this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
233 points (93.6% liked)

AuDHD

1447 readers
1 users here now

A place for those that got both Autism and ADHD, those confirmed as one and are suspecting they got the other as well, and also everyone who is neither and just genuinely curious.

Since the combo comes with its own set of challenges, this shall be a place to ask for advice, vent, infodump about special interests and/or just vibe and meme.

Please be respectful. General niceness guidelines apply - formal rules will be added later if necessary.

In regards to medication and medical advice: Please take under consideration that this is only an online support community. Offered advice is always an expression of individual opinions or experiences and shall never be taken as substitute for a professional in-person assessment!

This is a SFW community. Sensitive topics are allowed, but must be properly labeled.

More support communities:

On lemmy.world

c/Autism


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Listitems I have felt at least once before finding this: 7/8 Listitems I have known the name of before finding this: 0/8

How about you?

Also... what's the feeling called when reading something, thinking 'that sounds totally made up' - then doing a quick google and realizing its actually a thing?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel something like that on big streets in the night.

Normally there are trucks and cars and everything is loud.

But 2am in the week:

The only thing on the streets are you, a few puddles from the last rain and the very occasional stray car or moped far away.

And, yeah, I think in that moment I can relate to your feel.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now that I think about it in depth, I for myself (got PDA) would retroactively interpret the feeling as:

A feeling of autonomy in a place you normally don't have any.

With masking in mind we could also interpret it as:

A place where you are used to mask, but now are free to be yourself because nobody is around to judge you

On the other hand it may be something not-neurodivergent at all (how should I know), or maybe it's a combination of a general feeling everyone has with above stated reasons on top.