#non-neurotypical

[some-swan]

Incoming small spam of vids I made

#utmv #geno sans #fresh sans #fresh lucidia #error sans #error lucidia #non of them are neurotypical #however don't look too deep into the specifics #it's just a funny audio #cqtrio #cqbrothers

[beelzebubsfavor]

“youre making bpd your whole personality”

yeah buddy its almost like… its a personality disorder… that affects my personality……. and how i perceive the world………..

#non fandom #rant #why tf do neurotypicals always say this shit #like no shit its a PERSONALITY disorder #beautiful princess disorder

[youregonnabeokay-kid]

ADHD information for fanfic writers:

Diagnostic Process:

the diagnostic process is different in every country, but this is a basic overview

- an ADHD referral can come from any type of doctor, unlike referrals for other neurodivergences

- the wait list depends on where you live and how old you are. typically the younger you are, the shorter the wait

- ADHD has to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist or by a doctor who has taken a specialized course to be certified in diagnosing and handling ADHD

- most doctors will make you fill out a questionnaire about your mental health. these questionnaires involves sections about family history, personal history, and statements that you have to agree or disagree with

- a good psychiatrist won’t diagnose you with ADHD during your first visit. they will instead spend the first few visits getting to know you and the state of your mental health

- most people are assessed for depression when being assessed for ADHD. this is because depression can present itself in similar ways. if diagnosed with depression and open to medication, the psychiatrist will first prescribe antidepressants and see how those affect you before moving on with the ADHD assessment

Meds:

- most ADHD meds are taken in the morning since they normally wear off after 8-12 hours

- when meds wear off we go through what’s known as a “crash” or “medication rebound”

- ADHD crashes are pure hell which is why some people with ADHD choose to only take meds during the week or they do nothing on the weekend as a reset of sorts

- basically, when our meds wear off all of our symptoms come back at the same time and we get overstimulated to the point of exhaustion

- some people have smaller doses of their meds that they take at the beginning of the crash. this means they can prolong the crash by a couple hours

- for some people, the first time taking meds is hell. the change is very noticeable and abrupt. i wouldn’t stop talking because it was “too quiet” (it being my mind)

- your dosage is not based on body type or weight and just because you take a high dose in one drug doesn’t mean you take a high dose in all others (my ADHD meds are 10mg higher than the highest prescribed amount but my antipsychotics are .5mg lower than the lowest prescribed dose)

- vyvanse is most often prescribed to people with combo ADHD, ritalin to those with hyperactive ADHD (especially those with impulsivity issues), and adderall for inattentive (no, this is not something that is typically disclosed or well-known but if you’ve talked to enough people w/ ADHD you begin to see a pattern) other ADHD meds are available but less likely to be prescribed

- other meds are also taken into account when getting a prescription for ADHD. vyvanse is the most versatile and is usually the one prescribed if you’re on other medications

- ADHD meds are stimulants which means doctors will never give you refills (if they do, they could lose their license)

- since they’re stimulants, for the first year you have to go to the psychiatrist’s bi-weekly for the first few months, then monthly after that so they can see how you are doing

- ADHD meds are known for lowering sex drives and increasing hunger (sometimes the opposite may happen, as with most drugs, but these are most common)

- it takes about 1/2 hour to an hour for meds to kick in and many of us are able to tell the exact moment they start working

Other Substances:

- the neurons and chemicals in the body of an ADHD person are fucked. this means that many substances and medications have either no effect on us, or the opposite effect of what they are intended for

speaking from personal experience:

- caffeine makes me tired

- melatonin and other sleeping aids like dextromethorphan, which can be found in many cough syrups, make me hyper

- weed makes me feel lighter, but it never affects me more than that. i never get a “proper high” like other people (ie; i find no more joy or fascination in bright colours or moving objects than i usually do)

- while “sugar highs” in general are a myth, they’re real for people with ADHD! they stimulate our dopamine and opioid receptors which gives us a burst of energy

- additionally, people with ADHD are more likely to be addicted to illegal stimulants like cocaine because it calms them down (yup, you read that right. when someone with ADHD does cocaine their mind quiets and they mellow down instead of the usual hyper-active high that neurotypicals get)

Additional Information:

- we’re lacking some of the neurotransmitters in our brains so it takes us longer to process information, and we have “more” thoughts than neurotypicals since our additional thoughts aren’t processed out

- we get what’s called “executive dysfunction” or “ADHD paralysis” where we are physically unable to do things despite no real physical limitations (for non-ADHD folks: try putting your hand in fire. you’ll notice that you are either physically unable to or that your body somewhat restrains you from doing it. this is what executive dysfunction is like. for ADHD folks: do not try this since we’re also less likely to have self-preservation instincts)

