neurodivergence

“In classic neoliberal style, ADHD diagnoses shift the responsibility for distraction onto the ‘innocent’ neurobiological individual, rather than addressing an underfunded public education system, privatized healthcare, Big Pharma, unaffordable childcare, and the normalization of competitive individualism.”

sensory processing difficulties can affect all senses, including interoception. That means that we can have a hard time sensing these internal states and/or understanding what to do about them

It's essentially like potentially being allergic to anything in the world. And it can look like a lot of different things

although I guess society and the medical practitioners often look really negatively upon social media and, you know, Instagram diagnoses and TikTok diagnoses, it's actually been incredibly helpful for people to help identify what's going on with them and to fnd community like we've already mentioned is such a big deal.

That’s a really exciting prospect to me – the ways that we could all be mad and weird and neurodivergent in a world that didn’t value us according to our exploitability.

And when you become identifed in your neurodivergence or your chronic illness that disappears and you realize that, fuck, I'm actually not just going to be a normal person. This is something I'm going to have to balance my whole life. So while there's a lot of freedom, I guess there's also that loss of that little bit of hope that one day you will

Emotional identification exercises can be challenging for people with alexithymia, and this can cause many of us to feel incompetent and frustrated. Try to be patient and gentle with yourself. You're practicing a skill that does not come easily to you, and it will take time, patience, and persistence.

Emotional awareness is like a muscle; the more

This is likely one reason we see increased rates of anxiety among people with alexithymia. Because they cannot label their emotions, they aren’t as easily able to recruit their prefrontal cortex to help out and self-soothe when their fear system gets activated! So for people who struggle with emotional regulation or alexithymia, emotional labeling

When we have alexithymia, we often do not notice our feelings until they are at an eight or higher. By the time our mind registers emotions, we are typically in an urgent state. Once we are at an 8, 9, or 10 it is much more difficult to reign the emotions and calm ourselves.

This is one of the reasons people with alexithymia struggle so much with