#neurodivergent tag

[pyjamacryptid]

I must be the weirdest student. Can figure out complicated cataloguing systems because it Just Makes Sense. Struggles with assessment scenario because she got paralysed drafting an email to a fictitious manager because she didn’t know how Formal they wanted it to be.

My tutor: so do you need any help with understanding the cataloguing systems?

Me, absent-minded: oh nah that’s fine, I can do that

My tutor: haha wow you must be blazing through this topic the—

Me, on the verge of anxious tears: but how do I format an e-mail to a fictional manager I’ve never spoken to before I’m so confused

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My teacher: can anyone explain ISBN?

Me: (starts to detail what ISBN is with great articulation)

My teacher: so here’s an exercise question for the last half an hour of class, feel free to ask any question— oh yes?

Me, emanating Super Anxious Vibes: so like. what exactly are we doing?

My teacher: uh. It’s all written in the question.

Me: no I know. I understood the sentence. But. How. How do you want us to do it? I’m— I’m confused.

My teacher: ???? Is this the same person??? What?

#I didn’t understand myself for years #still don’t #but now I know what it is #✨neurodivergeeeeence✨ #neurodivergent #neurodivergent tag #adhd #actually adhd #actually autistic #autistic #if something is vague. I will cease to compute #soon as someone connects those vague dots for me? I’m OFF #autism #asd #ren rambles #personal

[jellymish-reblogblog]

You know that my masking ability has left me when someone's like "Have a good weekend" and instead of "Thanks, you too!" I say "Yes. Ok. Goodbye." xD

WeekendScript.exe not found.

#autism #neurodivergent tag #damn it these things get hilarious sometimes #delightful #actually autistic #asd #neurodivergent #masking #Sometimes ye olde masking ability just turns off lol #In this case the other person just started laughing cause they knew exactly what was going on xD

[amyyythestarry]

Self Diagnosis Talk.

What I find absolutely crazy is how I found out I was autistic.

It literally was Donatello from ROTTMNT…. 💀

So after I heard that Donnie was autistic coded I was like oh that’s pretty neat, and since I liked ROTTMNT so much ( It was my special interest but I didn’t know that for a while ) I wanted to make headcanons of it like I do with every show I obsess over.

I started searching up autistic traits so I could associate that with Donnie and stuff.

But in the middle of watching a really good and informative autistic person explain some traits that autistic people have that not many know of-

I was like….. Hold up.

Why do I relate to these?

At first i just thought, “Well some allistic ( I didn’t know what that was at first but I’m saying that ) people go through that, just not as much as autistic folks. So there’s no way I could have autism.”

But then I keep searching up and looking into more neurodivergent stuff, and I keep relating to the things that are said to be signs/traits of autism.

So then I got skeptical.

To make this rant shorter, I f**ked around and and found out I had autism. 👍🏽

And this was during the winter/winter break/Christmas/probably November ig.

I can’t tell anyone though because the people I’m close to are ableist. I found that out the hard way.

And now I’m here sharing it with the world. Some of the world.

Shout out to Donatello Hamato from Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Turtles for making me come to such an awesome realization that really makes me make sense of why I do the things I do.

🐢♾️!!

#rottmnt #donnie #rottmnt donnie #donatello hamato #Donatello tmnt #autism #autistic stuff #autistic things #autistic thoughts #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergent things #neurodiverse stuff #neurodivergent tag #special interest #autistic donnie #autistic donatello #black autistic #autizzy #neurospicy #black girl #black autistic girl #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosis #self diagnosers

[nonbinarycharmybee]

showing everyone my favorite post of all time. no one in this cast is neurotypical.

[ID in Alt]

#meme #mine #neurodivergent tag #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #wave the swallow #knuckles the echidna #cream the rabbit #silver the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog

[autismvampyre]

Genuine question for fellow neurodivergent people.

⚠️Neurodivergent means more than just autism and ADHD, this poll is for all ND's, even the ones whose diagnoses make you feel uncomfortable. ⚠️

Please reblog for larger sample size, also please feel free to elaborate in the replies. My perspective is under the cut.

