wondered why I didn't get any water.
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CK 11 months ago
But nothing is as humiliating as not being able to carry all the groceries at once.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
You overfill the bags, too, huh? This is all the fault of them charging for paper bags today. And of course, the humiliation of picking up a bag, having the handles break, and having the cashier tell me there really is a limit to what the bags can hold.
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Leigh 11 months ago
For a minute there I was totally misreading and thought it was a reference to the Bible character lot.
Nonna_SoF 11 months ago
Yes, pretty sure she's going to send her daughters to get gang raped, have her wife turned to salt, and then get raped by her daughters.
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Atom Bohr 11 months ago
It's a matter of frequency: if it happens occasionally, that's typical, if it happens multiple times a day, or if it's impacting your ability to function, it's not. Please don't minimise people's experiences
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Phantom Phoenix 11 months ago
Was it the same guy who came up with the name "lisp"? Or perhaps the one who decided that obsessive compulsion is a DIS-order?
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Data1001 11 months ago
The look on his face reminds me of the recurring SNL character Brian Fellow ("Brian Fellow's Safari Planet"), played by Tracy Morgan. He'd have a guest on his show who would start talking about the animal they brought along and then you'd hear that person's voice fade out and suddenly Brian would just drift off and start imagining animals talking to him.
Beak Hookage 11 months ago
Fitting choice of picture, since he apparently has problems with anxiety just like us autistic people.
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Bonnie Buttons 11 months ago
Haha. I've screenshot at least five posts from this thread already. And now this one too...
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Feathered Dinosaur 11 months ago
Want to be my fren? I'm in need of some, too
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I saw a UFO and nobody believes me! I was sixteen miles from home with nobody in sight. And what's it gonna take to be back home tonight?
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Steve Robert 11 months ago
Does it count if you're only eating frozen pepperoni pizzas, frozen breakfast sandwiches, and chocolate croissants?
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Angie May 11 months ago
They mean picking a celebrity and hyperfixating on them.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I have a lot of piercings but not to the point where my hat has them. o_0
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Steve Robert 11 months ago (edited)
And now they expect you to pay for it.
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in fact people should just not tell someone else to have kids. if you don't want kids there's nothing wrong with that
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Nora12 11 months ago
I need someone to explain to me why this thread which is suppose to be about neurodiversity has so many random cheese posts 🧀
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
It’s a good snack when you want to eat but have no energy to cook or heat up leftovers. That’s my reasoning for it at least. Anyway, this is everbody’s daily reminder to drink water and look away from your screen for twenty seconds for the sake of your eye health.
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Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Very few, if any, of these are neurodivergent. Virtually all are about little quirks, not neurodivergence. No, your absolutely normal little human quirks don’t make you autistic
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
People seem to miss that a lot of these are about the degree to which an individual experiences them. A lot of neurodivergent people don't experience anything a neurotypical person doesn't, they simply experience the same things more/less frequently or strongly. Everyone forgets things, but some people do it so much it affects their ability to do their jobs, or get through the day without difficulty. Most people like learning interesting things, but if it becomes an obsession or "your personality" that's neurodivergence. Everyone struggles to understand social norms or non-verbal cues from time to time, but if it's all day every day, that's neurodivergence. It's all about the degree to which someone experiences something
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M McBride 11 months ago
I’m a psychologist, and although I agree that at one point ADHD and autism were under-diagnosed, I feel now that they are over-diagnosed. I think a lot of people are using these disorders to justify their bad behaviors, and as an excuse to keep doing them (or, you know, to get tasty stimulant medications). These disorders are real and have real implications for peoples’ lives, which is why it’s important for healthcare professionals to accurately diagnose (and not just automatically assign an ADHD or autism diagnosis to people who are simply messy, late, forgetful, shy, etc.).
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago
I fear you are correct. Same with anxiety; there is a difference between being anxious and having anxiety. And now that we’ve started to accept it (among other things), people are self-diagnosing in order to excuse themselves from being functional, responsible, accountable, pro-social, etc.
