Not Neurotypical™ (Neurodivergent); posting personal experiences on Mental Health and AuDHD, and sharing other peoples’ experiences found online; leaning towards Late Diagnosed AuDHD. Graham was Late Diagnosed (53) with: Autism & ADHD (AuDHD), & PTSD Trauma, after struggling with Clinical Depression, and Acute Social Anxiety, since his late teens. Graham’s Neurodivergent journey begins

Autism is very misunderstood. Not just by the general population, but even by some "professionals" It’s not one thing. It’s not always obvious. And it’s not a flaw. Here’s what most people don’t know about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and why it matters 🧵

Burnout isn’t stress. It started when you were praised for holding it all together. That praise became identity. That identity became oxygen. Now you can’t stop because you don’t know who you’d be without it. Here’s what no one told you: 🧵 https://t.co/MmvQfHZtMg

A surprising number of technical issues can be solved by resetting the glitchy device. Sometimes you have to unplug it or hold down several buttons to make it work, but this can be a fairly simple solution for what are sometimes shockingly complex issues resulting from an operational state that’s somehow gotten muddled. I find

by Colin Wright

About This site is about silence. Keep it to yourself and only speak when you are ready to act. Not before, not after. Learn to speak and provide a valid, useful opinion only when the time is right.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The first episode of Hidden Brain explores switchtracking: a common pattern in conversations you'll be accusing your partner of in no time! Plus speedy science, a cup of tea and a song from Adam Cole.

Tell a secret, hear a secret. “If you could have a conversation with someone who’s no longer alive, who would it be, and what would you talk about?”

Last month Katherine called out the tension inherent in a “personal” website which is that it is both public and personal, and one’s public (or professional) persona is often different from that of their personal life. Robin Rendle riffed on the concept and said that it’s totally fine for personal websites to be messy or imperfect or weird (i.e., not necessarily how you’d want to present a “professional” front) and declared, in a pretty great and punchy/pithy statement, “You’re a poem and not software”. Manu also picked up the thread and brought up a good point which is that people are complex and are allowed to have multiple selves that they present in different ways (and one great thing about your website is that it’s yours and you can choose which self or selves to present, and how).

This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Monotropism is a theory of autism. It is used interchangeably as a theory and also a trait that describes a style of attention. It suggests that Autistic people tend to have singular but highly detailed tunnels of attention, as opposed to spreading their attentional resources

This month I got my official diagnosis for Adult ADHD. It’s fun to share experiences with friends. While ADHD presents some new waters to navigate, it isn’t exactly news to me. Thanks to Dr. TikTok, I’ve suspected this outcome for a few years now. It’s nice to have a proper diagnosis though. If I’m struggling to focus or feeling overwhelmed, I know the probable root cause is how my brain processes dopamine and norepinephrine impacting my executive function.

Disclaimer: Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about h...

A theory of life about searching for your best.

I created a 3D tool for How To ADHD, a youtube channel dedicated to knowledge about and advice living with ADHD. Part of the channel's style is animated cartoons of their main character depicted as a brain. To suit their 2D workflow using AfterEffects, I created a 3D model for their new logo and made a utility that could render it out from any angle. .

What grows from the ashes of your old life?

emotional.codes is a collection of tools that I've found useful for processing emotions and having interpersonal interactions.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: • Err and err and err again but less and less and less. • – Piet Hein …

Only Speak If It Improves Upon The Silence

Create your personalized menu of activities to replace mindless scrolling.

Create your personalized dopamine menu

Emotions guide our lives. Exploring how we feel is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to understand themselves or even build a successful brand.

The personal website of wargaluk, a conscious physical being and a person.

Hold on a second. I'm like a two-out-of-ten on this. How strongly do you feel? I'm probably a six-out-of-ten, I replied after a couple moments of consideration. Cool, then let's do it your way.

I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After reading more about it I realised belatedly (in my 40s) that I have been coping with this my entire life. Strangely just finding a name to something formerly ambiguous can bring so much clarity and comfort, along...

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending

The Creation of a Self is a series of visual art and quotes inspired by the notion of booting a computer, creating a self, programming its memories and destroying memory monsters created from those memories, where the action of psychological death equals the discovery of love, truth, or what J. Krishnamurti calls "the awakening of intelligence."

Select advice from your uncle in the big city.