#brain things

[prefrontal-bastard]

One thing people don't talk enough about, is that the way neurotypical adults are taught to punish/discipline/teach neurodivergent children is through competency-deprivation.

What do I mean by this?

Competency-deprivation is a name I'm putting forth to describe a certain tactic of social conditioning: An adult withholds a child's ability to feel competent about their actions and behavior, unless those actions and behavior are the ones the adult wishes to see.

Aggressions can range from micro to macro. Some examples:

Refusal to "yes, and" with the child's actions and behaviors unless they are "normal" behaviors, either by ignoring those actions/behaviors, belittling them, making the child correct their delivery, or by acting as though they don't understand them.

Calling the child nicknames that reference impaired intellect, even if done affectionately.

Discussing the child's behavior with another adult in the presence of the child, and not including the child as participant.

Ignoring self-reports the child gives because the reports don't agree with the adult's perceptions. For example, writing off ADHD symptoms as being an "attitude" or "motivational" problem rather than a neurobiological one.

Ignoring self-reports that the child gives because the reports are not being delivered through the "right" channel of communication (e.g. refusing to acknowledge distressed stimming as a cry for help.)

Competence-deprivation is, by the way, extremely traumatizing.

What makes it particularly insidious is that an adult can be extremely patient and mild-mannered and still traumatize a kid by doing this. Malice doesn't need to be involved.

This example uses neurotypical adults and neurodivergent children because it's the dynamic I'm most familiar with, but competence-deprivation can happen in any dynamic.

(What's worse, people who've been traumatized this way often concluded this is just how the world works, and go onto deprive others of their competency in order to regain a sense of their own. It's a social and generational wound.)

#actually autistic #neurodivergent #actually adhd #autism #brain things

[mybrainislostinagalaxyfarfaraway]

My Star wars Thoughts Today:

•I'm sure this has probably already been done somewhere, but the scene on Revenge of The Sith where Palpatine is laughing in the Senate hover (bumper) cars hall, dubbed over with Mandarc's voice from Dexter's Labratory.

You're welcome.

•Commander Fox trying to explain his problem/s to his brothers with only screaming and emphatic hand gestures.

(They panic hug him when he starts crying after they both just give him thumbs up.)

•Star Wars The Clone Wars movie set Au where the actor playing Anakin can't stop bursting out laughing after every single one of his 'Dark and brooding scenes', making the other's join in with him.

The actors playing the clones are a huge family of Kiwi's and are a mix of husbands, fathers, brothers, cousins, nephews etc and they're always caught goofing off or breaking the fourth wall during filming and are the absolute life blood of the set always making each other and everyone burst out laughing, or into tears during really emotional scenes.

The Togruta actress playing Ahsoka impressing everyone with her screeching, Pteradactal impressions.

The actors playing Anakin and Padme giggling whenever they have a cutesy love scene together. The actors playing the clones make it harder by making kissing noises and stupid faces in the background.

•One of the clone Commanders pops his helmet on one of his little baby vod's heads and all the entire battalion hears is 30 parsecs of a raspberry playing over their shared speaker out of nowhere.

Bonus if it's somehow an open comm channel so anyone in the vicinity of the clones can hear it too.

Imagine several clones sitting in an important meeting and both them and the Jedi suddenly hear that noise crackle over the clone's comms.

1. "And General Greivous' ship the - *Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt~*"

They all stop and stare.

Now Obi-Wan Kenobi can never get that noise out of his head whenever he thinks of or has to face General Greivous -Hence why he never really takes him seriously.

2. A clone is cleaning his weapon and all his brothers around him hear is-

"*Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt~*"

He stops cleaning and stares at his Vod who all stare right back at him, a mixture of disgust and amusement on their faces as they all begin walking out of their shared barracks.

"Keep it to y'self Vod."

"Dis-GUSTING."

"Uh, no, wait! I didn't-!"

"Yeah, yeah, Surrrre~ STANK Vod."

