Neurodivergency

thoughts I had today: - a lot of people / families can be very understanding when it comes to #neurodivergent children, especially #autistic children and those with #ADHD (or both). they do understand that these people have different needs - however if these children are part of your own family, the understanding is often times gone. a need is suddenly not a need anymore but laziness or malevolence. - as we know, #autism and ADHD are genetic. a lot of times those accusations come from people who might be autistic or have adhd themselves. - these parents / uncles / aunts etc. have been judged by neurotypical standards themselves + they might not know they are neurodivergent themselves resulting in them thinking that neurodivergent traits are normal within their family. - they do not recognise needs and difficulties as such because they don’t know any different and because they have been judged by neurotypical standards nevertheless they still apply it to their children - with children and people outside of the family, it’s easier to have a certain understanding because people are observing them from the outside of their intimate relationships and homes, they so not feel personally attacked. - so if people are not the cycle breakers of their homes they have a hard time understanding their own family members, even with an official diagnosis.

What you believe the "autism spectrum" means is not what it actually means. It's more like...

• The disease model of mental illness may have outlived its usefulness. • A new theory suggests that some mental disorders are evolved cognitive styles that benefit the group. • The neurodiversity movement has long advanced a similar vision.

Interview mit Stefanie Stahl

• Psychologists have long debated whether ADHD is a deficit or a distinct cognitive style. • A recent review of the evidence suggests that ADHD traits might have helped early humans. • This evidence should prompt us to consider how we can change our educational systems to benefit, rather than hinder, this cognitive style.

Vertical heterophoria is a funny name, so I get it, but no, I'm not making it up. There are (by my exaggerated estimate) roughly a million comorbid

Rejection sensitive dysphoria is one manifestation of emotional dysregulation, a common but misunderstood and under-researched symptom of ADHD in adults. Individuals with RSD feel “unbearable” pain as a result of perceived or actual rejection, teasing, or criticism that is not alleviated with cognitive or dialectical behavior therapy.

For people with ADHD or ADD, rejection sensitive dysphoria can mean extreme emotional sensitivity and emotional pain — and it may imitate mood disorders with suicidal ideation and manifest as instantaneous rage at the person responsible for causing the pain. Learn more about ways to manage RSD here.

A new series of nine experimental studies indicates that "discordant knowing", certainty about something one perceives as opposed by the majority of others, predicts greater fanaticism. ...

ADHS gilt als Kinderkrankheit. Die neurologische Erkrankung ist angeboren, wird aber bei einigen Menschen erst im Erwachsenenalter diagnostiziert. Für Betroffene bedeutet das meist eine große Erleichterung. Wie bei der Illustratorin Pina aus #Berlin-Weißensee. #ADHS pic.twitter.com/E4fqF01W2D— rbb|24 (@rbb24) October 19, 2022

ADHS ist auch im Erwachsenenalter gut behandelbar. In der Schön Klinik Bad Bramstedt existiert seit 2005 ein eigener Behandlungsschwerpunkt für ADHS im Erwachsenenalter und komorbide Störungen, also zusätzlich auftretende psychische Diagnosen.

I fell in love a few years ago with the show Orange Is the New Black. Yes, I promise this is going somewhere, stick with me. One of the funniest moments

A workshop on working with ADHD.

Most productivity tools and apps don’t really work for people with ADHD.We get excited by the shiny features and may think “this is the one!” before reality crashes in (and we forget to cancel the subscription).What are some tools that have ACTUALLY worked with your ADHD?— ADHD Jesse (@adhdjesse) September 16, 2022

Once thought to primarily affect overstimulated boys, ADHD diagnoses have spiked among adult women. For one writer, coming to terms with her diagnosis later in life has put her past and family history in a new light.

"Syndromtypisch kann sich ein Mensch mit ADHS furchtbar leicht (ohne es zu wollen oder stoppen zu können) in die »Angst vor der Angst« hineinsteigern. Er/sie profitiert in einer Therapie dabei in keinster Form positiv von der Konfrontation mit der Angst..." #ADHS  via @readwise pic.twitter.com/rZBs4lCH5t— Manuela Hoffmann (@pixelgraphix) September 7, 2022

It doesn't work. When I step over the clothes pile, I take it to start the laundry, only to remember in that exact moment the unpaid bill, the old vegetables in the fridge and and and. How could I fix the clothes thing with this urgent tasks in the back? This is how my ADHD works— Fx33 (@Fx3313) August 30, 2022

Anatomy of doing a task:➊ Start the task➋ Continue working on the task➌ Complete the taskADHD can make it difficult at all 3 stages.🧵👇— Jesse J. Anderson • ADHD Creative (@jessejanderson) August 7, 2022

At a check-up after this, I discover that I suffer from bizarre claustrophobia when trying to chill in an MRI machine. The 7,5er midazolam does quite nothing for me. Later I will learn that a huge benzodiazepine tolerance is a common feature of ADHD and ASPD brains alike,...— 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖊∴𝖛𝖔𝖒∴𝕽𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖓∴𝖁𝖔𝖎𝖉 (@HEREDOMETRICS) August 6, 2022

Hundreds of young people are displaying strikingly similar tic-like behaviours. But is it Tourette’s, or something more mysterious?

Recent research has revealed a ‘parallel pandemic' of unexplained tics in young people.

Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) ist eine der häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter. Weniger bekannt ist aber, dass die betroffenen Kinder oft auch im Erwachsenenalter an Impulsivität, Depressionen, Aufmerksamkeitsstörungen und vielem anderen mehr leiden. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es kaum eine Erkrankung, über die mehr Mythen und Vorurteile existieren: „fake news“ überall! Wo die Gründe für diese Erkrankung zu suchen sind, wie man sie im Erwachsenenalter erkennt und vor allem richtig behandelt, werden Sie hier erfahren – aber auch, was der Autor des Struwwelpeters Heinrich Hoffmann mit der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik und der Paulskirche zu tun hat.

CN: Thematisierung von Angst, Depressionen, negativen Gedanken und Angst vor Krankheiten. Erwähnung von Essen.

Struggling To Fit Into Somebody Else's Environment. pic.twitter.com/Upr7afJq0t— ADHD Nerds Podcast (@AdhdNerds) June 20, 2022

This is episode five. And today I'm talking with Marie Ng. Marie is the founder of Llama Life, a desktop productivity app, which helps you work through y…

For me, one of the absolute worst things about having #LongCovid is that my brain just doesn't work properly. The unrelenting derealisation, short term memory issues & more. It cuts into your very sense of self. It's as though the brain is sedated; continually half-asleep.— Shaney Wright (@ShaneyWright) June 5, 2022