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Time Management, Slower Processing, Fatigue, Transitions & Gifts

10/28/2022

Some of the most important "BOUNDARIES" that Neuro-Diverse People need to set involve --- TIME.

There are at least 3 BIG CHALLENGING COMPONENTS:

Time needed to MANAGE Executive Functioning Challenges
Time to DEVELOP and UTILIZE GIFTS, and
Fatigue

Now, pretty much everyone is struggling with these issues --- but they often can be more extreme for Neuro-Diverse People.

Some of the Executive Functioning Challenges can be BIGGER.
Some of the GIFTS can be BIGGER too.
The Neuro-Diverse ENERGY SUPPLY can be confusing ---
- Sometimes bursts of energy and creativity, and
- Greater Risk of BURNOUT and even BREAKDOWN.

For those of us who have "BROKEN DOWN" like myself ----
- It is not just a question of taking the medication.

It's also putting a lot of work into TIME MANAGEMENT ----
- and the result is NOT NEURO-TYPICAL

I have a lot of people in my life and I'm probably one of these people in some of their lives ---
- "What you really need to do is stop being such a people pleaser."
- They say that and I say that UNTIL: I'm not people pleasing them anymore, or they're not people pleasing me.

At the end of the day THIS IS NOT ABOUT "REASONABLENESS"
- This is about EDUCATION.
- EDUCATING OURSELVES & OTHERS about our True Limits & THEIR TRUE LIMITS and Developing the AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS most of us desire.

Part of that EDUCATION PROCESS is realizing that the challenges people in our lives have ---- often have very little to do with us ---
- BUT we can make them WORSE by failing to ACCEPT them,
- BY SCAPEGOATING PEOPLE, and/or
- BY TAKING IT PERSONALLY.

Most of us in Modern Society struggle with this --- it is RAMPED UP for Neuro-Diverse People and there is greater need for:

Chilling Out
Humor
A Break

Having RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY FIGURES talk about the importance of setting IDIOSYNCRATIC BOUNDARIES --- could make this EASIER for Neuro-Diverse People in the Society.

Asperger's from the Inside
Managing Transition Time

UK's Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body
What Is Neuro-Diversity?

What I particularly like about this video from the UK's Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body is that the Clinician points out Neuro-Diversity has to be understood in relation to whatever the MAJORITY is .

Neurodivergent Rebel
Setting & Maintaining Healthy Boundaries

Third Alternatives

Reading Disorders & Psychiatric Co-Morbidity

10/16/2022

Conjecture

The Connections between:
- Neuro-Developmental Differences such as ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia and Comorbidity of Psychiatric Disorders, and
- Developmental Inflammation and Neuro-Developmental & Psychiatric Disorders are becoming fairly well established.

This has RAMIFICATIONS obviously for TREATMENT ---
- BUT also for getting out of the MODERN MYTHOLOGY of the BRAIN ---

Our populations have serious, widespread issues with DEVELOPMENTAL INFLAMMATION.

Early Diagnosis and Support are CRITICAL for people with Neuro-Developmental Differences associated with significant CO-MORBIDITY with Psychiatric Disorders.

There often are GIFTS --- BUT the CHALLENGES are there too ---- and it can be quite the TRAP FOR THE UNWARY.

Recognizing Psychiatric Comorbidity With Reading Disorders
https://www.frontiersin.org › fpsyt.2018.00101 › full

by RL Hendren · 2018 · Cited by 117 — These include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders, autism ...

Descriptive epidemiology of prenatal and perinatal risk factors ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC5098179

by L Liu · 2016 · Cited by 39 — We found an association between maternal infectious diseases and dyslexia. Epidemiological studies have shown that maternal infection could ...

The Dyslexia Research Trust in the UK
Immunological Factors in Dyslexia

"REASONABLENESS" as a Driver of "TOXICITY"

10/13/2022

Conjecture

Honestly, most people are pretty good at accommodating or working around the DIFFERENCES of others IF:

they know what those DIFFERENCES are and
they know how to accommodate or work around them.

The truth is many Neuro-Diverse people are NOT AWARE or AWARE ENOUGH of their own EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES ---

What we tend to use as a SHORT-CUT ---- is some general notion of "REASONABLENESS" for:
- Short Term Memory
- Planning
- Organization
- Energy
- Emotional Regulation
- Etc.

That can turn out to be PROBLEMATIC on the mild end or DISASTROUS on the far end--- because for Neuro-Diverse people they often have IDIOSYNCRATIC DIFFERENCES in EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.

A big part of the CHALLENGE of NEURO-DIVERSITY is that it is not just at one level of the society --- it's at the bottom, the middle and the top ---
- and we tend to have a fair amount of UNCONSCIOUS BIAS regarding from whom we will TOLERATE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES.

Some "RESILIENCE" researchers do make the point that what we're trying to do is get to an ACCURATE VIEW ---
- That has been elusive in the old but newly appreciated realm of Neuro-Diversity

When it is not appreciated and we don't have an ACCURATE VIEW ---- "TOXICITY" either INDIVIDUALLY or in RELATIONSHIPS or in the SOCIETY I think can be a consequence.

ADHD & Exhaustion

One of the big insights of the last few years is that many people do not fit neatly into DSM categories and researchers are advising that there are shared genes and categories are BLURRED.

We don't want to be:

Demonizing people for EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES --
But we also don't want to be BLAMING others for our EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES.
AND we want as ACCURATE a view as we can get both of ourselves and of others

I often post videos from Asperger's From the Inside (now Autism From the Inside) -- and Paul makes the point that once people understand that his challenges are REAL --- the world is a much KINDER place.Additionally, in the words of Canadian Psychologist Tayyab Rashid --- "STRENGTHS ARE REAL."

Understanding REAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES and REAL STRENGTHS --- has the potential to ---

get us out of "TOXICITY"
and to a more accurate view of ourselves and others and our society
hopefully leading to more KINDNESS & RESILIENCE.

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