I feel like when you have both autism and ADHD you end up being a kaleidoscope for people who either see your autism or your ADHD first - they rarely see both

The more professional experience I gain, the more I understand why the things I said on twitter often made people mad, no matter how much context I provided

I think the best way to describe my personal experience of social situations as an autistic is that it's like moving through a haunted house: groping on the dark, pretty sure none of it matters, still waiting anxiously for the worst to happen

I seriously need mentoring for my autistic+adhd working style. After almost 10 years of work, I'm FINALLY understanding why chasing whatever I want to chase in the most intense fashion ends up sabotaging my career

I'm too autistic to understand that trust has nothing to do with truth

ADHD has been beating my ass a lot more these last two years like it's a lot harder to keep my thoughts straight, it's a lot harder to stay focused and the number of clerical errors in my work is too damn high

Needing to check for brainskips every once in a while is very annoying

Autistic folks, would you ever "intentionally" have a meltdown to get something you want? My colleague seem to think this is possible but I'm like I wouldn't even wish a meltdown on my worst enemy lol

The autistic dilemma of whether I want to be aloof and terrifying or outgoing and appear so naive that I cam be taken advantage of

I feel like all the wires for socialising that came loose during autistic burnout have kind of reconnected, finally. But it sucks because currently I'm just socially aware of how much I suck at human interaction and haven't quite relearnt how to connect with other human beings lol

You know you have ADHD when you have been taking ADHD meds for something like 7 years but you've only just calculated for the first time that your meds cost you 2.5k a year

I don't fully understand other folk at work. Is it largely a thing that people don't have room to pushback, ask questions and negotiate with higher ups? Because I simply cannot function that way regardless of which role I'm playing

I've been away from social media for quite a bit and it's been great. Not entirely related but reflecting on my work persona and realising the extent to which I absolutely do not connect with people and wondering how I could possibly be anything but autistic

It turns out that everytime in the past I was behaving "unprofessionally" it was because I was being taken advantage of and reacting appropriately, but also being autistic and getting confused by people's reactions to the situation

Maybe I've sort of figured out how to use my autistic traits to navigate workplace politics, although some strategies need refinement and aren't without drawbacks

I need an internet speed test but for my attention span

I'm so irritated by my errors this term that I'm gonna set up like twenty different excel sheets to automatically cross check my own information

I might be autistic but sometimes it's other people who are fucking weird (derogatory)

Could everyone please email [email protected] about @mercy89y9.bsky.social’s account? He goes out of his way to not get a spam label. (Check out his page and tell me what is possibly spam)

I became an urban cyclist because ever since I was a little girl it’s been my dream to be murdered by a driver of a Nissan Altima with a 120 month car loan

I was genuinely afraid that Nathan would buy the broken 737 with bird nests and missing seats and make his actors fly in them

Something that really annoys me in Last of Us is the way they move around by walking in the middle of the road, which is like the least tactical way they could position themselves

Tom from Succession is Mr Darcy???? I'm probably extremely late to realising this

Am I saying that following Nathan's fake airport being used to help autistic kids get used to air travel, there should be a lot more HBO money going to build sets for more autistic scenarios? I wanna joke and say no, but mostly I want to say yes lol

I'm leaning towards putting my autism advocacy on pause because I'm finding that I really get quite a lot of ableism even without declaring my diagnoses that openly

My inattention has been so much worse this year and I'm not sure why

The Rehearsal is the most vivid representation of autistic masking I've ever seen, even if exaggerated and done as a bit. There's like no way one comes up with this idea without having an autistic inner world imo haha

I feel like commentary on media has gotten more bigoted recently... So many shows get criticised/review bombed on the basis that the female leads aren't attractive enough, especially in the conventional white woman sense

I have a creeping fear that I am not a good person anymore because I've learnt to protect myself from the world and sometimes that feels... less gentle than I would like to be

Autism is starting out with social anxiety and then having your social anxiety get worse as people completely misunderstand you

I need one of those movie therapy sessions where I have a major breakthrough and start crying and then everything is better

Why can't I get basic stuff right nowadays Really struggling with dates and times lately more so than I used to

I just doubled my ADHD dose and I actually feel like I can think and interact with other human beings. I'm still tired af but I can get through life and things now

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

My nervous system is definitely buzzing. I think I am experiencing pain hahaha

I hate to say it but my autistic/ADHD working style is akin to generative AI: - response defined by prompt - amount generated not really under my control - usually not what was requested for - faster and able to produce large quantities of text/work but highly prone to error

Unlike my counterparts in the Greater Anglosphere, I feel like I have to make more compromises wrt advocacy because Asian culture and a smaller country mean less room for divisiveness. But on the other hand, I fear I am too accommodating as well, as is my disposition

I think a lot of the confusion around the conversation about support needs lies in the fact that the support needs construct was originally for intellectual disability and describes being unable to do basic daily living tasks vs support needs in the context of autism

Really wanna murder my inattention and working memory sometimes

Doing neuro-developmental disability research IS NOT the same as doing neurodiversity research. I keep seeing people who do autism research appropriate the terms without the praxis. Stop. STOP.

Will never cease to amaze me the extent to which data simply never tells us the story we would like it to tell as much as people will it to

Some people should have more imposter syndrome but it's so difficult to pinpoint which of us should have more imposter syndrome and which of us should have less. It's pretty obvious in some cases though

Idk how to say this but I wish the autistic community trusted autistic professionals more. Sometimes I see some views that don't grasp what is actually harmful for autistic individuals because they don't fully understand what allistic professionals say or do in autism spaces

Excited to say that "Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction" written by myself and @suereviews.bsky.social is finally ready to preorder! Afaik the first general academic introduction covering the ND movement, ND studies, and applications of ND theory in practice. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Prof. Peter Kinderman: "Diagnoses frequently & uncritically reported as 'real illnesses' are made on the basis of internally inconsistent, confused and contradictory patterns of largely arbitrary criteria." Want proof? The dx list on a d/c summary of a frequently involuntarily admitted psych pt. 🧵

In my dyadic study where I collect heart rate data from nonspeaking autistic teens and adults, I’ve found including and supporting them to be much more straightforward than a lot of researchers might expect/would have you believe.

Nordahl: With proper support, there is no reason why autistic people with high support needs cannot participate in research. Not every attempt will be successful, but researchers should learn how to accommodate high-support autistic subjects so they can at least try to be included. #INSAR2025

Alison Singer wants us to agree use the term #ProfoundAutism. Yeah, no. I'm happy to talk with people whose autistic kids have neglected support needs like my own wonderful son. But I am not going to throw my hat in with autism grievance parents. thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... #INSAR2025