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   MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:46:05 JST MeredithW

   I've had this happen for things that I normally wouldn't even find difficult - at times I'm completely unable to identify what triggered it for a specific task.
   #ADHD #neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction

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     MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 22:15:00 JST MeredithW

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     • utzer

     @utzer It's an executive function issue. EF dysfunctions are a core symptom of ADHD but not exclusive to it.

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     utzer (utzer@social.yl.ms)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 22:15:03 JST utzer

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     @meredithw is that something ADHD specific?
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     MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 20:19:14 JST MeredithW

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     • Matthias Bach

     @marix It's much more frequent and severe for people w/ADHD or other EF problems. Most NTs have difficulty relating to it and truly understanding it. IME, if someone relates to this as a frequent life problem, there's a good chance they aren't really NT, whether or not they have an official diagnosis.

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     Matthias Bach (marix@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 20:19:17 JST Matthias Bach

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     @meredithw not arguing that this is a problem. But I wonder why neurotypicals shouldn't be able to relate to this. Pretty sure this happens to everyone. At least that's what my anecdotal evidence tells me.

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     Laura Langdon (lauralangdon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 05:48:21 JST Laura Langdon

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     • Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

     @isagalaev @meredithw The Venn diagram of “creative people” and “neurosparkly people” is basically a circle. 😉

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     Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw: (isagalaev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 05:48:22 JST Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

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     @meredithw never thought of it as related to #adhd. Most creative people I know go through this. "The problem of a blank sheet" I heard it being called.

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     Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw: (isagalaev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:18 JST Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

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     • Laura Langdon

     @LauraLangdon @meredithw "chaotic genius"? :-)

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     Laura Langdon (lauralangdon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:19 JST Laura Langdon

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     • Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

     @isagalaev @meredithw A rapidly growing proportion of those of us diagnosed with ADHD and/or ASD reject the ‘D’ entirely! Unfortunately an alternative word for a person diagnosed with ADHD hasn’t been mainstreamed yet, the way a person can refer to themselves as “autistic” instead of “having ASD”.

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     Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw: (isagalaev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:20 JST Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

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     • Laura Langdon

     @LauraLangdon @meredithw I don't either. Granted, I don't know what you meant by "neurosparkly", but we were talking about ADHD, and the last D is meaningful. So to clarify, I can't subscribe to thinking of all creative people as having ADHD. And looks like we're in agreement on that?

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     Laura Langdon (lauralangdon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:21 JST Laura Langdon

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     • Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

     @isagalaev @meredithw That’s only if you consider it a “disorder”, and I don’t. Just a different wiring schema. 😊

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     Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw: (isagalaev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:22 JST Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

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     • Laura Langdon

     @LauraLangdon @meredithw I understand it's a spectrum, but the way you put it means all creative people are technically supposed to be treated for this "disorder", which is not the view I'd endorse!

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     MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:23 JST MeredithW

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     • Laura Langdon

     @LauraLangdon @isagalaev

     * I think ADHx is a disorder if it feels like one to you, isn't if it doesn't. I know people who don't feel like it is, and I'm cool with that for them. I just don't want them insisting I should deny my own lived experience where it does cause impairment in my life.

     * I definitely think it should be renamed for a host of reasons (including what I said earlier; it's a deficit in attention REGULATION, not attention itself).

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     Laura Langdon (lauralangdon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 12:28:24 JST Laura Langdon

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     • Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

     @isagalaev @meredithw Ha! I think some could totally go for that!