The neurodivergent urge to do this
Being popular on tumblr is like being popular in the psychiatric
do u ever hear a song for the first time and u love so much that u don’t even wanna listen to it in case u get tired of it
my problem with making decisions is that decisions invite judgment and criticism and I cannot handle judgment or criticism. I want to do everything in secret and I don't want to know anyone's thoughts about it
So tired of neurotypicals inserting themselves into posts about, by, and for people with ADHD or autism to tell us "That's not ND! IT'S NORMAL!"
Like, first of all, who the fuck asked you?
Second, people with ADHD and/or autism are allowed to make posts about their shared experiences with other people in their community. You do not have a license to be the Trait Police.
Also, no one is out here saying, "If you experience this random thing that is common in people with ADHD/autism, you have ADHD/autism." (or if they are, I haven't seen them) More often, it's literally just people relating with each other and then someone comes along and completely misinterprets the point of their post.
This is as true with random commonalities as it is with literal symptoms of a disorder: just because many neurotypicals experience something doesn't mean it isn't correlated with ADHD or autism!
If 10% of NTs have experienced a thing and 95% of people with ADHD have experienced that thing, there is a massive correlation happening! You can't just show up and make people with ADHD feel like shit about relating over this common experience in relation to our ADHD just because it's something a bunch of neurotypicals have experienced too!
Plus, a lot of times that experience is experienced differently depending on if you have ADHD or are neurotypical. Even if the experience is of the same severity, it might be caused by something different, might lead to different feelings, or might have a different level of consistency/rigidity.
Showing up and going off about something being "normal" (a shitty thing to say about neurodivergent experiences btfw) is like if a group of people are discussing making pancakes with coconut flour because of a digestive issue and you come in and yell at them about how, "Everybody eats pancakes! Pancakes aren't specific to you just because you make them with coconut flour!"
Like, no shit Sherlock. No one here fucking said that people don't eat wheat-flour pancakes en masse. This is not a conversation about wheat-flour pancakes.
Basically, keep your disrespectful, neurotypical, tomfoolery the fuck out of ND conversations.
And it's a whole separate conversation but the same fucking thing applies to conversations about physical disabilities. Don't fucking butt in to tell disabled people that everyone gets tired, or struggles without enough sleep, or has back pain. Why? Reread the post!
