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Have I talked about how for most of my adult live I described myself as being "wired differently" than everyone around me?

Then as I explored the things that made me so different, I discovered that my Myers-Briggs type (INFJ) is the rarest and often called "The Mystic."

Then, I discovered the idea of Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and had what I thought was an explanation for my sensory issues, too.

THEN I added Empath to the list and I thought I had myself pretty well figured out.

Yeah, turns out every single one of the things I was looking for an explanation for fall under the heading "undiscovered auDHD."

One explanation to rule them all, if you will.

I just read a book about INFJ writers (I'm one of those, too) and am almost through The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy and have all kinds of thoughts swirling around.

Watch this space, as soon as I can wrangle those thoughts into holding still long enough to get them down in writing, I'll have a post for y'all.

Or, you know, several posts as this is a deep one.

@actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #auDHD

So I've had this repeating number sequence in my head for weeks.

I'll space out and find myself tapping it out on my desk.

Or with my tongue on the roof of my mouth.

Or with my left foot on the dead pedal while driving.

I had a flash today and realized it was the opening guitar riff from the Green Day song "wake me up when September ends," which I probably haven't heard since it was new 20 years ago.

I don't even listen to Green Day. Didn't then, don't now.

How in the hell did my brain grab onto that riff of all things and decide to play it—not the riff itself, just the repeating pattern—on repeat since sometime in March?!?!

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #auDHD
@actuallyautistic

This week, I have discovered something important about myself: I am AuDhd — autistic and ADHD.

A few years ago, close family suggested that I might be autistic. I started to wonder too, but life kept moving and I pushed it aside. Recently, my psychologist recommended a full assessment. I decided it was time to find out.

Now it’s confirmed. I’m officially diagnosed.

It’s life-changing.
It’s a revelation.
It explains so much about who I am and how my brain works.

I finally have answers to the questions I’ve carried for years. Why I think the way I do. Why I experience the world so intensely. Why things that seem “easy” for others cost me so much energy.

I’ve already spent time grieving the parts of my life shaped by misunderstanding — both from others and from myself. This diagnosis doesn’t change who I am. It simply gives me language for it. It makes sense of a lifetime of being “too much,” “too sensitive,” “too intense.”

I’m not broken.
I’m not a failed version of normal.
I’m neurodivergent — and there is strength in that.

I'm still learning what Unmasking for me means, but here are a few things i plan to start doing:

• Asking for clarity instead of masking confusion
• Setting up my life around my brain’s natural rhythms
• Refusing to apologise for my sensory needs
• Speaking plainly about how I experience the world

Getting this diagnosis is not an end. It’s a beginning.

If you’re walking this path too — late-diagnosed, learning who you really are underneath the masks — you are not alone.

We are allowed to exist as we are.

I’m AuDHD.
I’m proud.
I’m building a life that finally makes sense.

Ich habe eine kostenlose Anleitung für einen Dino mit Kopfhörern gefunden.
Wenn dass nicht das perfekte Projekt für die Zeit in der Reha (adhs) ist, weiß ich auch nicht.
Keine Ahnung, ob ich das hinbekomme, aber ich will es zumindest ausprobieren.

Even when things go wrong, because things will go wrong in our lives, you’ll find some way to get through it.

Maybe not well. Maybe you won’t always know what the right things to say are going to be. Maybe it’s still not going to make it better. But trusting that you can handle it, that you can get through it, that you will survive.

Hey #ADHS-Bubble: Was sind denn Eure Erfahrungen mit #Kreatin? Ich dachte immer, das wäre nur für Leistungssportler und Muckibuden-Pumper, aber neuerdings werden mir laufend Influencer serviert, die das in Zusammenhang mit ADHS-Symptommilderung bringen. Ist da was dran?

Falsche "Gleichung"

Ferienzeit = Erholung

Für die meisten neurodivergenten Familien sogar

Ferienzeit ≠ Erholung

Große Stolperfalle:

"Jetzt haben die/wir endlich mal Zeit für uns!" Und alle packen ihre Hoffnung unausgesprochen hinein.
Wenn das gut geht, Glück gehabt.

#Familie #Ferien #Erholung #Autismus #Adhs #HSP

(Wie sehr ich mich als Kind nach 'einfach mal keine Ansprüche an mich' gesehnt habe und nicht bekommen habe.)
#AuDHD

A friend wants to date again and I offered my help by posting their ad to Fedi. Plz share and if interested, I‘m happy to establish contact.

„Smoking hot #trans babe (white, #nonbinary, #AuDHD ) looking 4 smoking hot trans babe (25-40). I offer cooking Chinese food every other day if you cook Korean food on the other days. I would love lots of cuddles and enjoying weird art and music stuff with you :3 It would be great if you communicate not only by meowing (but some meowing is lovely).“

He's making a list. You'll be on it if you're naught or nice. He's definitely not checking it twice tho

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih

Ich packe gerade die Sachen vom Easterhegg aus um die Koffer für die Reha ein zu packen.

Gut, dass ich schon ne Liste habe, das macht es leichter.
Jetzt muss ich „nur“ noch entscheiden, welche Wolle, welche Bücher und wieviel ich mitnehme.

Und weil es ne ADHS-Reha ist noch Fidget-Toys nachdrucken. Geht ja nicht, dass ich da keine dabei habe….

Being autistic with the added spice of ADHD is a fucking hoot. I need routine to function, but routines are boring.

Who knows what's going on? I sure as hell don't!

Ich mag diese Realität nicht.

(Darf ich bis zum nächsten Event unter der Bettdecke bleiben?)

My is not ing today but I still want to be “social”

This is me being that.

**Insert wonderful (not horrible) segue here**

“Forrests End”

The fourth attempt in the background study. Did a little freestyling with some of the techniques I’ve learned so far and am quite happy with the turn out.

I will return! (Hopefully with more ’s and power)