I have adhd and autism(diagnosed at 11) and I genuinely did not understand what that meant until I was maybe 14 years old and discovered other autistics online. All that these professionals told me boiled down to "you get distracted super easy and you're bad with people" and that's it. They mentioned nothing about executive dysfunction, nothing about meltdowns and burnout and over/understimulation. No explanation outside of the typical understanding of these disorders.

I read books about my diagnoses(I was forced to by my stepmom) written by professionals and they didn't help shit. I feel as though I am chronically misunderstood and misrepresented. Everything I know about myself I learned from my fellow audhd people, and I feel like every doctor I speak to ignores me.

I feel crazy sometimes, cause who am I to say that all the doctors and specialists are wrong? But I know that so many of them are, and I feel like we need to talk about it more.

#actually neurodivergent #neurodiversity #actually neurodiverse #neurodivergent experience #neurodivergent tag #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually audhd #npd safe #bpd safe #im audhd which is why the post is focused on that but this is open for all neurodivergent people #neurodivergent means more than just autism and adhd

[theviridianbunny]

Im postibg more marvel content. So Feel free to back list the tag "marvel" if ots not your cuppa tea!!!

Marvel / xmen were one of my special interests a teenager - every few months, the focus re awakens and just goes, " BUNNY BUNNY REMEMBER THE XMEN?!" I'm currently re making references for my mutant oc !! And I have a little fan fic in the works !!

I think starting xmen 97 re awoke my love for the xmen and wolverine/ logan !!!☺️🥺 and today !!! With the deadpool 3 trailer coming out !!! It's really hammered in the hype and love all over again - and I'm just here all giddy kicking my feet over him eeee!!!!!

Xmen is such a comfort series to me - xmen first class is one of my favourite films of all time. I don't know too much about it as my knowledge only really extends to the films and a little bit of house of x / dawn of x [comic wise!] - but it still means so much to me as a series !!!

#bunny screams into the void #neurodivergent tag #marvel #uuhh tired rammbling i guess lol

[icemankazansky]

please talk more about neurodivergent mav bc it’s my reason to live n breathe fr

I'm so glad you sent me this ask, because I was asking myself, "Should I make a real post about this?" and then you came and answered the question for me.

Maverick Mitchell is Neurodivergent

Very briefly, for anyone who has questions: The term "neurodivergent" refers to someone whose brain works differently than the majority of people ("neurotypicals.") While neurodiversity is by definition diverse, there are hallmarks of neurodivergence that are common in the majority of neurodivergent people. I'm not here to make definitive statements about neurodiversity; I'm speaking about my read on one, particular character. This is an opinion post. I will also be referring to my own experience as neurodivergent, because this is not a scholarly article and it's my blog, so I'm kind of thinking of it as a 30-some-year longitudinal study.

mav·er·ick /ˈmav(ə)rik/ noun

The definition of "maverick" is, "an unorthodox or independent-minded person," which I fucking love when we're talking about Maverick Mitchell as neurodivergent, because that's literally how he got his name: By thinking differently. That is the definition of neurodivergence, and one of its hallmarks is thinking creatively.

"I'll hit the brakes; he'll fly right by."

Maverick approaches flying creatively. It serves him well, but he's censured for it more than once by authority figures who don't understand the way he thinks. "Aircraft one performs a split S? That's the last thing you should do.... What were you thinking at this point?"

Charlie doesn't understand Maverick's thought process, because it's dissimilar from her own. Neurotypicals often have difficulty understanding or anticipating the thoughts of neurodivergents, and vice versa. (Though both groups can read and predict the thought processes of members of their own group with the same level of accuracy.) Maverick has difficulty explaining his own thought process to her, which is a common neurodivergent experience, because it's loud and busy in there, and my brain just makes connections that I can't always express. A reminded me of B which reminded me of C which reminded me of D and now we're on X and it happened in a split second, and no, I'm not sure how we got here. But that's not what he tells her. What he says is: "There's no time to think up there. If you think, you're dead."

Which leads me to my next point: Neurodivergence can also account for Maverick's motto: "Don't think; just do." Many neurodivergents have strong intuitions, and they often believe their intuition first. Additionally, given the right circumstances, neurodivergents are capable of intense and sustained focus, to the point where the world outside the target just kind of fades away. Neurodivergent thinking is also characterized by being observant, detail-focused, and a good problem solver. If you're intensely focused, and that's how your brain works naturally, then you just take in all these details and the pieces of the problem, and your brain sorts it for you automatically, and you do whatever you're doing like muscle memory. Show the math. Well, I can't, but I got to the right answer, didn't I?

