For part 2 of the autistic community’s reaction to the Autism Spectrum Quotient test (AQ), I’ve interviewed three people from the autistic community about their reactions to the world’s most…
ADHDers have what has been called an “interest-based nervous system.” We might have difficulty concentrating on something difficult or uninteresting, but we can also hyperfocus on the things that we’re really into. The real experience of ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but an inability to regulate it.
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).
Starting therapy on the very first day of my university classes in August didn’t seem like a bad idea. No real crisis was happening, as
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