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Personally I don't see why a bad answer would be "went to Fiji for a year because I could". It's literally no one's business what you did when not employed. Why are we treating a gap in the resume like it's a crime.

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Reminds me of this guy who asked me why I would waste so much time on a research paper when I could make 15 tiktoks much faster and get more out of it. Because a research paper and tiktoks are the same.

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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Me, doing an autism self assessment for the 50th time: I don't think I'm autistic though, it's not like I take everything literally

I was 34 years old when I learnt that looking people in the eye means looking in the general direction of their eyes and not staring at their pupils almost without blinking and now I wonder if I have ever had a conversation without making people uncomfortable either by not looking at them at all while playing with something in my hands or by staring at them in the eye like my life depended on it

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Other people: I had such a productive weekend. Besides the normal chores and groceries and cooking I went to the swimming pool with the kids, cleaned my cupboards and had friends over for dinner

Me, AuDHD, who spent the whole weekend sleeping off the exhaustion of existing: Yeah same, same

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This is important. I've sat in an uni online class organised by a prestigious US university and the professor went on and on about how bipolar can be cured with the right meds and treatment. That's such a dangerous and unfair lie to tell. You can be asymptomatic but you're never cured. And it's really dangerous to tell people that.

Bipolar disorder can't be cured.

It can be managed/treated with medications, but manageable/treatable doesn't mean symptom free.

Neurodivergence/neurodiversity includes bipolar disorder.

The majority of media portrayals of bipolar disorder is wrong.

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327,600th what did I win

OK new game. Use this website to see how common your first name is, and then put that number in the tags. 

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Having bipolar is wild. People be like "you haven't had hypomania/depression for awhile are you sure you've got bipolar" like I'm a vending machine of moods. Listen people, you still have the bipolar diagnosis even if you haven't had a single mood situation for years. I'm not your local performance artist. It doesn't work like that. You can still give me coins though.

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Neurodivergent support systems are built not to help us thrive as we are but to make us less disruptive to others.

I said what I said.

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My ADHD: I cannot clean it feels like putting my hand on a hot stove

My autism: Things aren't in order I feel like I'm going to explode I have to clean there has to be order

My ADHD: I feel like going to explode because I physically cannot clean my brain won't let me

Me: Guess we just feel horrible then

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Hey you, yes, you with mental health issues and/or neurodiversity.

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chronic fatigue from mental illness and neurodivergency isn't something you can just will your way out of. your nervous system is part of your body. your brain is an organ. the fatigue is real. you're not lazy. so be kinder to yourself. be gentler with your bodymind.

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I was asked to participate in an Earth Day social media post where people researching on sustainability tell things that motivate them to keep working for the planet. I think it's safe to say that autism was present in my list.

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The neurodivergent feeling of being like AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH on the inside and 🙂 on the outside

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It's funny how neurodivergent people are the "ones with no social skills" yet somehow Jeremy audhd self is, trying to play by everyone's rules when it doesn't naturally, while the neurotypicals in my work team have decided that no one will bring in my lunch (despite brining everyone else's), ask me for a coffee break (despite everyone else being asked),fill in my mandatory feedback form or to include me into chats.

Just saying that one is genuinely not knowing how to navigate social situations and trying, while others seemingly decide to be shit.

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AuDHD things that are hard to explain

How you need to do the same things in the same order every morning before leaving the house and then stop for the same corner shop to buy the same things but how you can't deal with having the same tasks every day at work because your brain will shut down because you need novelty. But lunch must be at the same time every day and you always want to sit at the same desk and have your coffee at the same time.

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Saving this for the next time someone asks how I'm feeling

Glen Martin Taylor