Do you think you are neurodivergent?
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill I've long suspected that I am!
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
I am.
*Definitely* I am.
I don't fit in any of the usual categories, tbh.
I am not autistic. I am not ADHD.
I have stripes of OCD, but they don't, like, they don't quite add up to a diagnosis.
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I am.
*Definitely* I am.
I don't fit in any of the usual categories, tbh.
I am not autistic. I am not ADHD.
I have stripes of OCD, but they don't, like, they don't quite add up to a diagnosis.
@GeePawHill A diagnosis is not always useful. Each diagnosis evaluates a single facet of what is a multifaceted nature. Worse / better yet, there are plenty of facets that don't have names yet.
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I am.
*Definitely* I am.
I don't fit in any of the usual categories, tbh.
I am not autistic. I am not ADHD.
I have stripes of OCD, but they don't, like, they don't quite add up to a diagnosis.
@GeePawHill I have tendencies, and am very attracted to patterns and organization (sometimes compulsively) but I wouldn't have ever thought of myself as neurodivergent - or maybe many of us have parts of themselves that are?
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill Probably, but first point me at a “normal” person. More than a few people have called me OCD but nobody with a degree in the psychological disciplines
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I am.
*Definitely* I am.
I don't fit in any of the usual categories, tbh.
I am not autistic. I am not ADHD.
I have stripes of OCD, but they don't, like, they don't quite add up to a diagnosis.
I am a traumatized empath.
I became the emotional adult of my family when I was just six years old.
When I *see* pain, I *feel* it, and I have to process it.
That is why I do not do encounters with more than four people, except pro forma, for my family encounters.
It has been an oddly lucrative trait, cuz when you are a coach, seeing pain is very very important.
I am, in fact, a world-class software development coach, with more actual field experience than all but a few.
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I am a traumatized empath.
I became the emotional adult of my family when I was just six years old.
When I *see* pain, I *feel* it, and I have to process it.
That is why I do not do encounters with more than four people, except pro forma, for my family encounters.
It has been an oddly lucrative trait, cuz when you are a coach, seeing pain is very very important.
I am, in fact, a world-class software development coach, with more actual field experience than all but a few.
I am what you'd call a "success", really.
But I am not well, and I never have been.
And I am most definitely not neurotypical.
I am *glad* for these labels, and *glad* for these diagnoses. I know how very much relief they give.
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I am what you'd call a "success", really.
But I am not well, and I never have been.
And I am most definitely not neurotypical.
I am *glad* for these labels, and *glad* for these diagnoses. I know how very much relief they give.
To my neurodiverse associates, and to my neurotypical associates as well, I wish mostly that we could stop causing each other pain.
"Normal" isn't actually a thing.
In high-dimensional spaces, there really is no "average". That's mathematical, not polemical.
But it's polemical, too.
MORE SLACK. SEND MORE SLACK.
This life is hard as fuck, and everyone around you is doing the best they can to manage it.
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To my neurodiverse associates, and to my neurotypical associates as well, I wish mostly that we could stop causing each other pain.
"Normal" isn't actually a thing.
In high-dimensional spaces, there really is no "average". That's mathematical, not polemical.
But it's polemical, too.
MORE SLACK. SEND MORE SLACK.
This life is hard as fuck, and everyone around you is doing the best they can to manage it.
@GeePawHill thank you, having distressing time with a family member who has very precise expectations about How People Ought To Act. And no. No, it doesn't work like that at all. I'm afraid my opinions are writ large on my face because I don't hide that kind of thing well.
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@vedrangacic On my good days.
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To my neurodiverse associates, and to my neurotypical associates as well, I wish mostly that we could stop causing each other pain.
"Normal" isn't actually a thing.
In high-dimensional spaces, there really is no "average". That's mathematical, not polemical.
But it's polemical, too.
MORE SLACK. SEND MORE SLACK.
This life is hard as fuck, and everyone around you is doing the best they can to manage it.
@GeePawHill Huge +1 for saying "normal isn't actually a thing". The reason for my "no" answer is simple: I don't think neurotypes exist in the same way Judith Butler doesn't think genders exist; which is to way, they're a reduction of the actual person that forces valuation of traits on Cartesian axes, which results in an intractible situation that brings you out to infinite axes and still no closer to apprehension of the preson. In other words, the quantitative judgment of a trait being more or less present is already a mistake in first principles, that is, there are as many types as there are individuals.
What exists is truly qualities and events, and these qualities and events when interacting across and within people form a directed graph of sorts, which is not a quantity and no subgraph which is a quantity is a complete representation of a person. The seeming quantifiable traits are, at least in my mind, caused by schizmogenesis and a tendency for people to mimic each other in order to form groups that make them feel less alone. I see this all the time in in-groups, and things are invented constantly so we can all say "we're alike!" But this is the reaction to alienation, it doesn't bring us any closer to understanding each other or ourselves.