- basically, i can sit for hours thinking about doing the dishes, screaming at myself in my head to just do them, but i’m still unable to

- we leave trails! we have so many thoughts going through our head that we forget them all the time, so when we get a thought like “i think the printer is low on paper, i should check” we abandon all tasks in favour of the new thought. however, the remains of those tasks stay where we left them, and thus, an ADHD trail is made

- we have both the worst and best memory of anyone you will ever meet. i might be able to tell you the exact outfit you wore on a specific day five years ago but i won’t remember what i ate for breakfast

- when we get bored, we get depressed. like, life is meaningless and i want to curl up in a ball and die depressed. sometimes we need someone to physically force us out of bed to get us out of our funk (and sometimes all it takes to get out of the funk is doing something fun which makes us feel ridiculous when we think about how depressed we were prior)

- since boredom is detrimental to us, we have to constantly be having fun which, in and of itself, is not fun. this is also why a lot of us end up doing shift work or working dangerous jobs

- we’re adrenaline junkies. this isn’t even a “most of us” situation, it’s all of us. the only difference is how we get that adrenaline. (some get it by jumping out of a plane, others get it by working on assignments in a time crunch)

- we’re social beings. even if we’re introverts, we thrive on social interactions. without them our dopamine plummets and we, once again, get depressed

- all silences are awkward to us. it doesn’t matter if you’re the person we’re most comfortable with in the world, silence is always awkward. or, more specifically, we feel like we need to fill it which is why we often ramble

obviously there’s far more to ADHD than just this and everything can change person by person but i hope this helps to gain a bit more of a general understanding on ADHD

#obviously this can used by writers in general but i specifically made this with buck in mind #hence fanfic writers #writing #adhd #911 abc #evan buckley #buck #fanfiction #ao3 #writeblr #long post #oh boy is it #911 fox #tv: 911 #i feel like a lot of people don’t actually know much about adhd #even those who have done research before writing (we love you for this! but it doesn’t actually give any good knowledge) #since most of the articles and websites are made by neurotypicals #you can always tell when a fic was written by someone who doesn’t have adhd vs someone who does #and it’s not the non-adhd-er’s fault! not at all! #it’s just an impact that society has mixed with loads of misinformation and ignorance regarding adhd

[riverofempathy]

The beautiful thing about special interests + echolalia is that it leads to fun moments like these:

I’m at work, looking up the distance between two cities to see if we service a customer’s area—just a completely mundane thing—and I discover that the cities are on opposite sides of the state.

So of course, I quote Good Omens. Just… tweaked slightly.

“They’re on opposite sides!”

“We’re on our side!”

Just… an instant rush of dopamine.

I love it here.

#autism #actually autistic #autistic adult #echolalia #quoting things is my favorite past time #my sister and I used to get in trouble for it #seriously we were banned from quoting movies at the dinner table #because we quoted entire scenes to each other instead of having the boring neurotypical non-conversations that our dad wanted #good omens #good omens season 1 #Crowley #Aziraphale #ineffable husbands

[kitofawriter]

2003 Casey Jones is autistic, in this essay I will…

#tmnt #tmnt 2003 #this is 100% based on his inability to figure out social cues #also he’s very “says it how he sees it #also strong sense of justice #I keep coming up with more reasons while I write the tags #also because I say so #HC that non of the turtles of neurotypical and Casey has no clue he’s autistic but they all know #they genuinely thought he knew #he did not #casey jones #2003 casey jones

[cluster-b-culture-is]

aspd culture is having such a bad resting bitch face that you’ve accidentally made 15 people hate you

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#cluster b culture is #aspd culture is #cluster b #aspd #Mod Reef #anonymous #i used to make the popular kids in school think i was intimidating to the point they were actually scared to talk to me #meanwhile i was getting regularly harassed & recorded w/o consent for stimming & being otherwise visibly ND in a way people disliked #middle/high school was an Experience #''people think i'm intimidating and angry all the time so they don't usually fuck with me directly! cool!'' #''people also harass me and record me without me knowing because i'm stereotypically 'weird' and visibly non-neurotypical! not cool!''

[gunkbaby]

All the Shuu Tsukiyama bitches are neurodivergent, eating disordered or have a personality disorder and I’m sure there’s no correlation between the two.

#the sleeper ‘literally me’ boy for ppl who are mostly not men #the Patrick Bateman of queer people #find me a non disordered neurotypical shuu fan and I’ll show you someone who is either a liar or undiagnosed #gunk #shuucore #shuu tsukiyama

[kingofthewilderwest]

don’t believe medical posts without sources on tumblr challenge

#blabbing Haddock #non-dragons #a terrifying number of posts are 'hey this is what happens with this neurodivergent experience' #[describes something that isn't specific to the condition they're talking about and often happens in neurotypical people] #or just..... anecdotal experience passed off as 'hey this is how [x] mental health thing' works #this is dangerous medical misinformation #you are not helping people diagnose themselves with ADHD #you are creating everything into a symptom that is part of everyday life sometimes #not just targeting mental health posts - targeting anything that has medical information #I am so tired of sitting here watching people believe anything they come across #darlings I love you but no

[loveforluna]

Love for my url name sake 😸🌙🌟

#okay actually my name sake was Luna lovegood #because my adhd as loved having non neurotypical rep #but it was also love for Luna cat and sailor moon #and jkr is a terf so fuck that! #Luna #luna sailor moon #my art #princess kaguya #the lover of princess kaguya #bishojo senshi sailor moon #Luna cat #magical girl monday

[starsonmarsy]

everything in my life can be explained by an autism clash

#like people's different flavors clashing w mine #or neurotypicals vs my autism #or even non autistic nd vs autism #food for thought #like i thought about a couple situations and imagined scenarios and yeah that's basically the answer #mars.txt

[ashleyishere24]

i'm in queer neurodivergent fandom so much that i genuinely forgot that there are neurotypical cis-het fans of things

#ik damn i fully forgot until like literally right now #and i only remember bc my brother was talking about how there are a lot of godzilla fans #and i was like uh yeah they all are #then it hit me #they aren't #huh #but i can happily say i've never met a non queer neurotypical dungeon meshi fan #hahahahaha beat that #callisto #l #i win #no love triangle in my interest

[marinsawakening]

I'm not a fan of this narrative in many autistic writing spaces that writing autistic characters is easy for autistic people, that we do it naturally, that we do it by accident and it requires no thought whatsoever. I think it's a gross oversimplification of what it means to write autistic characters well and promotes stagnation in your portrayal of autistic characters.

It's true that many autistic writers will accidentally make characters autistic/struggle to write non-autistic characters because our own autistic thought patterns are so ingrained to us. For many of us, writing autistic characters feels like second nature. What I resent is the assumption that a) this is true for all autistic writers, and b) this means you're automatically great at writing autistic characters.

First: this is not true for all autistic writers. I actively practiced writing autistic characters for years by creating isolated scenarios specifically about autism to explore what you'd have to do to write autistic characters, before I felt like I had the skill to write autistic characters in scenarios not specifically about autism. I am still practicing. I don't think I'll ever stop practicing. Incorporating autism into the narrative did not come naturally to me. I'm sure that I regularly incorporate autistic traits and patterns into characters intended to be neurotypical on accident, but to me, that is not the same as writing an autistic character and does not translate to writing autistic characters naturally. Stating 'autistic writers don't struggle to write autistic characters' as a universal truth is just wrong.

Second, even if you do feel like it comes naturally to you to write autistic characters, you should note that what you are writing is a reflection of yourself. You do not represent all or even the majority of autistic people. If you want to diversify your portrayal of autism by incorporating autistic traits that you do not have, you will likely have to practice. If you only rely on your personal experiences with autism to inform all of your autistic characters, you will create a one-dimensional portrayal of autism.

Third, something you will quickly notice if you seriously try to write different autistic characters is that the traditional narrative tools utilized in writing are often unsuited for autistic characters. An easy example: eye contact is often used in dialogue to signify importance. If a piece of dialogue is especially important, the author will often have the character 'turn to look at [protagonist]'/'look [protagonist] straight in the eye' to signal to the reader that they need to pay attention. If you have created a character who hates eye contact, do you still do this? Would your character be able to look someone in the eye, even if what they are saying is important? If not, how else do you signal to the reader that this piece of dialogue is important and they need to pay attention? What do you imply when eye contact is utilized as an important, foundational aspect of conversation?

That's an easy example that's pretty easy to solve if you give it a few seconds of thought. There are ones that are a lot harder. How do you write from the perspective of a non-verbal autistic person who does not think in words, in a medium relying entirely on words to convey thought? (That's something I still struggle with greatly and do not feel confident in writing, but hope to figure out through practice.) A lot of basic narrative structures and cheats that authors take for granted fall apart the moment you try to apply them to a character who is sufficiently removed from them. This can very much apply to autistic characters.

