I find it extremely hard to ask for accommodations (much harder than even asking first help). Like, I don’t want to be perceived as arrogant and entitled, I don’t want to bother other people, I think other people don’t owe me anything, so I kinda don’t feel like I have a right to ask. Like, it’s my problem, I shouldn’t turn it into theirs.
I wonder how other #neurodivergent folks feel about that. Do you think it’s something we’ve been taught? @actuallyautistic#ADHD#AuDHD
How did you make a more robust sense of self? How do you know when your sense of self is strong or weak? Interested to hear people's lived experiences.
Years of dissociation and masking makes it hard to feel what is me.
I don't think I'd have EVER gotten on social media if it wasn't for my educational work.
It grew despite my knowing NOTHING about YouTube/SEO...
But that was also when authenticity went further than algorithms somehow.
The more I learned about "best practices" & the more the platforms shifted & warped...it feels like you're left having to compromise integrity for reach, & even then, reach becomes virtually impossible.
Just had an idea for an #ActuallyAutistic / #AuDHD / #Neurodivergent (perhaps #Adhd too) shirt/pin that I wish I had the skills to at least design:
A human brain, over which is a pop-up dialog that says: Alert:
This brain is offline for maintenance. Please try your request again later.
with an OK button at the bottom.
For times when what I call "controlled shutdown) is necessary. @actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd@neurodiversity
I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any. #MadLiterature
Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day
@actuallyautistic As an autistic person, how do you stop people from controlling you?
When masking all the time, where do you draw a line between making the necessary effort to socially survive and being a pushover? I'm already putting in extra effort that NTs don't have to.
Where does masking stop, and being "clingy" and overcompensating start?
The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.
#MadLiterature
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.
I also have arthritis learned recently that pain tolerance can lower while in burnout. Doesn’t that make arthritis a cycle of burnout? Or I mean cyclical.
There's a lot I don't love about being Autistic... but one thing I DO love is how systematic and logical my brain is. I can often successfully troubleshoot systems I have no experience with, because my brain just gets systems.
In our RV, our bed is on a slide-out. That means that it extends and retracts: it's retracted while driving, and extends about 18 inches from the wall of the RV when we're parked.
On our way to LV, the bed slide broke. It would extend, but only one side would retract. I found a hacky workaround that let us get it retracted so we could finish our trip.
I did some diagnosis once we got to LV in November and I was fairly certain the problem was the electronic controller that controls the motors, not the motors or the wiring. Lo and behold... yesterday I finally replaced the controller, and that fixed it.
I would appreciate any tips on how to use Mastodon without it causing overwhelm/getting lost in it.
🧠My blend of #neurodivergence has a REAL hard time with this kind of platform (never got Twitter either), but I’m drawn to the community & connection here.
I’m like instantly a confounded 105-year-old when it comes to Mastodon/Twitter 🙃
Supporting Neurodivergent and Autistic People for Their Transition into Adulthood; Blueprints for Education, Training, and Employment
This trailblazing resource teaches educators how to support the strengths of children and teens on the autism spectrum as they transition into their lives as adults.
Forcing a person back to the source of their trauma with no meaningful support or accommodations is placing lives in danger. The new government push to get kids back into school is a danger to disabled communities.
The problem is isn't that the kids are not in school, it's that school is not a safe environment for all kids.
🧵 1/5 As I introspect on my Autism and how it’s impacted my life, I am forced to consider my sexual explorations starting around age 10 and the social awkwardness that’s always been present. Before, I concluded that it was a function of my introversion and being closeted.
I am working on a revised cover for Late-Identified AuDHD: A Beginner's Workbook (retitled 2nd edition). I've been repeatedly advised that using a dyslexic-friendly font in my work is unprofessional. Well, I am a professional with dyslexia... and the use of dyslexia-friendly fonts is a professional choice. Hard line.
Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman
This is a priority read for me!
I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.
…the need to offer a positive account of mental illness—one that does not define the essence of mental illness exclusively as the absence, lack, or failure of the power of reasoning…
On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Awais Aftab