#Neurotypicals

A really hard part of growing up neurodivergent is constantly having intentions assigned to your behaviors Like if you never learned [abitrary "friendly" social convention] then you're "trying to be
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ADHD might be easier for neurotypicals to understand if you know that adhd means that our baseline dopamine is lower than a neurotypical's.A thread on understanding ADHD a little bit
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30 things I wish people knew about #autism. A thread. Please share and retweet this thread. #ActuallyAutistic /1 Autism is not a mental illness or a disease. #autism /2 There
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hot take but a lot of autism community "advice" is just like "don't listen to anyone criticizing your social behavior it's all just neurotypical bullshit" and idk like... i think
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Life as an #autistic person in this world is not easy; here’s why. A thread. #autism #ActuallyAutistic /1 Because some people give me an ugly look every time, I have
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Talking to a close friend and thinking about how, even though we’re probably the largest OSDD-1b youtube System, we don’t actually... use that label often When it comes to in-person
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Hi, with all the Sia nonsense happening, you might be engaging with autism issues for the first time! That's totally fine, everyone starts somewhere- here are some basics you should
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*An appeal to NON-autistic people: please take a few moments to read this thread*We (#Neurodivergent people) were taught early in life that everything YOU (#Allistics) said and did was what
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What would you have done in life if ADHD didn't get in the way?For me, I would've been a writer. A lot of people are saying this is negative, sad,
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Truth: High- and low-functioning labels are for Neurotypicals, not Neurodivergents. I've never had a day where I said to myself, "Wow, it's so good to be high-functioning today," or, "My
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Lets be totally blunt, hyperfixation isn’t for neurotypical people. Alright? There are other words you can use, Fixate, Focus on, pay special attention to, etc. Hyperfixate is for NEURODIVERGENT people!
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Every single way that researchers find that autistics differ from non-autistics will be labelled as a 'deficit' or 'disordered', even if that difference is not negative in any way (and
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I can’t explain things badlyhttps://twitter.com/structuredsucc/status/1337575369256235008 That is to say, I can only explain things in excruciating levels of detail, otherwise I end up getting confused by whatever I’m trying to
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As I've been researching for my next book, i've been thinking Autism can best be summed up as a neurotype of very deliberative, detail-oriented processing, compared to what neurotypicals do,
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relevant anecdotal evidence re: stimulants calming #ADHD brainsI was feeling my hyperactivity today - having animated convos in my head, dancing around, thoughts racing - took an adderall and I'm
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if neurotypicals wanna use hyperfixation as their new buzzword they better be ready for the negative sides like losing sleep because you can't stop thinking about your hyperfixation already have
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