If you're autistic and struggle with making phone calls, what is the major challenge for you?
- Getting started (inertia)
- Delayed processing of audio input (need for clarification requests)
- Anxiety (fear of missing info, being rude, bothering sb, relying on notes taken...)
- Something else (please comment)
Or all of it?
Please comment if you don't struggle with this (anymore).
Today is not going according to my wishes or vague plans. Trying not to stress out over it & I'm losing myself in thoughts over how to simplify & organise next year's bullet journal.
This spiralled into, how can I get back on the, dealing with housework & cleaning wagon, as at some point I completely fell off. So, major paralysis on how or where to start.
Toying with the idea of introducing a, do one small thing everyday either before or immediately after breakfast, so that it's done.
Just small things like, clean the bathroom sink or pick up some random crap that I never tidied up.
If I can persuade myself to write down that I did it & when & then do the same for the following times that things get done, I might eventually have a realistic roster of things. Just need to remember to keep it flexible. If the day the floor need vacuuming I'm not up to it, swap it for something else or just shunt everything along a day.
As long as I don't fall into the trap of shunting things along indefinitely, I might be okay.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Life #TidyUp #CleanUp #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons
Is autistic self-identification valid?
I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!
#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism
https://www.autisticculturepodcast.com/p/is-autistic-self-identification-valid
Fasting for blood tests has thrown my whole morning. Not because I am hungry, but because it messed up my morning routine of eat first, then do chores. Without the eating bit, I can't seem to latch on to what's next.
#Autistic
@autistics
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.
What proportion of your classic autistic symptoms do you think are due to you being autistic, and what proportion may be due to trauma you've suffered?
List of trauma symptoms here, for those not familiar: https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/trauma-symptoms.html
List of classic autistic symptoms, as listed in the DSM, here: https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-diagnostic-criteria-dsm-5
#Autism #ASD #Autistic #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Trauma #CPTSD #ActuallyAutistic
I really like this #Autistic symbol proposal by MissLunaRose12.See: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Au...#Autism
I feel grateful that there's a means by which so many #Autistic people have to discover and connect with each other. And it's federated! That's even cooler. It lets us attach our cat photos directly. We must be living in a dream or something. This wasn't really possible 20 years ago.
@autistics
#introduction
Toujours un peu dans la lune, trying to remember to breathe.
Working for a charity - #dementia awareness and Gipsy, Roma & Traveller #women's health
#Knitting, #HumanRights, #ADHD, #Autistic #neurodiversity, #TransRights .
Migrant based in the UK.
Trying to be a good ally, working on it.
Toots auto delete after a month. No #alt, no boost.
Will accept your follow request after interaction.
Really need to get to bed before midnight tonight, or I turn into a gremlin or something 🤷.
I need to start reclaiming my mornings as it would be nice to get to about lunch time & actually have accomplished some thing. Just simple things maybe but things like a bit of house cleaning, going for a walk, some reading & maybe a little bit of writing & drawing.
Maybe it could boost my confidence & make it possible to volunteer somewhere, even if the local volunteering options are only charity shop work.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #MindFog #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #LackOfFocus #SelfCare #Depression #Life #Sleep #SleepProblems
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Introducing, the #Neurodivergent @popfeed.social@bsky.brid.gy List for movies and TV shows!popfeed.social/list/at://di...Check it out and find your next watch!#Neurospicy #Neuroatypical #Autistm #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD and more.
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A while ago I was listening to the Autistic Culture Podcast and Matt (who's since left) brought up the intense world theory of #Autism, which explains a lot about our brains.
According to studies (in link below), generally, the #Autistic brain generates 42% more information at rest, over-activates upon eye contact and reading faces, and has closer synaptic firing. No wonder we get easily overwhelmed by the world! 😵💫
@autistics
@autism101
Before I knew I was autistic, my social life consisted of pretending to love people I didn't love, to like things I didn't like, to care about things I didn't care about, to miss people I didn't miss, and to find things interesting that I didn't care about.
Random thoughts & feeling energised in a knackered sort of way. If I was less knackered & not aiming for the end of day wind down I'd get of my backside & do things.
If this foes turn into a solid bit of insomnia, maybe I should use it as it'll mean that I won't get nothing done tomorrow.
Hello insomnia, my old frenemy.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Life #Sleep #Insomnia #SleepProblems
Cannot believe how a quick session of messing with the computer, remembering & refamiliarising myself with Obsidian & SyncThing up ended my day.
A pre breakfast half an hour turned out to have plowed through both breakfast & lunch & into early mid-afternoon territory 😂.
Plans in ruins, important tasks shunted as my brain was pickled or something.
Something, something hyperfocus, time blindness & executive dysfunction lead to something & dehydration. Why can't this trifecta happen when I need it?
I'd plough through all my tasks & then spend the last hours of the day restocking my body's calorie & liquid stores whilst unwinding with some movies or episodes 😎.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Hyperfocus #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction
I wonder how other #autistic #actuallyaudhd #actuallyautistic people feel about the tv shows:
- The Good Doctor
- Parenthood
Cc @autistics
I'm listening to Fern Brady talk about autism. Meltdowns as being like a bottle of pop/soda that's been shaken too much and then you open it.
I've read that it's often like anger. But anger tends to resolve quickly when the cause is fixed. Whereas, with a meltdown, NOPE! We're still "angry".
This was so much of my childhood. I was so angry so often.
Not that I could tell that this was odd because my father didn't like me and would yell at me. And he'd yell at my mother in front of me. I'd get between them and yell at him to stop.
Afterward, after his yelling and demeaning words, I'd go into a quiet room, turn off the lights, sit on the floor, and seethe.
Sure, it was justified seething. I was getting emotionally abused, before anyone thought this was wrong (back in the '80s). But I knew it was **wrong**
But the anger. I would be angry for hours.
When I'd be bullied or teased for being different in school, I'd be angry for a while. I'd even be violent within limits.
When I felt like I had no agency, I'd punch objects. I'd even Charlie horse myself: colloquial for punching myself in the thigh until walking with that leg ached.
So, sure, C-PTSD, because of years of accumulated awfulness. But also autism.
And this is so much of the difficulty with being autistic and getting diagnosed. The diagnostician has to untangle the trauma from possible autistic symptoms. There's overlap.
Also, so so SO many autistics have trauma. So many.
It's funny how "experts" are now discussing two proposals I kept on repeating for a few years now:1. #Korea #Philippines #Japan alliance triangle (and a far future confederation)2. Combining the South China Sea and East China Sea issuesI'm a one-man #Autistic brain trust / think-tank. 🤣
It's funny how "experts" are now discussing two proposals I kept on repeating for a few years now:
1. #Korea #Philippines #Japan alliance triangle (and a far future confederation)
2. Combining the South China Sea and East China Sea issues
I'm a one-man #Autistic brain trust / think-tank. 🤣 (Well, I did work as an SME (subject-matter expert), soo…)
#Wednesday S02 is super enjoyable!#FOBI = Fear Of Being IncludedYeah, /metoo#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticActually #Autistic #Autism
Kim Dami's character—Yun Ina—seems to be Autistic-coded. It's hard to be sure since Kim Dami explained in an interview that her character was scarred by what she witnessed when she was 19, so she's acting like a 19-year old with an intellect of a 29-year old.#Autism #Neurodivergent #Autistic
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Yes, I'm an anarcho-syndicalist, bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic, radical leftist!
I won’t apologize for being an anarchist or for being autistic. Autism rules, and so does anarchism!
#Anarchist #Syndicalist #Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalist #AnarchoSyndicalism #Bisexuality #Bisexual #GenderFluidity #GenderFluid #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism #RadicalLeftist #Radical #Politics
I was in #Arirang #TheDailyReport by Ms. Sunny a few years back where disabilities were discussed in relation to #Kdrama«Disabilities Redefined in K-dramas, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo"»www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4hy...#AutisticActually #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Neurodivergent #ASD #Autistic
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