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Was chatting with a play partner online. They asked me why it was I never use the video function of the apps. Easy! It brings the challenges of interpreting facial expressions and eye contact without any of the other benefits of actually meeting someone. For some neurodifferent people this makes video chatting kind of a downer.
On top of having severe #adhd that constantly distracts me, and gives me some executive dysfunction, it really doesn't pair well with something else I have in regards to getting stuff done -
I can feel sound across my entire body, and it's on a similar level of pleasure as having a full body orgasm when I find a song I absolutely love...
Then I get absolutely nothing done for two hours while I dance like an idiot moving to the sensations it gives me.
I have come to accept that I enjoy things in my own way. At concerts, for example, nearly everyone else will sing, dance and generally show enthusiasm, whilst I remain my quiet, reserved self. I don't like crowded, noisy places at the best of times, but the expectation that I join in with the revelry makes it even more excruciating.
This used to make me feel so uncomfortable that I would avoid such situations, but I am now more at ease with how I experience events. It is just part of who I am, and there is nothing wrong with that.
It has been a week since we saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (and Paul McCartney) perform at Anfield! I had a great time, although everyone else probably thought that I was miserable! 
I am struggling with this now. I am a mod for a subreddit and a user was caught using AI. (Tbh it was very obvious, and worse, the post didn't get the drama plot right.) After a while, we decided to ban her. But now she's pleading to be let back, saying she has Adhd so she uses AI to help her organize her thoughts and she needs the group for community (tho I see her spamming her chatgpt posts in other subs).
I have adhd and I find it almost insulting that we need AI to even write 
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Anyway, I don't really know what to do. Any feedback welcome
I am leaning or letting her back on the condition that she doesn't post for a while, but can leave comments.
Pinched this from a friend to share with the #ActuallyAutistic community.
@actuallyautistic
#ADHD
#AuADHD
#neurodivergent
I was informally (mis)diagnosed as "probably psychopathic" by my supervisor when I did my Social Psychology postgraduate at the University of Leicester psychiatric teaching hospital back in 1989. Now I realise that I was really diagnosed with adult autism by a psychologist who didn't have the tools to differentiate.
It's interesting because it started me on my path to computerising the psychiatric investigation part of the DSM (well, initially Hare PCL) evaluation for my Master's degree. The psychometric question-and-answer model and demo I came up with had me firmly psychopathic in PCL's diagnostic terms, whereas these days it would be easily diagnosed as autism.
I went on to expand the idea from psychometrics, to behaviour analysis in virtual worlds, which I figured would be a better capture than psychometric questions - Would the person co-operate to attain a goal, would they show altruism, would they be quick to anger - There's a lot you can measure in the virtual world as we know very well now, but didn't in 1991. Sadly, the lack of modern technology and the need to feed myself brought this PhD to an end without a write-up - But it's no wonder I ended up working for OkCupid, I guess :D
The sad thing about that is that although it didn't impact my life at all, other than having an interesting topic to discuss at parties, the PCL is used as a tool by US prisons in their parole calculations. A PCL diagnosis is a heavy weighting against parole, even though Hare himself has said that isn't the way this should be used. I dread to think how many autistic people are stuck in prisons for evermore because of misdiagnosed psychopathy.
The psychopathy test puts a lot more emphasis on masking and social interactions than on kidnapping people and putting them in wells to skin them later, I feel.
I can't be bothered to write a blog post about this, so I will scream into the #Mastodon #Void instead - Except now I have to think of some other #Hashtags which is always the hard part, I get carried away, autism you see!
From the website:
"CommCards host thoughtfully chosen words and phrases which are straightforward but which still allow for deeper expression. The cards can be decoupled from their ring and arranged in groups to communicate further complex concepts. Additionally, they are maximally accessible: from their inception, they have been crafted to be usable by–and thus communicate with–as wide an audience as possible. The text is rendered in OpenDyslexic3 and can be produced in many languages as needed; the palette has been tested for all major color vision deficiency types, and each card's text-to-color optical contrast is at least 7:1."
#accessibility #autism #ADHD #aphasia #disability
My friend @julesthefox made this cool #accessibility tool for people who experience selective mutism. If this is you or someone you know please check out their Communication Cards at
https://demdev.cc/products.html
I don't normally want to share anything from YOutube but this is something my close friend Jose Manuel sent me and it's pretty much spot on. Specially the bittersweet part.
The crying did happen with Bupropion, with Medikinet the surprise was far less.
@Zumbador @muninn @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
footnote:
writing this down feels kind of strange. Like, it sounds so dramatic! When it’s so normal for me.
But I can’t help thinking of the BBC journalist in the documentary about Temple Grandin who said “We have no idea how hard it is for #autistic people to cope in our world.”
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How truthful is this stuff ChatGTP is puking when asked about the territorialism I wrote about above?
(don't judge me for using LLMs, I'm just trying to find the right terminology to search elsewhere)
Is anyone here with ADHD_I feel like they have some sort of "territorial anxiety" ?
As in not liking your space being invaded AT ALL and I don't mean personal space, I mean living quarters.
I have been SEEN! #ADHD
"For a normal person it would be dopamine that motivates you to do some thing, but my dopamine is totally focused at the moment on The African net sponge."
#BostonWeekend 24/x
Sunday - Uh, father's day? Do you need to mail anybody a card? #Holidays #ADHD
Fellow ADHDers on estimulant medication (specially on methylphenidate of any brand). Do you take a break on the weekend? If so, why?
