The Carnivore diet is scientifically and medically supported for all of the Neurodivergent.
I think this knowledge SHOULD be common wisdom. No matter your issues. Mine were anxiety, autoimmune, chronic fatigue, and Burnout that rendered me unemployable.
It works for lots of things we should not be suffering from. Looking since 2016, getting better since 2019.
there’s no relationship between neurotype and dementia, right, the divergents get it at the same rate as the straight and narrows, right?
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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ND @autistics
I don’t want to single the person out, and I’m not, believe me, every normal person and most of the weirdos say what I’m about to argue with. I’m borrowing their text, though, it’s perfect, just what nearly everyone thinks.
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“I think violence is a part of human nature and could never go away. Even if you found a way to stop all physical violence, the human aggression that causes it would still exist.”
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I have a hard time accepting this, but I don’t think the majority sees anything wrong with that statement. Honestly, I think it’s built in, evolved into the majority.
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But from over here in Divergent World, what I see is an excuse never to change anything, never to stop whatever is causing the aggression. “It would still exist,” so it is beyond causality, beyond science or thought? Purely a spiritual matter?
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I’m still a toddler among the adults of Allistic science, having to ask, “Why?,” every ten seconds because, “because of Human Nature,” isn’t a real First Cause, you’re just sloughing your child off - OK, Dad, I’ll keep
it going: why, “Human Nature?” And anyway, when someone isn’t aggressive for thirty seconds, isn’t that, “Human Nature,” too?
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You have the same answer for opposite questions?
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But back to the point, the majority is so certain that aggression is natural and proper, causeless and inevitable that they will not experiment, will not learn anything further about it.
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#ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD #Philosophy #NTPsychology @autistics
My dear AuDHD / ADHD / autistic fellows, do you have any experience with "mindfulness"? You know, the stuff where whole books exist about being in the moment, breathing, etc.? I don't yet know much about it and before I deep-dive into it, I want to know from you!
Is it useful? Or is it just another thing that seems to be advice from neurotypicals for neurotypicals?
@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 8.5 hours from now.
Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource crafting and mining voxel game, available in the #luanti game engine. 
Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
(Note: You can join with pretty much any device which **isn't** an iPad/iPhone)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@starryeyes/117468255284313812
Please share, if you can? I'm so deeply sorry & embarrassed. I'm desperate and not doing well without my medications. 😖
#NEISvoid #hEDS #chronicpain #marfansyndrome #EDS #MECFS #POTS #MCAS #AuDHD #actuallyautistic #ADHD #disabled #longcovid #mutualaid #spooniechat #chronicillness #crowdfund #emergencycrowdfund #tetheredcord #chiarimalformation #fibromyalgia #queercrowdfund #queermutualaid #povertycrowdfund #ihatethisiamsosorryomfg
#AuDHD projects are always like that: yes, I have a system, but I don’t have enough patience to follow it meticulously enough for it to end up as ordered and perfect as I imagined it in my head - so the result is always disappointing me or leaving me irritated with myself for not being able to follow my own instructions
@autistics
#adhd
#neurodivergent
Maybe it is actually #alexithymia speaking, but I am pretty sure I can’t feel hate.
Like, I can feel despise, disgust, loathe, horror, fear etc - but hate? Hate assumes certain amount of passion, strength - it’s something too big to bother to maintain for someone you don’t like.
Maybe it’s just my #autistic negation to use definitive labels - like the hesitancy to consider what I can feel ‘love’ or to call someone a friend.
Being AuDHD makes it so hard to keep to basic daily routines when the context they reside in suddenly changes.
In theory, my routines could be almost the same right now as before. But I’m deeply thrown off by a change around me, even though this change was planned and I’m prepared.
It’s like my internal map broke - the one that guides me through each day showing me all the waypoints. Need to figure out where I am and make a new map... recalibrate.
Usually takes me at least 2 nights to adjust. The morning after that second night should feel MUCH more comfortable.
I’m noticing I’m feeling embarrassed sharing this, too. 😔 I don’t know why. It’s just AuDHD stuff. I’ve only known I’m AuDHD for a few years though. Somehow I still think I can power on through (doesn’t work) or magically snap out of it (haha!)
