#neurospicy

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[victusinveritas]

[angelasscribbles]

Neurodivergent Things

[prettypersuasion]

Good observations.

I suspect Izzy shared with Axl some daddy/mommy issues. He went through a lot when his family in his childhood split and his Dad moved to Florida and started a new family.

Kids like him in the 70s were rare and the term ‘broken homes’ carried some stigma.

He also was raised in a repressive small town. Not very conducive to a non conforming type.

He was more motivated to kick all the drugs and alcohol from threat of JAIL than death. He said that in an interview. Dude hates being under the control of others.

I also think the need for predictable certainty and being captain of his own ship is a neurodivergent trait.

from some sources i have gathered on izzy, i can recognise that izzy does not like when things don't go his way. it sends him panicking and not in a narcissistic way but in a way that he likes to have everything in his control and he wants to know what's happening at all times wether it's with their (guns n' roses) finances or a placement on the charts.

if izzy looses control of other people, for example when axl would kick off it would only send izzy silently spiralling because he couldn't control the consequences that axl kept on digging up. upon loosing control, izzy eventually got so fucked up and tying to his airport arrest, he felt the need to escape from everything he couldn't control

On writing and rehearsing for Use Your Illusion: Axl did finally show up in Chicago. It was a little too late. He got there, got into a fight with a girl he had befriended, and trashed the place where we were living. That happened the day Izzy showed up.

Already nervous because of his court-mandated sobriety, Izzy came upstairs, took one look at all the damage Axl had just wrought (not to mention the various powders all over the place), and hightailed it the fuck out of there. He would still send riffs and ideas for Use Your Illusion and didn't officially quit until 1991, but his day-to-day involvement with the band pretty much died that day.

[Duff's autobiography, "It's So Easy", 2011, p. 153]

Now I know that bolting is Izzy's defense mechanism when he thinks things aren't quite right: he never makes a show of it, he just slips out and won't look back.

Izzy always maintained an aura of cool; he was never ruffled, he never let his guard down. But when I asked him about Axl firing Chris Weber from Hollywood Rose without talking to him about it, he leveled a deathly serious gaze at me, so I had no doubt that he was sincere. "It's pretty fucking simple," he said. "I just don't like being dictated to under any circumstances."

[Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007)]

dictate

verb

past tense: dictated;

/dɪkˈteɪt/

1.

to be stated or ordered authoritatively.

the short answer: izzy doesn't like authority

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

[quantumfrail]

[bibliocharlie]

the most helpful thing i have ever seen from neurodivergent internet spaces is “THERE ARE OTHER TIMES OF DAY TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH”. this has genuinely saved me from executive dysfunction spirals so many times.

[neurospicyyy]

• Fidgeting and stuttering do NOT always indicate that someone is nervous.

• Avoiding eye contact does NOT always mean someone is lying.

• Having a hard time focusing does NOT always mean someone is lazy.

• Carrying around a stuffed animal or blanket does NOT make someone childish.

• Poor motor skills is NOT a direct indication of intelligence.

Not everyone fits into your box. Deal with it.

[autismwithoutpremium]

Just a thought

[thelatestkate]

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[finnslay]

A little reminder that the "scary" neurodivergents belong in the community too. The ones with intrusive thoughts. The ones who seem self-centered.

The people with ocd, bpd, npd. Stuff like that. They belong here too.

[bli-o]

hey autistic people who get overwhelmed by large groups or noise or conversation or etc etc etc you’re not evil for wanting to leave a family gathering. just so you know.

[sillylilneurodivergent]

Guys, it happened. I’m an

AAAAAA (aromantic, asexual, agender, with autism, adhd, & anxiety)

[theoraekensnotsosecretlover]

Ah yes, the autistic experience of being more mature than your peers as a child/teen, and then less mature as an adult. The window of opportunity to relate is... not there

[beenovel]

Anyway last week my professor told the class "coworkers will put up with poor technical skills but they won't put up with weird" and after class I just went and sat in my car and cried bc how am I supposed to survive if I still don't seem "normal" even though I've been doing behavioral therapy since first grade but masking hurts so goddamn bad that I'm only doing two classes a week rn but I'm still falling apart and barely functioning every day and barely getting my work turned in bc i come home from class and collapse for days at a time and its just not fair, its not fair, why do other people get to be the normal, why do jobs get to be easy for other people, why are 66% of autistics unemployed/underemployed its not FAIR