#also btw I'm not diagnosed

[deezbignutz]

Pro tip: If someone is hating on you or annoying you, aggressively do ur hyperfixation on them. Observe.

Hater: U suck >:((

Me: *Aggressively plays 2048 on them while aggressively blasting musical songs into their ears* GET AUTISMED, BICTH!!

Hater: Well shit, ur right.

Annoying dude: Yapa yapa yapa yapa yap-

Me: *Aggressively explains the lore and magic system of Redacted while aggressively knitting* FEAST UR EYES ON MY AUTISM, BITCH!!!

Annoying dude: Damn, u make a good point.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[swordsonnet]

lately, i've seen more people in the online autistic community acknowledging the struggles of people with higher support needs, which is of course an important development. but for some, that seems to come with the implicit assumption that low needs autistics "have it easy" or experience no stigma at all, which is just wrong??? people with low support needs are still disabled by their autism and still face discrimination because of it. sure, they are impaired to a lesser degree than those with higher support needs, but that doesn't mean you can just erase their struggles, y'know?

[bonefall]

I recognize a lot of ADHD symptoms in Nightheart too.

The thinking everyone hates him is a big thing, taking rejection harder than it should be,

You're right... the Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria... I am Nightheart's therapist and I am slapping him with so many mental illnesses.

[luna-loveboop]

My therapist recommended this app meant for 6+ year olds to me, an over eighteen year old, and of course I got it,

So it's this parenting app meant to help motivate neurodivergent and feral children with executive functioning, and I am THRIVING

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Me, taking five deep breaths and washing my face, so I can get coins to buy my virtual unicorn a sparkly moon headband:

Now this is how you take care of yourself >:)

[pa-pa-plasma]

i don't think i'll ever get over how people treat kids that aren't good in school as worthless no matter what. "oh it can't be that bad" my guy idk how to tell you this but the last time i went to a normal high school the principal called me into his office to brag about how he failed me in all of my classes before the semester was even finished & i should quit while i'm ahead cuz i'm too stupid ("officially" diagnosed as such by a school counselor & a psychiatrist!!) to succeed. & this is considered normal

[snazum]

me trying to stroll thru the ted nivison tag on tumblr for some sick art X READER, IMAGINE, OTHER THINGS I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF EVEN THO IT'S QUITE LITERATLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME XDD

[fagdykevash]

so deerbrained outta nowhere.... m was kind enough to walk me through getting my meds n water as i dissociated. my not-hooves are really really bothering me for now reason

[teamcavota]

being ND in a southerner family is hard

[paintedpineleaf]

why does coffee seem to have the opposite effect on my brain like istg it's working slower at like a manageable speed rn i can actually do stuff instead of just freaking out about them.

[indigochromatic]

yellow: if you could have any view from your bedroom window what would you choose? what’s your favorite thing to do on a sunny day? what do you consider lucky? what made you smile today? what makes you happy?

Ohh, fuck yeah, you're giving me a license to be a sappy dumbass and I'm absolutely taking it if you could have any view from your bedroom window what would you choose - Is it weird that I miss my city from source? Yeah, life was stressful as fuck, given what my job entailed--but also, that was home for me, in a way we're still only getting fleeting glimpses of here. Big trade-keystone city, with a river that opened up into a harbor and then the ocean, mountains in the back. Ocean on the west. Messy, corrupt (I would know, lmao), scarred after the invasion, beautiful. Full of hope and grit and old wounds. what’s your favorite thing to do on a sunny day - lie in a puddle of sunshine with my favorite person in the world, just a sleepy warm golden haze while she tells me I'm handsome and wonderful and very, very loved. Friends can come too, so long as they compliment me--I'm kind of like a male lion or a wolf where I feel like I'm supposed to have a pride or a pack? Like, I've got My Person, but then I'm also supposed to have a larger group, too, where I have some kind of hard-to-translate-to-human-terms specific social role, but if you think of a pride of lions you'll get the right idea. what do you consider lucky - Hm, I don't know about that one. Nice weather, a good song coming up on shuffle, getting a neat idea for something to write or make. what made you smile today - Listening to music while going for a short run, got an unexpected headspace memory ("memory"/image/whatever/who knows) from one of my subsystem facets who (we think?) has been kinda hanging out in the wilds of L's side of headspace for a while, running around through the mountains with L's dragon form. Really joyful and kinda sweet tbh, in a particular combination of adventure-y emotions I don't exactly get all that much of most of the time. what makes you happy - several things, actually (there's a relevant line from my source that I'm thinking of, lmao, if you know you know) ...but nothing else comes close to the most important one, and she knows who she is. <3

[theflannelwizard]

Oops, I lied about sending all my questions in one, I thought of an actually specific question and not just a super general one five seconds after sending the ask:

Do you have any neurodivergent hcs for Buster and Gob(or other characters if you hc anyone else as neurodivergent)?

