Miakoda
@nellie_m
@pythno @melindrea @actuallyautistic
I didn't have enough focus to read it all in one sitting - but that part about executive function... This is why I'm frustrated by "high functioning". I talk a lot, so have a big vocabular... But my god, I cannot do the things that need doing no matter how much I need it done. Even physical pain and suffering often isn't enough to drive me to get it done. Brain will not do task! I don't feel very "functioning"!
Miakoda
@nellie_m
@pythno @melindrea @actuallyautistic
Oh, and my ability to talk well ends up a stuttery mess, or goes offline entirely, under certain conditions.
Ask me to explain computer stuff here online, I can do that all day! I need to tell someone what I need help with... nope. Set a doctor's appointment? Fail.
Make a call about my taxes? Hopeless.
Miakoda
@melindrea
@nellie_m @pythno @actuallyautistic
Something I struggle with is I have a high IQ, my IQ was used as a bludgeon - "You shouldn't be struggling, you're so brilliant", and now I end up vesting myself for not being able to IQ my way out of my problems.
I can't IQ up some executive function or some energy.
:neuro: Antonius Marie ⚧
@hellomiakoda @nellie_m @pythno @actuallyautistic Exactly same. on the outside I was "high functioning" (so much, in fact, that no one even thought I was autistic for the longest time), but in reality? I was working myself int an early grave, and if I'd had less mental abilities (and/or willingness to sacrifice myself), it would've been visible so much earlier.
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