Impulse Control and Emotional Regulation

"Time to buzz the tower, Goose."

Neurodivergence is often characterized by poor impulse control and emotional regulation. We know Maverick has poor impulse control. There are multiple instances across the films where someone lists his many impulsive actions that felt good in the moment but resulted in negative consequences large and small. It's not that Maverick does not know that, for example, buzzing the tower will result in immediate negative consequences. This is not brand new information. He knows. It's just that the impulse to do it is stronger than the voice of logic telling him not to, and he has never learned to control his impulses. Honestly, I have no idea what this feels like for neurotypical people. I feel a difference between a want or a desire and an impulse. Like, "I want a vanilla coke right now. That sounds amazing." I feel desire, and maybe I'm disappointed if I cannot acquire the object of my desire, but it's a relatively small and manageable feeling. An impulse is not. An impulse is a huge feeling, and it's not just emotional; I feel it physically in my body, both this emotional and physical desperate discomfort that I cannot extinguish without Doing the Thing. In many instances, I know I should not Do the Thing. My brain provides all sorts of reasons why I should not Do the Thing. But that doesn't diminish the impulse at all. I cannot feel better until I Do the Thing. Often, once the high of Doing the Thing is over, I have regrets. Those regrets create kind of an impulse hangover, but this feeling (and even the knowledge that I will have this feeling in the immediate future) does not in any way dissuade me from Doing the Thing. You can learn impulse control. It is a skill you can acquire. Maverick has not acquired this skill. And neither have I.

Poor emotional regulation is another hallmark of neurodivergence. It is more difficult to begin with because neurodivergents tend to emotional extremes, so the emotions are much bigger than the ones felt day-to-day by neurotypicals.

"I will fire when I am goddamn good and ready, you got that?"

(Emotional regulation is not just about controlling your anger, but this is the example that I have at hand.) Some people have emotions. My emotions have me. They pilot this craft. I am years into actively working on emotional regulation, and a lot of the time I find myself completely controlled by my feelings, and not the other way around. Maverick has this problem, too. Was his reaction to Sundown above appropriate and proportional to the situation? Probably not. Was it necessary to jump in Ice's face in the locker room after a brief argument? Probably not. But if you don't run your emotions, they run you.

He also has the correlating problem, which is numbing yourself out. Your emotions are too big and you can't control them, so you swallow them, push them down so far that all you feel is numb. Empty. Hollow. It can be like a seesaw: Emotions get too big, cause you distress, so you suppress them; now you feel numb. The other long-term problem with poor emotional regulation is that if you don't deal with your emotions, you can't get rid of them. The treatment for PTSD is processing your trauma. Unpacking it, dealing with every detail, feeling every bit of emotion that's attached. (I just did this last year. It's called prolonged exposure therapy, and it is absolutely the hardest thing I have ever done on purpose.) In the first film, Maverick is still carrying the trauma of his parents' death; in the second, he's still carrying the trauma of Goose's death and losing Bradley. If you don't process your trauma, you have to keep it. That's what PTSD is.

Differences in Social Skills and Awareness

This is where I started the discussion of Mav being neurodivergent the other day. A lot of Maverick's problems with the establishment of the Navy can be attributed to neurotypicals not understanding his creative thinking, or to problems caused by his poor impulse control and emotional regulation, but I think most of it is probably attributable to this. Neurodivergents socialize differently than neurotypicals, and they often have difficulty reading the nuances and unspoken cues of neurotypical social situations. Cain asks Maverick why he hasn't been promoted above captain, and Maverick tells him that he's, "where he belongs" (meaning he doesn't want to stop flying full-time), but in truth ranks above captain require a lot of diplomacy, tact, and social sensitivity, and these are not skills Maverick has. (Which is not a bad thing, unless he's trying to do Ice's job. They have different skill sets; that's not where Maverick belongs.)

Navigating the social minefield of the Navy is more of a large picture issue, so I think that the best examples of Maverick's differences in social skills and awareness are small moments.

"I believe the admiral is asking a rhetorical question."

