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absolutely!

Trauma can be anything. What is usually understood as a traumatic event (e.g. someone dying, being injured, etc) will traumatized some people but not others, depending on your own personal resilience. (This is affected by things like having a support circle / community, no pre-existing traumas, etc). Likewise, some people with low resilience might have a trauma reaction to something other people might not consider a big deal. Trauma can be intensely personal and might be difficult to understand by others.

That said, I think I was traumatized by the death or a fictional character, and my resilience is pretty high, as far as I'm aware. (The dead character went on to be the best friend I had for 3 years, so...) Either way, I understand feeling like your trauma doesn't make sense to other people or isn't validated.

I hope you're able to heal soon ❤️

Quick question: can you get PTSD from losing a close friend? I’ve been thinking about it nonstop and I’m even having dreams.

Anyone relate?

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As an autistic asexual, I thought this was like. Sensory material (that I personally happen to HATE) but no. People are making sex jokes in the comments. I want to die

Why

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Wait do other neurodivergents not talk to themselves?? For a long time?? To the people in their head?? Like I totally made the people up on my own, it's an issue I've been struggling with for years, but ????? I thought talking to yourself was normal for NDs?

Hello, I'd like your thoughts on something, I'm pretty new to Tumblr and was trying to block users posting just, generally doomer sort of stuff or stuff that was kinda upsetting posts that had showed up on my For You page. The problem is afterward I basically kept myself up until 6 in the morning just pacing and arguing with myself both about the topic I had already gotten past and a crap ton of anxiety that the people I blocked would be upset and angry at me and that I did it for the wrong reasons. I am diagnosed for ADHD so that probably does have something to do with it but the whole. Arguing with a person in your head thing has been happening a lot lately and can go on for over an hour sometimes and its getting really annoying

Hi there,

This sounds like an issue that you need to discuss with a therapist or counselor. I’m not a psychologist or therapist, so I don’t think I can really answer this question.

I’m sorry that I couldn’t answer your question, but I appreciate the inbox. I hope you have a wonderful day/night. ♥️

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Neurodiversity and Challenges Around Food

The Autistic Teacher

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Source | Day 83

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

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When a person with ADHD complains of severe anxiety, I recommend that the clinician not immediately accept the patient’s label for her emotional experience. A clinician should say, “Tell me more about your baseless, apprehensive fear,” which is the definition of anxiety. More times than not, a person with ADHD hyperarousal will give a quizzical look and respond, “I never said I was afraid.” If the patient can drop the label long enough to describe what the feeling is like, a clinician will likely hear, “I am always tense; I can’t relax enough to sit and watch a movie or TV program. I always feel like I have to go do something.” The patients are describing the inner experience of hyperactivity when it is not being expressed physically.

At the same time, people with ADHD also have fears that are based on real events in their lives. People with ADHD nervous systems are consistently inconsistent. The person is never sure that her abilities and intellect will show up when they are needed. Not being able to measure up at the job or at school, or in social circles is humiliating. It is understandable that people with ADHD live with persistent fear. These fears are real, so they do not indicate an anxiety disorder.

holy SHIT

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Skin Picking

AJ’s Brain

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Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

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”Oh, Jesus, pardon me if I do not know how to suffer as I should.” - Padre Pio

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”Oh, Jesus, pardon me if I do not know how to suffer as I should.” - Padre Pio

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Feeling this rn

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ive seen people talk about the whole "wow, you can't work? im jealous, i wish i could rest all the time." and like yes, it isn't restful because it's filled with distressing symptoms. but also? there is such a thing as too much down time. you genuinely don't want to be laying in bed or sitting on the couch all the time. you don't want to be stuck doing things that don't result in any tangible fulfillment, just to escape the boredom. and you certainly don't want all that on top of the pain, fatigue, etc. that comes with disability.

a lot of us don't get to go for a daily walk. we don't get to just get up and go to the store, out to eat, the library, or whatever event is happening nearby. we often can't engage with our passions, at the very least to the extent we'd like. we're stuck, and often can't meet our basic needs like hygiene. there's so much down time and nothing to fill it with. our doctors appointments might be the only thing to get us out of the house. it's depressing. it's lonely. and at a certain point you can start to wonder why you're even alive in the first place.

so no. you don't wish you could be like us. you just don't want to be slaving away to a job that doesn't care about you, takes up all your time, and prevents you from doing the things you love. so just say that instead. because as people who can't work, who are so aware of the cruelty of this system, odds are we'll understand. and instead of alienating us, we'd be able to connect with you on that. and connection and understanding is something that makes life a lot better. worth living for, even.

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How is that an autism accent. What if. What if you live in one of those places. ,,?

For a while I’ve kept seeing people talk about the autism accent and I always thought I didn’t have one but apparently I pronounce some things in a cockney, Scottish, or southern accent. So turns out I do have one.