#its actually interesting to behold bc its the same disorder treated by the same chemicals but it displays very differently per person

[iggysmice]

I have the annoyingly verbose form of autism, evidenced by the fact I use words like "verbose."

My partner has ADHD and struggles with blocks of text, whether it be processing the words, parsing the text, or even just having the attention span to finish reading the block. Apparently reading is notoriously hard for people with ADHD for a variety of reasons. I'm a hyperlexic autistic who loves reading scientific journals for fun so I don't know what thats like and it sounds unfortunate.

To combat this for my poor Aly, I leave TLDRs at the end of my text blocks in our discord DM, so that if her brain isn't cooperating with my excessive use of the English language she can read a couple sentences that sum up what I said instead!

I think it probably also helps me learn how to be brief when summarizing events to someone.

Either way, making things accessible doesn't have to be a huge grand project. You can just start using TLDRs when you write a big paragraph.

TLDR adhd makes reading hard so to help your adhd having homies you can put a little summary at the bottom of your paragraphs so they can get the idea of the conversation even with a bad attention span!

#iggy rambles nonsense #nd tumblr #adhd #my brother also has adhd but hes more likely to tune anything else out until he has properly read the paragraph #so its not as needed for him for that purpose. aly tends to be a lil more of a scatterbrain type adhd and my brother is more a Wall Of Focus #its actually interesting to behold bc its the same disorder treated by the same chemicals but it displays very differently per person #thats one of the reasons nd conditions are hard to diagnose- theres no way to see the structural differences in the brain #and every person with autism displays the symptoms of that structural difference differently in their behavior #psychology can be a lot of putting ur hand on the head like its a crystal ball and asking if it has depression #and sometimes it doesnt answer or tells you its actually bipolar or adhd