"My name is Tanker-"

"*Distant* Not anymore it's not!"

*Tanker let's out a miserable noise*

3. Another clone trooper named Charmer is trying to 'Charm' his way into the pants of a Senator's intern when that sound goes off over his helmet comm.

"How about you and me go out?"

"A little dinner, a little dancing, a little-*Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt~*"

He's left standing there, embarrassed as she runs away, a hand over her mouth and nose to contain her hysterical laughter.

And The Clone Commander is having an absolutely great time sitting back and watching his little Vod cause some chaos.

(They never figure out who it was either.)

#star wars #the clone wars #clone trooper shenanigans #my star wars Thoughts #clone Commander shenanigans #baby clones #baby clone troopers #funny #silly post #star wars the clone wars characters are all actors au #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #ahsoka tano #Clone trooper oc Tanker #clone trooper oc Charmer #my brain is being stupid again #the brain worms are at it again #commander fox #Clone trooper thorn #clone trooper thire #poor Fox (he needs a hug) #obi wan kenobi #general grievous #this is just for fun #please don't take this seriously #dumb scenarios #silly star wars scenarios #brain things #this is apparently how I'm braining today. #dumb star wars meme ideas

[biblooky]

For people who hear a voice in their head when they think, do you ever have times when you've talked with someone for a really long time or watched a content creator for a while and now suddenly your hear *their* voice in your head?

This happens to me all of the time and I'm curious if it happens to others. Currently, the thinking voice in my head is Joel Smallishbeans 😅

#brain things #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #empires smp #hermitcraft season 10 #i've been going through his empires videos #and other old videos from him #his content is so good and fun

[wackyart]

Still thinking Jaskier and Yennefer had more chemistry together than Yennefer and Geralt but yeah-

#Yennskier #yennefer x jaskier #cue evil laughter #geralt being a douche #geralt of rivia #the witcher netflix #the witcher #brain things #i love them #cue the 4 fics I wrote the following week those episodes aired #slow burn #romance #otp #Geralt of Rivia doesn't deserve Jaskier and Yennefer but y'all are not ready for this conversation #Gaslight Gatekeep Geralt of Rivia #Me pushing my friends to ship yennskier #Girlboss Yennefer of Vengerberg #Malewife Jaskier

[phobylee]

This is normal, it indeed is. I don't have eight pairs of suspenders in my closet for any reason other than I think they're VERY fashionable and remove the need for a belt. I may be carving designs on and building MULTIPLE birdhouses right now (all with different types of wood I've collected from walks) to watch the 20+ cardinals that live outside in my yard but they've ALWAYS been a favorite of mine alongside bluejays and warblers and mockingbirds and mourning doves and goldfinches. And yes, my little brother is no longer HERE but trust if he was I would 100% squeeze him in the biggest, most amazing hug EVER because I miss him SO much right now and AUGH, come VISIT, you trifling oaf! Calebification? I think not. Very normal things. Very common things.

Writing down all of my thoughts is right and good. I ought to do it more. Part of me has wanted to start a journal... but I've just. I reckon it keeps slipping my mind, but NOT now.

Anyway, ignore this. It's not important. I just wanted it out <3

#brain things #thoughts #lee speaks #i do miss him though

[nonbinary-punk-art]

Please my brain is consumed by harry exploring himself through clothes and self expression. I NEED HIM IN A DRESS NOW

#disco elysium #harry du bois #brain things #hes so gender #bigender harry stuff

[skaldish]

sorry for the incovinience, but I read this, and as neurodivergent medical student I'm very curious. Do you have any resources or recommend (websites,books,etc) about neurodiversity from a neurology,psychiatry pov? (especially from a neurodivergent health professional or science expert) Because it so hard to found those (mainly bc the missinformation and ableism), most books in my college's library are not updated :(.

not to mention some doctors have said some wild ableist shit (and even some medical students) :(

I don't have much, but I have directions I can point you towards. (I need to update it, but any sources I do find generally go on my brain blog @prefrontal-bastard.)