For me, the trick in writing autistic characters is less in making them stim or be socially awkward or whatever, and more in thinking about how them being autistic affects basic narrative structures. Autistic people often stim; in what ways can you use stims to your advantage in characterization? How do you show intimacy in characters who are touch-averse? How do you make it clear what your other characters are feeling when you're writing from the limited perspective of a character who cannot tell? Do you even want to, or would it be more effective if you didn't? Again, basic examples, but you get my point.

I believe that relying on a kind of 'natural instinct' when writing autistic characters often leads to rather boring portrayals of autism. I don't mean to discount it entirely; it can obviously be helpful, and there are many people for whom overcoming a reliance on writing clichés is much more natural than it is for me. But by taking your ability to write autistic characters for granted, you may be passing up the opportunity for much more diverse, creative portrayals of autism. It is worth thinking about the ways you write your characters, what kind of personality traits you often give them, and how you can make your character's voice more unique while writing. This advice is by no means limited to autistic characters or even minority characters; it's general writing advice.

And of course: utilizing neurotypical writing tools to write autistic characters will create flattened portrayals. Figuring out how and to what degree you wish to discard writing conventions is, in my opinion, integral for writing good autistic characters.

#my posts #writing wise #actuallyautistic #yeah i'll throw this in the main tag. I am passionate about this #i'm not gonna pretend like i'm some kind of flawless expert who's great at writing autistic characters of all kinds all the time #as i said specifically i still very much struggle with certain kinds of autistic characters #non-verbal characters are especially difficult for me because the way I view the world centers so heavily around language #and that's the point to me! #your own experience with autism is by no means representative of the whole of the autistic experience! #certain autistic characters can fit fairly easily into a neurotypical narrative. others absolutely cannot #i think it's worth practicing and experimenting with all kinds of autistic characters #rather than relying purely on your own experience

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

DNI if you are """transabled.""" This obviously doesn't include people who have BIID, xenomelia, or any factitious disorders as those are severe mental illnesses/neurological disabilities. This is explicitly people who "identify as autistic" or "feel they should have BPD." You don't actually identify with those disorders, you identify with mocking stereotypes, and you disgust me. It's even worse that you have the gall to enter the actually mentally ill tags. "I wish I had OCD!" I wish I could give you mine, it's hell.

#transabled #actually autistic #actually mentally ill #actually adhd #actually disabled #disability #ableism #allistics #i fucking hate non autistics you can't treat us like humans for even one fucking minute huh? #this isnt a safe space for you freaks #you treat disabilities like dress up games #i literally saw one that was transretarded #you read that fucking right #they used a literal SLUR and want to be included with us? #no fuck off you useless neurotypical

[sunfoxfic]

yall have GOT to stop using "neurotypical" as the opposite of "autistic"

#grumbles #this is one of my biggest pet peeves fr #the word you're looking for is allistic #and this is important for 2 reasons #1 is that if you speak only of autistic people and neurotypical people then you're excluding a hell of a lot of people who are neither #2 is that if you (an autistic person who does not - by definition - represent the whole of neurodiversity) #speak for ALL non-neurotypical people #you're gonna misrepresent a LOT of things

[gaia-mix-nicolosi]

I have bereavement disorder for a Doctor Who character!

I have Autism and CHARGE Syndrome and since about September 2022, I've had bereavement disorder from Luvic of Traken, although I am most likely Aromantic Asexual.

Yes, Luvic has only 15 minutes of screentime, then dying of entropy wawe one story later, and yes, Robin Soans is still alive and propably will be working as an actor for another few years.

But still, the only time they brought Robin back is to play a 5-minute-screentime character who is credited as "Chronolock Guy", as in, the guy who got killed by a Chronolock, presumably existing as a sort of reference to the events surrounding Luvic's death. Expecially as Chronolock Guy does seem like what an older Luvic would be like. Technically there's also Shadrak Winter but.

BUT my stuff with Traken started even before watching Doctor Who. I first got into the Doctor Who fandom around 2012, through a My Little Pony meme called Doctor Whooves, so I knew a lot about Doctor Who even before watching the show, and even made a forum named Trakenboard and called myself Nyssa of Trakenboard online. (I was'nt completely emotionally in me at the time.)

#doctor who #classic who #meta #luvic of traken #bereavement #bereavement disorder #for completely non-neurotypical and non-cishet\non-alloromantic\non-allosexual reasons and it will go away in like 2 months #they're also completely unrelated to real life or to how Doctor Who is actually like #S18 is actually my least fave season or one of my least fave seasons #Apparently my fave season\era is the 14th doctor specials and my fave ep is girl in the fireplace