Load More Replies... CK 11 months ago
Can we talk about how evil acrylic sweaters are? It's not a neurodivergent thing but I've noticed that most neurotypicals have a higher tolerance for acrylic.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I can still remember a coat from when I was 2½/3 years old: it had this awful fake fur that drove me crazy and I got in so much trouble for having tantrums over wearing it. I'm in my late 30s but I still remember it, more than all the other itchy jumpers and scarves that also led to me getting in trouble for fidgeting or complaining or crying. I work with kids now and I'm always so happy to see how far textile technology has come: some of their coats and scarves are insanely soft and I'm so glad they don't generally have to suffer the way I did back then
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I'm starting to wonder if I might be ADHD as well as autistic OMG LOOK A SHINY THING
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 11 months ago
Hi, undiagnosed person here who I am 99% sure has OCD and maybe ADD which is a fun combination because not only must this box be i n t h e c e n t e r I have the odd urge to touch it with the opposite elbow I accidentally hit it with but it's not the same so I panic inside. Also probably not anxiety but I stress easy and cannot beat boss rushes in games or the Coloseum of Fools because my hair tie is... heavier on one side? Also every inch of my body itches. And the gazes of random classmates are greater on my left, also WHY DOES IT ALL ITCH
Nora12 11 months ago
I need someone to explain to me why this thread which is suppose to be about neurodiversity has so many random cheese posts 🧀
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
It’s a good snack when you want to eat but have no energy to cook or heat up leftovers. That’s my reasoning for it at least. Anyway, this is everbody’s daily reminder to drink water and look away from your screen for twenty seconds for the sake of your eye health.
Load More Replies... Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Very few, if any, of these are neurodivergent. Virtually all are about little quirks, not neurodivergence. No, your absolutely normal little human quirks don’t make you autistic
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
People seem to miss that a lot of these are about the degree to which an individual experiences them. A lot of neurodivergent people don't experience anything a neurotypical person doesn't, they simply experience the same things more/less frequently or strongly. Everyone forgets things, but some people do it so much it affects their ability to do their jobs, or get through the day without difficulty. Most people like learning interesting things, but if it becomes an obsession or "your personality" that's neurodivergence. Everyone struggles to understand social norms or non-verbal cues from time to time, but if it's all day every day, that's neurodivergence. It's all about the degree to which someone experiences something
Load More Replies... M McBride 11 months ago
I’m a psychologist, and although I agree that at one point ADHD and autism were under-diagnosed, I feel now that they are over-diagnosed. I think a lot of people are using these disorders to justify their bad behaviors, and as an excuse to keep doing them (or, you know, to get tasty stimulant medications). These disorders are real and have real implications for peoples’ lives, which is why it’s important for healthcare professionals to accurately diagnose (and not just automatically assign an ADHD or autism diagnosis to people who are simply messy, late, forgetful, shy, etc.).
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago
I fear you are correct. Same with anxiety; there is a difference between being anxious and having anxiety. And now that we’ve started to accept it (among other things), people are self-diagnosing in order to excuse themselves from being functional, responsible, accountable, pro-social, etc.
Load More Replies... CK 11 months ago
Can we talk about how evil acrylic sweaters are? It's not a neurodivergent thing but I've noticed that most neurotypicals have a higher tolerance for acrylic.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I can still remember a coat from when I was 2½/3 years old: it had this awful fake fur that drove me crazy and I got in so much trouble for having tantrums over wearing it. I'm in my late 30s but I still remember it, more than all the other itchy jumpers and scarves that also led to me getting in trouble for fidgeting or complaining or crying. I work with kids now and I'm always so happy to see how far textile technology has come: some of their coats and scarves are insanely soft and I'm so glad they don't generally have to suffer the way I did back then
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I'm starting to wonder if I might be ADHD as well as autistic OMG LOOK A SHINY THING
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 11 months ago
Hi, undiagnosed person here who I am 99% sure has OCD and maybe ADD which is a fun combination because not only must this box be i n t h e c e n t e r I have the odd urge to touch it with the opposite elbow I accidentally hit it with but it's not the same so I panic inside. Also probably not anxiety but I stress easy and cannot beat boss rushes in games or the Coloseum of Fools because my hair tie is... heavier on one side? Also every inch of my body itches. And the gazes of random classmates are greater on my left, also WHY DOES IT ALL ITCH
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