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Different Thought Disorders Common With Those On The Schizophrenia Spectrum / Psychosis Spectrum

Thought disorders are when your thinking process is impaired, often affecting your speech! They’re common in ADHD and autism, but also can appear in those in the schizophrenia spectrum or psychosis spectrum. Let’s talk about them!

Remember, none of these are done on purpose!

Alogia - randomly stop talking in the middle of the sentence, slurred consonants, being unable to grasp the right word, and trailing off into a whisper before ending the sentence

Blocking - suddenly stopping in the middle of the sentence, forgetting what the sentence was about, and then starting a new topic after the blocking

Clang Association - Rhyming or doing alliterations in the middle of the sentence. An example would be “So yesterday when I went to the store door floor more … I mean, yesterday say lay may..”

Echolalia - Repeating what someone says right after they say it or repeating sentences heard earlier. An example would be a mom asking “Do you want icecream” and a child responding “Do you want icecream…. yes!”

Pressure of Speech - speaking rapidly without pausing, loud, and hard to understand

Word Salad - Using a series of words in an odd order making it impossible to understand the sentence, some of the words not having ti do with the sentense at all. An example would be a woman asking “What kind of coffee did you get?” and her friend responding “Several, several berries. Strawberries. Steaming, colours, fruits, red blue pink”

(word salad is often confused for manipulative behaviour, please know that nobody displays word salad on purpose. It is not manipulative. )

Tangentiality - going off topic before answering the question. An example would be, your friend asks “when did you start gardening?” and you reply “My garden has three main vegetables. I love vegetables but my brothers don’t. I haven’t seen my brothers in years, I should call them.”

Stilted Speech - spoken in a formal essay format rather than casual speech, more information than average when explaining, repeating information

(also common in autism spectrum disorder, if you’re on the spectrum you may find yourself doing this more while info-dumping about a special interest)

If I happened to miss any! Feel free to add on!

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1: yes.

2: age 19.

3: my s/o mentioned I had a lot of traits, I used to hear it from friends a lot as a teenager. Thought I might as well look it up.

4: cults for some reason

5: I've had a lot, but nutrition, Harry Potter, and Scandinavian history are ones that comes to mind.

6: pretty well, but I've been grinding my teeth in my sleep since I was a little child.

7: I don't know.

8: I like it a lot if the book captures my interest.

9: podcasts can be fun, lectures are generally torture.

10: nope, I was pretty bullied. I have, however, always had friends.

11: very good. Almost straight A's.

12: varied a lot, usually lied to my parents and said I'd done my homework at school.

13: cracking my fingers, rapidly moving my foot, doing wierd things with my jaw, playing songs with my teeth (sounds wierd, but gently tapping them together to a song in my head) flapping my hand (this one is saved for especially bad occasions though).

14: it used to be external, now it's internal. Socially it's easier to internalize it, for my mental well being it'd be better to externalize it.

15: lists help me a lot.

16: painfully talkative.

17: yes. As a kid/teenager I did swimming, soccer, karate, long distance running (last 3 at the same time, often working out 7 days/week), now I do weightlifting, but not competitively.

18: yes, made me very anxious unfortunately.

19: I don't know really, right now I can't think of a single one.

20: with everything and anything.

21: certain smells (smell of laundry for example), light touch (I'm constantly touching my face and arms).

22: also certain smells, but I'm extremely sensitive to loud sounds and music.

23: I have all characteristics of ASD but don't have enough social issues for a formal diagnosis (you need to have issues in 3 or more areas of your life, out of 4, I had 2).

24: Not diagnosed, but both my parents have clear traits of either ASD or ADHD.

25: at 19.

26: yes, I'd say so.

27: depends on the subject.

28: "interested

29: TV-series/movies.

30: no, I don't like messy papers.

31: yes, very much.

32: yes, several times/week.

33: either I fall asleep or I'm the life of the party, wanting to talk to everyone and going off everywhere.

34: YES!!!

35: verbally. I usually don't even know what I think before I've talked to someone about them.

36: not really.

37: Yes! I recommend it.

38: My teachers usually liked me a lot since I was generally very interested in learning and discussing (also why my grades were high and my diagnosis late).

39: didn't realize it existed until just now, so I can't really comment on that.

40: ADHD isn't a life sentence, it isn't your entire identity, it isn't an excuse, but it can be an explanation, both to you and to people in your surroundings. Read up on it and get the necessary tools to deal with things that is easy for others.