In my mind the universal properties that commute across all these structures are pain and exaltation. We laugh and cry when we recognize these things alone, because they commute. At least in my observation, I have met many people who everyone swore up and down were totally unreachable, couldn't get any better from any therapy or any advice or even any material support or addiction treatment, nothing, but what actually did start to make a difference was empathy and mercy.
A suffering soul is like a skeptic, made (traumatized!) by way of a betrayal, waiting for formal proof that the structures in them have a universal property that commutes across someone else before they declare it worthwhile to try. The only way to prove that is to strip away every single label and encounter them naked with no titles, deeds, diagnoses, masks, acts, or pretenses, a mere being. When you get down to the bottom of it, they're not made of a list of labels or a panel of switches. They're the center of a tangled knot of qualified attachments and harms.
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I am.
*Definitely* I am.
I don't fit in any of the usual categories, tbh.
I am not autistic. I am not ADHD.
I have stripes of OCD, but they don't, like, they don't quite add up to a diagnosis.
@GeePawHill CPTSD is a pretty safe bet.
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@GeePawHill Huge +1 for saying "normal isn't actually a thing". The reason for my "no" answer is simple: I don't think neurotypes exist in the same way Judith Butler doesn't think genders exist; which is to way, they're a reduction of the actual person that forces valuation of traits on Cartesian axes, which results in an intractible situation that brings you out to infinite axes and still no closer to apprehension of the preson. In other words, the quantitative judgment of a trait being more or less present is already a mistake in first principles, that is, there are as many types as there are individuals.
What exists is truly qualities and events, and these qualities and events when interacting across and within people form a directed graph of sorts, which is not a quantity and no subgraph which is a quantity is a complete representation of a person. The seeming quantifiable traits are, at least in my mind, caused by schizmogenesis and a tendency for people to mimic each other in order to form groups that make them feel less alone. I see this all the time in in-groups, and things are invented constantly so we can all say "we're alike!" But this is the reaction to alienation, it doesn't bring us any closer to understanding each other or ourselves.
In my mind the universal properties that commute across all these structures are pain and exaltation. We laugh and cry when we recognize these things alone, because they commute. At least in my observation, I have met many people who everyone swore up and down were totally unreachable, couldn't get any better from any therapy or any advice or even any material support or addiction treatment, nothing, but what actually did start to make a difference was empathy and mercy.
A suffering soul is like a skeptic, made (traumatized!) by way of a betrayal, waiting for formal proof that the structures in them have a universal property that commutes across someone else before they declare it worthwhile to try. The only way to prove that is to strip away every single label and encounter them naked with no titles, deeds, diagnoses, masks, acts, or pretenses, a mere being. When you get down to the bottom of it, they're not made of a list of labels or a panel of switches. They're the center of a tangled knot of qualified attachments and harms.
@GeePawHill This is going to be a bit of a tangent, but I guess I have never seen anything work more universally than actually exchanging your stories with someone, and I think a lot about how many secrets people in the modern colonized world carry to their graves. I think a lot about how self-loathing and violent the white man is, but it is especially pitiable and frightening in that he stands alone in wanting to try anything else before hearing someone's story, facing their pain.
He hates his own history and his own attachments as much as he hates everyone else's. I feel like that that's why everything went this way where before it hadn't been too bad before he arrived. The truly depraved violence wasn't from the guns and the camps, that was just a warmup. It was in teaching a self-loathing that reproduces itself through repeated violence and alienation and corrodes a society he wishes to dominate from the inside out. People start saying: why bother? Nobody will believe me. Nobody will care. And the empathy drains out of them. A society that gets their stories from a spectacle, rather than from each other.
In the modern world, people are so parched for an ounce of care that when you give it to them, they don't know what to do. But if you keep giving it to them long enough, miracles start to happen. That is I think part of why I think the proliferation of so many labels is happening. It's like an immune response to the alienation. Because in the white man's world, nothing about you can be believed unless you have your papers. So we scramble to find ways to encode who we are in the power signs of the dominant systems of control.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill And there we have Mastodon in a nutshell.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill Diagnosed ADHD. Thought that explained everything when it happened. But I am still very different to many people with ADHD, so I think something else is happening as well. Something they don't know about yet?
The ADHD meds only soften my emotional issues (anger), but I've had therapy out the ass for that and they never figured it out beyond depression (which was ADHD in the end). I didn't meet the criteria for anything else.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill statistically speaking, these results seem unlikely.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill
I'm a psychopath, so, "yes" -
Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
My perpetual bad/good/weird trait is that I'm subconsciously inconsistent at everything, even my tastes, preferences, where I sleep, what I eat. There's no pattern to anything. Chaos and variety reign supreme in my life. A new song is always better than an old one, a new soap is better than the last, a different color, left not right, side streets not the highway,... Why? It just is. Maybe I wanna see what happens. I crave it, tossing a wrench into everything.
My 'usual', is chaos.
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Do you think you are neurodivergent?
This is not a question about diagnosis. If you think you are, the answer is yes.
As always, please boost.
@GeePawHill @VeeRat
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no, but I think seven billion other people are (that’s a “yes,” I guess)
