Charles Harris, Ph.D.

| Intuitively Cognitive 🪬| | Strategic and Analytical Thinker ♟️🧠 |

[Libriscent @libriscent]

Delete the chat. Delete the number. Delete the fantasy.

Crumbs aren’t worth your self-respect.

[Workplace Mental Health Resources @Stopworkplacebu]

The reason CPTSD goes undiagnosed: it doesn’t look like trauma. It looks like personality.

PTSD is an event. CPTSD is an environment you couldn’t escape during, most often, your formative years. It’s trauma that gets woven into the fabric you mistake for identity.

[Mark Hyman, M.D. @drmarkhyman]

Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.

Joy is a biological necessity.

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

A hard truth about neurodivergent people (specifically ADHD and autism) is they often attract people with unhealed narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

[blue @bluewmist]

Hard Pill to swallow as an adult:

At some point, you will have to disappoint others to live a life that's honest to you.

People pleasing will drain you, not save you.

You have every right to set boundaries and choose your peace. You can disappoint people and still be a good person.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

There is a difference between hurting someone by mistake and hurting someone while fully aware of what they are already carrying.
When a person knows you're fighting one of the hardest battles of your life and still chooses to add to your pain, the wound cuts deeper than the act itself.

It's not the disrespect that changes everything—it's the awareness behind it.
The moment you realize someone saw your vulnerability, understood your struggle, and chose to make it heavier instead of lighter, something fundamental shifts.

Some betrayals don't just break trust; they permanently change the way you see the person who caused them.

[kelly @kellytheboss7]

As a neurodivergent, you don't actually want a "normal" life.
You want:
• mornings that don't begin in panic
• work that doesn't require constant masking
• friendships that feel safe instead of exhausting
• enough money to live without chronic stress
• a home that feels like a refuge, not another responsibility
• time to pursue interests without guilt
• permission to exist without explanation
Most neurodivergent people aren't asking for special treatment.
They're asking for a life that doesn't require them to fight their own brain every single day.

[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

Being downplayed, denied, accused of pretending, accused of taking resources from "real autistics", etc while still experiencing many of the challenges.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

ADHD is not being able to do your own laundry for 2 weeks but helping a friend move an entire apartment in one day because external accountability activates your brain in ways personal responsibility does not.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

Being neurodivergent is when everyone is watching you get bullied by someone who is hitting way below the belt, crushing your soul for no reason, and no one steps in. But the minute you defend yourself with something you think is unremarkable yet kinda snarky, the whole crowd turns on you like “Whoa! Too far! I can’t believe you just said that! That’s so mean!”

[Charles Harris, Ph.D. @StefonHarris1]

@SassyAmberHaddy Then we can have that wrestling match, that you won’t win! 🤣

[𝓲𝓬𝓮 @be_like_ice]

High IQ ADHD people are the most Dopamine Addicted.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

the autistic experience of being kind, friendly, empathetic, and instantly disliked

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Does anyone else with ADHD feel like they're always just slightly on the outside of every friend group no matter how hard they try?

Not looking for pity. Just wondering if anyone else has always felt like they're there but not really there.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

the autistic experience of saying “I could be wrong, so don’t quote me” right before giving an airtight, thesis-level, explanation that was researched for weeks out of sheer curiosity.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

for autism month: there’s a real loneliness in being the person who notices the pattern, names it softly, gets doubted, stays quiet, watches it play out, and then has to act normal when everyone else finally catches up.