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physichotic:

shout out to my neurodivergents who barely ever leave the house

shout out to my neurodivergents who go months without bathing and sometimes need others to give them sponge baths

shout out to my neurodivergents who dropped out of school because their illness got so bad and they couldn’t cope

shout out to my neurodivergents who have been hospitalised over and over and over again and see no end to it in their future

shout out to my neurodivergents who can’t hold down a job and need to be on disability

shout out to my neurodivergents who can’t live on their own and who will always be dependent on someone to help/remind them to do the basic things required for survival

shout out to neurodivergents who are barely capable of functioning

shout out to my neurodivergents who get told that they’re “lazy” and “worthless” because they make “no valuable contribution to society”

shout out to my neurodivergents who hear stories of people with the same disorders as them who are successful and working even while being ill and wonder what the hell is wrong with them that they can’t do that too

shout out to all my neurodivergents who feel like failures and disappointments and are never told any different

i love and support you all so much. we are not bad people. we are not lazy or worthless. we are doing our best and that best may not even be as good as another person’s worst but damn it we’re trying and we get almost no recognition for that. and you know what? we really should.

solipsistful:

i suddenly have homestuck thoughts out of nowhere

so why is it, anyway, that Skaia punishes so harshly folks who “dare” to play it alone? why have all this data, essentially a completely different game, that won’t affect the vast majority of its players? at least the particularities of a void session come straight from the application of the standard rules – no prototyping pre-entry means that the Battlefield is still in stalemate, underlings don’t have any content to give them “meat”, etc. but a dead session is its own beast, like you had to go out of your way to ask if n_players == 1 then… a bunch of random tedious bullshit that practically nobody can handle, explicitly “punishment”

it’s almost as if Skaia has a reason to really avoid a single-player session, beyond it just being “against the rules”.

Afficher davantage

iamthestrangerinmoscow:

People should know that disabilities and chronic illnesses fluctuate and they should know that for some they fluctuate a lot.

Like yesterday I wrote an exam, then sat in a noisy, crowded restaurant for two hours (and talked all that time), then walked more than ten thousand steps, came back home and wasn’t even that tired.

Today I’ve been awake for less than five hours and I have already subluxed my wrist trying to open a door, subluxed my hip twice and fell down in an armchair because of dizziness from trying to get from one room to another. My joints hurt, I can’t concentrate, can’t do anything really, and all I did in five hours was wash my hair and revise botanics for twenty minutes.

And tomorrow I might be anywhere between these two extremes and I can’t control it or predict it.

So yeah, if you see me do something one day, that doesn’t mean I will be able to do it tomorrow/next week/whatever. And if I say “I can’t do this” today, doesn’t mean I won’t be able to do it tomorrow or next week. And it’s also true for a lot of other disabled and/or chronically ill people.

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fairytalesanddragons:

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oh my god, when will people finally stop doing this. claiming that “everyone gets that” is not helping! at all!

yes, everyone can feel inner restlessness sometimes, everyone has difficulty concentrating sometimes, and yes, everyone gets into the “flow” of doing something SOMETIMES.

but for us, it’s not just sometimes, it’s constantly which is why it’s classified as a disorder! it comes with impairments.

anyway, someone please introduce this person to the term hyperfocus:

“Latching onto a subject is not unique to people with ADHD or Bipolar Disorder. There is a concept called “flow” that most people experience. Flow is a groove. When a person is in flow, focus is heightened, creativity is high, ideas conglomerate seamlessly and one point of focus after another simply falls into place.

The ability to focus acutely or find a flow is not the problem with hyperfocus. Like most aspects of life, too much of a good thing can become dysfunctional. Hyperfocus is a problem when the person experiencing it begins to ignore the world around them. Time passes without realizing it. Others are ignored and responsibilities fall by the wayside. At that point, and especially when it happens repeatedly, it’s no longer a positive state like flow, but becomes debilitating.“

flow (which everyone gets) and hyperfocus (which most commonly comes with ADHD, Autism and Bipolar Disorder) are not the same.

stop erasing our symptoms 2k17.

Also hyperfocus doesn’t generally or necessarily occur when it’s useful/you’re trying to focus.

For instance you could come home from the store and you just need to put away your groceries and then get the rest of your chores done for the day and while you’re putting the fridge stuff away you see all the veggies and remember you were going to make tomato soup later so you just start making tomato soup and nearly an hour later the soup is simmering and you’re like “I’m not even hungry” and you’re standing there and you notice none of the groceries are put away and hey look there’s that ice cream you bought… still on the counter.

It’s not necessarily that you’re so focused you forget about everything else, it’s more like you’re so distracted you forget about everything else

Also I feel like hyperfocus wears you out, like you get to the end and you’ve used up all your useful energy
Like no making tomato soup isn’t that strenuous but I used All My Energy to make it because for some reason tomato soup was Very Important and now I exhausted because I used today’s allotted focus on one item

And at the end of a good flow of focus you’re tired, exhausted maybe, but you feel satisfied and like you accomplished what you set out to do, you’ve Done Something
I usually just feel confused, like why was making tomato soup so important again? What year is it? Why am I only wearing one shoe???

^^^ THIS