Professional Nerd

#ActuallyAutistic | Late DX | Social scientist | Stressed academic | She/her | Here anonymously, because pre-tenure + processing | Stand with 🇺🇦

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I just wrote a review on Liposomal Quercetin https://t.co/rA793y4TTR via @yotpo

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Tried the ADHD med my NP prescribed and it made me feel like I was just coming out of major anesthesia…the entire day. And nauseous. Not exactly what I was hoping for….

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This is horrific (& child abuse)

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@AutisticCoach_ It is the lifeblood in my veins without which I do not function.

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@AutisticCoach_ Soo not stretchy. When I started yoga at 30 I had the same flexibility as the 70 yo next to me w/a double hip transplant. Years of yoga for incremental progress. Now I do yin yoga + regular STRETCHIT app and am seeing much faster results.

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@TraceyDalton50 @AutisticCallum_ Yup, 💯. I’m hyperlexic and now a professor. I had to figure out that I’m autistic myself at 40. People when I tell them just look confused.. sometimes I feel lucky to be able to mask well and sometimes I feel weirdly jealous of those who can’t: so burnt out. I guess we all are?

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@PilsonAnna For me at least, coherence comes with hyper focus and being forced to do the writing I’m dreading. So embrace whatever gets you to the latter two?

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@PilsonAnna Accountability and deadlines are what kick my brain into gear. I started meeting a grad school friend daily to write at a coffee shop. Rule: we could only write or bitch about writing. And I scheduled my defense so I had a deadline. Oh and..read War & Peace to deal w/insomnia lol

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@hannamashima That said for some autistics pets contribute to sensory overload. Depends on the autistic person. But for others (like me) a dog is literally necessary to my health.

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@hannamashima Growing up with dogs — coming home to their ❤️ after a school day filled with bullying & sensory overload — helped keep me going through the hell years in school. Newly diagnosed as an adult & getting my GSD trained as a service dog bc he provides so much comfort.

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Trying to get back to writing the book & my brain is staging an active rebellion..I can feel the neurons waving lil’ protest flags #AuDHD #academicwriting

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@spoopityboop @fochti Same and damn that’s accurate but also lol 😂

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What might be worse is that I think it went well, which means I might be asked to do more of these #AutisticBurnout here we go

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#ActuallyAutistic hell for me = masking on stage in an auditorium in front of an audience doing a “conversational round table” where they changed the q’s 2 hours ahead & they keep asking the *other* person about MY special interest/expertise & have to stay quiet & act normal 😱

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Also it’s all recorded and there’s press there. So excuse me while I go hide in a hole for a week while I recover

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For me, I self dx’d autism and that realization was a relief.. but for some reason I’m feeling incredibly sad about the additional ADHD discovery when I got my formal combined diagnosis of #AuDHD.. still figuring out why bc #alexithymia

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#AskingAutistics who are ##AuDHD — did you have different emotional responses to finding out you’re #autistic vs finding out you’re #ADHD? Especially if they happened separately?

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@PotentiallyND Self diagnosis is definitely valid!