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Can we talk about how important community is for autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people?
Seriously, having a community with people of similar neurodivergent experiences is so important to quality of life, and living in an authentic and purposeful way
NO ONE is born with fully developed executive function.
ADHD'ers, who will continue to struggle with executive dysfunction, develop executive functioning skills in childhood too, just differently and at a different rate
* mood disorders,
* loneliness and relationships,
* risk-taking,
* car accidents,
* managing a healthy relationship with food, drugs, or other vices
Treating ADHD isn't JUST about being better at school or being able to focus, it's also about reducing anxiety and depression, reducing suicidality, reducing car accidents, reducing accidents in general, reducing disordered eating or drug use.
ADHD touches everything. ADHD treatment does too!
"You can't have ADHD you're doing fine in school."
Neat... ADHD isn't a "bad at school disease."
It's a lifelong struggles with regulating attention, emotions, impulses, and movement condition. It's a developmental struggles with decision making, getting started, understanding time condition
ADHD can make it more likely that we struggle with school, sure, but it also makes it more likely we struggle with:
@Soldusty Yeah... when I was in elementary school, I sent recess organizing books in the library (with permission) instead of going out to the playground.
It made such a big difference!
A lot of autistic people find school, college, and university very stressful.
Apart from the academic demands, classrooms can be a very inaccessible places. They can require masking our neurodivergence, involve sensory stress, or executive function demands that take additional spoons
Shocker among shockers!
When services, research, and communities meaningfully include autistic people, research and interventions become more relevant and higher quality.
If you want to support autistic people, make sure the project involves a diverse cast of autistic people
Nothing feels as good as climbing out of ADHD crisis mode alive and (mostly) in one piece.
...it's too bad it's almost always followed by massive existential crisis from understimulation and lack of urgency...
