"With hyperconnected nervous systems comes emotional intensity, heightened sensory experience and potential for impulsivity ...
I’ve come to realise that a missing piece for me as a highly monotropic multiply neurodivergent person navigating life with cPTSD is assessing the risk of disruption should things not work out and whether I have the emotional cost of any upset or need to deal with challenging people."
#AnissaLjanta, 2026
https://anissaljanta.substack.com/p/leading-with-no
Me too!
"I have had over forty homes in my life. Many I hadn’t wanted to leave. I’m tired. If I could choose, it would not be to spend my limited energy on moving. Ironically, since I was very young, I have carried the same image of the home I wanted. I carry it in me but the cost of being disabled, being multiply neurodivergent, has had a debilitating impact on my financial stability. I am a bad capitalist."
#AnissaLjanta, 2026
https://anissaljanta.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-moving-house
(2/3)
"Within twenty four hours, we got the news every renter dreads.
Ninety days notice was not enough time to process losing our home of eight years. Never mind the sorting of stuff, the giving away & packing of things and the cancelling of plans for the months ahead because suddenly, the next days, weeks and months are hazy and uncertain. With that one phone call or letter, life goes on hold."
#AnissaLjanta, 2026
https://anissaljanta.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-moving-house
(1/3)
"My top-tip is to name each alarm - you don't want your alarm to go off and not know what it's for. You may laugh, but if you have ADHD, I bet you can relate."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
Are some people able to set an alarm and just remember why they set it, based on the time it goes off or whatever?! Wow. Lucky.
"The medical model term for having extras is 'co-morbidities'. The word morbid does not have positive connotations and since I prefer to think in strength based rather than deficit terminology I like 'co-occurring'. I'm grateful to see this term used increasingly."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
👆
"The concept of the autistic spectrum is an attempt to counter the belief that all humankind is on a sort of graduated line from not-autistic-at-all to AAF (Autistic As Fuck). The spectrum is one way of describing the group of autistic humans, on a complex circular map of intersectional differently wired tendencies, with neurodivergence manifesting unique to individuals."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
I only recently grasped this; it's *not* a gradiant.
(1/2)
"'But you're so good with people' - I'm autistic, not a lizard."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
(1/2)
"ADHD meds made it possible to land my dream job but medicated me was an untested creature and trying to do too much (because I could), this led to severe autistic burnout. If I couldn't live the life I wanted, if I was so exhausted and lapsing in and out of shutdowns and depression and found daily life so freaking hard, I didn't know what was left. I retreated to writing."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
OMG this too is so me!
"The world needs us. Especially now, when it is clear that the statute quo is destroying the earth and isn't healthy for humans either. We need the free-thinking innovative pattern seeking of the neurodivergent brain."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
That's a manifesto in a paragraph.
"Years of not fitting in and being afraid of being busted takes it's toll. I have had a lifetime of being unsure of how to conduct myself and being baffled by others' behaviour. For many years I thought my only choice was to be constantly on the move. I have lost track of the times I have given all my belongings away and melted into the night."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
OMG this is so me!
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