A friend who vlogs about solo travel noticed a sign about sensory sensitivity aboard a #Carvinal cruise ship today. Has anyone had experience with their "sensory inclusivity" program or #KultureCity?
The single best way to support neurodivergent people, in the workplace and in life, is to educate yourself about the different forms of neurodivergence.
Learn about the needs, strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, perspectives, and, most importantly, lived experiences of neurodivergent people.
The right way to do this is to listen to neurodivergent people. Follow us on social media. Read our blogs. Get to know us IRL. If you aren't listening to us, you aren't learning about us; you are only learning other people's opinions about us.
As with any minority group, learning about neurodivergent people will force you to reassess many assumptions about people and society that you don't even realize you hold. You will grow as a person. And that is exactly what we need from you.
I got an HD on the paper I handed in last week. It was a critical analysis of the policy report from People with Disabilities Australia and Domestic Violence NSW.
I'm pretty chuffed with the comment I got from my lecturer 😊
Been quiet the past couple days. Had been stressing about family visit. It’s been OK actually, even though I didn’t get everything on my list done.
I must say that having the house decluttered has been so nice. As always I’m baffled why I waited, but then I also get why #ADHD brain inhibits me sometimes.
Goal is to find tactics to help avoid the clutter from blossoming. I’m trying are ideas to start. I like thinking of it as a gift to myself.
Workbooks out in the wild. 😂 I keep forgetting to post about them—my goal will be to get back on track as soon as I get back to Washington. #audhd@audhd
Accommodation Or Abuse: The False Choice Managers Have With #Neurospicy Employees
Do you want to be a leader or manager who actually works with your neurodivergent employees, or do you want to create a hostile, toxic, and inefficient work environment because of the fragility of your ego?
Out of necessity I have forced myself to be singularly focused on tackling some clutter demons that have built up during COVID. I may not get to 100% by the time family arrives but I will do my best to get as close as possible.
This was many layered issues, enhanced by isolation and stress surrounding COVID and struggling to get school district to do the needful. It’s nice to emerge, but I see some goals here out of this mess.
Thanks for asking, @hmm_cook, but before I answer, what is YOUR wildly improbable dream?
I’m seeing “autistic coach” accounts asking questions every day, and as I said earlier in another comment, I appreciate everyone else’s responses to these questions, but the interaction feels too single sided to me.
So, if there’s no reason not to share it, what is your wildly improbable dream which you would undertake if your issues were no obstacle?
@johnnyprofane1 I think the past couple years’ events have stressed me to the point that I’ve made some telling discoveries. And yes I agree that NT Land is a toxic place for us, even if they don’t do it willfully.
I know I shouldn’t be nervous but I am. Son is attending birthday, and they’ll be playing laser tag. But parents are DROPPING OFF their kids, which is something very unusual for those of us with #neurodivergent kiddos! I suggested and then all parent left phone numbers juuust in case.
It seems like a simple milestone but I’m actually anxious about it. Probably more than him!
Speaking of #DemandAvoidance and #ADHD, the impending return of spouse, after nearly three years of #COVID in China, has me making my latest pass through the home for decluttering, tidying, etc. I’ve heard that #AuDHD leads to “level 1” hoarding, such as having difficulty getting rid of detritus. I believe it! Once I can get past my executive issue in initiating tasks, it’s easy! 🤣
Now if only I could avoid #burnout enough to make it easy all the time!
The really cool thing about posting my stuff on Saatchi Art is I get to go back to the time-pressured blog post sketches ... and make them right. Ya know?
Sometimes I'm Lost Without a Clue in the Nonautistic World. How About You?
There are just some mornings where I wake up and it feels like my brain and body are ringing the alarm bells that something is terribly wrong but I can't puzzle out why I'm overcome with panic and dread.
@spika I have always had trouble getting started in the morning. Lately I’m connecting the dots with my #Autism and executive issues. The flood of what I’m facing in the day is what daunts me most.
I try to form a game plan of the things I most want to tackle in the day. Once done, I magically find myself able to get going. The transitions of bathing and the commute are helpful too.
The plan often evaporates during the day, but that’s my patten.
I was reading the paper "What can neurodiversity tell us about inner speech, and vice versa? A theoretical perspective".
It's new from last week (September 5th). It's a good lecture to better understand how inner speech works differently for us and how it shows in autists.
I read this:
"the apparent lack of verbal strategy in autistic participants did not make them worse at the task. This is consistent with a broader range of evidence highlighting that structural language skills and verbal IQ do not predict cognitive performance in autistic adults in a similar way to neurotypical individuals (e.g. Constable et al., 2018),suggesting that language in general may occupy a different place within autistic cognition."
This made perfect sense for me and how I work. I don't like to speak to myself. It's painful and it's not natural. I like to imagine with colors, patterns, images, objects, etc. I also need a situation with a place.
I fix a lot of things at home without the help of anyone for an example. The way I realize them in my brain before applying is autistic and not verbal.
@Autistrain@actuallyautistic@neurodiversity If I'm doing something like working on a website or a step-by-step project, then I talk to myself mostly so I keep the steps straight and don't skip ahead or jumble them all up. (#AuDHD here).
I like to visualize in pictures, but also find that my pictures are different from my spouse's who is a much more math/numbers oriented individual than I am.
Alright, I saw another person try this with great success so here I am. Let me know if you're a traumatized #ActuallyAutistic or traumatized #AuDHD human. DMs open. A very trustworthy psychotherapist said we might get along (and for more than 48 hours). @actuallyautistic
Yesterday was my first bigger "party" since self-diagnosis. It was a work event. After 2h, I was overloaded and in danger of getting a migraine. Could prevent with sugary drinks. After 4h, I got cranky but my ride wanted to go home, too.
Today, I have a social hungover. Luckily, we got the day off.
I am glad that I went, but the next time I try to recruit more of "my" people because everyone sticks to their team mates there, not so much mingling. #ActuallyAutistic 1/2
@Firyar Being #overloaded burned out and finding it difficult to keep up with a seemingly ever-growing list of things that need attention... yeah, I know this existance. And if I can manage to use my #hyperfocus to break it down and focus on bits of the list I can slowly catch up. Lately it feels like there's just too much and I have found it hard to make this strategy work. Wish I could delegate some of this. Feeling some NT imposter syndrome, I think. #ActuallyAutistc#AuDHD@actuallyautistic
I'm honestly wondering if meds might help me get past the #anxiety and negative feelings about being overwhelmed so that I could be more successful in keeping/catching up? Is this a thing others have experienced and found improvement that way?
Trying to talk to someone about something that is obviously bothering you when you’re #masking poorly is the worst. Expressing myself when I am stressing about unrelated things adds layers of complications. If I could only just articulate So #frustrated with myself. :meow_sadreach: