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111 Times Neurodivergent People Memed Their Experiences Instead Of Overthinking And Hyperfixating
When you're neurodivergent, your brain works a little bit differently from others. It might be a bit busier, louder, and more/less focused than others'. Research shows that about one in five people in the world are neurodivergent. And we here at Bored Panda think that they should be represented appropriately in the meme world.
Recently, we went through the most popular neurodivergent meme spaces on the internet, like r/autismmemes, r/OCDmemes, and the Neurodivergent Squad page on Instagram. We collected the funniest and most relatable ones and put them all together in this list. Check them out and let us know how many made your neurodivergent brain tingle!
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#3
It's Just Our Signs 😆
OneWithRatsAndKefir 5 hours ago
Executive dysfunction because of autism? Nah, constant daydreaming because Aquarius.
#4
Not Getting Diagnosed As A Child
Rick Murray 8 hours ago
Add in other people telling me all of that, and that's my childhood - the darker side of the 1980s. Still not diagnosed as, at the age of 52, it doesn't really matter any more - I stopped caring about people calling me "weird" a long time ago.
#5
When You Got Some New Information On Your Special Interest
#6
Someone, Please Relate
Old Canadian Lady 11 hours ago
If I'm forcing myself to look at your eyes while you're talking, I'm concentrating too hard to take in what you're saying.
#7
Seeking The Truth Is My Passion
Phantom Phoenix 11 hours ago
💯. It's OK if I learn I was wrong. I'm about *what's* right, not *who's* right.
#8
This Is So Real
That’s all I yam 8 hours ago
Happens so many times. Others have a sense of how to immediately continue the conversation flow seamlessly. By the time the conversation stops long enough that I could add what I had, it’s turned to a whole new direction and what I had would be out of place.
#9
If I Had A Penny For Every Time I've Felt A Diagnosis Test Was Oversimplified I'd Have Three Pennies, Which Isn't Much But It's Weird That It's Happened More Than Once
#10
This
That’s all I yam 7 hours ago
My doctor says not to listen to the voices in my head. The voices say, "Take your meds!" : - )
#11
Found This Meme
Rick Murray 8 hours ago
You get brought up to keep everything inside, don't be weird, don't be bothersome, shut up already.... and now I'm practically emotionally flatline. I feel things, but only within myself. And mostly irritation. The emotions I do make visible are mostly fake, a mimicry of what others are doing (because being 😐 all the time makes people say some quite insulting things).
#12
I Have To Be Invited. Like A Vampire. I Have The Vamptism
#13
[oc] Good Old Fashioned Meme
#14
Hasn't Been Posted Here Yet
#15
Me When The Intrusive Thoughts Hit
That’s all I yam 7 hours ago (edited)
I have a one line nonsensical ditty I use to break a chain of intrusive thoughts. Unfortunately, for me it works better if I say it out loud.
#16
I Think We Can All Relate 😅
Calyx Teren 10 hours ago
Is this a neurodivergent thing? I nearly k****d myself this way but thought I was just overthinking
#17
I Hate This
Phantom Phoenix 10 hours ago
This is basically every show. If the characters communicated clearly and honestly, there'd be about 98.37% less drama
#18
The Autistic Experience Described In Fine Style
Phantom Phoenix 11 hours ago (edited)
Sad doggo is sad. I just wanna be there for the good girl/boy and tell them, "Hey buddy, you're not in trouble. It's all good." And administer lots of pats and cuddles.
#19
Please Tell Me I’m Not Alone
WindySwede 4 hours ago
Coat hangers, they usually fall to the floor, gets tangled up with other coat hangers etc. Really inferior design!
#20
From Today's Performance Review At Work
#21
Thought You Guys Would Relate To This :))
Marnie 13 hours ago
So true. I'm autistic. My son thinks I'm extremely funny, but only because of things I don't mean to be funny. But I'm old enough now that I'll understand after the fact why he thinks it's funny, so I'll get a laugh out of it, too. But my intentional jokes are so weird only my late father and Carl from middle school ever thought it was funny.
#22
I Speak The Easiest Way Possible And Still People Imagine Stuff I’ve Never Said 🥲
#24
Society: "Follow Rules!" Also Society: "Not That One You Idiot!"
Ugh, do I have to? 11 hours ago
No joke, once my friends and I were having a particularly intense vent/dump session, and since I'm not very good at interjecting, I just raised my hand when I had something to say. It worked. (I love my friends.)
#25
😭
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
If you're talking intrusive thoughts, you're spot on. Mostly I do it because of my ADD need for stimulation.
