Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 

@dave@autisticnomad.social
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Autistic digital nomad, ADHDer, optimist, lover of learning, tinkerer, CTO of a startup.

I live in an RV and travel around North America

Header: Large bus-sized RV with a small blue car parked in front. Palm trees in the background stand tall against the early glow of a sunset.

Profile: Man with glasses and reddish beard standing on a suspension bridge over a gorge

Current LocationToronto, ON 🇨🇦
Pronounshe/him
Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 13h ago

🎵 Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Bermuda, Tobago, San Juan

Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, and French Guyana, Barbados and Guam🎶

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 1d ago

Wordle 1,485 3/6

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#wordle

I worked on an animated movie about these once upon a time, produced by Elton John's production company

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 1d ago

Interesting video on always feeling tired and some strategies that worked for this guy. This is something I've been trying to work on myself... definitely going to try these strategies.

https://youtu.be/b-1b7GGMqZ0?si=BXRxxAGLMV1Z0Ucu

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #ADHD #AuDHD

Weirdly I’m Not Tired Anymore?!? (New Strategies to Increase Energy)

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Show threadDave the Nomad 🇨🇦 1d ago

Didn't have much time to elaborate as I was arriving at the meetup..

I was driving to the meetup, alone in my truck, listening to Yakko's Nations of the World from Animaniacs on repeat (my current "pointless" fixation is memorizing the lyrics) and singing along to the parts I've memorized so far.

And as I nailed new lines, I felt the urge to flap my hands in excitement. So I did 😃

I've heard the term "Autistic joy" and struggled to really identify what that means to me. Well, this was it 😁

#ActuallyAutistic

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 1d ago

Omg the host of the meetup made me a name tag and I love it

#ActuallyAutistic

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 1d ago

Holy crap, my hand flapping has resurfaced after being suppressed for 25+ years.

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 2d ago

Going to another autistic adult meetup today. I'm only excited now... not nervous or anxious about it.

We're meeting at a billiard hall to play pool together. I'm kinda sad that, while this is only my second meetup, it's probably my last. We'll be leaving Toronto in August and heading off grid into the bush for a couple of months. Not sure what we're doing after that... maybe head out to BC for the winter.

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 2d ago
Chroniques autistes 🇨🇦2d ago

Let’s try something here dear #Ottawa #Gatineau #ActuallyAutistic people.

I’m 52, AuDHD, bilingual Fr/En looking for meeting other older autistic and/or adhd people as we are facing specific challenges and issues while ageing. I’m even dreaming about creating something permanent for us like described in this link:

Autistic adults create a unique social environment:
https://www.altogetherautism.org.nz/autistic-adults-create-a-unique-social-environment/

If you speak Fr. it will be amazing because I‘m not 100% fluent in En. and I have an heavy accent in English making often communication harder 😣. If you are autistic you know…

Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 3d ago
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach3d ago

IIf you want some neurodivergent and neuro-positive book recommendations, here are my favorites, ranging from fiction, to sensory advice, to autobiographies, to ways to dissolve internalized ableism.

You can find all of them at: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/book-recommendations/

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic

Book Recommendations

Resources on autism, mental health, and I note whether the author is autistic themselves.

Autism Chrysalis
Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 4d ago

I'm realizing that one of the ways I mask is to stop myself from going on "pointless" or "childish" pursuits.

I'm trying to be mindful of that and give myself permission to pursue things I find fun or enjoyable even if they're "pointless" or "childish"

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD