i wonder if anyone else goes through a time where they’re kinda sad and low energy and don’t really feel like connecting with their hyperfixations, but then some old, long abandoned, (and very cursed) interest suddenly resurfaces and it’s just like !!!!
My mom, every time I mention something I do is probably related to my autism/ADHD/OCD: Um, no. That’s just you as a person. You don’t need all these labels!
My neurodivergent ass, wanting these labels so there’s proof to myself I’m not alone and it’s not just me:
Exactly!!!!! But you don’t know what you should do because everyone’s just staring at you and making snide comments rather than offering help!!!!! And if they decide you’re asking too many questions or ask them to repeat themselves, they get irritated and tell you you should already know that, or they just told you, but they told you in a way you just can’t understand! So then you stop asking questions, and then when you mess up they get irritated at you again because you didn’t ask for help!
I think that sometimes, having autism/ADHD is kind of like being in a country that speaks a language/has a culture you only know a little of.
•You think you’re good to go, but you get to your destination, and everyone’s speaking faster than you thought they would. You can only tell what a few words are.
•You can’t keep up with anything anyone is saying. They’re all speaking too fast, and all at once. You try to ask them to slow down and speak one at a time, but they brush you off.
•You go to a restaurant, and you think you know how to order, but you sit down and see things you never learned on the menu, and when it comes time to order, you can’t remember how to.
•When you look around, you can’t quite understand what all the signs and store names say. Slowly, you get a headache from reading them and trying to translate them into something that makes sense.
•When you do something normal in your country, people stare at you like you’ve grown a second head. You don’t understand why—it’s completely normal to you, something you do all the time. When you explain this to them, they shake their heads and click their tongues at you and make a generalization about your country.
Idk, this is just kinda how I view it!