"My top-tip is to name each alarm - you don't want your alarm to go off and not know what it's for. You may laugh, but if you have ADHD, I bet you can relate."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

Are some people able to set an alarm and just remember why they set it, based on the time it goes off or whatever?! Wow. Lucky.

#ADHD

"The medical model term for having extras is 'co-morbidities'. The word morbid does not have positive connotations and since I prefer to think in strength based rather than deficit terminology I like 'co-occurring'. I'm grateful to see this term used increasingly."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

👆

#CoMordibities #CoOccurring

"The concept of the autistic spectrum is an attempt to counter the belief that all humankind is on a sort of graduated line from not-autistic-at-all to AAF (Autistic As Fuck). The spectrum is one way of describing the group of autistic humans, on a complex circular map of intersectional differently wired tendencies, with neurodivergence manifesting unique to individuals."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

I only recently grasped this; it's *not* a gradiant.

(1/2)

"Many autistic people feel more deeply, sort of without filters - a constant raw download of environmental stimuli. I'm hyper empathic. Not that you can tell by looking at some of us with our extraordinary poker face masking at play. The reality is in opposition to what was thought for years, that autistic people were cold and emotionally incapable. Unfortunately that myth persists."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

(2/2)

"'But you're so good with people' - I'm autistic, not a lizard."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

(1/2)

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics

"ADHD meds made it possible to land my dream job but medicated me was an untested creature and trying to do too much (because I could), this led to severe autistic burnout. If I couldn't live the life I wanted, if I was so exhausted and lapsing in and out of shutdowns and depression and found daily life so freaking hard, I didn't know what was left. I retreated to writing."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

OMG this too is so me!

#ADHD #AuDHD #burnout

"The world needs us. Especially now, when it is clear that the statute quo is destroying the earth and isn't healthy for humans either. We need the free-thinking innovative pattern seeking of the neurodivergent brain."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

That's a manifesto in a paragraph.

#neurodivergent

"Years of not fitting in and being afraid of being busted takes it's toll. I have had a lifetime of being unsure of how to conduct myself and being baffled by others' behaviour. For many years I thought my only choice was to be constantly on the move. I have lost track of the times I have given all my belongings away and melted into the night."

#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024

https://www.wildofbrain.com/

OMG this is so me!

#books #neurodivergence