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#neurodivergent

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Elzen
Allez, je retente avec quelques hashtags pour la visibilité.

Je suis assez probablement #neurodivergent, ou en tout cas je me reconnais dans plusieurs traits de l'autisme et plusieurs camarades autistes sont d'accord avec ce constat. Je ne suis pas encore passé par la case diagnostic, mais ça fait un moment que ça me trotte dans la tête, et j'aimerais bien m'occuper de ça dans les temps qui viennent.

Juste, je ne sais pas du tout comment ça se passe ^^" Je suis fraichement installé sur #Lannion (je bosse au Planétarium), mais je ne connais pas trop le coin non plus. Est-ce que la team #ActuallyAutistic aurait quelques infos pour moi ? :-)

(Merci d'avance pour les partages et les réponses.)
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Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦

@actuallyautistic This bout of fixation has also come with some new feelings that I'm struggling to label.

I'm.. disappointed. Maybe ashamed. Upset with myself, at least, that I'm in this place again.

Especially because the contrast between how _well_ I was doing in January and now is so stark.

In January, I was eating well. I was exercising every morning, going walking or cycling every day. I bought a bike that now just sits collecting dust because I was feeling so well and so confident that I was on track.

Then, somehow, not particularly suddenly and over the course of two months, it has come crashing down to the point where I'm eating very little, struggling to sleep, and doing only the absolute bare minimum to survive on a daily basis.

I thought I was doing so well. I thought being aware of these things would help me see them coming and stop them. Or at least mitigate them.

Yet I'm here again.

I know, I know - don't beat myself up. It's not me, it's the way my brain is wired. This is another learning experience.

I'm just venting, and sharing my experience in hopes others can relate and understand.

It's fucking hard though.

#ActuallyAutistic#Neurodivergent#ADHD
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Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦

@actuallyautistic
I've been in deep work hyperfixation lately. I've come to realize that this is probably seasonal for me.

Ever since I put a label to the behaviour, I've realized that it happens every Feb-April.

Despite my best efforts of self care, I'm here again.

I'm struggling so hard to take care of myself right now. It feels like an addiction that's seasonal.

Maybe it is some form of addiction. For years, I wrote in my journal "ugh it's like I have ADHD or something" but never actually took that seriously, then wound up being diagnosed with inattentive type ADHD.

Similarly, I keep saying "this is like an addiction". Maybe it's time to start treating it like one.

#ActuallyAutistic#Neurodivergent#Autism
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Gareth Harmer

I have bought a spoon.

I was recommended this by Brandon Sanderson, who was posting about his love of Korean style desert spoons as part of a neurodivergent preference.

So I’m going to give it a try. The bowl end feels a little large, but the balance and handle are super nice.

A photo of a Korean style desert spoon
#spoon#neurodivergent
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Church of Jeff

One of the things that I used to do is run board game parties for #autistic people to socialize. Many of my friends are social workers and are companions to #neurodivergent individuals.

I have a rather good sized game collection with lots of rare games but that also means it is a dated collection.

If you're into #boardgames please suggest some of your favorites.

If you're inclined to help, here are some games I've been looking at to bolster my collection.

amazon.com/registries/gl/guest

www.amazon.comChurch of Jeff | Amazon Gift List
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Ellis Jay, resting

Community Cooperation Wales are running a 4-day workshop on Employability Skills & Personal Development for Neurodiverse People at their office in Cardiff.

The workshop "includes an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 2 Award in Leadership and Team Skills."

For more information contact Lloyd@communitycooperationwales.org.uk

I am not affiliated with this organisation. I received this information in a newsletter.

#Cardiff @adhd @autism #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Wales

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Kevin Davy

@actuallyautistic

One of the things I've always loved is spending time alone in nature. Mostly for the obvious reasons that most people enjoy it. But also, as I now realise, because I could drop the mental shields and defences I'd created, almost entirely unconsciously, and really allow my senses to expand and sink into the world around me, without all the usual noisy horror of humanity causing me its pain. There was also a sense of peace in the wilds, that nothing was being demanded of me.

Grow up knowing you are different, even if you don't really know why, and you quickly learn the dangers of showing it, of letting others see the truth. It's why many of us learn to mask from an early age. The world around us quickly lets us know, in many subtle and, quite frankly, fucking unsubtle, ways, that we aren't right and that it's us who have to change. Being in nature was the only place I could feel free of that. Alone in it, nothing was being demanded of me by the world around me, just as I demanded nothing of it. We could just be, existing in the world that we made together. It was the only time I ever felt truly at peace and relaxed, without the nagging thoughts and whispering fears of caution and of not being seen.

I realised today that this was because I separated, in my mind, the human world, from the world of nature. In one, I had a sense of belonging, of just being a part of something, just like everything else. In the other, I was always the outsider, who could never really belong because he was too different, too other and that all I could really do was hide that, mostly for justified fear of being seen. It was, and still remains, the cause of so much of the anxiety and stress I feel just being out in the world. This sense that I'm always in hostile terrain and the fear of showing it.

Which, whilst still so true in many ways, I realised isn't really needed any more. I'm an adult now, OK a gnarly old git, who's often far more trouble than he's worth, and I have my own truths to live by and don't need theirs and that it was never their world anyway, they just happen to populate mine.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Neurodivergent

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