Notices by Chroniques autistes 🇨🇦 (adelinej@piaille.fr)

I may have missed it but except from fellow autistic I saw nothing here about RFK yesterday speech.

I know that everyone is probably scared and overwhelmed but imagine how do WE feel? And don’t tell me that I’m not at risk because I don’t live in this country, same for autistic trans women in the UK. Can you imagine how scared they probably are?

You want to help? Learn about us by reading our books, posts, watching our videos, give us accommodations and stop telling us that we don’t look autistic to give only this example… Educate yourselves, ask questions, believe us.

BTW autism is not an illness.

End of the rant.

#ActuallyAutistic #autism

@hellomiakoda Oh I know it’s a reality for some of us 🫂.

What I meant by that I thought that it was the only way to be autistic.

@Chicken0Death

@Chicken0Death They are afraid because they only know about autism stereotypes, outdated information and think that we are all the same.

It was the same thing for me before I discovered that I was autistic. My only image about autistic people was Rain Man, or Sheldon Cooper, or a non speaking rocking little boy hitting his head on the wall. I was SO ignorant and mistaken.

#ActuallyAutistic

Fellow Canadians DO NOT CROSS THE BORDER!

#Canada #ElbowsUp

Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
Third foreign national sent to detention center from San Ysidro crossing

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/never-seen-anything-so-inhumane-canadian-woman-put-in-chains-detained-by-ice-after-entering-san-diego-border

@hellomiakoda @hanscees The more I read about both, the less I see differences between autism and ADHD.

“Unfortunately, like most people with ADHD (and many doctors who treat ADHD), I didn’t know that emotion dysregulation was part of the deal because the DSM doesn’t list it as part of the diagnostic criteria“

“This is the reason people with ADHD are often misdiagnosed with mood disorders, and why we don’t get the support we need even once we’re diagnosed correctly: we don’t know the extent to which our struggle with emotions isn’t normal. Emotions hit us harder and faster, and take us under, in ways most medical providers, teachers, and loved ones don’t understand.“

How to #ADHD
Jessica McCabe

“Most parents of ADHD children have observed the phenomenon called after-school restraint collapse, where their child comes home from school and melts down. After a long day of trying to hide their symptoms and stifle their emotions, they all erupt to the surface. In adults, psychological symptoms like irritability, mood swings, or even panic attacks can occur. Physical symptoms like sleeplessness, chronic pain, gastrointestinal problems, and even sexual dysfunction can result when you persistently suppress intense emotions.“

How to #ADHD
Jessica McCabe

A new discovery for me about #ADHD and clutter: clutter in motion and clutter in stasis thanks to this 5 minute video from How to ADHD.

How to deal with clutter when you have ADHD:

https://youtu.be/0mCr5tqtiMg?si=nmniW3fjXMpHBUZW

I’m reading her book How to #ADHD, following a comment made by @dramypsyd in an another thread, and I recognized myself so much in chapter 1.

“These judgments—even once I learned how inaccurate they are, even now that I understand the biology behind the invisible obstacles I kept tripping over and blaming myself for—are long solidified by decades of neural pathways wiring together and firing together.“ (Jessica McCabe)

https://howtoadhdbook.com/

“How could a condition that is so well known be so poorly understood? Why were so many of us still struggling so much, even after years or decades of diagnosis and treatment? And why were so many people learning about their medical condition for the first time from some college dropout on YouTube?” (How to #ADHD, Jessica McCabe)

(I know, I know for the “medical condition“ terms 🙄)

“So we learn to mask our #ADHD behaviors and do what’s expected of us—be quiet, sit still, pay attention—when we’re in public. We pay the price later—melt down, feel exhausted, stare blankly at a wall, or scroll through social media for hours just trying to recharge.
Even when others are aware of our diagnosis, we’re often taught how to hide our struggles rather than effectively cope with them."

How to ADHD
Jessica McCabe

“For those without enough supports, #ADHD can be a nightmare. They constantly need to defend themselves against criticism and shame from their families and friends. They burn out at work and struggle through tasks that everyone tells them “should” be easy. They take longer to succeed, and it comes at a much greater cost.“

How to ADHD
Jessica McCabe

“Spending time with people whose brains work the way yours does is an incredible experience. The shame begins to fall away, and we begin to see ourselves through one another’s eyes—as the funny or talented or curious or ambitious humans we are, with struggles that are perfectly normal—because while they might not make sense to those who are neurotypical, they are normal when you have #ADHD.“ (Same goes for autism. ❤️)

How to ADHD
Jessica McCabe

“What allows us to keep going when the failures pile up is the encouragement of others. It’s like the quarters you use to keep playing an arcade game after you run out of lives.
Sometimes, someone says something so perfect, so powerful, that it’s like a magical quarter—one you can use again and again.“

How to #ADHD
Jessica McCabe

“For twenty years, I thought I had a deficit of attention. I mean, it’s in the name of my diagnosis: attention deficit disorder. Brains need a full tank of attention to work properly, so I must be a few quarts low. Right?

Wrong. The reality is, we have plenty of attention. What we lack is the ability to regulate our attention. You know how lizards can’t internally regulate their body temperature? ADHD brains have difficulty regulating their focus (and emotions, and sleep, and…okay, yep, we’ll get to that later).“

How to #ADHD
Jessica McCabe

Petit moral aujourd’hui, photos de vos amis à poil ou à plumes bienvenues.

@joachim J'ai voulu le partager sur FB et bizarrement (sarcasme) la publication a été supprimée quelques secondes parce que :

« La publication peut utiliser des liens ou du contenu trompeurs afin d’inciter des personnes à consulter ou à rester sur un site Web. »

🙃

@tract_linguistes @mms @jkb C’est en vivant ici (au Canada) que j’ai découvert qu’on pouvait mettre des accents sur les majuscules!

D’ailleurs je vois que notre chère académie le recommande, c’est récent ça non?

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/QDL005