First, I highly reccomend the Neuroclastic website for autistic perspectives. This website is by and for autistic folks and features a multitude of people with different expertise and backgrounds, including scientists. I imagine any pertinent developments in our understanding of neurodiversity would probably appear on that website.

I also know the AIR Network Model's website has scientific articles on trauma and dissociation, so I recommend looking into them too.

I'd also look into the MNRI PTSD Recovery Protocol by Svetlana Masgutova, Ph.D. I'm not sure if she's neurodivergent herself, but I would hardly be surprised if she is.

I recommend this because the studies behind her protocol reveal some extremely telling things about neurodiversity and its relationship with trauma. I have one of her books and it goes into the entire neuroscience and testing behind it, but unfortunately copyright laws means I can't, like...share the charts. This approach seems to be the direction the science is taking us on regarding neurodiversity though, so it might be the "in" you're looking for in terms of a non-ableist medical framework.

(The breakdown though, because this shit's fascinating:

Traumatic stressors can cause our nervous systems to blow like overloaded circuits. This causes our primitive reflexes [patterns of movements that reflect the core operating system of mindbody interface] to re-emerge, or to fail to integrate if the trauma was during babyhood.

Evidently, retaining 35% or more of the known reflex patterns produces the symptoms associated with things like sensory processing disorder, autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation. It even contributes to depression and dyslexia.

Dysregulated reflexes can impact damn near anything: cognition, attention, coordination, disposition, emotional reactions, visual /auditory / spacial perception, pain perception and threshold, body growth, mood, and even the function of our digestive and immune systems.

From what I understand, certain primitive reflexes correlate with certain disorders. Apparently the Startle Reflex / Fear Paralysis Reflex and Moro Reflex are highly correlated with Autism diagnosis. Other reflexes potentially contribute to it since this is not a "rigid categories" thing, but those are the two her book is citing in particular here.

You can actually re-integrate these reflexes with exercises, which initially thought was fucking bogus until I tried it and suddenly could perceive and conceptualize things I didn't realize I couldn't before, as well as perceive parts of my body I didn't realize I couldn't perceive before [like my spine].

You can actually find integration exercises on youtube. It's an Occupational Therapy thing, but since it's new and emerging it's not something the average OT knows how to do yet, I'm afraid.

Also, important note: Some reflexes take longer to integrate, others don't. They might have to be integrated in a certain sequence depending on which ones are retained, but I'm not sure what all the sequences are.

Rule of thumb for anyone reading this: If the internal experience of "being you" sucks ass in any way, check your primitive reflexes. It ain't a curse and it ain't the devil, you might just need recalibrating.)

Hope this helps!

#answered #brain things

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

I just found out that my husband does not have an internal narrative/monologue/dialogue/whatever. Since I do have that, my brain is absolutely melting. So I'm curious.

If you don't, or don't think you do, imagine talking to yourself, but without doing it verbally.

Please reblog for bigger sample size, etc.

#poll #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #internal monologue #internal dialogue #brain things #mental health #psychology #maybe? #I'm not even sure what to tag this

[blessedbucky]

idk if this is an autism thing or not but like. sometimes i gotta remind my brain that like. just because something is numbered doesn’t mean i need to go in order of those numbers

i’ve got a 30 day prompt list and it took A YEAR of me delaying posting because i was stuck on certain prompts before my dumb ass realized… “wait i can just post the prompts that are completed while i work on the ones i’m struggling to finish”

#THIS IS NOT PLOT BRAIN #THIS IS NOT A RECIPE #JUST POST WHAT’S DONE #autism #brain things #mental health #neurodivergent

[coolmahtava]

nd brain like 'yeah that thing you just read? read it fifteen more times in a row'

#neurodiverse #neurodiversity #actually autistic #brain things #personal

[prefrontal-bastard]

Do you catch yourself frequently putting off tasks on your to-do list at work? Instead of moving forward on a project with a looming deadline or being proactive about your overflowing inbox, you feel stuck.

