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EVDHmn , 4 hours ago to actuallyautistic

Recently I got pulled over for a dead tag because the dmv said I had no insurance. I was in the process of doing a sobriety test and I had a meltdown I held it together and explained I was autistic. He arrested me none the less for dui.
He was polite about it. He seemed to believe me but couldn’t tell.
DMV made a mistake. I have never dropped insurance.
I spoke to my doctor and he said he would testify if needed.
That I am autistic however given my record They shouldnt have 🥹 @actuallyautistic

18+ Frances_Larina , 3 hours ago

@EVDHmn @actuallyautistic

That's terrible and frightening - I'm so sorry it happened to you.

hosford42 , 4 months ago to actuallyautistic

Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong people skills
• Good culture fit
• Multitasking
• A fast-paced dynamic environment
• Bachelor's degree or better

I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.

#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic
@neurodivergence

18+ Frances_Larina , 4 months ago

@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

"Must be able to lift 65 lbs."

For a job that consisted of communicating with teammates and creating code. The company I worked for at the time also held periodic purges of those who cost the small business health plan too much.

JeremyMallin , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

Apparently, rewatching television shows and movies a million times is an autism thing.

That's me. 🙋‍♂️
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

18+ Frances_Larina , 5 months ago

@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic

How else are we supposed to learn every line of dialog?

Uair , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

ABA.

https://www.the74million.org/article/americas-most-popular-autism-therapy-may-not-work-and-may-seriously-harm-patients-mental-health/

18+ Frances_Larina , 5 months ago

@Uair @actuallyautistic

What will happen when this actually sinks in, yet so many school districts pay for ABA specialists?

18+ Frances_Larina , 5 months ago

@nddev @Uair @actuallyautistic

Yeah, it's not as though psych as a profession has a great track record of saying, "You know what? We were wrong. In fact, my entire career has been based on nothing more than some white academic guy making stuff up out of thin air and ego."

psychbot , 6 months ago to psychology

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Distinct brain systems are altered in depression for natural and monetary reward processing
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<p>In recent study published in <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/distinct-neurofunctional-alterations-during-motivational-and-hedonic-processing-of-natural-and-monetary-rewards-in-depression-a-neuroimaging-metaanalysis/7B90AFED7BCE6D278E535990DD3AFC5F"><em>Psychological Medicine</em></a>, my colleagues and I have found distinct neural alterations during monetary and natural reward processing in patients with depression compared to healthy controls. From a neuroimaging meta-analysis of published fMRI studies in patients with depression and a total of 1,277 participants, the study provides the first evidence that reward alterations in depression differ depending on the type of reward.</p>
<p>For years, researchers have documented reward dysfunctions in depression to mainly occur in the striatum, a brain region strongly involved in reward and motivational processes. However, there are different types of rewards, including natural rewards (e.g. good food or your favorite song) and more abstract or learned rewards such as money. While alterations in reward and motivational processes are core symptoms of depression it has not been examined if the brain basis of natural and monetary rewards differ in the disorder.</p>
<p>Depression is a devastating mental disorder that is characterized by prolonged periods of sadness and anhedonia (loss of interest in almost all of daily life activities). We found interest in this topic because depression is a leading cause of disability affecting millions of people worldwide and there is need to establish determine the neurobiological underpinnings that can inform new treatments.</p>
<p>Our research team, including members from The University of Hong Kong and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, conducted a neuroimaging meta-analysis encompassing all suitable previous studies that used fMRI to examine the brain basis of reward alterations in depression. We found that patients with depression exhibited generally decreased activation in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex and striatum during receipt of all reward types.</p>
<p>However, depression patients showed separable alterations during monetary and natural rewards in the right ventral striatum and the dorsal striatum, respectively. The striatum is a quite heterogeneous brain region and the ventral and dorsal part have distinct functions, such that the ventral striatum is primarily involved in reward and motivational processing while the dorsal striatum is involved in motor and cognitive control. Further network level analyses and behavioral decoding analyses confirmed these conclusions.</p>
<p>The present results indicate that distinguishable neurofunctional alterations may neurally mediate reward processing alterations in depression, in particular, with respect to monetary and natural rewards. Given that natural rewards prevail in everyday life, our findings suggest that reward-type specific interventions are warranted. Moreover, the results challenge whether findings from studies on reward alterations that have been observed in monetary tasks can accurately capture reward dysfunctions in everyday life.</p>
<p>Despite promising findings, the study has some limitations and points to open questions. For instance, the study also found that anti-depressive medication may affect the brain alterations in depression. Future studies are therefore required to better understand if treatment with anti-depressive medication affects brain processing of natural and monetary rewards different in depression.</p>
<p>The study, &#8220;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723003410">Distinct neurofunctional alterations during motivational and hedonic processing of natural and monetary rewards in depression – a neuroimaging meta-analysis</a>,&#8221; was authored by Mercy Chepngetich Bore, Xiqin Liu, Xianyang Gan, Lan Wang, Ting Xu, Stefania Ferraro, Liyuan Li, Bo Zhou, Jie Zhang, Deniz Vatansever, Bharat Biswal, Benjamin Klugah-Brown and Benjamin Becker.</p>
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18+ Frances_Larina , 6 months ago

