Doing errands sucks enough as it is for someone with #ADHD without something like this happening...

#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes #memes #meme

We need better words for talking about #neurodiversity in ways that aren't pathological, clinical, or derisive. I don't think it's useful to try to think up neologisms on the spot, but I keep my eyes open for new terminology that might arise organically in conversation. Any new words folks are using that are worth sharing?

The word "neurodiversity" itself is kind of new, and it's already been through a bit of an evolution and maybe even has tainted origins, but it's a good word and there's a reason so many of us use it. But even so, I wish it didn't sound so medical. (The evolution I mention is that "neurodiverse" used to mean "not neurotypical", but now generally is used to mean all neurotypes including neurotypical. We use "neurodivergent" for "not neurotypical" now. Likewise "neurotypical" used to mean not autistic, but we say "allistic" for that now.)

A few hashtags that could use an upgrade: #ADHD #ASD #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #neurotypical

Heyyyy macarena, ay!

#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes #memes #meme

This week's "This is Not Therapy" Hour is all about finding and making room for the things that bring us joy in life. Watch now: https://youtu.be/NyulWpsLgPc
#TherapistsConnect #MentalHealthMatters #Neurodiversity #Coaching #Joy

Studie der @uni__augsburg zeigt Verbindung von ADHS mit psychischen Erkrankungen wie Depression, PTBS, Essstörung, Suizidalität. #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #medicine #medscience #adhd
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/09/06/adhs-als-risikofaktor-fuer-andere-psychische-erkrankungen

For all of us ADHDers who feel like failures because we fail at something everyone else says is easy - creating habits.
#ADHD #neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction

https://www.tiktok.com/@domesticblisters/video/7253246024477691182

Loki: meow?

Me: Setting up a Mastodon account.

Hazel: meow

Me: I do have another one, @dpnash@mastodon.online, but I post a lot about #Neurodiversity topics, so I'm planning to do more of that here. For one thing, the character limit in posts is larger here, so not only is it a bit easier to post longer-form items, you fuzzballs get to have longer conversations with me.

Loki: *MEOW*.

Me: Oh, right.

- Things I am: #ActuallyAutistic, #LGBTQ+, in a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.

- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.

- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, #Nature.

- Some weirder, more specific ones? Fine. #StudioGhibli. Indoor #Rowing. #Languages, currently learning #Spanish and #Latin. I geek out a lot about astronomical data and I maintain a widely-used database of stars (the HYG catalog, and its new extension, the AT-HYG catalog with Gaia data) at https://github.com/astronexus.

Yes, I'm a geek. But you still put up with me, right?

Loki: meow
Hazel: meow

Me: Love you both too.

I really enjoyed this panel from last year's QuaranCon about neurodiversity in SFF
https://www.youtube.com/live/tXFCESKW_o4?si=S4_RBHkzS275wjyg

#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #Neurodiversity #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity

Hey neurotypicals, just so you know...

... when you say things like 'everyone is a bit autistic/ ADHD' - especially to children and teenagers - you're adding another log to a bonfire of negative self-image and low self-esteem. Making an already challenging life unnecessarily harder for those of us who actually are autistic/ ADHD.

Please, don't do that.

#neurodiversity #ADHD #autistic

Autistic people and Boundaries

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/09/04/autistic-people-energy-accounting-and-boundaries/

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy

#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autisticburnout #burnout #identity #wellbeing #trauma

When you find the right book, it can be a revelatory experience for the reader. This is why it was so difficult for me when I went through a long period of being unable to focus on reading.

I felt lost without my books.

#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #books #author #autisticauthor #writingcommunity #bookstodon

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @bookstodon

@Elizabeth3 Absolutely – there’s some very good participatory and neurodiversity-informed research being done at the moment

For example, I need look no further than @SueReviews’s research group a stone’s throw from me (if you’re *very* good at throwing stones – not that I condone stone-throwing in general!):

https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects-1
http://dart.ed.ac.uk

#ParticipatoryResearch #neurodiversity
#ActuallyAutistic #AllAutistics

Autistic people often don't have great experiences with doctors. I suspect that in part it's because of doctors failing to humanise their patients.

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #medicine #NHS #healthcare

Psychiatry in the west has been built upon a long history of colonial aggression. If you are part of a minority group, chances are you will end up in a psychiatrists office at some point in your life.

Psychiatry then positions the problem in your brain, rather than the political and material circumstances of your life.

Psychiatry needs to do better.

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy #schizophrenia #Schizophrenic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #Psychiatry

Is #giftedness (IQ > 130, roughly speaking) a form of neurodiversity?

#highIQ
#mensa
#neurodiversity

Interested in knowing a bit about my advocacy around #Neurodiversity and the point-of-view I would bring to the #Drupal Association as an At Large Director? Here is episode 2 of "My Neurodivergent Brain" - the 1970s. https://youtu.be/sbgV1uc6asE?si=QmW0RybfSHTt4Qiv

This is me playing #WoWClassic like it's 2004🤣🤣

#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes #memes #meme #gaming #videogames

@gretathunberg #nerds pro-#neurodiversity

pro-#neurodiversity

I've had this happen for things that I normally wouldn't even find difficult - at times I'm completely unable to identify what triggered it for a specific task.
#ADHD #neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction