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I've drank quite a lot of energy drinks in the last few years. It started with getting occasional energy boost to focus during reading academic articles or boring meetings but at some point it became a habit.

In the beginning of last week I decided to drink them only in case of "emergency". I lasted a week and a half without having any. Today I was supposed to read a bunch of papers. From the first page, I started yawning. My executive function said "I'm not going to execute this function without energy drink." What can I do? Had to comply.

At any rate, this really shows that I've used energy drinks to regulate my focus. However, now I try to keep them strictly as emergency measure.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ExecutiveFunction @actuallyautistic

What are your favorite books or resources on how to live with Adult ADHD, Neurodivergence.

There seems to be encouraging research on executive skills training, any thoughts on this?

Asking for myself (likely Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome / Sluggish Cognitive Tempo) and for my counseling practice clients.

🔄 Pls boost for visibility

#ADHD #AdultADHD #Neurodivergence #ExecutiveFunction #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #BookRecommendation #AskFedi

(tagging @adelinej @FractalEcho @dramypsyd)

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It runs in the background, and at the end of the day, I pop into the Google sheet, look at ✨all✨ of the tasks that Fathom picked up for that day (mine, and other peoples), then:

- delete the ones I don't care about;
- mark the ones I've finished "complete"; or
- copy the ones I need to hold clients accountable for into a client-specific sheet...

And the relevant changes I make in the Google sheet are reflected in Motion.

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Hello, fellow #ActuallyAutistic and #Neurodivergent programmers! 🧠💻 I'm hoping to tap into our collective wisdom for some coding advice.

I'm currently working on my next #freeCodeCamp project - building a Pokémon Search App. As a blind, autistic programmer, I often find myself overwhelmed when starting new projects, especially when it comes to the JavaScript portions. HTML usually feels more straightforward to me, but JS can be a real challenge.

Some specific hurdles I'm facing:
1. Breaking down the project into manageable steps
2. Knowing where to start with the JS functionality
3. Dealing with the anxiety of facing a blank script.js file
4. Managing executive function to actually begin coding

I'm particularly nervous about:
- Implementing the search functionality
- Fetching and handling data from the PokeAPI
- Dynamically updating the DOM with search results

Do any of you have tips, strategies, or personal experiences to share about:
- Tackling new programming assignments without getting overwhelmed?
- Breaking down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable pieces?
- Overcoming the initial anxiety of starting a new project?
- Specific techniques for handling JavaScript challenges?
- Tools or resources that have been particularly helpful for neurodivergent coders?

I'm also curious about how other blind or visually impaired developers approach these challenges. Any assistive tech recommendations or coding techniques that have been game-changers for you?

Your insights could really help me and potentially other neurodivergent coders facing similar challenges. Let's share our experiences and build a supportive coding community!

"Reading is actually an activity of rapid guessing, because any word has so many meanings — including the word “reading,” — many many meanings, that to select one in a context of other words requires very rapid guessing." - #MarshallMcLuhan in 1977

This sentence has HUGE implications for #Autism theory of #ContextBlindness #AutismContext / "Context Blindness theory of Autism"

McLuhan's next sentence gets into #ExecutiveFunction

#AutismAltA //\\

My 13yo, #autistic, ADHDed, and with disabling degrees of dysgraphia and dyscalculia to the point he can't really do school, has the kind of #artistic vision that makes a gifted prop #designer or game designer or puppet designer, like Henson quality ideas.
But he doesn't have the kind of executive function that takes it out of his #brain and into it the physical world.

Neither do I, but sometimes if you don't have executive function, helping other people is easier than doing things yourself, so I told him I would be his #Halloween costume #executiveFunction servant (list making, focus-guiding, shopping, holding something while he cuts it, etc) because he has one of the best #costume ideas this year that he has had yet and there have been a lot of good ones. In all these years he has only had store costumes for the first two Halloweens of his life.

I can't wait to show y'all pictures.

Fortgeführter Thread

Kind of ashamed to admit it, but I received the replacement transistor and had a buddy solder it on, but I then started #procrastinating about putting it back together to plug it into the car and see if it works.

I think about it every day, it's in the floor of my office right now, and I'm avoiding eye contact.

I've done this my whole life; it's a cycle of dread and avoidance, a coping mechanism for lack of #executiveFunction.