Today has been awful for me personally. I had plans to get a bunch of house chores done and even planned on getting up early. Instead, insomnia visited me and kept my ass awake up until an hour AFTER I wanted to wake up. I did manage to get 3 chores done, so I guess that is still a win. Currently taking a break before continuing on with one of them.

I have checklists for groceries, for travel, for things to take to my son's baseball games, for camping and more. I use AnyList (https://www.anylist.com), an app that works on almost everything. It's not good for one-offs or as a task manager, but for checklists you use again and again it's the absolute best. Not sponsored in any way; just a tool I thought other people might find useful. Let me know if you'd like a more-detailed review. #ADHD #CopingStrategies [2/2]

I'm 52, and was diagnosed with ADHD in my 40's. I have a LOT of coping strategies. I have 24 AirTags on various things. (Once you get past 15 or 20 it can get kind of weird.) I don't put anything other than drinks in my refrigerator drawers, because if I put something that spoils there, I'll forget about it until it goes bad. And of course everything is on autopay. One vital tool I use is checklists (because I read Atul Gawande's "The Checklist Manifesto."). #ADHD #CopingStrategy [1/2]

Living #Autistic in Dangerous Times: Trump Labels 1 in 4 Families “Dire Threat”

We got a lot more to fear... than fear itself.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AutismAcceptance

Podcast & transcript.:
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnyprofaneknapp/p/living-autistic-in-dangerous-times

@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyaudhd @neurodiversity

So at 10.15pm I made progress on the first service at 10am tomorrow and sent an email to my colleague who was probably already asleep.
Now I'm watching #adhd #memes because it still isn't urgent to finish the service planning.
Oh, just remembered that I need to sort out what I'm putting on the big screen.

this feels so true, to me.
re-posting it from rednote.

http://xhslink.com/a/3w74KuCwOiU6

What started as me going through some directories and renaming a few old video files has ballooned in to a full-on organizational project.

Please send help.

For as long as i can remember my shortcomings were framed as “not trying hard enough”. On countless occasions people even assumed malicious intentions and accused me of (not) doing certain things out of spite. It was assumed that i was “too smart to struggle with something so trivial”

In reality i either
1) forgot to do it, because the task/item i was supposed to bring/etc. stopped existing in my brain after i left the room
2) misinterpreted what had been said and did not understand what people actually wanted me to do
3) i DID understand what i was supposed to do but was paralysed by fear and anxiety and overwhelm and therefor ended up not doing it
4) i decided not to do it because i found the request to be unreasonable

I now know that there are reasons for my struggles.
I am autistic, I have ADHD and experienced trauma that has given me PTSD.

I am unable to participate in society in the way neurotypical people can. Since neurotypical people are “the norm”, I am a deviation.
My challenges can be overcome in some ways but not in others.
I am unable to care for myself fully.

And still, my brain goes back to the years of accusations and plays them back in a loop. If so many people said it, they must be right.
Right?

Objectively, I know the answer is “No. They were wrong.”
But it feels like i am at war with myself when it comes to the pure subjective experience that is entirely my own.

I am torn apart by the helplessness that comes with trying to accept the fact that i am indeed disabled. I hate that i have to rely on other people. I feel guilty, I feel useless, I am scared.
In a way my brain is trying to convince me that it is just another excuse.

I’m so tired. I feel so lost. I am unsure, unstable and off-kilter. I am trying so hard to unlearn the ableism i grew up with and still, it feels like I’m tilting at windmills.

#actuallyautistic #AuDHD #ADHD #ableism #internalizedableism #disability @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

Hey fellow #ADHD folks: here’s an organization tip.

I’ve always had a problem with just…pieces of paper laying around, messing up the place (receipts, notes, name cards, etc.), because I never have the #brainwidth to sort them.

My solution? I DON’T SORT THEM.

I buy one of those portable hanging folder boxes. I then buy hanging folders put Manila folders in them which I label with the months of the year. I put three Manila folders inside each hanging folder (e.g. Jan/Feb/Mar) and I have about three years’ worth of folders in it.

Whenever I have a piece of paper that I want to keep but don’t know how to sort, IT GOES INTO THE MANILA FOLDER FOR THIS MONTH. It’s gone, off my desk, but I know exactly where to find it.

When I run out of folders, I take the oldest three months’ worth of stuff, and dump them (trash or shred, your choice), and move the folder to the front. That way I keep a rolling three-year archive of stuff that I know where to find.

Maybe this will work for you?

Arrived at 2k Subs on YT - mainly due to my "There She Goes" #LoFi Edit. It's not so much about the number, I'm just happy people enjoy it :3

One listener mentioned it helps them fall asleep, another person with #ADHD mentioned it helps them to focus on (home-)work.

https://flink.is/WBYw

The Saturday Sleuthing Stream is live!

Last week we saved a little girl from the cold weather. That might just end up being the only good thing we've done in this god-forsaken story.

Still. It's promising to be a hell of a ride. Come hang out!
https://www.twitch.tv/aravisundercroft

Why so many children in America have ADHD — https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/02/20/why-so-many-children-in-america-have-adhd
#HackerNews #ADHD #Children #America #MentalHealth #Education #Awareness

TFW your brain decides to hate what has been a safe fallback lunch for 15 years.
#adhd #SuperTaster

#adhd #audhd folks: what’s your experience with RSD? Does it resonate with you?

https://psychcentral.com/adhd/adults-with-adhd-when-youre-super-sensitive-to-rejection

#neurodivergent @actuallyadhd cc @actuallyautistic

It's okay, I'll just address you as Dude or "You" for the rest of the evening.

I was TammyGentzel@awscommunity.social

The server shut down February 28, 2025.

I didn't get any advance notice, so I am starting over.

Known to Swear

All are safe with me

Boosts very much appreciated

If you shun news, politics, and/or sports I hashtag all of them so you can keep them out of your feed.

Słucham "Podcastu historyków" i mam ciężką radochę z rzeczy, które tam opowiadają. Generalnie mowa jest o starożytności czasów okołobiblijnych. W odcinku o Marii Magdalenie okazało się, że ludzie rejestrują rzeczy, jak "najstarsze znane zaprzeczenie zdolności testatorskiej kobiet" (jeśli dobrze się dokopałam, to jest to tzw. Sifre Deuteronomium, talmudyczny komentarz do KPP z VIII w. n. e.)

#historia #biblia #starożytność #adhd

Jeśli macie ochotę: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrTi3GJ5UU

One of the more common peeves talked about here is the issue of being the only diagnosed/self realised autistic/neurodivergent person in the family/friendship group.

And that of parents projecting stuff onto their ND kids whilst furiously denying the possibility that they too could be neurodivergent (even though it is almost always an inherited condition).

If there is one neurodivergent person in the family, there will nearly always be more.

Neurodivergent people, including those who are undiagnosed & unrealised, often find each other, as friends, lovers, life partners.

The enormously broad spectrum of traits make it easy for a person to claim that they couldn’t possibly be ND by pointing out the differences between themselves & a diagnosed person.

Most of these people have been masking with varying degrees of success for a long time. They’ve developed strategies to help them to avoid or manage various issues. And the main reason for all of this is stigma.

Even if they seem to accept your diagnosis/realisation without judgement, they couldn’t possibly consider the possibility that they too might be neurodivergent, because that would be.. bad.

And being the person who gets it, & hearing others criticise another person or wonder why the heck someone behaves a certain way… is exhausting. And it is lonely.
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic
#ADHD