It might not be you ― it’s your worried nervous system. Too often, procrastinating on a work assignment can get dismissed as laziness ― but the habit is actually one of the most common forms of work anxiety.

I'm glad people are talking about this.

#stress #laziness #brain things

[thefirstanomally]

I hate when I'm trying to read but there's so much going on in my head and/or around me that I can't submerge beneath the text and see the story. Like I'm just looking at letters strung together instead of the world they're meant to represent.

#Reading #Brain Things #T1A Speaks

[wanderlust-woods-00]

COMFORT THINGS

I recently noticed smth that seem lowkey neurospicy but idk. I will CLING onto a thing for a given time and do NOTHING except consume it all day everyday. Like there will be a song & I'll just listen to the exact same song on repeat for like 30 mins straight & the thought of listening to any other song bothers me. And maybe for like a month, 60% of the songs I listen to is that song. Same with movies, I'll have a confort movie for a given time that I'll watch everyday. And FOOD omg I'll have a snack that I all of a sudden eat 24/7 and can't eat anything but. And with all of these it's like...the meer THOUGHT of doing something else, especially a food/song/movie that I've never eaten/heard/watched before makes me VERY uncomfortable. Please tell me this isn't unusual 😭😭😭

#brain things #hyperfixation #adhd #neurodiversity #neurodiverse stuff #neurospicy #random

[queerpontmercy]

ok so I've been thinking lately about fitness and nutrition and relationships to food and being neurodivergent

and

1) still thinking about when i had my worst depressive episode early in college, and how although i really needed a lot of other support, i had to give myself permission to eat meat, because vegetarian options at school were not always nutritionally balanced (and on weekends barely existed)...I know I didn't get enough protein but I bet I didn't get adequate calories in general, while also turning food into a shame/morality thing even if I wasn't always consciously focused on it

2) I'm actually Super Fucking Proud of myself bc my signs for hunger used to be like.....if I throw up, or faint, or my face has pins and needles, sleep for hours and wake up exhausted, then I'm probably over hungry (which, duh, those are signs of Literal Hypoglycemia). It doesn't happen much anymore, and I can focus on subtler hunger cues like stumbling over words, or struggling to complete tasks, or random physical anxiety (adrenaline spike) and learn to honor them. Honestly great job me

#personal #disordered eating / #brain things #medical / #fitness #nutrition #ask to tag

[the-everqueen]

sometimes i think i made up having ocd for like, idk, clout and then i have to strip off all my clothes as soon as i get home (because they touched the bus seat AND two separate location seats, which means they are Unclean) and spend an hour trying on all my pants in my closet (because it's been 12 hours and maybe they won't fit me anymore).

#brain things #ocd #how do other people live? #i want to be better about re-wearing clothing items but sometimes (today) it's just not worth the mental hoop jumping #honestly stief talking about the time she had to change her outfit 11 times in one day and then turn a shirt inside out bc the tag was Bad #that was maybe the first time i had someone describe ocd like my ocd #everyone thinks it's the ''clean freak'' mental illness #it's like ohohohohoho. ''clean freak'' is but one level among THOUSANDS. #sometimes if you beat a level the ocd figures out your fighting style and does workarounds #anyways hey.

[skaldish]

How does one receive training in *checks notes* internal self-awareness and adaptive internal resourcing?

Sincerely,

-Someone who would very much like better control of their own thoughts and emotions.

I do a very specialized form of therapy known as AIR Network Model in conjunction with EMDR. These are trauma-informed therapies designed to process complex traumas and treat complex forms of dissociation.

There’s a lot of crazy neurological science and behavioral psychology behind it all, but the result is that no part of my mind is unknown or terrifying to me, nor do I experience a “subconscious” anymore because those processes are now shared with my conscious mind.

I’ve also just sort of…osmosis’d the methodology behind it as I’ve continued to do it over the years. I’d have to go become a licensed therapist in order to facilitate it for someone else though.

#answered #brain things