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Life as a neurodivergent person can be quite interesting. Sure, you’re wired differently compared to many people around you, but that’s just what makes your experience special.
So, to better understand the uniqueness of neurodivergence, here are some posts we’ve collected from this Facebook group. Because what better way to appreciate these one-of-a-kind individuals than through funny and relatable memes, right?
If you’re someone with a spicy brain, so to speak, these images may hit home for you. Enjoy and feel free to upvote those you connect with the most.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
This one made me laugh because people always doubt you like you never seemed that way...like thanks, I can mask it really well.
Neurodivergence may clash with social norms in several ways. According to therapist and anxiety specialist Danielle Wayne, such rules may feel “prescriptive, arbitrary, and pointless.”
In an article for her website, Millennial Therapy, Wayne used working a typical 9-to-5 day as an example. She mentioned some typical questions a neurodivergent individual may ask, like, “Why do workdays have to take up our entire lives?” or “Why is lunch so short?”
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Maggie Fulton 3 months ago
The only people who know how dark my sense of humor can get are my close friends.
Wayne, who was diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, says a neurodivergent person may be considered “weird” for breaking up their workday into one or two three-hour chunks.
“Even if you feel happier and more productive with this type of schedule, your workplace likely won’t allow it,” she wrote.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 months ago
I did consider marketing myself as a professional mourner at funerals. I can cry because the sky is the wrong shade of grey, so easy to pretend I’m devastated by your passing…
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Tim Gearing 3 months ago
My brain won’t shut up. Drags up negative things from the past all the time
There are many different types of neurodivergence, and explaining each one would warrant a separate article. But among those that people commonly know are ADHD, dyslexia, autism, Tourette’s, and Down syndrome.
Other types include synesthesia (ex, “tasting” music), dyspraxia (a coordination-based disorder, such as difficulties using a utensil), and dyscalculia (having problems with basic arithmetic and counting).
Neurodivergent people face numerous challenges in life. According to New York-based licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Amy Marschall, one way this happens is when others tell them that their needs are “wrong or invalid.” This results in difficulty setting boundaries or feeling like their boundaries are valid.
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Roni Stone 3 months ago (edited)
Oh, lord, yes. And solitaire. If I start, I have to win at least 3 games in a row before I can quit or the world will end. EDIT: spelling
And through the challenges, Dr. Marschall shared one important piece of advice for neurodivergent people: be kind to yourself. As she stated in an article for Very Well Mind, “You are enough as yourself.”
“Neurodivergence can come with challenges, but it is not a moral failing or indication of lower personal worth,” she wrote.
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
The people I saw through the window today were my awful neighbours who I've dubbed Mr and Mrs Screamington for reasons you can probably guess. They look just as nasty as they sound.
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FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
Not justifying the reaction but the harm that's caused is usually anxiety and the other person feeling bad about themselves. If someone is stressing about their appearance. And every time they see you, they are told they look terrible, this makes their social anxiety, anorexia and depression harder to handle. If everything is always a crisis with someone, it is exhausting tonbr around them, never enjoyable. You just put out fires all the time and end up walking on eggshells when there's a moments peace. This causes anxiety. When someone won't let you speak and talks over you ,or doesn't listen, it makes it more difficult to keep up self esteem and feel worthy of their time it makes you feel terrible about what you are saying and taking up space. When people don't either make eye contact or say your name, you don't know when you're expected to respond so you can take your focus off the other person. It's not fair to make others feel inadequate when you're on either side of the equat.
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Bob Brooce 3 months ago
That might be physiodivergent, but I'm not seeing any neurodivergence. And the physiodivergence actually sounds pretty middle-of-the-bell curve, IMHO.
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Bob Brooce 3 months ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but I evolved from hunter gatherers, and I haven't made it far enough to completely abandon it.
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
Had a dream that I was trying to sleep but couldn’t. My alarm rang the moment I got to sleep in the dream which was so unfair I straight up cried because at the time I was insanely sleep deprived
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
"You're weird." "Sorry." "No, that was a compliment." ~Donnie Darko.
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Astrobloom (they/them) 3 months ago
That is literally my life. I've got so good at it, I don't even notice sometimes, but then suddenly I can't function. Anyone else?
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Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
I always finish my explanations by "do you know what I mean ?" because I usually don't think that people actually understood what I meant.
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 months ago (edited)
I have seen this image dozens of times and it always makes me chuckle, so can I say that this is both figuratively and literally true for me? Either that or Pavlov
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Tobias Reaper 3 months ago
not me seeing this laughing and sending it to my girl realising i just did the first one
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childish gambling addiction 3 months ago
Please don’t downvote I swear I’m just being autistic, not annoying, but… WHY DOESNT THE FISH HAVE THE LIL FINNY THING ON TOP
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BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 3 months ago
The suffering in the train full of loud people ... like h these are dark times. I will never ever forget my earbuds
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therian-wolf(mutogen-demigen) 3 months ago
all my spells are on cooldown and there is a boss 3 levels Highter than me about to hit me again and I have 1 health point left and I'm running away but the boss is just as fast as I am. (turtle WOW) (or world of warcraft) is what executive dysfuntion feels like
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
For me it's more like...if I sleep 10mins more, I can cut 2mins from prep, 5mins from getting stuff to the car and 3mins on getting dressed.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 3 months ago
I mean, at least we don’t have both? I can’t imagine what life would be like if autism told me ‘don’t touch the pungent dried glob of ketchup as you wash up the dishes’ and the spidey senses had me barrel roll across the kitchen and away from the sink like I was about to get stabbed by Scorpion.
