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my-autism-adhd-blog · 1 month

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Autism Myths

The Autistic Teacher

#autism #actually autistic #autism myths #it is not caused by vaccines #it is not a disease #autism is not a childhood condition #not all are savants #it is not caused by bad parenting #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #The Autistic Teacher (Facebook)

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neurodivergentrebel · 1 month

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On the Myth Autistic People Lack Imagination

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics - there’s a myth Autistic People “don’t have an imagination” - what do you think about this myth?

When I was first learning about being Autistic, one “sign of Autism” that I kept coming across was “lack of imaginative play,” – which stumped me because, as a kid, much of my play (possibly most of it) was in my imagination. There are a lot of ridiculous Autism Myths out there that we are “always this” or “never that” – false binaries that fail to recognize that (just like non-autistic people)…

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#actuallyautistic #Autism #autism myths #autistic pride #Neurodiversity

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helenwhiteart-blog · 2 years

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High-functioning

I’ve been skipping around this topic for a while as high functioning autism is a term that is no longer “officially” used so it can sound controversial to use it about yourself, as though to try and distinguish or distance yourself from the other autistic people, which is not what I intend to so. This year, more so than any other of my life, has been the one where I came fully to terms with my…

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#2E #articles #asperger&039;s #autism myths #autism resources #female presentation autism #giftedness #high functioning autism #Highly Sensitive Person #intensity #late diagnosed autism #masking and overcompensation #neurodivergence #self-diagnosis #twice-exceptional

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kamianya-ttv · 1 year

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You’re not lazy, you’re neurodivergent:

A post on executive dysfunction, ADHD inattentiveness and hyperfocus, and whatever else occurred to me as related as I originally wrote this for twitter.

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been called lazy by people in your life. But the thing is, there’s almost no-one (if anyone) who’s actually lazy. And I promise you, if you’ve felt guilty because there are things you should be doing and can’t get them done? You are NOT lazy.

I'll get to executive dysfunction, the main focus of this thread in a moment. Because I want to start by talking about ADHD and hyperfocus.

Is it hard for you to pay attention to things you don't enjoy, but can focus for hours on things you do?

Does the world ever disappear to the point you forget to eat/drink while you're working? Can you suddenly get days worth of work done in a short amount of time, but only once it's the last minute, or when you get into the zone? But you don't necessarily have control over getting into that mode?

Hyperfocus

The reason this is related to this thread is that often this is the "proof" that you're lazy. Look, if you're interested you get things done! Look at how much you can do when you "just make yourself" or "just focus"! Clearly you just don't want to do the thing.

I can't tell you how many days I've sat there trying to get into a zone that's eluding me, losing sleep and feeling guilty, just to finally hyperfocus in the final day and pull out a miracle.

But I have ZERO ability to force it (I have tricks! but it's not the same).

Hyperfocus often gets brought up as a "you can't have ADHD, look how focus on the things you enjoy! Look what happens when you do focus!"

But actually, it's a major aspect of inattentive ADHD!

So, that's why hyperfocus matters in this convo.

Now onto Executive Dysfunction.

To start with, a quick note: Executive dysfucntion is not just an ADHD thing. It's an aspect of a lot of different neurodivergencies.

Also, this is primarily from my perspective as a person with ADHD, I'd love to hear your versions of these experiences!)

I like to describe executive dysfunction as "the start button isn't there."

Also, this isn't just for chores or boring things.

Have you ever sat there going "I want to game" but it just never happens?

I sure have!

When you have executive dysfunction, this means that starting tasks can be near impossible. You just can't get yourself to start it. Often, you may sit there staring at the document with the blinking cursor, or looking at the stove, or glancing at the full laundry basket, etc

But again, there's no start button. You just can't do the thing. Which makes it really hard when people tell you to just focus, or that you could do it if you just cared, or that you're just lazy.

Because we want to do the thing! We do!

(I mean, okay, want may be a strong word sometimes, I never WANT to do chores, but it's still not an intentional putting it off. It's more an "I need to do this thing, I know I need to, I want it to be done, but I can't get myself to do it")

Now for me, and many with ADHD, once someone points out you haven't done the thing, or when the deadline comes close, suddenly the start button appears

Which again, people use as proof you totally could have done the thing the whole time.

So clearly you were just lazy & are only doing it cause you got yelled at/prodded/nagged.

But this isn't true, there was no start button!

@adhd-alien has a PERFECT comic on this: https://twitter.com/ADHD_Alien/status/1138475368191598594

Now, we learn tricks to deal with this. Or meds may help.

For me, I find ways to enforce outside deadlines, or I'm more likely to have. a start button for something I'm doing with/for other people.

But ultimately, our brains just don't work the same.

So for someone where the start buttons are always there, who assumes everyone is the same as them, it looks like we're actively making the choice not to hit start.

So they call us lazy, unable to see us desperately trying to hit a button that's just. Not. There.

Now, add on to this all the other comorbidities that come with neurodivergency, we almost never have just one thing. Add on physical disabilities or chronic/invisible illnesses or chronic pain or fatigue.

All of these make it so much harder.

There are SO many things that affect our abilities to get things done.

For example, I had a doctor appointment four days in a row (OT, neurologist, OT, infusion). I also helped schedule an event, and did a stream.

Before MS and chronic pain that would be nothing.

I could have done SO much more, filled my days with getting things done.

Now? I'm spending today on the couch, recovering before my stream tonight.

And I have to fight so much guilt, because I feel like I should be doing more. But my body just CAN'T.

So.

Do you feel guilty, but you just can't start the thing?

Is there no start button?

Are you exhausted and your body is insisting you rest?

There are so many things that affect our ability to do things.

Brains, bodies, the world we live in.

But you're not lazy.

#ADHD #executive dysfunction #hyperfocus #laziness is a myth #its the neurodivergency #neurodivergent #autism #I promise you're not alone #spoonie life

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blueskittlesart · 10 months

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i am not autistic but i do believe in their beliefs

#^ guy who has a raadsr score of 16 but thought eye contact was a myth well into high school #something they dont tell you about autism is that if you happen to be raised by and around mostly autistic people #some wires will get crossed regardless of what is actually going on in your brain.#my family and friends r like 90% autistic people there was no getting away clean. i was raised thinking this was just how everyone is #like yeah your family dinner conversations dont consist of 4 people infodumping about completely seperate topics at each other for an hour?#this isnt me being in denial btw i know for certain i am not autistic. i just think its funny that i have like. secondhand autism #and also because i am not beating the autism allegations in the comments of that last post. its not me guys its my father i swear #he did this to me #personal

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tinystepsforward · 2 months

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latest shenanigans from my parents include

father:

ignored specific instructions that i would pick something up from their house to rock up to mine with it, then freak out bc i was weightlifting in my garage in a sports bra and therefore showing like 1.5" of midriff, and leave it on my driveway and run away. not super surprising from a man who stopped hugging me when my weird hormone sitch meant i started puberty at 6ish but what

mother:

ignored specific instructions that i would pick something else up from their house to rock up to mine with it, then get very surprised/cowed by my wife answering the door bc she's still pretending i'm not married

a variety of 60-year-old-fundie-woman-on-fb shenanigans, including:

sending me and her other adhd child clickbait about how cashews are better than prozac and b vitamins reverse adhd

sharing yet more posts from conversion therapy organisations for "suffering parents of wayward children" saying that this easter we need to remember that it is sooooo hard to love betrayers like judas but jesus did it anyway

making a huge post about how this one plant in her garden looked promising but bore no fruit and the fig tree in the bible and maybe her life is like that, secretly rotten under the surface. really makes you think

anyway my therapist was like "you always talk about 'my mother' or 'my parents' but not really about your father on his own and i'd like you to think about that" and. i Guess remembering that he's a fucking fundie dickhead about girls and women existing has opened a few old cans of worms to bring to her next week

#so much of this stuff is just. decades of doing this #mom borrowed a bunch of books from the library about how adhd and autism are myths after my sibs got their diagnoses #and they still had it easier than i did by a long shot in a lot of ways #dad gave me a book for my tenth birthday that was basically just 'you're damned to hell if you're not a virgin'#which. csa w but i was not by that age! so!#tony muses

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jacob-the-human · 7 months

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Ares as an autistic Bi disaster with a special interest in murder

#ares #greek mythology #greek myth #greek gods #autism #bisexual #tw murder #tw: murder #cw murder #cw: murder #dark humor #queer #ares greek mythology

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pokemonruby · 8 days

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he has already gone and dethroned her as the hardest fight in the series i’m afraid

#still can’t get over how it took me like 7 attempts to beat him in pla and at the end i thematically only had my starter survive 😭#the fact he managed to take her down so easily though… 😰#riley rambles #ok volo hours over. ty dena for fueling my autism #also it’s called the ‘pride of myth seekers’ and it was released on june 1st. interesting

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don-quixote-and-sancho · 6 months

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Damn I wish I could have productive hyperfixations instead of this one 30 year old man and an ultra niche book series from the 80's

#will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #robert asprin #myth adventures #autism

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my-autism-adhd-blog · 4 months

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Autism Myths

The Autistic Teacher

#autism #actually autistic #autism myths #stop believing in these myths #autism isn’t caused by vaccines #it is not caused by bad parenting #it is not a disease #it is not a childhood disorder #not all autistic people are savants #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #The Autistic Teacher (Facebook)

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unwanted-dandelion-seeds · 7 months

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My brother is a genius

#i think im funny #mine #autism #my brother is cool sometimes #shitpost #Medusa #Greek myth #funny jokes

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neurodivergentrebel · 4 months

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10 Things People Get Wrong About Autism and Autistic People

10 Things People Get Wrong About Autism and Autistic People Beyond Stereotypes: Setting the record straight. Dispelling Misconceptions and Promoting Empathy for Autistic People.

1. MYTH: Autism is caused by poor parenting (or vaccines, toxins, diet, nutrition, or screen time). Autism is a life-long neurological processing difference (meaning we’re born Autistic and we die Autistic) that is NOT caused by external factors of lifestyle choices. Research has consistently shown that Autism is largely genetic, with brain structure and functioning differences present from…

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#Autism #autism myths #myths #Neurodiversity

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risingsunresistance · 2 months

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getting diagnosed by my friends/mutuals/followers/whoever is always hilarious jfhkg i remember like late 2019 smpblr someone mentioned something something autism and i briefly mentioned i was not diagnosed or anything and their response was "YOU'RE NOT???" *(&$#@*)(%^

#maybe one day i'll be diagnosed with.. Something? but probably not lmao #glad my levels of autism are inspiring. as of now that autism is a myth until proven otherwise 👍#do you think i could get a diagnosis by typing /pt in the chat FKJDHG #chat #i dont care what mental thing i have going on can someone just get me some fucking mood stabilizers im dying over here *(&@)&%*(^#i should try therapy again.. maybe. idk how that would work with my work schedule #i dont Have a schedule. not like a set one. im not always off on the same days it's just whenever it happens. like today :P

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gncrezan · 6 months

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you are objectively correct. foa is amazing. thank you for introducing me to this Masterpiece. it feels like a warm hug playing it.

IS IT NOT JUST!!!!!! foa just sticks out to me as being a comforting game, just because it feels so loving towards its 'outcast' cast, who are all so incredible!!!! the kindness they show towards the pc, and how eventually the pc slowly joins their chosen family !!!! it's got a very lovely slowburn element to it too, and the ending feels earned, but still open to what's next !!!!!!!!!!!! i need foa 2 fr and i'm so glad that i got you to play it omg <3 :)

#really do love the pacing of foa and its obvious that the pc doesnt Know this cast (maybe hermes depending on playthrough?) but there's like #a sense of belonging and earning their trust that rly pays off. ESPECIALLY ALEKTO !!!!! that line that i think kokytos says during the part #'And I think you fit here. Like something that was missing from the landscape has grown into it after all.'#not to mention that foa is the trans autism greek mythology game so that by itself had me playing it and loving it #a canon autistic leading man (hades is arguably this even if the ROs get equally options. this is a hades/persephone retelling..)#and nd cast members. and fun designs. and interesting characterisation that differs from the typical greek myth retellings #it all makes for a very vivid and beautiful game. achingly kind. PLAY FIELDS OF ASPHODEL #foa #answered #the-goothe-monster #i need to draw for that last chapter and i also want to maybe organise a foa big bang . in like jan?#but i'm not sure on the logistics bc i have not done events like this. LOL.

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im-secretly-a-frog · 2 months

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What’s your favourite Greek myth? If you need a more specific choice, your favourite mortal-centric myth?

My favourite mortal centric Greek myth is probably the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Who doesn't love a good tragedy?

#greek myths #ancient greek #greek mythology #greek gods #ancient greece #ask #tysm for the ask!#special interest #autistic #autism #actually autistic #autistic special interest

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mythdr · 2 years

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did toriyama know that in creating goku he had made the most autism character ever

#did he know #thinking abt goku. autism won today #dragon ball #goku #myth's thoughts

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