• AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    It’s kinda concerning how people often are taking normal reactions/behaviors and labeling them as autistic or ADHD.

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      12 hours ago

      I’m not sure if it applies to autism to the same degree, but that’s actually one of the main problems with ADHD:

      Most of our symptoms are things that neurotypicals struggle with too, but taken to 11 because of congenital differences in neurochemistry including but in no way limited to chronic dopamine deficiency.

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      There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it’s an issue you can’t really understand if you don’t suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.

      It’s kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the “this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing”.

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      13 hours ago

      You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food. All you can think about is eating. It’s very distracting. It’s an ADHD thing 🤷‍♀️

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        You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food.

        That is literally so easy, I regularly do it by accident because I hyperfocus on some nonsense.

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          Took me fourteen hours to fix a problem yesterday. I bet it would have taken 4 if I had eaten something during the troubleshooting

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            Yes but is that worth the utter and complete agony of stopping what you’re doing and then starting again 10 minutes later? /s

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        ironically I often forget to eat and get trapped in binge/fast cycles unless I painstakingly log every single thing I eat.