Neurodivergent chicken keepers

I love to journal, I have to get back into being consistent with it though.
Yeah I used to hate it (or think I did LOL) but then I gave it another chance back in like… March maybe? And have been journaling like crazy ever since. Pretty much every day except sometimes I skip a day or few in a row. But not usually. Usually it’s MULTIPLE entries in one day. :lau :oops: but yeah. I used to do these thought and mood log things with my last therapist which were cool and all and I did like those better than regular journaling at the time but now I love regular journaling. LOL
 
I also want to follow up like Clouds did, because in the beginning I was a little unsure. I’m sure I don’t have ADHD, and likely not S.A.D either. The unfortunate thing about researching this sort of thing online is symptoms do overlap. But I do know what I have as those symptoms were pretty clearly apart of one thing entirely and not many different ones. Hopefully this makes somewhat of sense.
Definitely. I spent a lot of time looking into everything myself. But you definitely need to be aware and look at it from a distance. I mean sometimes people DO get misdiagnosed. I think there was times I convinced myself I didn't have ASD or ADHD for whatever reason.
 
Definitely. I spent a lot of time looking into everything myself. But you definitely need to be aware and look at it from a distance. I mean sometimes people DO get misdiagnosed. I think there was times I convinced myself I didn't have ASD or ADHD for whatever reason.
Exactly. It’s easy to convince yourself that too.
 
Yeah I used to hate it (or think I did LOL) but then I gave it another chance back in like… March maybe? And have been journaling like crazy ever since. Pretty much every day except sometimes I skip a day or few in a row. But not usually. Usually it’s MULTIPLE entries in one day. :lau :oops: but yeah. I used to do these thought and mood log things with my last therapist which were cool and all and I did like those better than regular journaling at the time but now I love regular journaling. LOL
How was this 20 minutes ago already? Feels like 2 seconds ago. WTH. :lau :oops:
 
My GS (whom I raised since age 6, he is 18 now) is convinced he is not on the spectrum but he was dx'd in 2nd grade or so. He is only mildly so, or maybe I should say high-functioning? Plus very bright, but ... I do see it sometimes. He seems socially young to me. He really hates me talking about it or resents any implication that he is. I don't know how to talk to him about it but ... he drives now and he's a pretty good driver as far as being safe ... but he just gets in and drives and doesn't always pay attention to road signs to get to where he's going, things like that.
 
It is good to know. I know I have some form of autism, adhd and being super sensitive to like every thing. They called the sensitivity something I can't remember off the top of my head.

Being on medication has helped a great deal but still having issues with motivation to do things.
Rejection sensitivity?
 
I suppose a bit of a follow up on this question I asked, in case anyone else gets curious about that like I was. I honestly hated the entire assessment process, the anxiety was really hard and frustrating. But considering I now know I'm definitely autistic I know part of it was the fact communication is also hard for me and it involves a whole lot of questions!
In the end I got what I needed though, finally. I should be assessed for a couple other things but I'm not really keen to rush into that 🫠
Oh, I did get assessed while having really bad anxiety. I held my left arm with my right so hard it took months for the mussels to get back to normal and my shoulder to not hurt. It was so hard to do that interview.
 
Rejection sensitivity?
I feel everything more, little, tiny things. Both physical and emotional. Not just rejection, but like how something I ware, if it's bothering me, it makes me very grouchy. Enough to make me kind of lash out verbally. Emotionally if someone I guess is not straight with me and pretends to be friends then does things that are otherwise It sent me spiraling. Anything I find sad will have me crying uncontrollably. If it makes me angry it's over the top and I have trouble letting anything go. Ill dwell on it for months and talk myself in to not good things.
 

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