"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!
"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.
"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!
"'But you're so good with people' - I'm autistic, not a lizard."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
(1/2)
"Many autistic people feel more deeply, sort of without filters - a constant raw download of environmental stimuli. I'm hyper empathic. Not that you can tell by looking at some of us with our extraordinary poker face masking at play. The reality is in opposition to what was thought for years, that autistic people were cold and emotionally incapable. Unfortunately that myth persists."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
(2/2)
I'm not autistic, but I've had to train quite a few autistic spectrum people at work. It could sometimes be a bit frustrating explaining details my brain just wanted to skim over quickly, but something I really came to appreciate was the kind of unfiltered emotional honesty that many of these people had, even if it was expressed differently (and I'm no benchmark for "normal" , lol). Often this was fear that they were misunderstanding or being misunderstood, but there was also joy and curiosity and laughter at things I wouldn't have even thought twice about. I have an almost physical aversion to deceptive people, most likely from being overly trusting as a kid. While many at work treated them as stupid/gullible, I came to admire the emotional honesty of my autistic co-workers.
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