#not neurotypical

[hyrules-sleepiest-knight]

Note: even if I’m not talking about my hyperfixations, I AM thinking about them and ways to bring them up.

#hyperfixation #not neurotypical #girl help I’m hyperfixating during exams #ig I’ll tag some of them #they’re mostly media #yttd #your turn to die #DHMIS #welcome home puppet show #rusty quill tma #merlin #merthur #zelda breath of the wild #zelda botw #zelda tears of the kingdom #botw mipha #botw urbosa #community #abed nadir #troy barnes #jeff winger #the muppets #gravity falls #inside job #I also really love music but that’s a whole other can of worms #cal’s thoughts tag

[bumpytoad]

Some say that "special interest" isn't a good term, and that Autistics should just be considered to have interests like anyone else. I vehemently disagree with this. The term isn't just cutesy and patronizing. The term is true. When you have a special interest or special interests, these become part of you. They often can't be separated, and especially not by force or social pressure without causing severe and everlasting distress and trauma. Even if special interests do shift in the sense of changing with new encounters and being more fluid, it's still fundamentally a brain difference that deeply affects our internal perception of identity and we can't be forced to change, and we would feel empty without a special interest and we need to feel connected to it on a deeper level than just really liking something. We need to understand it on an emotional level, assimilate it into us, merge with it. These special interests are so intense as to often be completely immersive and Autistics hyperfocus on them. And while most pathologize this in an educational setting, considering these interests to be too "restricted" where the Autistic individual can't learn anything else, this is just proof that Autistics are different and that standard environments are profoundly lacking and cognitive performance tests and IQ tests can't be applied to us with accuracy. But Autistics can learn more broadly. We do it all the time, but it has to be through our special interests. Our special interests are a gateway, a window into learning so many other things that we can connect back to those main special interests. This requires time and patience in education, and most often a one on one learning experience. Though there are those who can't learn in education regardless. It's just not who they are and they don't take to it. There is no connection with the approach or the setting. Many of us like this are considered intellectually disabled, but that's only because our brains are meant to be specialized. Specialized for our special interests. There are so many skills that we have that are often completely overlooked by outsiders such as professionals just because they don't fit into boxes and standards and align with milestones. And yes, my interests are special to me, so special in fact that I am extremely defensive about them and to abuse me for them is to cut my very soul.

#autism #autistic #understanding autism #special interest #special interests #aspergers #aspie #hyperfixation #obsessions #neurodiversity #actually neurodiverse #actually autistic #autism rights #not neurotypical

[kora634]

None will ever convince me that the Elric brother are neurotypical HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? Or just other characters in FMA.

Al? Autistic. Ed? ADHD. Winry? Autistic. Roy? ADHD. Sheska? Autistic. Falman? Idk but he literally rememebrs everything

Also wanna say that they're probably all queer too because MY GODNESS-

Anyways might post my headcannon if anyones interested :)

#fma #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #edward elric #alphonse elric #winry rockbell #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #neurodivergent #not neurotypical #at all #look at them #queer #THERES NO WAY THEY ARENT #they slay #fma headcanon #??

[mistahjs-jester]

Some of us can't help hyperverbalism, oversharing, emotional dysregulation, rambling, etc... And that's valid. Some of us are neurodivergent and have no one that understands that. Some of us are misdiagnosed or were never diagnosed. Some of us live every day beating ourselves up about it and it sucks. It sucks so much to feel we can't communicate "normally" as a neurotypical does... It really does. And we keep apologize for being ourselves and it hurts so much. I can't even begin to describe how much self hatred I have for my symptoms. I can't... It makes me sad and it makes me overestimulated so badly that I want to hold my ears, close my eyes, rock and hear no noise, not have the lights on me (because that's too much sometimes) and I've been so overwhelmed today by having to do loads of communication with so many people at once that my mistakes are haunting me- aka social cues i may have missed, expressing "too much emotion" at once, not enough eye contact.... Asking questions about things that were probably already answered because "overstimulated", having a panic attack because social situations can be "too much" .... I'm honestly tired of my own brain right now and am constantly trying to "improve myself" to fit "normal" but I'm NOT "NORMAL"... I'm neurodivergent.... My brain processes things a certain way. Still, I feel the guilt. I feel the pain. I experience the shame. It's depressing and I'm trying to incorporate self love more into my daily agenda. I want structure and long for things to be told to me about what will happen so I don't freak out but I can't make myself have a structured environment because it's too much. It's tiring. I'm tired. I'm so freaking tired... I'm trying... Why isn't that enough? When every day I'm trying to be what others say I'm "supposed" to be.... I either shut down or have moments where it all screams at me inside and sometimes I can't even verbalize when it happens. Sometimes it's too much to process just like my racing thoughts... and that's hard. I don't talk about it all the time. I actually keep a lot to myself but this is... A lot and I just want to be able to know I'm not alone. I want someone to understand that I'm not trying to make them uncomfortable, annoyed or otherwise to make them "feel sorry for me" because I'm allowed to not be okay with the symptoms of what I'm going through... Sorry not sorry

#rant #rambling #my ramblings #my rambles #neurodivergent #not neurotypical #mental health #my mental health #my mind #depression #anxiety #neurological disorders #sorry not sorry

[adhd-dog-guy]

I feel like my ADHD masks my Autism and my anxiety masks my ADHD … does anyone feel this?