@psychbot @PsychResearchBot @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry

Well, that might help account for Depressive Realism (hypothesis that people with depression are more likely to accurately assess certain situations than those without depression).

bibliolater , 6 months ago to religion

"In this paper, we show how religiosity contributes to mental health more generally, but especially in the particular case of its effect during the Covid-19 pandemic. We find that being religious significantly reduces the negative mental health outcomes associated with Covid-19 incidence in one’s social network. This beneficial effect of religiosity on mental health, in this context, is comparable to the effect of being employed."

Bahal, G. et al. (2023) 'Religion, Covid-19 and mental health,' European Economic Review, 160, p. 104621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104621 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Paper #MentalHealth #Covid #Covid19 #Pandemic #Religion #Spirituality #Population #Psychology #Data #Analysis #Stress #Economics #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @economics @religion

18+ Frances_Larina , 6 months ago

@bibliolater @psychology @economics @religion

I mean, under the right conditions cognitive dissonance can contribute greatly to mental health. Even the DSM has its religious loophole, whereby traits that would normally qualify are exempted if they don't cause problems in the person's local subculture.

janetlogan , 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

Domestic Violence

https://janetannelogan.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/domestic-violence/
#Abuse, #DomesticViolence, #trans #transgender #ActuallyAutistic #spoonie

@spoonies @actuallyautistic

18+ Frances_Larina , 6 months ago

@janetlogan @spoonies @actuallyautistic

That all looks so painful in all the ways. I'm thankful that GAPS opened a case, too.

magicalgrrrl , 8 months ago to random

#ActuallyAutistic community!

How do I make friends as an adult? I'm new to my area and don't have any local friends or community. Have been struggling with loneliness a lot lately.

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@MickG59 @magicalgrrrl @actuallyautistic

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/autistic-individuals-are-more-likely-to-be-lgbtq

Also,
"Among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), an estimated 42–69% identify as same-sex attracted or a sexual minority (Byers et al., 2012; George & Stokes, 2018b). One study estimates that between 42-69% of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder identify as same-sex attracted or as a sexual minority (LGBTQ+) (Byers et al., 2012; George & Stokes, 2018b).
15-35% of individuals with ASD who are labeled as “high-functioning” reported a sexual minority identity (Pecora et al., 2016).
Women with autism are more likely to be in a same-sex relationship than women with TD, and all participants with ASD reported more same-sex attraction, more varied sexual identities, and more asexuality (DeWinter et al., 2017)."

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@magicalgrrrl @actuallyautistic

It's been my experience that I am mostly welcome in the corners of the queer world that are ND. The rest of it seems very NT oriented & centric. That's okay, it just mimics the straight world. But it's important to keep in mind when seeking out friendships.

