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The ways I work the most comfortable had a lot more to do with autism than with ADHD. I do not require novelty, I require routine. In fact I hate novelty at work and prefer structure and continuous building up and progressing over a solid foundation.

When people keep moving that foundation or the thing I should be focusing on, work becomes a nightmare and start to burn out.

@actuallyadhd

#AuDHD #ADHD #Autism

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@deutrino@mstdn.io replied · 6 days ago

@maikel @actuallyadhd autism's strength lies in refinement.

as an #AuDHD I like my novelty in art and learning and social media, and my routine/refinement in everything else.

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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · last month

The systems in our society are deeply broken. Autistics often feel the effects earlier and more strongly, but people of all kinds are burning out in record numbers because we can't keep this up much longer.

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@notgaz@mstdn.social · 3 weeks ago

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@notgaz@mstdn.social · 3 weeks ago

Not My First Attempt With Mastodon.
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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · 3 weeks ago

Did you know I have a list of ND-affirming mental health providers and assessment services on my resources page?
https://www.autismchrysalis.com/links/#mentalhealth

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ND

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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · 3 weeks ago

Did you know I have a list of ND-affirming mental health providers and assessment services on my resources page?
https://www.autismchrysalis.com/links/#mentalhealth

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #ND

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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · last month

If you just show up and go, “This is me, and I’m weird in this particular way and that’s a great thing.” And they’re like, “Great! I’m weird too, in this other way.” And you both just accept each other, that’s just the best thing ever.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy #Neurodiversity

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Martin Hamilton

@m@martinh.net · last month

Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?

Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-

Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.

#39c3 #AuDHD

Photo showing a number of personal electronic devices including a Bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard, a couple of laptops adorned with Chaos-adjacent stickers, a Tanmatsu, a DECT phone (no base station, awww), a Mysterious Clamshell Device, some headphones, a BangleJS watch, a Pimoroni Tufty running a CO2 monitoring app, a FOSSAsia name badge showing the word "Don't" and a little tub full of the smaller personal electronic devices....

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Ellis Arcwolf (Author)

@EllisArcwolf@eldritch.cafe · last month

LICENSE ISSUED: I am officially a Pennsylvania LPC! 🐺✨

I am vibrating as I write this, but it is official: I am Joan Elizabeth Burgos, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), License No. PC019845.

The Board meeting happened yesterday, the "Educational Transcript" hurdles have been cleared, and I am now fully authorized to practice in the State of Pennsylvania. I have already notified the recruiter at my dream UPMC job, and so... here we go!

Where I Stand Now: For months, I’ve been a "whispering wind," feeling like my value was invisible while I fought through the darkness of poverty and bureaucratic static. But today, I won.

No, WE won! All the barriers are gone, and I could never have held out this long without you. Without ANY of you. Whether you gave $400 or $5, I know what I was asking, and I know that you've given all that you could, and OMG I may finally be able to start paying it all back by GIVING rather than RECEIVING soon!

Well, there is only ONE potential hurdle left, and that's the literal cost of movement.

I still need to navigate interviews and onboarding logistics. IF I get my dream job (a high probability), then after a week, I will be so good and so safe as I finally start welding some disconnected pieces of my life together. But if I don't, things'll just be a little harder a little while longer. It's not forever, but I hope I get my dream job and all this comes to an end sooner.

Transportation costs in Pittsburgh (Lyfts to hospitals, transit passes, and basic survival until that first paycheck hits) are the only things left between me and a career where I can finally be a full person again. I am so close I can taste the stable, independent life ahead of me. If you can help me cross this final gap, I can finally stop surviving and start building.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund
https://cash.app/$CeruleanArc
https://venmo.com/joanburgos

Thank you for seeing me when I was discouraged and when I was at my worst. And for helping me stay in the fight until the stars aligned.

Now, then.

Let’s finish this.

#Pittsburgh #LPC #TransHires #NeuroDivergent #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #BPD #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund #MutualAidPgh #Transportation #Writer #TherapistsOfMastodon

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Ellis Arcwolf (Author)

@EllisArcwolf@eldritch.cafe · last month

LICENSE ISSUED: I am officially a Pennsylvania LPC! 🐺✨

I am vibrating as I write this, but it is official: I am Joan Elizabeth Burgos, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), License No. PC019845.

Where I Stand Now: For months, I’ve been a "whispering wind," feeling like my value was invisible while I fought through the darkness of poverty and bureaucratic static. But today, I won.

Well, there is only ONE potential hurdle left, and that's the literal cost of movement.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund
https://cash.app/$CeruleanArc
https://venmo.com/joanburgos

Thank you for seeing me when I was discouraged and when I was at my worst. And for helping me stay in the fight until the stars aligned.

Now, then.

Let’s finish this.

#Pittsburgh #LPC #TransHires #NeuroDivergent #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #BPD #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund #MutualAidPgh #Transportation #Writer #TherapistsOfMastodon

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Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · last month

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy #Neurodiversity

Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach

@hmm_cook@universeodon.com · last month

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Burnout #Neurodiversity #ND