• Bosht@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah this is just anyone that’s trying to survive post COVID honestly. Don’t need to put a label on surviving this shitty existence currently.

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    18 hours ago

    I don’t think that’s exclusive to neurodivergent people. But yes.

    Edit: Unless…wait… Am I just undiagnosed neurodivergent?

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    18 hours ago

    I think that’s everyone tbh.

    If work wants a wide awake me, they’d better be paying me a lot more than they are.

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      Just call up any random psychiatrist and tell them your reason for the appointment is medication recommendations.

      In and out in 1 hour and they’ll prescribe a whole boatload of crap if you’re really messed up or just some Adderall for ADHD.

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        Except when the Adderall allows you to be mostly functional on three hours of sleep, effectively nullifying its effects on the ADHD but still enabling the bad habit of staying up all night.

        I don’t recommend it, but it is one way to live.

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          Me since I started studying. I’m trying not to do it much but it’s just so easy to go to bed a little late every day.

          And usually the negative effects just aren’t there when I’m on my meds. Moreso when I’m out and about all day, then when a less busy day comes around and my body unwinds a little it all catches up to me.

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    I don’t think that’s an autism thing. I think that’s just a thing for people who don’t have enough meaning and purpose in their life to feel like they had a day’s worth of experiences yet when the day is over.

    Which is a LOT of us.

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      20 hours ago

      Anecdotally, I’m fortunate enough to have my average day jam packed with meaning and XP, and I still like to decompress.

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      hmmm, I don’t know. I relate with the OP a lot, yet I love what I do with my days… it’s just that there is a kind of exhaustion that is social in nature, and I feel I need my airlock time (as my wife says) after any social event to be at peace, even when I feel tired af.

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        This could be an introvert thing. Introvert vs extrovert isn’t about being shy or anything like the stereotype. The best way that I’ve heard to describe it is that an extrovert refills their emotional batteries through social activities, big groups, etc. while an introvert has their emotional batteries drained doing that and needs time alone to let themself recharge.

        You can have a socially anxious extrovert who lives for hanging out in a big group of friends even if they don’t talk much or anything, and an outgoing introvert who just needs to come home at the end of the day and sit on the floor with their back against a wall for awhile before they have the energy to do anything else.

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    My wife and I call it decompressing, it’s not about relaxing the body, it’s about spacing out and doing something that requires zero brain power. I’m pretty sure almost everyone does it in some form or another, some just get to start earlier in the day, others just seem to already be on autopilot all day anyway and it extends to their bed time. It’s not a neuro divergent thing

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      21 hours ago

      It’s like some people forget they are also just people and all people do things. Not everything they do is related to autism.