This is such a good question!! Okay!! It got long so I'm putting it under the cut, but TLDR: undiagnosed comorbid autistm and ADHD for both of them plus ADHD Tony Wonder :) I forced myself not to get into it with the rest of the Bluths cause this post would be a mile long but i did put cursory thoughts about them in the tags. All of this is spitballing and I'm definitely open to hearing other opinions!

Whatever is going on with Buster’s brain is the same thing that’s going on with my brain, so most likely ADHD and/or autism but DEFINITELY undiagnosed. None of the Bluths have the diagnoses they need and if someone (Tobias) tries to so much as allude to them being neurodivergent in front of George Sr. and/or Lucille it gets shut down immediately.

Anyway Buster reads more autistic than ADHD to me but it could be either or both. He has trouble reading other people’s emotions and regulating his own, he’s “strange” and “childish” in ways that are direct responses to how he was raised but also just read as neurodivergent, he’s got safe foods and takes things literally and has no clue how to read social cues and stims and gestures vaguely at all of him is just so very ND. Also the thing with ADHD-havers being randomly struck with bouts of guilt or self loathing? I think that’s him. ADHD was recently reclassified as an anxiety disorder, too, which we know full well is Buster, and it would not surprise me if his panic and anxiety attacks were brought on by sensory overload and RSD and other ADHD things at least some of the time.

As for GOB, I think he’s got the same deal but he reads more ADHD than autistic. I think they both have both but it presents differently in each of them. I’m fully on board with both magic and bees being special interests for that man, and he also just moves and talks and interacts with people in a very neurodivergent way. The stuttering when he’s overwhelmed is, to me, adjacent to (if not straight up being) him going nonverbal. He definitely has RSD too, look at how devastated he is when anyone rejects him ever. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bipolar, getting manic when he’s really into a project and then falling into depression for weeks or months at a time.

And, just as a bonus, I think Tony Wonder has ADHD. He recognizes it in GOB and helps him with learn to function in a healthier happier way and his siblings are so confused cause GOB just magically started getting more normal?? Except it’s not magic (and it’s not an illusion lmao) it’s just coping mechanisms. Tony’s been collecting them from various therapists for like 30 years. He has no clue how anyone in this family thinks they’re neurotypical.

[fbfh]

time for my once every four years semihiatus from weekly posts due to burnout!! (don't worry I still will very much be active lol)

I have some posts scheduled through october but BRO I am so burnt out and none of my usual stuff is fixing it lol. so. I'm just gonna be answering asks and taking a break from longer posts until my brain wakes back up lmao. in the words of fake guy fierri we've all had it. hm.

[themintman]

ok so I am debating bringing up ADHD with my therapist next time I see her so I'm like looking at the symptoms and I go to this website and it's long and there's text between each symptoms and their organized by age gener etc and im like "ew no wtf i cant read that thats so boring" and i go to pictures and see a pretty purple infograohic thats colour coded and am like yes thats bettee and the first thing i see on it is "gets bored easily" "struggles to stay on task" "short attention span" so like.. mega oops there

[jaws-and-canines]

How could you cope with knowing it was your fault? Surely, then, the agonies of your delusions were more comfortable than knowing you would never be punished to the degree you deserved for letting her die? - "But for God's sake, for the sake of all that you love, don't bring my daughter into this. I'll kill you. I've got nothing to lose anymore. She's all I have left."

[upperranktwo]

It's 6:30 and I haven't slept at all, from what I recall, I've almost been awake for 24 hours. I can't keep doing this (have been like this for years) I need to see a doctor about my unhealthy sleeping at some point lmao (will not see a doctor)

[allramnostorage]

sunday dinner is great because sometimes your mom will simply admit that she put you on a diet at the ripe old age of 3 years old and then your entire life just makes more sense