does anyone care
I saw this tweet about how things don't always "occur" to adhd people and I thought I could relate to it as well, although I'm autistic and not adhd.
For example - if I have a headache, it simply won't occur to me to take pain meds. I know I have a headache. I want the pain to stop. I am aware of the existence of pain meds. But the idea never occurs to me to take them until someone else suggests it.
The example they gave in the tweet was that if someone says hello to them, it may not occur to them to say hello back and yep... I do that as well.
I just never realized that other people may not do these things.
This is called executive dysfunction and it’s very common for both adhd and autistic people! <3
I was under the impression that executive dysfunction was being unable to transition between tasks. Like that feeling when you're trying to get up and make some food, but your brain won't let you no matter how hard you try. Is that something different?
They are both forms of executive dysfunction! Executive dysfunction simply means one of your executive functions isn’t working. The executive functions are:
- Emotional control
- Task initiation
- Working memory
- Self-monitoring (interoception, something a lot of autistics struggle with)
- Flexibility
- Organization
- Planning & time management
- Self control
What you’re experiencing and what you already considered executive dysfunction are both issues with task initiation, and I think what you’re experiencing is also an issue with planning.
The reason ADHD and autism are so similar is that the executive functions are impacted; among other symptoms and traits, they are both executive functioning disorders. Which is why you experience this thing that a lot of ADHDers experience, and why ADHD and autism have such a high comorbidity rate.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
uhhh your honour please let the record show that the defendant won't stop making jerk off gestures every time i get up to talk. well no he is because i can hear his handcuffs jingling when he does it. your honour can you get him to stop please
your honour let the record show that i'm not being a little bitch about it. no i'm not. no i'm not. no i'm not no i'm not no i'm not
oatmeal :)
it was about the food but now it's also about her
She says thank you
OATMEAL!!!!
Any cool bugs you guys like? 🤔
Spoonwing larva.
Ridiculous.
this isn’t even my post but I feel like this tag needs some time in the limelight
not to distract too much from the cute larvae but. yeah this is a Love-Gruenwald forceps.
they are adding a new shape to tetris called big mama and its just a solid rectangle the size of the entire screen
ALT
this cat looks like it has 1 layer of hair to go underneath his other layer of hair that's solely used to shoot up in anger
That's actually true, cats have two layers of fur, this image shows really well the difference between their dense undercoat and their more sparce overcoat because this lil guy is just SO MAD
he is SO MAD that he became the perfect science demonstration.
Another good example is the Lykoi cat, a breed of cat with a mutation where they only have an overcoat and whiskers and no undercoat. They're often compared to werewolves in appearance. They have some variability in the density of this overcoat, too. But you can see that the face, feet, and belly (particularly around the nips) are mostly undercoat-only areas of the cat.
They're also interesting for studying shedding because the density of the coat changes a lot based on the time of year, some go almost entirely bald when blowing coat.
It's also a really new breed - the gene that causes this has been around for a while and just pops up, but Lykoi got developed starting in 2010 from rescues with this strange gene, and is now getting Cat Fanciers Association recognition this year. The mutation is unrelated to the one that causes sphinx and Devon rex cats.
i love you spatial horror i love you fucked up houses i love you neverending corridors i love you doors that lead nowhere i love you something evil under the floorboards i love you architecture that doesnt make sense