ADHD Ask Meme

1: Are you diagnosed? 2: When were you diagnosed? 3: How did you find out that you had ADHD? 4: What’s your current hyperfixation? 5: What has been your most intense hyperfixation? 6: How well do you sleep? 7: What subtype (inattentive, hyperactive, combined) are you? 8: How do you feel about reading? 9: How do you feel about podcasts and lectures? 10: Were/are you popular in school? 11: What were/are your grades like in school? 12: How long did/do you spend on homework? 13: What’s your favorite way to stim? 14: Is your hyperactivity internal or external? 15: What’s your favorite memory strategy? 16: Were/are you talkative in class? 17: Did/do you play a sport? 18: Have you ever tried ADHD medication? 19: What characters do you most identify with? 20: How do you most often fidget? 21: What sensory things do you love? 22: What sensory things do you hate? 23: Do you have any comorbid diagnoses? 24: Do others in your family have ADHD? 25: Did you find out you had ADHD as a child, teenager, or adult? 26: Are you creative? 27: Do you have high, low, or normal self-esteem? 28: What did/do your report card comments usually say? 29: What piece of media makes you blissfully happy? 30: Do you doodle in class/meetings? 31: Do you self-medicate with caffeine? 32: Do you exercise often? 33: What are you like when you are drunk? 34: Do you like writing? 35: How do you process your thoughts and emotions: internally, verbally, in writing? 36: Do you have any friends with ADHD? 37: Have you ever been to therapy? 38: Did/do teachers like you? 39: What is your experience with RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria)? 40: What would you like to say to any person who has just been diagnosed with ADHD?

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I need both tbh

are you a ‘sport is my outlet’ or ‘creativity is my outlet’ adhd

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Ambient sounds for writers

Find the right place to write your novel… 

Nature

Arctic ocean

Blizzard in village

Blizzard in pine forest

Blizzard from cave

Blizzard in road

Beach

Cave

Ocean storm

Ocean rocks with rain

River campfire

Forest in the morning

Forest at night

Forest creek

Rainforest creek

Rain on roof window

Rain on tarp tent

Rain on metal roof

Rain on window

Rain on pool

Rain on car at night

Seaside storm

Swamp at night

Sandstorm

Thunderstorm

Underwater

Wasteland

Winter creek

Winter wind

Winter wind in forest

Howling wind

Places

Barn with rain

Coffee shop

Restaurant with costumers

Restaurant with few costumers

Factory

Highway

Garden

Garden with pond and waterfall

Fireplace in log living room

Office 

Call center

Street market

Study room from victorian house with rain

Trailer with rain

Tent with rain

Jacuzzi with rain

Temple

Temple in afternoon

Server room

Fishing dock

Windmill

War

Fictional places

Chloe’s room (Life is Strange)

Blackwell dorm (Life is Strange)

Two Whales Diner (Life is Strange)

Star Wars apartment (Star Wars)

Star Wars penthouse (Star Wars)

Tatooine (Star Wars)

Coruscant with rain (Star Wars)

Yoda’s hut with rain ( Star Wars)

Luke’s home (Star Wars)

Death Star hangar (Star wars)

Blade Runner city (Blade Runner)

Askaban prison (Harry Potter)

Hogwarts library with rain (Harry Potter)

Ravenclaw tower (Harry Potter)

Hufflepuff common room (Harry Potter)

Slytherin common room (Harry Potter)

Gryffindor common room (Harry Potter)

Hagrid’s hut (Harry Potter)

Hobbit-hole house (The Hobbit)

Diamond City (Fallout 4)

Cloud City beach (Bioshock)

Founding Fathers Garden (Bioshock)

Things

Dishwasher

Washing machine

Fireplace

Transportation

Boat engine room

Cruising boat

Train ride

Train ride in the rain

Train station

Plane trip

Private jet cabin

Airplane cabin

Airport lobby

First class jet

Sailboat

Submarine

Historical

Fireplace in medieval tavern

Medieval town

Medieval docks

Medieval city

Pirate ship in tropical port

Ship on rough sea

Ship cabin

Ship sleeping quarter

Titanic first class dining room

Old west saloon

Sci-fi

Spaceship bedroom

Space station

Cyberpunk tearoom

Cyberpunk street with rain

Futuristic server room

Futuristic apartment with typing

Futuristic rooftop garden 

Steampunk balcony rain

Post-apocalyptic

Harbor with rain

City with rain

City ruins turned swamp

Rusty sewers

Train station

Lighthouse

Horror

Haunted mansion

Haunted road to tavern

Halloween

Stormy night

Asylum

Creepy forest

Cornfield

World

New York

Paris

Paris bistro

Tokyo street

Chinese hotel lobby

Asian street at nightfall

Asian night market

Cantonese restaurant

Coffee shop in Japan

Coffee shop in Paris

Coffee shop in Korea

British library

Trips, rides and walkings

Trondheim - Bodø

Amsterdam - Brussels

Glasgow - Edinburgh

Oxford - Marylebone

Seoul - Busan

Gangneung - Yeongju

Hiroshima

Tokyo metro

Osaka - Kyoto

Osaka - Kobe

London

São Paulo

Seoul

Tokyo

Bangkok

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)

Alps

New York

Hong Kong

Taipei

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YES!!! This is beyond annoying!!! To have one or more mild traits doesn't compare at all...

