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it's like playing life on hard mode except hard mode is accepting every single side quest with reckless abandon and finishing main quests much later than everyone but also having the random skills and interesting anecdotes to show for it.
i'm sick of people acting like being neurodivergent is a deficit, it's low key the biggest life hack once you figure out how to harness it and work with rather than against it.
get diagnosed, learn and understand your condition, and own it - it's low key a flex.
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neurodivergency is the best thing on earth and im so tired of pretending it isnt
i sob over nothing! i hyperfixate for hours! im painfully bad with social cues!
i've wasted so many years of my life trying to mask, and for what???
what's so cool about being neurotypical anyway???
i am not something in need of fixing! i am real and whole the way i am!
Feb 12, 2025
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As someone with ADHD and bipolar 2, I had thought it was fairly obvious that the “Divergent” series was about what it’s like to live in the real world as a nueroDIVERGENT person.
If you haven’t yet read the series or you have and didn’t consider this (especially if you are or someone you love is neurodivergent and you seek to understand the struggles many of us have to deal with, being chastised for our divergence or told it’s a negative thing, I implore you to reread this series with that thinking (or watch movies I suppose, but the message is really driven home in the books, and as usual, the books are better than the movies (they kept my (hyper-focused) attention throughout)).
People with ADHD in particular are able to think at light speed…because we always are by default, and many neurodivergent people can see past emotional responses to come to more logical conclusions. For instance, if I am to believe my wife truly loves me, then if I were to walk in on her doing another dude, my first reaction would be to duck and look for a gun or person who is forcing her to do it. It would be irrational to land on her intentionally hurting me. 🤷🏻♂️
Feb 13, 2024
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I resonated with the last sentence in particular. Neurotypical people seem to just be able to... do things? It's truly wild how they are able to keep up. I think ADHD could be something to rule out?! I'm getting a psychiatric appointment this Friday 🤞
Oct 1, 2024
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i don't think anyone ever intends to become a recreational ornithologist. but i've noticed that it definitely creeps up on you slowly in your mid-twenties. it starts with noticing how funny pigeons are, then learning pigeon lore, and suddenly you're feeding your neighbourhood birds every morning and buying books on birds. as a child i idolised the pigeon lady in home alone 2, and i woke up this morning and realised — i AM the pigeon lady 🐦
Mar 6, 2025
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reading is a habit of building and developing your empathy and critical thinking skills. you’re forced to sit with an idea for however long you are reading it and forced to contextualise it and comprehend it within your own life and perspective. You can’t just scroll away or pause or put it on 2x speed. you have to sit with it. it’s super underrated, but genuinely I’ve made this a habit for the last year and feel like a totally different person. also you come out of it having learned something new or seeing the world in a slightly new way. I literally do not see any downsides to reading. make reading cool again! also you don’t have to do it in one big block, you can space it out — 15 mins here, 45 there — whatever works for you!
Dec 9, 2024
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our cultural obsession with being perceived as cool is a disease. its peak capitalistic/consumerist propaganda. fuck being cool. like what you like and who cares if it's cool or not. it's tiresome and we need to leave it in 2024. literally nothing gives me the ick more than people who betray themselves in an attempt to be perceived as cool by the masses. be yourself — even if it means you're 'uncool'.
Jan 3, 2025