For the first time in months, I forced myself to get off the f—ing computer and go for a f—ing walk, where I met this little guy...
If at all possible, go outside sometime...
...your brain may stay in its spiral
...you may not notice any beauty
...but you may just encounter a random #cat in the middle of Amish farmland (who has no respect for it not being #Caturday) and be reminded for a moment that life...life is a thing
#MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #CatsOfMastodon
Joined Vinted to try this circular economy of clothing but I fear my dopamine-seeking brain is getting addicted.
It feels so good selling clothes I no longer want and then buying with my earnings. And I am only buying within my own country so no air millage to keep it green.
Perhaps my #Autistic brain needs rules around scrolling times to manage the #ADHD side of the brain 🤔
My Inner Order Muppet: OK, it’s been a heck of a week but you’re behind on the course modules and have another assignment due next weekend.
My Inner Chaos Muppet: Clobbers the Order Muppet with a banjo, stuffs body in the chest freezer, opens a bag of Sour Skittles, puts “Some Nights” by Fun on repeat and dives into auditing and filing 18 digital doom piles out of the Mac's “downloads” folder.
I've been trying a new way to turn procrastination into getting stuff done,by making a list of chores and rolling a D20 to see what I have to do next. Playing with the pretty dice and the randomness of it all is easier for me at the moment than "just do it". I know this will only work for a bit, I'm learning that this is how my brain works, a few weeks from now I'll have to change it up and that's ok.
I don’t have #ADHD but I've observed that certain aspects of my behaviour *may* look like ADHD.
E.g. in #Obsidian, I need multiple tabs/windows because I need to be able to jump from thought(s) to thought(s) quickly.
It looks like distractedness from the outside, but instead, for me, it's because I hold many different thoughts in context, connected systemically, and autistically hyperfocused on all of them in a broad space at the same time.
@autistics
For those of you who may not know. It would appear as if the Guppe groups are down for good. Apparently the bloke who ran it got knifed in the back by the domain being sold to another ahead of schedule and before he could renew it. Whether he will be able to get it back up and running in another way, I don't know.
Fedigroups run a similar service, for those interested. I tagged the autistic one above. https://about.fedigroups.social/home
I'm not sure how widespread this information about the Guppe groups is yet. But, for those of you who us it a lot, whether for autism, or anything else, it may not be the worst idea to post something similar to this to your followers and help spread the word.
A thought has occurred to me.
In the rush to try and recreate the effect of the sadly departed Guppe groups many us may be attempting to open new groups using the fedigroup route, or any other way that they may have found. It may not be the world's worst idea to let as many people know that this is what you are trying to do, as soon as possible, probably by using the appropriate hashtags. Otherwise, it's entirely possible that multiple groups will end up being formed, for essentially the same purpose, and end up being highly confusing.
Boost please, fair folk of the Fedi.
Whilst probably not an original thought, it still strikes me as one that won't hurt in the coming days of people scrambling to try and reconnect.
I just had the realization that the movie Real Genius had some cute, early depictions of neurodiversity. Not really accurate of course, it was an 80s movie and a comedy (mostly), but I can better understand now why it resonated with me so much.
M’yello. I am giving Mastodon another shot. So here’s another #introduction :
I am a #TwitterRefugee from The Great Migration.
I love humor, jokes and funny toots.
I love to read. Mostly horror and thriller.
I love art doodling and music.
Also, not that it defines my life, but I am just now embracing my #ADHD and how it affects my daily existence.
When you struggle with Object Permanence, everything in a box, cupboard or drawer becomes a Schrödinger's thing(s).
Do they exist or don't they exist, or do they only exist if you remember them & where you put them?
Do they only exist when you find / rediscover them?
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #ObjectPermanence
How would YOU communicate thru a short-circuiting transistor radio?
Plain language becomes revolutionary when your neurology sparks and stutters.
My live piece explores dancing close to the edge of the noise.
Anyone else a fan of the movie/tv show Limitless? Watching them for maybe the 4th or 5th time now. The starting position of these two people resonates really hard, especially Eddie since he's a writer like me. Probably it's the ADHD side, but could be the autistic side; not sure since I'm both. Definitely an executive function issue. The appeal isn't of being smarter (although that's cool too), it's that being able to engage hyperfocus at will. If I could just look at (one of) my to-do list(s), and hyperfocus each item off of it, *that* would be amazing.
