Neurodivergence

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A community to unite neurodivergent people.

A common problem for neurodivergent people is being bullied and ostracized, not only by neurotypical people but also their fellow neurodiverse humans.

Sentences like "I'm glad I only have ADHD, not autism" or vice versa is very detrimental to our collective benefit. Therefore we believe that we should abolish any oppressive/stigmatizing language against other neurodivergent people.

Disclaimer: This is a nonviolent community and we don't want anyone dumping on other people, period. Be it neurotypicals/allistics, etc. We accept the occasional joke (like "allism, a common disease") to highlight the absurdity of pathologizing neurodivergence.

Our rules are vague because bad actors will circumvent clear cut rules just barely and grind the edge.

The rules

No abusive language
Stay on topic (no politics or religion)
No slurs (including the R word)
No isms (including but not limited to: Ageism, Racism, Apologism etc)
No Advertising for profit (ND resources are ok if non profit)

Further rules will follow when deemed necessary.

If you have any questions, write me a message at https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/u/haui_lemmy

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What is your superpower? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/neurodivergence@lemmy.giftedmc.com

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My view on neurodivergence is manifold: It can be severely disabling in our neurotypical world and comes with massive health risks, depending on your support network and needs. But it often also brings positive or quirky things.

Today I'm having a particular bad day and would like to help everyone who is in a not so great mood to focus on the good things for a moment. When life can seem harsh, we can decide to focus on the good things, just for a moment and deal with hardships later.

My personal superpower is building things. I have very strong spacial thinking and love to build things, be that computers, Minecraft stuff or machines. I get a lot of positive feedback for this and i consider this my greatest skill.

What is your superpower, your favorite skill, the thing that makes you unique or just different?

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

I can hold deeply complex logical structures in my working memory, which helps a lot with my job as a software engineer. In the design phase before any actual code has been written, I can "picture" even relatively obscure edge cases for a project based solely off the planned architecture. As a result, I'm able to avoid entire classes of issues that otherwise might crop up farther down the line.

More generally, I think this comes from my older talent of having an unusually useful imagination when it comes to playing out "what-if" scenarios in my head. Because of my natural accumulation of detailed information over time combined with (from what I gather is) an atypically logical imagination, I can sometimes "see" longer-term shifts in markets and politics well in advance.

This also contributes to some deeply depressing perspectives I hold.