Autistic people: Explains autistic traits

Neurotypicals: We do that too!!

Autistic people: But not.. like.. us..

NT: YES WE DO

Autistic people: But experts literally sa-

NT: WE DO THE SAME THINGS. YOU’RE NOT AUTISTIC. THOSE AREN’T AUTISTIC THINGS.

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Someone: Who hurt you?

Me: Tv show writers.

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To all the ASD ladies out there!

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Shoutout to autistic students

-For those who will struggle with a new routine

-For those whose executive dysfunction takes a toll on their grades

-For those who aren’t allowed their stim toys/get them taken away

-For those afriad to stim in public

-For the self-dx people who need accommodations but can’t get them

-For those that feel the need to overwork themselves to show their worth as a human being

-For those who get in trouble for taking care of yourself

-For those who aren’t taken seriously

-For those that just feel /wrong/ at school

-For those struggling to find good friends

-For those who struggle focusing

I believe in you. You won’t be in school forever, you can make it. I hope you have a good school year filled with happy moments (and happy stims) even if you “could have done better” you still did it, and that’s what matters to me. I love you guys, good luck!!! :D

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Agreed. Because of this very stereotype I’ve even had a therapist say I ‘didn’t act like autistic people he’s met’ (I talk a lot and show a lot of emotion when I talk etc). Which is insane, since I’m diagnosed by a medical professional. The series Atypical is the same caricature of an autistic person who apparently haven’t been told a single idiom in his entire life, and portrays autistic people as unable to learn even the most basic conventions of human speech and interaction. 

idk if you’ve heard about this (or watched it) but after watching the first episode of the new netflix show ‘atypical’ i had a lot to say… autism and autism awareness is so important but how can we ever hope to break the stigma around it if the media keeps showing these stereotyped, one-dimensional, inaccurate versions of autistic people..?

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Hogwarts Houses as Planets

for @chewbaccastolemyhearts

Gryffindor: Jupiter- large and extremely turbulent, holds many in its orbit

Slytherin: Venus- very harrowing, intense, and lethal

Ravenclaw: Uranus- not fully understood, chaotic, totally unique

Hufflepuff: Earth- the most stable, supportive, and well balanced

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After a long night of drinking in the gryffindor tower

Student 1: “ I don’t think it’s possible or particularly healthy to tickle a blast ended skrewt.” Student 2: “… Hold my butter beer”

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We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

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Hufflepuffs taking their relationship to the next level

Student 1: “I… I just wanted to say that I like you a lot, and that I think we’re ready to take things further.” Student 2: “But… I’ve already told you that I’m not ready to have sex yet.” Student 2: “Sex!? Who said anything about sex? I’ve bought us a shrubbery, not rubbery. ”

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I’m not saying you shouldn’t trust anyone, just that you should remember their dirt in case they intend to use yours.

Slytherin student being pragmatic about networking (via heard-in-the-common-room)

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Hufflepuff insults

Student 1: “You’re an ass.” Student 2: “An excellent one, mind you.” Student 1: “Ha-ha. And you’re friend is an even bigger idiot.” Student 2: “HEY! FUKEN FITE ME!”

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Gryffindor: “Oooh I could punch him in the face, what a low life.” Slytherin *rolls their eyes*: “Being hot headed is the surest way to make more enemies than you want.” Gryffindor: “You mean I shouldn’t make him pay for insulting me!?” Slytherin: “Are you even listening? No, make him burn, just don’t make it obvious that you lit the fire.”

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Slytherin pride

student 1: “We don’t talk” student 2: “How come?” s1: “Oh man, are you in for a wild ride: his great grandfathers second cousin didn’t lend a copy of the daily prophet to my great grandmothers second oldest sister when he’d finished reading it because he wanted to save an article about wizard chess, he was a big fan of wizards chess you know, and apparently he collected articles about it, but I mean… Just lend it to my great grandmothers second oldest sister for like five minutes so she can check out that weeks quidditch scores!” s2: “He could’ve just ripped out the page he wanted and given her the rest!?” s1: “MY POINT EXACTLY!” s2: “What a twat! Shit man, I had no idea… I just want you to know that I support you in this.” - Slytherin