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Scronky Kitten 3 months ago
Ohhh, those (beautiful, adorable) cats are the things controlling my head!
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BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 3 months ago
Yep, and then you read a bit of all the books and promise yourself will finish them and....if you know you know ....
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 months ago
That's definitely Tina. It's a good thing she can vent by writing her Erotic Friend Fiction.
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
It’s not about staying focused, it’s about the fact that if I don’t provide context for every tiny part of the story then I feel like you won’t understand
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Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
As an ADHDer I think at one point I had it but probably lost it.
#69
A) Nightmare fuel B) Would absolutely LOVE to sort them out with chopsticks C) All of the above- Neurodivergence gold medal
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
This is why adults would find me funny as a kid because I used to be too honest
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Blayze Infyrno 3 months ago
I say, “No sneezing, please.” Which of course they can’t do anything about after or mid sneeze.
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Vicky Phenny 3 months ago
Well, you see, they weren't being constantly overstimulated by loud, random noise, artificial lights, and thousands of people in traffic.
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Jeolas1 3 months ago (edited)
"How do you feel about using memes to understand neurodivergence?" THESE memes? Well, either I am neurodivergent myself and just never knew it, or a large part of the memes above could apply to neurotypical people just as well. And some of them had nothing to do with the topic at all???
Jeolas1 3 months ago (edited)
It's quite funny, I just googled it, and apparently, according to some definitions of neurodivergence, as someone with GAD I am actually neurodivergent. So I guess I stand corrected?! I'm not sure I find this appropriate though. I feel that I am mentally ill; because my anxiety definitely is a burden and sometimes makes my life feel extremely exhausting, sometimes almost unbearable. Like constant pain would. So I DO think it is an illness, not just a divergence from the norm. Does anyone know more about the definition of neurodivergence?
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R Dennis 3 months ago
I have a storm going in my head. When I was younger, I had to do multiple things to calm my mind: watch TV, read, listen to music, and have a conversation all while doing schoolwork. When people would say there's no way you are getting any of it, I would tell them exactly what was going on with each thing in detail. Now, it's a tornado and I just try to pick things out of it and look away... my wife doesn't understand that incomplete items (projects, calls, cleaning, etc.) add to the storm so I try to complete anything that comes up.
Lene 3 months ago
I always had the TV as my background noise for when I was reading or for the few times I actually did homework in school. At uni I realised that I need humans speaking as background noise for me to write papers and study. So I studied for and wrote my entire Master's thesis while at the cantina (? The place where ppl buy food and have their lunches). I arrived every morning with my computer and my equipment to make tea at all times and, of course, a lot of books and pens and paper and I would hyper fixate on my paper for about 5-6 hours every day. It was amazing. But all my fellow students, the teachers and the study-councellors found it extremely weird. They'd laugh at me for doing it this way. But it worked and I loved it. Study rooms are hell, imo.
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Jeolas1 3 months ago (edited)
"How do you feel about using memes to understand neurodivergence?" THESE memes? Well, either I am neurodivergent myself and just never knew it, or a large part of the memes above could apply to neurotypical people just as well. And some of them had nothing to do with the topic at all???
Jeolas1 3 months ago (edited)
It's quite funny, I just googled it, and apparently, according to some definitions of neurodivergence, as someone with GAD I am actually neurodivergent. So I guess I stand corrected?! I'm not sure I find this appropriate though. I feel that I am mentally ill; because my anxiety definitely is a burden and sometimes makes my life feel extremely exhausting, sometimes almost unbearable. Like constant pain would. So I DO think it is an illness, not just a divergence from the norm. Does anyone know more about the definition of neurodivergence?
Load More Replies... R Dennis 3 months ago
I have a storm going in my head. When I was younger, I had to do multiple things to calm my mind: watch TV, read, listen to music, and have a conversation all while doing schoolwork. When people would say there's no way you are getting any of it, I would tell them exactly what was going on with each thing in detail. Now, it's a tornado and I just try to pick things out of it and look away... my wife doesn't understand that incomplete items (projects, calls, cleaning, etc.) add to the storm so I try to complete anything that comes up.
Lene 3 months ago
I always had the TV as my background noise for when I was reading or for the few times I actually did homework in school. At uni I realised that I need humans speaking as background noise for me to write papers and study. So I studied for and wrote my entire Master's thesis while at the cantina (? The place where ppl buy food and have their lunches). I arrived every morning with my computer and my equipment to make tea at all times and, of course, a lot of books and pens and paper and I would hyper fixate on my paper for about 5-6 hours every day. It was amazing. But all my fellow students, the teachers and the study-councellors found it extremely weird. They'd laugh at me for doing it this way. But it worked and I loved it. Study rooms are hell, imo.
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