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Every once in a while I see a meme and I’m like “haha that’s exactly like me!” Then I see it was posted in c/autism and I’m like “oh yeah it’s that thing about me.”
…You know this person well enough to sleep in the same bed, but don’t know this about them already?
I thought the same, but it happens that people understand on a theoretical level, but can’t actually conceptualize it, because their life experience is just different. So, they might understand that appointments are challenging for you, but couldn’t possibly imagine that it takes up your whole day.
Yep I’ve been witnessing it for years and I still have no idea how to wrap my head around what is happening
How do you ever get anything done?
That’s the neat part, I don’t
…please don’t call me out like that
Honest question: is this actually an autism thing? Or just anxiety in general?
This feels a lot like me and I’ve wondered for a long time if I have undiagnosed autism. Wonder if this is another item for the laundry list of things to tell a psychologist (for that diagnostic appointment I’ve been saying for years I should book but I have no clue how to do that so I just don’t ever do it).
Most of the memes here are not “autism things”. Maybe a certain pattern of these occurences and traits are. But each and every meme you see on here is a prolific trait, made into a format for impulsive consumption, reposted to everywhere and everything it can be reposted to.
I aint autistic as far as I know. As far as Im concerned, these memes are more like “ah mai gad, I feel so weird” and ADHD memes are “Ah mai Gawd I feel like I cant do anything”. That is why I like them in my feed.
Conditions under a general umbrella like these can be very elusive to diagnose. I have been playing a cat mouse game with myself for years to get to know my psyche and it still had little progress.
This meme is just general anxiety by the way.
Look up neurodivergent
Almost everyone i know that is on the spectrum has some overlap with other neurodivergent stuff. I am pretty sure were just part of a minority normal and for some reason neurotypical majority normal felt like the only way to make sense of us is by categorizing people centered about the different subsets of challenges they face within the context often their often narrow minded and asocial world.
Classical diagnosis can be a useful tool to obtain sometimes much needed acknowledgement and accommodation but Its who we are from an outsider’s perspective.
The Neurodivergent movement is a people first approach started by the autistic and adhd community. Its who we are from our own perspectives. Its absolutely possible you fit non of the classical diagnosis criteria as a unique neurodivergent person.
The Pomodoro Technique. This is how I get most anything done.
The deal is to break activity into discrete segments, 25 minutes of ‘work’, 10 minutes of downtime.
It helps cut the anxiety because instead of sitting there overthinking for hours about what is upcoming, your timer schedule leads to other things getting done.
You can even set a cycle where your ‘work’ is worrying about something upcoming but there is a HARD stop at 25 mins then you have to go do something unrelated.
At first it was easy to miss the end of a cycle and just fall back into old patterns, then I got a physical old-school egg timer and have been training myself that on the bell ding, which is very different than any of my phone notifications (it is important to me that the sound is unique) and it acts as a helpful ‘thought terminating cliche’ for whatever I am hyperfocused on at the time.
To be clear, not all of my day is structured in Pomodoro cycles, just the parts where I need to be productive.
It may not be perfect, may not work for you, but has worked for me very well.
This is more of an ADHD thing no?
I have both, but it’s in general an executive dysfunction thing, which can happen in both and other conditions.
I swear, having adhd is a full time job