#autism #adhd #anxiety #generalized anxiety disorder #asd problems #adhd combined #neurodivergent #mentally ill #not neurotypical #autistic adhd #actually autistic #late diagnosed autistic #late diagnosed adhd #anxious #anxious af #anxious autistic #masking #comorbidities #autism comorbidities

[gliiterkidz]

I SAID FUCK IT AND MADE AN XENOGENDER. I call it DogRabiesGender because I was making a joke about it and I realized OH I LIKE THAT GENDER IDEA

#new gender #xenogender #Holy fuck i love xenogenders #DogRabiesGender #not neurotypical #babe wake up #Babe wake up new gender just dropped

[lost-in-thought-stuff]

Autistic Traits I've Recognized in Myself

-constantly quotes things from videos, memes, movies, etc -difficulty communicating certain things out loud; prefers to text or write a letter to talk about certain things -feels emotions very, very strongly (especially negative ones) -recognizes patterns in many things. i think this is one of the reasons why i'm so good at rhythm games -addicted to music/listens to music for most things in life -sensory issues/sensory processing disorder (diagnosed) -severe anxiety (diagnosed), which can get worse because of some of these things -loud noises are a no-go -hyperfixations -easily misunderstands what people ask/need of me -time management can be very difficult at times -not being able to make myself/my perspective understood no matter how hard i try or explain -feeling anxiety/sensory overload/worry physically within my skin, as if it were static or pent-up electricity in-between my bones and skin -stimming -i sometimes HATE to be touched, and the other percent of time, i love it. it also depends on the person 99% of the time, as well as if i'm feeling overstimulated or anxious -OCD (diagnosed) combined with just being a perfectionist -very stubborn/strong-willed If anyone with diagnosed autism sees this, can you let me know your thoughts on it? I'm not diagnosed, as it's quite expensive to get that process started, but I've spoken about this with my therapist and the doctor who diagnosed my sensory processing disorder, and it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility. My cousin is autistic, so I know we have the gene in my family somewhere. In the past year or two, I've really become aware of how much I've done throughout my life that points towards the autism spectrum.

#autistic #autism #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosis #anxiety #thoughts #mental health #mental help #diagnosis #life #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #not neurotypical #actually autistic #actually autism #nd #neurodiverse stuff #actually neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #therapy #therapist #auditory processing disorder #sensory processing disorder #autism question #questions #help

[kettouryuujin]

…if this is a real person, I don’t know if I should apologize for the report, or chastising you for trying to play into the bot mania.

Because I honestly can’t say for sure if you’re a bot or not, so I’m playing it safe.

(I think I’m leaning towards “chastise”, though.)

#not neurotypical #and sarcasm doesn’t always carry on the Web #I’ll take flak and all from mods if this is a waste of time #but I seriously cannot say for sure if this is just someone with poor humor or a clever bot

[ashildrofarcadia]

So does anyone else get gaslighted into being neurotypical?

e.g:

Me: “i don’t understand what that expression means.”

Mother: “Yes you do.”

Like wow guess I’m fine now 😒

#topic: gaslighting #gaslighting #not neurotypical #like wtf #how is gaslighting even legal

[natjennie]

we really fucking popped off with words for being up to no good. scam. fraud. swindle. nefarious. dastardly. ne'er-do-well. diabolical. scheme. rogue. knave. there are real classics.

#^ a neurotypical thing to say

[blanketforcas]

i think what saves me from a lot of discourse is that i'm simply Not Reading All That

#sometimes that means i miss really good posts unfortunately #until every now & then i get an extra neurotypical braincell for like 10 min and i read a good post #jk i'm still in denial about possibly having adhd

[queerasflux]

man I wish people understood how much it sucks ass to be neurodivergent and trying to find the middle ground where people like/tolerate you. like, I'm either "boring" (trying to wait my turn in conversations, holding space for other people, taking a back seat to let others get some spotlight) or "too much" (too loud/talking too much, getting excited to share, trying to participate in group conversations/activities). No one really talks about how much of being neurodivergent is just sort of trying to make yourself palatable.

I feel like so much of my life has been spent trying to find this effortless sort of middle ground everyone else seems to automatically already know, and I'm always swinging too far one way or the other. I'm lucky to have neurodivergent friends who grok me, but goddamn I wish that I could just like, exist without the constant background script in my brain that's like "you're being too loud. You're not talking enough. you're being self-centered. you're being boring. you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong." I feel like I'm back in high school trying to make friends but stuck as the eternal "weird kid"

it's just... lonely and sucks bad.

#I'm fine #just had a sort of blegh night with some people I'm playing dnd with #not a big deal but man the way I interact with neurodivergent people vs neurotypical people is like speaking two languages #except I'm only fluent in one of them and keep accidentally insulting people in the other #I'm just trying to make friends irl #flux's bullshuit #neurodivergent #autism #adhd #audhd #audhd things #audhd problems

[adhd-dog-guy]

I have dyscalculia …. Accurate

#dyscalculia #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #autism #actually autistic #adhd #adhder #NVLD #anxiety #ocd #depression #autistic #asd #math learning disability #learning disabilities #learning disability #not neurotypical #mental health

[inkskinned]

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

[tumbler-polls]

Let's check if Tumblr truly is a predominantly neurodivergent website.

Reblog for a bigger sample size + follow if you'd like to participate in more surveys :)

#tumblr users #tumblr polls #autism poll #adhd poll #neurodivergent #neurotypical #actually autistic #actually adhd #tumbler polls

[starplatinumnun]

can you infodump to me? (i love you) is this overwhelming? (i love you) is this the right texture? (i love you) is it ok to touch you? (i love you) do you want the subtitles on? (i love you) do you want to go somewhere less noisy? (i love you)

#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #this is about what love feels like to me as an autistic person with neurotypical family and friends #you are more than welcome to add your own experiences! #red instead #autism acceptance #neurodivergent #my writing