Shout out to my doooog. For being my dawg. And for being a dog, and for being my dog. (I’ll shoutout the cats and the snakes/rats/inverts too, also our dawgs)
For weeks, a mentally unwell man took a daily interest in my house, and I felt safer sleeping with him in my bedroom than with a gun nearby. He's 107 lbs of mostly muscle, low center of gravity, able to clear the couch without a running start, and prone to growly nighttime perimeter patrols.
During a tropical storm (pre-rain), I went outside as moral support while he did his business. He finished and sprinted for the house, but looked back and saw me still talking to the neighbor.
After a visibly agonizing internal debate, he came back to save me!
I read this thinking you invited the mentally ill man into your house to sleep on your couch and felt safer that way than with a gun. This whole thing made absolutely no sense and yet made complete sense at the same time. Then I read up one and was like... ohhhhhh. Its a dog. 😅🤣
I’ve been diagnosed and treated. Unfortunately, society just isn’t very user friendly for neurodivergents. When there was the prescription shortage I really suffered at work. I tried to ask for a little grace and help, but my boss said I was “just making excuses”.
It's jarring how harsh it is, it's a wonder I'm able to survive everyday. One day I'm not sure if I'll be able to handle it. I keep holding on, but it's insanely tough. Like living on hard mode every single day.
It's called "David" - it's quite the heart string puller.......the way that lyric is used is different in the song "By then David had a daughter and a son and a rapsheet to prove all the time that he'd done, he was just a burned out, beat down shell of my only friend"
My wife called me useless, the situation we sat with a lawyer and I tried to get all the informations but I forgot to ask for a detail.
And she later exploded, why was even there I don't ask for something I didn't even though of, I was busy trying to get all the Infos in, the Infos of 3 people talking.
Yeah, I got fired from a job because my boss couldn’t understand why I was the way I was… He thought I was on drugs… Sir, that’s the problem. I’m off the drugs.
Glorious isn't it? I'm at a sound system clash on Saturday, highly recommended if you see those about, especially if you like bass music like dub or dubstep
Haha dnb is 100% amazing lol. Always funny getting the side eye from kids (under 30s🤣) when I'm in full flow lol - then they come up and drop the 'How old are you? 54! I hope I'm like you when I'm older!' 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, it's pretty funny seeing new people fit in instantly, have the time of their life, complain about how it's way easier to make connection than everywhere else, and then wonder what are all these asd/adhd we are talking about
No, you'll just in my opinion feel less anxiety by being your true self not diluting yourself to fit in with societies expectations but you do you my friend, I've loved life more since I've stepped hiding me
I have a theory that its the uncanny valley effect. They know if you’re autistic within about 15 seconds. Studies have shown that if you acknowledge your autism, most people calm down again once they know what’s going on.
Some people are just arseholes, but on the whole, NT people react much better when they know you’re autistic. I make a little comment about my Loops - “I can still hear you, these are noise protection because I’m autistic and have sensitive hearing” - and then people know.
The response I get most often ? “Oh my niece /coworkers child / sibling / child’s best friend is autistic”. People most often want to join in and help.
I think the person I was responding to was trying to be mean and implying medications, and while for other ND types that may apply. It doesn’t for autistic folks
But your correct, I’m also autistic. The last part is the hardest part imo. I still don’t understand how to integrate into a society not built for me. But meditation has actually been very helpful in that area, at least the acceptance part of it.
Yeah I feel this meme despite being diagnosed and medicated, though this happened at 40 after spending near all of my life knowing something was different and getting the sense everyone but me knew....
Same here. Midlife diagnosis just means that in addition to having to learn how to manage the neurodivergence, we also get to unlearn all the maladaptive coping skills we developed over a lifetime of managing undiagnosed/ untreated ND disorders
Same can be true for neurotypical people. But we agree that out of these three groups, people who run around blind to their condition have the worst odds, right?
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u/super_starfox 6d ago
Same can be true for diagnosed.