Maverick does not pick that up. He knows what a rhetorical question is, and he adjusts his behavior when Warlock clues him in, but Maverick cannot pick up the small, unspoken cues that Cyclone is giving to indicate it is a rhetorical question. Maverick takes Cyclone's speech in a very straight-forward manner: He asked a question, so I'm going to answer the question. Neurodivergents often take speech at face value, having difficulty with figures of speech such as metaphor and colloquialisms, because they expect people to say what they mean and mean what they say. There are other cues that neurodivergents pay attention to when communicating, but they're emotional and intuitive, not social or situational. Neurodivergents tend to express themselves honestly and so expect honesty in return. Euphemisms and pussyfooting for the sake of niceties or any other reason is not a natural instinct in neurodivergent communication. "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass." (That's Cordelia Chase, not Maverick Mitchell, but it's the vibe here.)

Neurodivergence is just your brain working differently than most people's. Like all things, it has its benefits and its drawbacks. But it affects every part of your life and how you live it, because it's how you see and make sense of the world. Maverick Mitchell's neurodivergence makes him who he is.

#asks answered #top gun discourse #maverick mitchell #neurodivergent tag #long post #adhd spokesmodel maverick mitchell

[sarielsnowings]

Dear psychology / neurodivergent tumblr:

Mental health instability is such bullshit!!

For some unknown reason I've been incredibly productive, organised and efficient for three days now and I'm just. So happy? So fulfilled? I get stuff done that needs to get done and slowly work though my tasks for the month depending on priority and like- Everything works? I end the day feeling like I did what I had to and ready to have some well earned rest and continue the next day.

AND I'M JUST WAITING FOR THE MOMENT IT'LL ALL CRASH. Because this never lasts. But idk why not? I feel like this is what normal life should be??? And mind you, I'm not working 12+ hours or doing anything extraordinary. I'm talking about "I went to rehearsal, got groceries, came home, put a washing machine, fed myself and answered emails".

Why can't I just function like a normal human being all the time. Why only for a week every 6 months. Why.

#neurodivergent #Neurodivergent tag #Psychologists of tumblr #personal thoughts #Psychology

[azira-fells]

genuine and sincere question bc I'm not sure if it's my neurodivergence, I need to see a doctor, or it's just a basic thing in general, but

does anyone else find that they lack almost the entirety of their fine motor skills first thing in the morning or is it just me and should I be concerned

#hadley.txt #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #neurodivergent tag #I guess I'll tag that #neurodivergence

[pyjamacryptid]

We’re grieving tonight (the 97 tabs I just lost in the browser crash)

#it’s in my history it should be fine #but my adhd says 🔪 don’t be so sure #(I know I had important stuff in there that I wanted to get back to but now that I can’t see it anymore… what even was it 😭) #neurodivergent tag #neurodivergent #adhd #actually adhd #tabs #browser tabs #ren rambles #text post

[jellymish-reblogblog]

Hello tumblr, I really didn't want to do this today, but I'm going on a grumpy little walk for my health. UGH. UGGGGGH. RARGH.

#Don't mind me I just need 3rd party accountability #I'm not going to go on a walk unless somebody knows I am #adhd #autism #I guess #neurodivergent tag #let's defeat the being-stuck-in-the-previous-action-ness together #I'm sure there's a clever word for it #Imma pretend I'm Sam Vimes on a rainy night maybe that'll convince me to enjoy the weather. #jellymish's tuesday walk live feed

[amyyythestarry]

For ND People ( also people who think they are neurodivergent )

Isn’t it weird to just have this feeling that your autistic/have adhd/ect and try to look back on when you were younger and try to spot any moments when you acted that way but can’t find any because your memory is terrible. And your parents don’t know you feel this way so you just can’t ask them if you’ve ever acted like this in the past. So now you’re unsure if your nd again but then look back on feed from nd people and see they feel the same way/have felt the same way.

Like huh???

Also run off sentences while trying to explain something in text is a must. It’s satisfying. But shorter when you read it right?

