| One of the reasons people don't recognize ADHD as a disablilty is that they see ADHD struggles (with things like organisation, tidyness, timliness, communication etc) as personal falings. That is ableism. | adhd-angsty @AdhdAngsty | Meme | | #ADHD #Ableism |
| | @livedexperieneeducator | Infographic | | #Autistic #BurnOut |
| | insta: anthonymakessomeart | Infographic | | #Autistic #MeltDown |
| | Devon, Price | Unmasking Autism | 76 | #Autistic #CBT |
| AUTISM INSIGHTS: Sounds
Sound sensitivity for Spectrumites is not a function of more acute hearing, rather how sound is processed in the brain. We have more neural connections to process sound, so it's like urning up the volume neurologically. This also makes it harder to tune out background sounds.
Imagine this work senario:
While trying to work, you notice a florescen tlight flickering, but you can tune it out and focus on your work. An hour later, a co-worker in the next cubicels starts laughing while watching a video on his computer. You now gecome aware of the coffee maker blowing steam & another copworker talking on the phone. Now the flickering light re-enters you sensory attention. At this point your sense are starting to be come overloaded. You can no longer focus on your work, but you press on to meet a deadline. You struggle through another hour to finish the project but are eshausted and feel a migrane starting. You go home that day and needs 2 days to recover.
SOUND Familiar? | TheAWAKEProject.org | Infographic | | #Autistic #Sensory #Sounds |
| Title: “Why it’s hard to switch tasks (Let’s call it Tendril Theory).”
Simple line drawings with the following text: When I’m focused on something / My mind sends out a million tendrils of thought / Expands into all of the thoughts & feelings / When I need to switch tasks / I must retract all of the tendrils of my mind / This takes some time / Eventually I can shift to the new task / But when I am interrupted or must switch abruptly / It feels like all of the tendrils are being ripped out / That’s why I don’t react well / Please just give me time / To switch tasks when I’m ready. | Erin Human ~ humanillustrations.com
eisforerin.com | Comic | | #Autistic #ADHD #ExecutiveFunctioning |
| Brain Fog Can Look Like: Loosing your train of thought mid sentence; Forgetting what you were doing; Finding it difficult to take in new information; Feeling fatigued and exhausted; Being unable to make a decision or commitment. | @brainbodydoc | Infographic | | #Autistic #ADHD #BrainFog |
| | TheAWAKEProject.org | Infographic | | #Autistic #Sensory #Sounds |
| Being direct is polite amoungst autistics we prefer people be direct with us. Non-autistic people are indirect - autistic people have troubel with this. Why is it rude to be direct? Why is it that non-autistics won't accept how autistic people communicate? #actuallyautistic | Neurodivergent Rebel @NeuroRebel | Meme | | #Autistic #Direct #ActuallyAutistic |
| People are so used to others being indirect and phony that clear direct communication appears aggressive. | unknown | Meme | | #Autistic #Direct |
| Forced or coercive exposure to deistressing sensory experiences does not desentitise.
It traumatieses. | Jodie Smitten | Meme | | #Autistic #Trauma |
