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Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)By Dean Burnett

Update on my broken paw.

I saw the physio today. All seems to be healing as well as can be expected and he gave me exactly what I wanted. Which was a series of exercises to help my hand. He did seem slightly mystified as to why I was still wearing the wrist brace, which, as I already knew, is not necessary and seemed somewhat confused with my explanation that it helped me to remember that the hand was injured. Further explanation that I'm not always aware of pain and that I've never met a door frame yet that I haven't eventually bumped into and that I wore it for added protection, for some strange reason, didn't seem to help.

On a further note, coming up to three weeks off work means that I have almost completely lost track of what day it is. I spent all last Tuesday utterly convinced that it was Monday. As a consequence, waking up the next day to find out that it was Wednesday, meant that part of me was utterly convinced that somehow I had been robbed of a day.
All I can say is, given that I spend so much time on here, which one of you bastards did it?

(Although, my money is on that bloody armoured squirrel.)

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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

propublica.org/article/nationa

ProPublicaNational Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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hoped to stay quiet for a while to give others w/ more urgent needs some room to post but my phone bill has reminded me my quarterly low income check for April is being garnished by the government. Any help is appreciated

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One of the weirder aspects for me when I didn't have friends and tried to tell people that was that people usually just

Refused to believe me

And kinda assumed that I somehow just "didn't know" who my friends were.

I dunno why for sure, maybe neurotypicals just find it so easy to make friends that they genuinely can't conceptualize not having any? But I've always had to work hard for friendships, the friendships I have now are ones I really had to work toward and go out of my way for

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I'm getting a lot out of the Neurodivergent Insights newsletter by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. For example, this post about the overlap of ADHD and autism:

neurodivergentinsights.com/mis

Dr. Neff is herself AuDHD who turned her hyperfocus on her neurotype into a PhD in psychology. She's also raising a neurodivergent kid with strong PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, which she calls Pervasive Drive for Autonomy):

neurodivergentinsights.com/blo

Hot take:

Masking mostly only exists for the sake of neurotypicals' comfort, and letting them go about life without putting in any work interacting with neurodivergent people, allowing them to in the back of their minds basically pretend we don't exist.

It's a special accommodation for the majority.

Neurotypicals get all this accommodation, expect all this accommodation, for our mere existence, and we get none for our actual difficulties and disabilities. This is bad; it ought to be the other way around.

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