SO IT'S #Autism Awareness Month?
since am one of those #ActuallyAutistic people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.
welp, let me do this as a gentle reminder:
1. BLACK
2. INDIGENOUS
3. PUERTO RICAN
4. CARIBBEAN
5. LATINOAMERICANES
6. WOMEN
can be #autistic too.
and in my case: #dyslexic with a sprinkling of good ol' extra spicy #ADHD.
but ironically, 🧵
Hello Neurospicy* friends. Are you someone who finds you need calming sounds/music to help with overwhelm?
I recommend BBC Radio 3 Unwind. 24 hours a day of the calmer, relaxed classical music. Available on BBC Sounds from almost any device.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_three_unwind
If you're in the UK, you can also access a massive number of old programmes from BBC Radio 3 Unwind.
Listeners outside the UK can only listen to the live broadcast.
Me feeling #AuDHD overwhelm: I need a break. I need to sit in peace and quiet for a while.
Me sitting in peace and quiet: This is tedious, isn't it. I need to watch TV / surf the internet / do something.
Me "doing something": Why isn't the overwhelm going away?
Log in to ebay to check things I've ordered.
Once logged in, proceeds to spend 30 minu- what do you mean 3 hours? …
Survives 3 hours hunting for the mythical Surface Pro 1 (2013) case & / or cover 😱😭😞
How's that for hyperfocus? Am I doing it right?
Also keywords / points: Mythical, Pro, 1 & 2013. eBay shows me everything else (Surface Go / Surface Pro 4+) instead 🤦.
Right it's 13:30, time for a tasty brunch & a gallon of tea to cheer me up.
(Online) shopping is such fun (⬅️total sarcasm).
P.s. I did find some 'universals' that should do … I hope 🤞.
Just need to recalibrate my brain to except boring over the design / colour I want so I can order the right one.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Hyperfocus
Hey @autistics fam, happy to find us again!😄
#AuDHD #ADHD #Autistic #Autism
I'm continuing to read Russell #Barkley's "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" (2nd edition, 2022). Only now — very close to the end of the book, in Chapter 28 — does he finally make clear what is really motivating him. He describes vividly how his FRATERNAL TWIN BROTHER was killed in a single-vehicle auto accident which he blames directly on his brother's #ADHD. No wonder the drill-sergeant mentality that pervades the book; no wonder the impatience with theoretical problems of defining #ADHD, the relentless subordination of theoretical insight to raw data. #Barkley is a man on a mission. He thinks — with justification — that he's saving his readers' lives, some of them at least.
Just let me say: I'm convinced that serious neuropsychiatric conditions like #ADHD, however pressing their practical implications, absolutely require a theoretically sound approach. And although any empirically based discipline can always use more data, what the neuropsychiatry of #ADHD needs MOST right now is NOT the addition of yet more data to the reams of it that #Barkley and others have already collected; it's a theoretical framework that can explain the data in a way that offers genuine insight and predictive power. You won't get that from an approach that is content with defining neuropsychiatric conditions in a way reminiscent of restaurant menus ("At least 5 symptoms from list A and at least 3 symptoms from list B, OR at least 1 symptom from list A, at least 6 symptoms from list B, and at least 2 symptoms from list C, OR...").
My wife has just sent out a newsletter aimed at her #kidlit writing colleagues referencing the fact that it's #ADHD Awareness Month in a couple of days. There's advice on writing as an ADHD author, an invite for subscribers to a free webinar on writing neurodiverse characters (that she's hosting) and a free draw for 30 minutes of coaching.
You can read the thing itself here:
https://buttondown.com/storygodmother/archive/storygodmother-newsletter-34-getting-it-done/
and subscribe for access to the webinar here:
https://buttondown.com/storygodmother
@bookstodon #writing
My wife doesn't run a fediverse account, so I'm alerting anyone interested that her new book is part of the itch.io bundle collated to bring awareness of #ADHD in writing for #ADHDAwarenessMonth. There's a whole bunch of different genres included and they're all either written by an ADHD author, or have an ADHD significant character.
"The Players Act 1" is both.
If you fancy $90 of ebooks for $25, please give it a look - all DRM-free.
https://itch.io/b/3300/adhd-awareness-month-fiction
@bookstodon #books #IndieAuthor
Hmm… #AskingAutistics
What is the meaning of #Autistic Spicy? I recently started seeing it but what is it? There is also: #ADHD Spicy.
~trying so catch up with the times 😆
"Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists"
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