@konomikitten I hope things now start to make sense for you. I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD-Inattentive type at age 50, and it was a revelation.

#NotBroken #Neurosparkly #ActuallyAutistic

My fellow #NeuroSparkly people, all of you who are #ActuallyAutistic and/or have #ADHD
I need your help: Motivation, how do you get it?
I go through my day dealing with the vital tasks, then when the time is my own I just can't get started on the things I want to do.
I know what I want, I know I'll feel good if I do it, but every time I think of starting my head fills up with objections. Then I end up taking the 'safe' option; scrolling media or watching a series.

Strategies please, folks!

Just a quick shout into the void; I'm supposed to be somewhere in two and a half hours. My anxiety is growing steadily and all I'm doing now is trying to find a good enough excuse to cancel. I'd love to be able to just say "my anxiety wins, I'm not coming" but the thought of saying that makes it even worse and so on...
#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #NeuroSparkly #NeuroDivergent #AuDHD

A short(ish) story about my #NeuroSparkly childhood.

I just recently learned that NT folks apparently find times tables a useful tool for quickly responding to mental arithmetic problems, whereas #NeuroDivergent people tend to work differently, by reasoning 'outwards' from a specific, memorable sum.

When I was about 8 years old, we were expected to learn times tables and our ability to memorise them was tested in class by the following method:

(Continues)

Socks.
They're taking up an unreasonable amount of my brain right now. As a #NeuroSparkly person, I've always had difficulty with clothing comfort. As an #Environmentalist I hate 'disposability'.

So, I wish I could wear wool socks and make/repair them myself. I guess the next best thing is #cotton and I'm wondering about one of those tube knitting machines.

Does anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic and/or #Yarn community have any thoughts on the subject?

#AuDHD #ADHD #KnittingMachine

I'm very glad I came to Mastodon so early in the 'great birdsite migration'.

In a really short time I've seen increasing amounts of the same kind of sniping comments that made me want to leave there in the first place.
I truly hope those people fail to turn this into a new version of the same cesspool.

I'm really enjoying connecting with my fellow #ActuallyAutistic, #ADHD and other #NeuroSparkly people, so it's important to me that I continue to feel safe here.

I realise it's ten years old, but I only just saw this film and was immediately struck with how accurately it represents my attempts to 'figure out the rules' throughout my life.

https://youtu.be/S-G2lG-o_uk

#NeuroSparkly #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD
@actuallyautistic

#chloehayden as Quinni, in Heartbreak High, is the first time I ever saw myself actually represented in media. As a 47 year old, that's saying something. #actuallyautistic #neurosparkly

Any of my fellow #NeuroSparkly people recognise this?

Sometimes I find myself holding several very different items, taking two steps one way then two steps the other, stuck in a loop of indecision.

It starts with a feeling of efficency; "this thing needs to go there, but that thing also needs dealing with, so it can come along too..." But then breaks down when I feel pulled in too many directions.

Not sure if it's the #ADHD or the #autism

@Turtlecatpurrz @gwmccull @actuallyautistic
And the system works... I'm on mastodon.lol (lovely people here) but have no problem finding my fellow #NeuroSparkly people 😁

@Micheleyee
Hi and welcome to a much nicer place ! I'm really enjoying learning how things work here and finding new connections with my fellow #NeuroSparkly people.

I'm also self-dx (at 51) and think it highly unlikely I'll ever bother trying to get an 'on paper' assessment. I've spent so long carving out a lifestyle that works for me, it's simply an ongoing voyage of self-discovery at this stage 😉

You might already know, but hashtags are really useful here for finding the content you like.

@mcneely @srevilo @gcluley

Yup. My #neurosparkly brain would have me stumped at that. Is it him or not? On the one hand no, it's an actor portraying him. On the other hand yes, because if the challenge was about a fictional character (eg Superman) then all portrayals would qualify...

I'd probably agonise for a minute, guess randomly and hope the follow-up captcha (they always seem to hunt in pairs anyway) was less ambiguous.

@OT_Expert Thanks!
I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that. On here I've started using #neurosparkly as a fun way to connect but that's not really useful in a professional context.

Since I'm self-dx and consider myself to be both autistic and ADHD, I tend to describe myself as neuro-divergent because it's the 'best of a bad lot' of options.
Otherwise, I often refer to specific difficulties as being "because of the way my brain's wired" and go from there.

I'd welcome any suggestions though 🙂

@ephant @obrerx @TheAutisticTooter
Yes!
This has been on my mind a lot recently. My acceptance of #autism and #adhd in combination only really began this year (I'm 51) and it definitely seems as if 'it's getting worse' every day.
I'm sure that some would dismiss it as a form of hypochondria, but no. It's more that each time I read or hear about another aspect of my experience which is shared by other #neurosparkly people, the more I realise I've been masking for years.

I refuse to mask now.

Ok, still learning this new place. Time to try another post...

On the subject of being #neurodivergent : For people who think in computer terms, today I realised it's as if my brain is equipped for parallel data but I'm trying to communicate with people who expect serial.

Apparently I should use hashtags more here, so...
#actuallyautistic #adhd #neurosparkly (because I saw someone use that term recently and liked it)