#Neurodivergent

Writer friends, I have a question for you. I often see or hear many people talk openly about their disabilities both online & in person, but many of these same
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Quick #dyspraxia thread, thinking about how the effects of the pandemic over the last year have posed some very specific challenges that I still haven’t fully got my head around.
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Progressives going from blaming capitalism and hierarchy for the obesity epidemic to saying "this is a positive good #healthatanysize" was one of the first things that made me seriously question
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Can you imagine making a decision without overthinking whether it is right or wrong? Asking for an eldest child with anxiety who agonizes over ordering dinner as if the fate
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why hyperfixation isn't just a fun and quirky word - a thread of the negative side to hyperfixations ive recently noticed that some neurotypical (nt) people have been using the
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Hype. I would really like to talk about it.It's a word that is used on the regular in the book world. Over-hyped. Under-hyped. Wombling Hype.But recently, a couple of lovely
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I discovered something a couple years ago during a guided mindfulness meditation on chronic pain **I'm aware this is very controversial for us especially if neurodivergent so please know I'm
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hey here's a thread on why hyperfixations are often times not a good time for people with autism/adhd/ocd, whoever may be impacted, since i so often see non-neurotypical people use
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Yesterday, Salt Lake City police shot an unarmed 13-year-old autistic boy & the Rochester chief of police stepped down amid protests over the murder of #DanielPrude, another neurodivergent Black man
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Alright, here's a quick thread on why US prisons are concentration camps. According to Oxford, the definition of a concentration camp is "a place where large numbers of people, especially
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When you weaponize theory to get Black people to shut up, and reduce their pain as "cry babies", it just let's me know yall are undercover fascists who continue to
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So this deserves a proper takedown. Allow me.1) Autistic spectrum disorder is range of neurodevelopmental patterns and cognitive abilities. Some higher functioning people may be scientists, and sometimes these thinking
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wait, i'll explain -- there's a kind of humor (often defensively described as "satirical") that hinges on a shared understanding of "appropriate" behavior. a character does or says something that
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!! Fictives !!(And common misconceptions.)Notes before we start: I speak from the perspective of an endogenic system. I also do *not* at any point in this thread speak for all
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mental health/neurodivergent symptoms as strengths, a thread."Doesn't pick up on social cues" ->Immune to attempts to distract with indirect digs or insulting tone. Unflappable; focused. "poor working memory" ->
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https://unherd.com/2020/12/is-autism-a-superpower/ I don't know where to start with this, other than noting KCL is working with Autism Speaks on the AIMS-2 'cure/treat autistic people' project.I wish people didn't invent non
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