It's been a lifelong journey to unlearn the internalised condemnation this created, and I still struggle with low self-esteem and really strong imposter syndrome at times.
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"The world needs us. Especially now, when it is clear that the statute quo is destroying the earth and isn't healthy for humans either. We need the free-thinking innovative pattern seeking of the neurodivergent brain."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
That's a manifesto in a paragraph.
"ADHD meds made it possible to land my dream job but medicated me was an untested creature and trying to do too much (because I could), this led to severe autistic burnout. If I couldn't live the life I wanted, if I was so exhausted and lapsing in and out of shutdowns and depression and found daily life so freaking hard, I didn't know what was left. I retreated to writing."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
OMG this too is so me!
"'But you're so good with people' - I'm autistic, not a lizard."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
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"Many autistic people feel more deeply, sort of without filters - a constant raw download of environmental stimuli. I'm hyper empathic. Not that you can tell by looking at some of us with our extraordinary poker face masking at play. The reality is in opposition to what was thought for years, that autistic people were cold and emotionally incapable. Unfortunately that myth persists."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
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Does anyone know what's replaced the ADHD and ActuallyAutistic Guppe groups? I'd love to share Anissa's work with them.
@strypey I'm not sure if it's what you are referring to but ActuallyAutistic seems to have changed to autistics.life
@coffeemug
> autistics.life
Thanks, but this appears to be a Mastodon service. Guppe was a simple federated service, hosted at a.gup.pe, and I'm thinking of the @actuallyautistic group hosted there. Which it seems is now;
@ autistics@fedigroups.social
(added a space to avoid spamming the group with this post)
@strypey Ahhh. Well, good luck🥴
@punishmenthurts
You mean the one hosted at fedigroups.social? Found and followed, thanks to another reply from @adelinej
@strypey @ autistics@fedigroups.social and for ADHD I am not sure about a new group?
