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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 23:45:21 JST Jess👾

   I'm not neurodivergent, I just have a complicated System of which foods are "ingredients" and which are "food", and I can't eat "ingredients" until they've been made into "food". (Sarcasm - I'm certainly somewhere in the "low" end of the spectrum of autism and moderate to high in ADHD in various ways)

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 23:45:20 JST Jess👾

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     Just to note:

     When you take a self assessment for ADHD or Autism and it asks something like:

     "do you have difficulty with ABC?"

     And your response is

     "I don't have difficulty with ABC. I've developed a System that I use to deal with ABC, and when I follow the System, I can do ABC. So it's not difficult."

     ... Then you have difficulty with ABC. Mark yes on the question.

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     Kushnerin pelottava enkeli (carto@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 23:45:20 JST Kushnerin pelottava enkeli

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     @JessTheUnstill also if you have further questions about the imprecise and impossible-to-answer questions, yeah, well...

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 00:22:54 JST Jess👾

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     Also, it's not unusual for a lot of your neurodiverse Systems to manage symptoms to break down and no longer function when you hit burnout.

     Ask me how I know.

     (Hint: I'm in burnout)

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 03:28:20 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     in my family, we've been developing the habit of pursuing homeostasis as a guiding principle to prioritize tasks and make decisions. it's making a world of a difference to this bunch of fellow NDs.