#Hyperfocus

As #ADHD is trending, I'd like everyone to know: You don't need to be visibly hyperactive to have ADHD (#ADHDinattentive) Girls/women have ADHD(#ADHDwomen) Adults have ADHD (#AdultADHD) ~80% of adults
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This is a great listen on the biology of sex."Many of us were taught biological sex is a question of female or male, XX or XY ... but it's far
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10% in “conflict is not abuse” and I don’t think I like it? My personal rule generally is not to read books published in the past 15 years by “speakers”-type
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I hyperfocused so long on writing scripts that I’m now so hungry that it feels like I’m gonna be sick any second. Might as well go into it: tw: food,
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Let's talk intersectionality and stacking oppressions in design and play. It can be quite hard to see how opressions stack and intersect and how that stops people from playing. My
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I've had a very anxious few days so I got curious about why. And the problem might be the reason I refer to myself as "we" sometimes. So, Autism requires
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So I've just seen the latest attention seeking, self-promoting baiter of #ActuallyAutistic people laughing at the sensitivity of almost #AllAutistics over the mythical "cure" for autism & I have something
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So... I'm 39 years old.Got straight As at school.Run my own business.Pick up new skills ridiculously quickly.From the outside it seems like I won the brain lottery.Yesterday I was formally
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I had a feeling this was going to happen after the recent news re: lying about her education history. This really sucks. It's why I wanted people to be very
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Oop made a thread bc I have a lot of words about this lol. Most of what I mention was picked up due to being a freelance illustrator and not
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A lot is said about the traits that make people successful...but what isn’t talked as much about, is what can sink you. Here’s a thread on the specific things that
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Did you know fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of #ADHD? I didn't- I spent over ten years telling people I felt exhausted all of the time, and
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To expand on this, since I was a big chunk of the conversation that spawned the tweet and I think it's potentially useful/interesting:https://twitter.com/kiki_thehuman/status/1233093612499537922 One of the mods on a Discord
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How to make an ADHD diagnosis accessible: A thread First of all, accessibility should be for everyone. Neurodivergent/Dyslexic/autistic (accessible fonts, no figures of speech, clear language, no bright colors and
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I starting taking ADHD meds.It made me fully understand how many problem ADHD caused me.ADHD is underdiagnosed and undertreated in Italy (and other countries), or laughed off as a quirk.So
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We live in stressful times.Stress kills.I want me fellow autistic people to live as long and healthily as possibly, so here is a thread of what helps ME to cope
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