#26
When You’re Autistic But Everyone Calls You Fake Because You’re Also A Pretty Girl
#29
☁️
Robert Trebor 12 hours ago
Looks perfect to me, even if I don't think I'm autistic, just a bit introverted.
#31
When You Ones Again Take It Differently Than Intended
#32
👀
#33
True!
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 13 hours ago
Just understand that Humans, like Chimps, are selfish jerks. That explains EVERYTHING
#34
What's Your Safe Food? Mines Fish N Chips
Doodles1983 12 hours ago
UK. Heinz Baked Beans and Sausages on toast. Until the swapped to Richmond sausages. I bought a tin after the swap. It's been maybe 2 years now? Still haven't been able to bring myself to try.
#35
And Please Not The Big Light First
Spidercat 11 hours ago (edited)
I'm not convinced that all of us know how light switches work. We probably all know how to operate a light switch but how it works... that's a question about electrons and photons and physics and engineering. Off you all go and report your findings in the morning...
#36
I Feel Like You Guys Can Appreciate This Very Cool Stick I Found
#37
I'd Be On The News
Ugh, do I have to? 11 hours ago
The urge to throw yourself off of a building just to see what it feels like:
#38
Easy To Say
#39
No!!!!!
#40
Let’s Add This To The Bag Of Misunderstood Phrases
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 12 hours ago
Autistics should be naturals at accounting and as research lawyers
#41
Pretend I Wrote Something Funny
Spidercat 10 hours ago
When I was 4 years old I solomly went to my mother to explain that I had a wheel from my Matchbox car stuck up my nose and couldn't get it out. She counted the 4 wheels on the car and told me I was wrong. This went on for around 3 hours. Back and forth back and forth between 4 year old me and mother. I eventually got frustrated and shouted "STEERING WHEEL" and then off to A&E we went to get it removed. It had broken off from inside the toy car and had been stuck up my nose the whole time. I was utterly, totally and perfectly correct that I had a wheel up my nose and genuinely couldn't understand why my mother didn't care. This is what it's like. (I say this for those of you here to try and understand).
#42
I Thought My Fellow Autists Would Appreciate This
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 12 hours ago
I do things like this too. THIS is the text for TSA. You need to organize collored lozenges correctly and answer a bunch of stupid questions while in a dark room and cant look at the second person in the room. After I did that interview I lost my taste for Federal Service. Its joining a cult.
#43
Saw This On Other Sub, Reminded Me How I Grew Up Acting For An Invisible Audience 24/7
#45
Dynamic Duo
#46
Dyscalculia Here 🙌
#47
This Is So Me
#49
Eternally Nauseas
Min (she/her) 3 hours ago
I regularly remind myself that what other people think of me is none of my business. It's helpful on occasion, but I'm hoping I'll get better at believing it.
#50
I Think This Goes Here
#51
I Can't Fit In Anywhere
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 12 hours ago
Why keep calling us Neurotypicals when everyone has some kind of mental illness
#53
Cats Are Great
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
I had that thought also. What cat do you know that does something without rhyme or reason. I never question that my cat has a reason for what she does. I might not understand it, but that's not the cat's problem.
#54
Oh My God, Please No
#55
Ocd
#57
Electricity Go Eeeeeeeeee
Rick Murray 7 hours ago
It's no Eeeeee unless it's the late 1980s to about 2000s and a CRT. Electricity is more a wzzzzzzzz sound. And part of me would really like to go to Canada some day to see/hear if a place where everything is 60Hz looks and sounds noticeably different.
#58
Made A Lot More Sense Once I Got Diagnosed LOL
#59
Screw Jeans. All My Homies Hate Jeans
#60
Ocd Core I Think
#61
I Try To Remember This Every Time I'm Spiraling
Old Canadian Lady 11 hours ago
I can't believe that thing he dared to say to me!... in my mind...
#63
I Thought Yall Would Relate This Too
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
People have told me my whole life that I'm an 'out of the box' thinker.' Each time I think, 'What box are they talking about?'. True story.
#64
Me
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
Yep. I always position myself so that anything moving, changing, etc. is in my field of view. Why wouldn't I?
#65
This Is So Real, I Have To Know Why. Why This, Why That
Rick Murray 7 hours ago
Not enough people ask "why?". I think this world would be very different if asking "why?" and awaiting a correct coherent response was normal human behaviour.