@autistics
#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD
In continuation of this post:
https://mementomori.social/@olena/116724537492462579
Playing a single-player game, I feel an urge to make a certain move. I take a look, and I clearly see it’s a wrong move, I see the rule it breaks, and I know if I do it, it will be considered a wrong move and I will be punished - lose a heart or something. There are no possible hidden positive effects to it. I make the move anyway.
Why? What happens in the brain in this moment that I still do the move fully understanding that it is wrong?
@autistics
#AuDHD
#neurodivergent
I am exploring my cognitive profile and curious about how other AuDHD adults navigate similar experiences.
Reading and absorbing complex material comes easily, alongside a clear internal sense of connections between concepts.
Spoken conversation presents challenges with rapid retrieval. Unexpected questions can cause me to freeze, as numerous interconnected thoughts lack an immediate route to linear speech.
Writing requires several days for the conceptual structure to settle internally before drafting. Rubric headings and points outline the sections, which then become full paragraphs.
Musical composition works similarly, where multiple parts and several bars are heard internally before notation begins.
Mental arithmetic and automatic recall of basic number facts require conscious, step-by-step calculation.
Stress intensifies difficulties with working memory, processing speed, and verbal recall, particularly under strict deadlines.
I welcome reflections from fellow AuDHD adults with strong conceptual strengths alongside differences in processing and retrieval. #AuDHD
Me, coming back with my bullshit (LOOOVE that meme):
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when an animal, humans
included experiences
abuse, or perceives abuse, they are unhappy about it, displeased, upset, perhaps angry.
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This is not “Autistic rigidity,” rather ignoring this obvious fact is Allistic rigidity, it is they who are not rolling with what is real,
not working with this fact of life,
not changing their methods due to the reality on the ground.
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The entirety of the Human sciences supports this simple
causality and the only counter argument people have against it is denial, they don’t want it to be real, so they say it isn’t and try to make everyone agree with more abuse. Unfortunately, this is working.
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They have hijacked their environment and so diverted their own evolution, and many today really cannot see this truth, this core actuarial truth, that abuse changes people.
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The whole idea of law and punishment ought to have dried up and blown away with Wallace and Darwent, the idea that the same stressors work forever, that the animal doesn’t ADAPT to law and order belongs in a pre-Darwin world. Punishment would only ever do what they hope in a static, never evolving world. Do I have to remind you, crime has not ended?
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People adapted and evolved instead of learning what the punishers wished to teach. They even adapt to prison.
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“Rigidity,” is just what one neurotype says about another. It only means type is real, that people cannot be talked out of their evolved thoughts.
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My point in it all is that your evolved thoughts are like what the Russian fox farm showed: change the phenotype, select for
something, you’re likely also changing the personality, the brain and the thoughts. The supposedly regrettable Human Nature is being unregrettably selected for, and humans are doing the selecting themselves.
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So in theory, things could change. Sigh. So far, only in theory. My experiments were
futile.
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/1 maybe
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#ND #AuDHD #NTPsychology #Philosophy @autistics
It kinda makes logical the overlap between #autism and #adhd
Also, to me personally it’s interesting that it mentions connections between cortex and deeper regions, because in my teens, I had a bunch of encephalograms, and they said that I have irregular cortex - subcortex connections with increased cortex control, and I now wonder if those things are related
#AuDHD
@autistics
@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 5 hours from now.
Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource crafting and mining voxel game, available in the #luanti game engine.
Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited. We also have a #Deltachat group for game-related discussion. More details here: https://docs.autis.toque.im/
(You can join with pretty much any device which **isn't** an iPad/iPhone)
I need something to think about and something to write but I’ve run out of anything remotely possible.
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I think I said this already, I’m obsessively trying to imagine how to show NT people the trap they’re in, but how to demonstrate, how to prove anything, the whole problem is they can’t see the proof in the first place.
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I’m looking for an analogy, cases where they can see other species inability to perceive or process, like the way wasps cannot find the open hole they entered the trap by to get out again, the way some herds or flocks can get caught up following one another to nowhere in a circle.
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Of course it falls apart, you can’t explain that first trait to the wasps or the second one to the turkeys. There’s a world of shit you can’t explain to me too.
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What I’m trying to express about myself in all this is my own shock at my own awareness of what I can’t seem to explain. I would like to somehow impart how R-worded people seem to be regarding causes, how I hear them say, “human nature,” like the low IQ aliens in Hitchhiker’s say, “Resistance is futile,” or like the gulls in Finding Nemo say, “Mine?”
