AuDHD here. I got put on Buspar for anxiety once. It worked amazingly well at getting rid of anxiety. Unfortunately, I learned that anxiety was the only way I accomplished anything meaningful. I would have to be anxious that I would disappoint someone or something would result in terrible outcomes if I didn’t do it. When the Buspar got rid of anxiety, I lost my drive to accomplish anything. I remember telling the doc, “I don’t feel like doing anything. I just sit there.” So, I was taken off of it.

My personal psychological intervention for ADHD was military training instilling discipline and increasing anxiety to illicit the military discipline to avoid doom. In other words, I accomplished everything meaningful by pretending I was in war. Accomplishments weren’t accomplishments to celebrate. They were avoidance of harm to feel relieved by. A life full of fear rather than pleasure and pride.

omg I can’t believe I just figured that out rn lol 😆

The Autism™

The 10 Second Autism Assessment

Psych: Hi! Nice to meet you.

Autism: Looks at their face to assess emotional disposition Hi! Nice to meet you too (or “likewise”). Looks at them for greeting gestures (wave, handshake, hug, etc.) and reciprocates.

Psych: How are you?

Autism: Pause. Looks away. Good. nods head. How are you? engage welcoming smile protocol and stare through them

Psych: Confirmed.

Save yourself thousands of dollars and 3-4 hours.

with Ritalin, this graph adds like a 25% section of remembered

omg lmaoooo 🤣🤣🤣 I’m laughing at the patience the interviewed had to expend on this dude. “You don’t care about the 23 dead Taliban,” is totally something I would say omg I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣

I love that show and Sam! He’s right, too. Olive Garden doesn’t have unlimited bread sticks. There has to be some sort of limit. Even if you can eat one bread stick in 30 secs like a machine and you go there on the day they’re open the longest (Friday for 12 hours), that’s 1 bread stick x 2/min x 60min/hr x 12hrs = 1,440 bread sticks. They’re not going to keep the place open until you decide to finish eating bread sticks, especially because you’re eating all the bread sticks. It’s complete bs.

just poppin to say hi! 🙋‍♂️

❤️

Hi!

No matter how much I try, I just can’t make it work with NTs. It’s like we’re 2 different species in the same type of body. At this point, I’m only sticking to chill autistic and ADHD people. I don’t care anymore about making it work with NTs.

Do you have preferred time zones?

What’s something you find interesting about clocks that most people don’t seem to know?

Also, I just realized that battery voltages run in multiples of 1.5v. I wonder why not 1, 2, or 5.

Congrats! I’m working on learning that. Any tips??

Congrats on a life changing accomplishment!

arghhhhh! ok, I will try that method shared above. thank you :)

I’d be your friend 🙂

Thanks! However, I’ve heard that the yolk is actually unhealthy because it contains a lot of cholesterol. I don’t really see a benefit to eating the yolk, so I just throw it out when I eat boiled eggs, which is infrequent anyway.

A cloud calendar is the backbone of my life. Also, I make it a game to mention someone’s birthday whenever it comes up to help me remember it. “February 30th, right?”

“Congratulations on surviving another circuit around the sun.”

This must be an innate autistic thought. I’m willing to bet that 90% of us (easy) have had this exact same thought.

Put this in your pocket as insurance, my dude/dudette:

Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day celebrating your continued existence 🥳🎊🎉

Thanks! Imagine the possibilities if we could decode the patterns of NT social interaction. Formulas, flowcharts, and nodes everywhere 🙆. Birthday coming up? “Activate Birthday Gifts and Card Protocol, go!” 😄

You’re welcome! I’d be happy to help you out with your particular situation. Hit me up on matrix if you’d like 🙂👍

Also,

edit: Warning, some people will become upset if they recognize that you follow this/a formula. I haven’t figured out a solution to this.

Cards:

• write what you like about them
• add a relevant story you guys share within the last year that reflects that quality of theirs

Gifts:

• if they tell you they like something throughout the year, add it to a private note to look at during their bday
• something they would love to have or use but wouldn’t spend their own money
• bonus: relevant to their quality story

Example

Card: Happy birthday! I love how you’re always happy, like when we went to the beach and it started raining. Even though we were bummed out, you found a way to make it fun and we had a great time. I hope you receive the same happiness on your birthday that you gave me at the beach.

Gift: The shirt they said they liked at the beach store but didn’t buy it for themselves.

Follow me for more autism survival guides 👌

edit: Warning, some people will become upset if they recognize that you follow this/a formula. I haven’t figured out a solution to this.