#66
I Thought Of This And Thought It Was Funny(Sorry If It Has Been Done Before)
#67
It Can Be Really Confusing
#68
This Is Absolutely A Thing
Marnie 13 hours ago
Yeah. I've worked at the same place for 18 years. I found out three years ago that everyone takes all their paid sick time. If they haven't used it up being sick towards the end of the year, they just take it off as PTO. All the managers know. BUT NOBODY TOLD ME I COULD DO THAT. I only took it when sick (and for the first 8 years, I would almost always work a Saturday to make it up anyway). I figure I'm owed at least 30 days off.
#69
Excuse Me What
#70
Yup
Elladine DesIsles 14 hours ago
And the Playmobil classroom! Anyone else ever get pulled out of class to go act out scenarios using Playmobil (or equivalent) toys with a random lady? Yet again I ask myself, how the h*ll did I get through school undiagnosed?
#71
I Feel You
#72
Which One Of Us Was It Huh?
Rick Murray 7 hours ago
Emotional weight versus physical weight and the fact that the English language has hundreds of thousands of words yet a startling ability to be imprecise and inspecific.
#73
Ocd Man
That’s all I yam 5 hours ago
It seems like every time I reread something I wrote, I find some mistake.
#74
Doesn't Everybody Do This?
#75
Who Can Relate
Phantom Phoenix 7 hours ago
And now I must know the significance/symbolism of tattooed squiggly lines...
#77
Stolen From Twitter, Figured You'd Enjoy
#79
Seriously Tho Why…
#80
Please Tell Me Someone Is In The Same Boat As Me
Rick Murray 6 hours ago
Or have ADHD so there's no particular special interest because by the time something is understood well enough, it's boring, time for something fresh and stimulating. I'm very good at beginning projects, very bad at finishing them. I have a big ghost painting that is coloured plastic beads to stick on top. It's cute, I like it, there's something like ten *thousand* beads that get placed one by one. I'm permitting myself to eat Maltesers as I work on it, so I'm basically bribing myself with a forbidden food so I don't give up partway through.
#82
From Instagram
#83
🙃
#84
Unfortunately This Has Happened To Me A Few Times
Rick Murray 7 hours ago
I have a "going to bed" and a "going to work" checklist, just to make sure the doors are shut and locked, fridge is shut, heater is off, etc etc.
#85
All The Time
#87
This One's Too Relatable
That’s all I yam 5 hours ago
Stimulus / compulsive eating. For me, the cure is unhealthy amounts of black coffee.
#89
I Swear I’m Just Autistic
That’s all I yam 5 hours ago
I've had store security stand next to me as I was looking at an item. After two or three minutes, they just walked off. Still don't know why.
#90
Dermatillomaniacs Rise Up
#91
I Feel So Seen
Spidercat 9 hours ago (edited)
Imagine a man in his mid forties who has lived with over 18 different cats since he was born. Now imagine they all, every single one of them, got fed with the same fork. (It's me. My first cat Timothy was part of my family before I was. I still have that fork.) It is the cat food fork. I don't need any more cat food forks because that one works fine and always has.
#92
I Think I Worded It Poorly. I Also Experience This When I'm On The Toilet
#93
When My Moral Ocd Kicks In
#95
"I Never Showed Any Signs Of Ocd When I Was Younger!" Also Me:
Rick Murray 6 hours ago
Will Santa (parents in disguise but we all play along) leave me a present or a lump of coal?
#96
#97
Breaking: Neurotypicals Discover Autistic People Can Feel Emotions
#99
No Cuz Literally (Found On Instagram From Ocdestigmatized)
Phantom Phoenix 7 hours ago
Last year in Sydney I got off a bus because the bus driver was fụcking hooning with an overcrowded bus and I was not enjoying the ride being thrown around like that. Oh, the conversation I had with him in my mind!
#100
It Does Be Like That
#102
That’s all I yam 5 hours ago
D**d silence not so much. I even sleep better with background noise.
#103
#104
My Watch History Can Confirm
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 12 hours ago
I love falling asleep to British podcasts. They remain calm and the dogs like it too
#106
Fear Named Eternal Condemnation And Torment:
Rick Murray 6 hours ago
You think that's worst? Have you seen the other place? Both are eternal suffering, one just doesn't try to hide it.
#107
#109
Do You Have Any Snacks You Like Not Because Of The Flavor But Because The Texture Is Nice?
#111
Chat, What're Your Thoughts On This
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Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 11 hours ago
Perfectly normal, nothing to see here ~~ from the files of Police Squad
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 11 hours ago
Perfectly normal, nothing to see here ~~ from the files of Police Squad
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