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I see that expression, “human nature,” as an anti-intellectual rule, the one and only thing the totalitarian state insists can be said regarding people, any causality is some kind of treason. The slogan for a regime under which no self knowledge is permitted.
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“I hit them but it doesn’t HURT them,” is R-worded. That’s what hitting is for. If you don’t want to hurt them, why are you hitting them? If it doesn’t hurt them, what’s the point? Where’s the deterrent?
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It has consensus, but it looks really, really bad to me, logically. Like they don’t understand a word they say. I sprayed water on them, but I didn’t WET them. Something isn’t working there, rather, sense isn’t allowed in to human life.
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Sorry, FWIW
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/1 probably
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#ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD @autistics #NTPsychology #Philosophy
In theory… today should be one of the new residential glass recycling collection days.
I am braced and ready with windows and doors closed and never too far away from ear protection.
Last time, they did some glass collection on the scheduled day, the came back later the same day AND next day for more! 😬😅 O.M.G.
Sensory overload is one thing, but SURPRISE sensory overload is a whole other thing. Doing my best now to spot patterns as part of planning to, hopefully, avoid surprises. But/and the glass recycling collectors do not know this. They’re free to change their patterns at any moment!
One of the saddest things to witness online is people going back and forth between identifying as ADHD or autistic because of descriptions of the experience and doubting because of "clinical", extreme or one-sided descriptions.
It's especially sad, when people seem to develop a mental block to understanding themself and connecting with others because of it.
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Question for my fellow autistics of the fediverse.
Do you see EVERYTHING when you walk into a room for the first time?
The painting, and the crack in the wall next to it.
The plaid chair in the corner, and the dog hair behind the left front leg.
The vase and the faces. (in the figure-ground, or Rubin, vase picture)
I'm reading Leidy Klotz's new book, In A Good Place and he's saying things like, "we all miss most of the details when we enter a space. We see one thing then everything else dissolves into the background." and I just want to scream at the page.
Or this one:
"Our bodies keep responding to sensory inputs even when our minds have gotten in the habit of ignoring them."
Is it just me, or do our (autistic) minds NEVER get in the habit of ignoring sensory inputs?!
In Hiding, a short story by Wilmar H. Shiras, written in 1948, is such a good depiction of autistic experience, of that necessity to mask, of being accused of lying about being able to do something just because the accusers can’t conceive the fact that you can do something they can’t, of existing within your solitude taking joy in books, learning and creating
If you also read that short story, do you also feel it relatable?
@autistics
#autism
#AuDHD
#autisticMasking
I done blogged again. Sorry.
This one's about masking. Specifically, why I think the discourse around it is a bit one-sided. Some of my masks are genuinely useful. Some of them I actively like. The entertainer one in particular has been putting in a shift lately.
https://theaardvark.co.uk/in-defence-of-the-neurodivergent-mask.html
I found out that I am AuDHD here… and my therapist confirmed that self diagnosis. I am grateful to the @autistics community for helping me understand myself better. This was a gift that I wasn’t expecting. I am happy to talk to anyone who is interested in talking to me about this reality. #AuDHD @autistics
Team lead was absent on daily morning call, and the designer who took over running things proceeded to call us 'champs' for keeping everything in motion.
My #auDHD ass:
- starts singing "We Are the Champions" to myself
- while worrying someone will find out what an imposter I am
- and composing a round of edits for the piece she just complimented
(And as if to drive home my very point, I just had to look up the right spelling of 'compliment' vs 'complement.' AGAIN.)
I generally am quite a clumsy person, but I just realized my clumsiness gets way worse when I am overwhelmed. Got to spend four days on the Easter holidays with my nephew - and till the end of the week it’s like clumsiness x10. Everything falls from my hands, I almost drowned my phone two times, accidentally broke several plates, a glass and a ceramic pot lid, flipped several dishes and bumped many things. I’m like a walking disaster by now, so I just am sitting on my sofa trying to not touch anything fragile or expensive till I get enough of my alone time.
Did you also noticed being much more clumsy when you are overwhelmed and not having enough alone time?
@autistics
#autistic
#AuDHD
#neurodivergent