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@madewokherd @magicalgrrrl @actuallyautistic

It does help, even if it's not always applicable! Something I've noticed is that LGBTQ spaces that are more ND are also more queer & less assimilationist. It could just be a tiny sample, but it's been my experience that the more nonbinary/agender/etc people there are, the more ND the group or space tends to be. I think perhaps that's just self selection by both NT and ND people?

theautisticcoach , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic

Autistic Burnout is an ADDITIONAL disability on top of being #ActuallyAutistic

@actuallyautistic

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

Unless we're talking within the context of Social Disability Theory, I cannot accept that being an autistic is any more a disability than being an allistic is a disability. And the 2020 lockdowns showed that allistic burnout also is a thing.

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

One might even say they are very nearly opposites, which makes it difficult for each to recognize when the other is experiencing their version of it. That's why I brought up the (to them) extreme isolation some allistics encountered for an extended time (perhaps two weeks or so if they were quarantined) in 2020. My very allistic, very social, high stimulous sibling was nearly raving like someone who'd been forgotten in a sensory deprivation chamber for weeks despite hours of zoom & phone calls each day + a full work schedule + deliveries and visitors to her window.

bike , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Grumpy about the medical system, complainy

After an ongoing saga in which my medical records were deleted from the online database never to return, and in which I contacted my clinic to ask for these records multiple times per month in various ways, and in full violation of #HIPAA , I finally got a paper copy of my medical records in the mail.

So I'm reviewing this paper copy of my medical records that I finally got a little while back. And it is much more detailed than the information I had access to through the online portal.

It is riddled with errors. I say one thing. They expect to hear another. They write it down. It's now in my permanent record and I have to just live with records that are wrong or spend hours and lots of emotions trying to get it fixed.

Is angry the emotion I'm having? I don't know. I don't know what emotion it is, but every time I try to think about interfacing with the health clinic, it's just awful. I think I don't need a health clinic, I need like a personal professionally trained health nerd.

Most people: hi doc, I've got symptoms A, B, C.
Doctor: let's test your thyroid. (test) Great! Here, take this pill for the rest of your life.
Most people: ok, doc! Thanks! All better now!

Me: hey doc, can you test my thyroid?
doctor: whyyy?
me: I was reading about it and I think it might be off
doctor: sure ok (test) great! take this pill for the rest of your life!
me: wtf no don't you need to do more tests? make sure there isn't a root cause? I read a book for health professionals on nutrition and thyroid
doctor: (test). how about now? now will you take the pill for the rest of your life? we'll start you on a low dose, we promise.
me: how about I try to fix those nutrition results that were off
doctor: sure, we'll retest in a few months
doctor: crickets
me: hey you forgot about me
doctor: (test) ok look if you don't want to take the pill don't take the pill
me: i am fine with taking the pill if that's the thing that makes the most sense
also me: don't you need to make sure that pill isn't going to cause trouble for me per the instructions in its packaging?
doctor: this is not my expertise, go talk to the homeopathic doctor (test) (abandon patient)

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@bike @actuallyautistic

I'm so sorry this has happened to you. I'd love to be able to say, "it's not all medical providers" but so far, apart from emergencies where something needed to be sewn up or removed (and then sewn up), that's been close to my experience, too. I don't know even what to call it. Sloppiness? Laziness? Maybe it's behaviors shaped by hospital policy that came from lawyers? It's just such horrible patient (customer) care.

Susan60 , 8 months ago to actuallyautistic

For many years I have been conscious of frequently swapping from normal glasses to prescription sunglasses & back again… much more than most people. Someone said something recently about their own sensitivity to light & the need to wear really dark glasses a lot of the time. I’m not so much really sensitive to light, as liking a very narrow range of light, not too bright, not too dark. But both, I’m guessing, are indications of light sensitivity experienced by autistic folk. Who knew? @actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic

18+ Frances_Larina , 8 months ago

@neversosimple @Susan60 @actuallyautistic

It feels so odd to know that this really is a thing, but it's wonderful, too. I too have always been averse to sunny days and very much prefer overcast, fog, twilight, dawn, night and inside diffuse lighting. I used to just think that it was just hot sunlight on my skin being too overstimulating, but it's more.