#Neurotypical

since next month is ADHD awareness month, i want to educate some people on what it actually is coming from someone with ADHD: 1) “people with adhd are “dumb””well, no.
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Fundamentally, traumatized people are not like-able. Speaking from personal experience here. We don’t talk enough about how trauma creates attachment disorders that either make ppl clingy or reserved in ways
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Let’s talk about #labour, #capitalism, #marginalized ppl, and #COVID. Even without the pandemic, we know that the labour of marginalized communities is systemically undervalued. The burden of survival always falls
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I literally teach this in my class on conversation analysis, these are things we call “pre-sequences” and they’re used because neurotypical folks have a preference for people to offer things
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More and more I feel the need to emphasise meaningful accountability for neurodivergent people insofar as we should not be held up to neurotypical standards of empathy etc but we
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big "neurotypical adult telling an autistic child to use their indoor voice" energy comin' offa this take.https://twitter.com/SquigglyDigg/status/1246984685567143942 I talked about this a bit when I livetweeted Lilo & Stitch the
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I'm tired of people pushing therapy as the ultimate solution to mental illness.I feel like "get professional help" rhetoric is becoming a way of individualizing mental health issues rather than
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because its autism acceptance/awareness day i thought i'd do a little thread explaining why the majority of autistics, including myself, prefer identity-first language over person-first language. #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #AutismAcceptance
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beware the neurotypical who displays action figures in his office, for he does not wish to infodump about them even if you give him the perfect opening. It is a
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just watched a really helpful video on autistic "compensatory strategies" which aremasking: hiding aspects of yourself to blend inshallow compensation: making eye contact, following social scripts, copying people & body
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it really bothers me that we’re forced to dull down our personalities for the sake of “professionalism” that shit is FAKE MADE UP it’s made to be oppressive... argue
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When I was 15 a "friend" - whom I had tried to disclose OCD obsessions and resulting compulsive behaviors to - told me that my mental illness was "all in
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This morning my mother wrote to ask if I'm still on my meds and adhering to best practices for Bipolar III assume it's because I posted the video of me
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#ADHD bad news doesn’t always register with us the way you expect it to. Our reactions may not always portray how we really feel about it. This is what causes
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I fucking love small talk and I’m convinced that many (which means not all) people who don’t like it have grown to “hate” small talk because they see that position
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#askautistic #askadhd do u folks feel like you would like to stop talking bc you don't know how to do it right. Ive lost much more than I've gained from
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