#random thoughts #random #random post #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autism #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosis #self diagnosers #neurodiverse stuff #autism stuff #autism tag #neurodivergent tag #thoughts #afternoon thoughts

[nonbinarycharmybee]

tom: *posts "autism won again today" on facebook*

some second cousin from another state: i'm sorry 😔 i know dealing with this is hard but we all support you 🩷🩷

tom: what? no, my kids kicked robotnik's ass.

cousin: sorry?

tom: autism won :D

#this is so stupidly specific but. sfskgk. #sonic cinematic universe #sonic movie #neurodivergent tag #mine

[godsfavoritescientist]

Ok time for a few Bill ADHD momence:

- executive dysfunction. Lots of factors contributed to weirdmageddon taking so long to happen, but executive dysfunction HAD to of contributed to this

- chronically understimulated. This guy watches through eyes across the multiverse, he is doing SO much all at once all the time. He is constantly fidgeting and floating around and changing topics when talking to people in their mindscapes, and when he is possessing someone he is coming up with new ways to stim like its an extreme sport.

- He is also very easily distractable and little things that aren't important to him easily slip his mind.

- Immediately dropping everything to do the funniest/most interesting thing he just thought of at any given moment is Such an indicator of understimulation and chronic boredom

#bill meta #neurodivergent tag #<-need to add that to the bill autism post #i remember Slightly less about adhd than i do about autism off the top of my head. rly hope im not mixing up traits or anything #easy to get things mixed up bc im audhd and there are overlaps in symptoms and all that #feel like i could maybe bring up time blindness and hyperfixations here too. but i dont wanna need to add a readmore

[goldkirk]

Benjamin MacDonald was following a mouse. The fact that he was doing so was nothing out of the ordinary for Ben; he often followed mice. For that matter, he followed birds, too, when they'd walk rather than fly, and ground squirrels and snowshoe rabbits and anything else if he got half a chance. He sometimes even followed insects. The odd thing about it all was not so much that he was following the mouse as that the mouse was evidently letting itself be followed without taking alarm and disappearing at once. The little rodent moved along casually, stopping here to sniff, stopping there to pick up and nibble a grain of wheat that had fallen on the barn floor, now and then standing high on its hind legs to look around while nose and ears twitched delicately as it sniffed and listened. Incredibly, the boy was doing the same thing, emulating each movement of the mouse. He crawled on hands and knees a yard behind the mouse as the mouse walked along normally. Where the mouse dipped its muzzle to sniff something on the rough wooden flooring, so too Ben, when he came to that same spot, would bend until his nose was at floor level and he would sniff there. When the mouse would nibble a wheat grain, Ben would also, resting back on his haunches and daintily holding the single grain in his fingers and nibbling in the same manner. At the frequent pauses in its passage, when the mouse would lift its forepaws from the ground and stand there sniffing and twitching its ears, Ben would do likewise, squatting with his feet flat on the floor, knees bent, hands held limply in front of his chest, nose wrinkling as he sniffed, head cocked to one side as he listened. At one point the mouse gave voice to a high pitched chirring sound. Immediately, and with incredibly accurate mimicry, the same sound came from Ben, hardly any louder than that which the mouse had uttered. The small rodent cocked its head and stared at him, just as it had looked at him a dozen times before this since the boy had started following it near the barn door. Ben looked back, his own head tilted in the same way. There was no way of saying how much further this strange little game of follow-the-leader might have gone had there been no interruption. But then, annoyingly, feet clumped heavily near the doorway and the familiar sound of William MacDonald's voice carried through the dimness of the barn's interior. "Ben? Ben! I saw you come in here, so don't try to pretend you're not there. I want you to come outside." The boy turned his head at the sound of his father's voice. and now when he looked back, the tiny mouse was gone. He frowned and then reluctantly got to his feet and walked toward the door.

The Incident at Hawk's Hill, Chapter 1, by Allan Eckert

#do you see. #do you see why i love this book. #incident at hawks hill #bibliophile #neurodivergent tag

[theviridianbunny]

I know a few weeks ago - I absolutely sad bunny posted about starting sertraline- which lasted 3 days ... but I had another appointment today, and my doctors suggested I try Citalopram at its lowest dose. I'm hoping it'll be kinder to my brain and body..

I'm truly tired rammbling to the void. I'm absolutely weirded out about trying a new medication- but I'll be so brave. I want to try my best and fight as hard as I can through the first week and hopefully feel less overwhelmed by life and more like me....

#bunny screams into the void #do i need to make a mh tag ??? maybe #but for now - #neurodivergent tag