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Ok, so noise-cancelling headphones don't 100% cancel and can't do a thing about pounding vibrations. Considering that I can hear distant ants yawn, I've a feeling my hyperacusis* is going to be somewhat challenged.

*Midweek Factoid: 90% of people with #ASD experience some form of sound sensitivity.

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What is the reversal of infodumping? @actuallyautistic
(What would you label "being subjected to or seeking further information on a topic, possibly for current or future deepdive sharing"?)
Very interested in translations or interpretations in other languages, including gestural and/or sign language, if you know any and want to share.

Aw, I just thought of Info dunking. Ah well.
Let info damping be "to rain on someone's misinformation parade." [Maybe dampening? Idk. Linguists take the wheel.]

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@fulelo I have a family member who has Severe Classic Autism, who groped me when we were both adults. Not because they are a creep, but because they seriously don't understand that that's a wrong social interaction. I pushed them away gently, said no, and they respected my no.

Yes, Autism IS a "free pass" for "bad behavior." People who don't understand that don't really understand Autism and shouldn't be allowed within 500 ft. of any Autistic person.

Flat. Out.

And fuck any "charity" or "organization" who doesn't agree with that. They're obviously doing no good in the Autism community, and are ignorant as hell.

The always brilliant & amazing @leaverou on BlueSky.

"Sure, ADHD/ASD can make many things hard (mainly because the world is not built for us — ADHD/ASD folks work GREAT together) but hyperfocus is such a superpower. I owe everything I have ever achieved to it. I have zero discipline. I’m just lucky enough to have “productive” special interests."

bsky.app/profile/lea.verou.me/

Bluesky Social · Lea Verou, PhD (@lea.verou.me)[2/2] Sure, ADHD/ASD can make many things hard (mainly because the world is not built for us — ADHD/ASD folks work GREAT together) but hyperfocus is such a superpower. I owe everything I have ever achieved to it. I have zero discipline. I’m just lucky enough to have “productive” special interests.
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@SecurityWriter yes, you must stay informed, even though you can’t trust anything you see in the media. Thanks to the Internet you can now get your news directly from the primary sources, directly from the scientists and other experts who know what is going on better than anyone else.

Re: the “Telepathy Tapes,” I don’t find it difficult to believe at all.

Take three simple scientific facts that are now common knowledge:

  1. a symptom of ASD is that a person is far more sensitive to sensory input than the neurotypical baseline
  2. with AI technology we are able to train machine learning models to find the most subtle patterns in the most noisy signals
  3. any good poker player knows that every person has a “tell,” i.e. subtle physiological changes in a person that occur when they have a winning hand.

So it is incredibly likely that when a parent is thinking something there are subtle physiological changes that “tell” what the parent is thinking, which a child on the Autism Spectrum can learn to detect by virtue of the fact that they are so sensitive to sensory input. It is even more likely that they can pick up on these patterns from someone they have loved and trusted since even before they were born, like their mother.

@hosford42

#ActuallyAutistic#Autism#ASD
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Hit character limits but I want to explain point 2,3,4 here:

  • 2: When you change topic, ND people don't just change to what you said, their brain can attempt to pull in every bit of information that can possibly be related to it. It's less like changing a tab in a browser, and more like closing the program and opening another.
  • 3: You can narrow this range, and have more of the 'upper' end, by simply providing/allowing adequate structure and for them to use their current fixation as motivation.
  • 4: Neurodivergent people resist sudden change, because we rely on predictability and structure to follow neurotypical people's preferred ways of working.

If you read this and think, "but wouldn't this benefit anyone?" Yes, exactly, that's kind of the point. Which just adds to the frustration that we don't do this more as a society.

When accessibility measures include an entire group of people, and still benefits everyone, it's absurd that we don't do it more.

#adhd#asd#neurodivergent
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This compulsive adherence to neurotypical social norms, and unwillingness to embrace neurodivergence, is what leads to social friction & conflict.

Frustratingly enough, it's caused by often ignorant assumptions as to 'why' ND people will prefer A over B, there are countless examples of this:

  • A preference for working alone/at home to better manage distractions, is seen as anti-social or 'difficult to work with'
  • Being unable to answer ad-hoc off-topic questions, is seen as unorganised or lack of intelligence.
  • Having variable (20-400%) effort and output, is seen as anything from 'lazy' to a variety of ways of saying 'you don't care'
  • Struggling with sudden changes to plans and structure, is seen as being difficult or unwilling to change/grow.

All of this is trivially easy to solve, and the information need to understand it could be summarized in a freggin' PowerPoint presentation.

It annoys me so much, because; Accessibility != Lack of ability

#adhd#asd#neurodivergent
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Just to be specific for my fellow ND people currently thinking through millions of mentally simulated cases of this: the way we communicate, are motivated and preferred working methods & environments.

#adhd#asd#neurodivergent

There are tech companies who have a neurodivergent majority working there, yet compulsively follow neurotypical social rules & norms.

Even pointing this out could cause friction over awareness, while the absurdity of it all goes over their heads.

#adhd#asd#neurodivergent
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Which means I both have the opportunity and excuse to book each of them for an explainer on neurodivergency in IT/Dev and why that can be a benefit, especially for certain roles (DevOps, Infra).

There are more of us than they're aware of in the company, and I think many of the current things that are causing friction in communication atm is down to a lack of understanding about how ND people best function & communicate.

You give ND people structure and motivation through challenge, ideally gamified. Not providing them with direction and adequate motivation is equally a failure to facilitate the person and effectively utilizing their abilities.

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