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Fun fact: that’s literally how I figured out I was autistic, just for my own teaching degree. I kept reading descriptions of adaptations to make and getting annoyed because they were all just improvements and it felt like this was just an objectively better way to teach, so they didn’t need to have the standard, seemingly subpar lesson plans in the book except as a cheap foil to make the adaptations more obvious. And then my entire personality and history in school and work hit me like a truck. And then I realized that both of my parents were fucking weirdos who taught me a whole lot of useful things about social interaction that none of my friends had to learn. Since then, I’ve been slowly trying to unmask and learning a lot about myself.
After my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD I started reading up on it and quickly realized that the descriptions matched me also. Like perfectly. Almost all the coping tools they suggested I'd already put in place. And I drink tones of coffee when I need to get stuff done, which is apparently just self medicating for adht. Then I looked around my workplace - a bunch of software engineers and most of them are the same. The whole Agile project management system (which is very commonly used) actually looks like it's built on ADHD coping tools.
Years ago we decided to get my daughter evaluated for ADHD. The report came back definite for ADHD and also on the autism spectrum. When my wife and I were going over the report with the child psychologist that had done the testing I could practically see gears in my wife's head grinding to a halt with a healthy dose of "oh shit" realizations coming over her face.
She's since also gotten diagnosed and had a whole slew of realizations about her family and especially her mother which helped explain difficulties she'd had growing up.
Agile is ADHD coping mechanisms application to groups. Small steps, frequent measurements, body doubling, regular reminders about the actual goal, etc.
It wasn’t even a project management tooling originally, but a way to ensure bidirectional information flow and continuous course correction. When goals start deceptively simple and get adjusted as data emerges and feedback gets collected, you can either sit in paralysis or start checking off tasks you know about. Applies to cleaning and developing a payment system alike.
My dad is the sort of guy who thinks mental health is for chumps but you could see the concern in his eyes when I came back from college with my own diagnostic and started listing off the signs my therapist pointed out to me.
He still won't admit it, but he's fanatical about his coffee, tells me he can't turn his brain off without a drink (a separate issue), hates breaking his routine, etc etc. Not just a match for ADHD but a match that basically perfectly fits my particular flavor of it.
Glad your kid is getting support at a better age, mine is too. They'll handle it much better, hopefully, with the extra help.
Same with my sister in law. She has a son with Asperger's. Went into teaching and specialised in autism. Realised she was also autistic, and half her family.
So many people wandering around on the spectrum with no idea. They seem to think autism is just non verbal boys and people obsessing over anime.
Half the "bad kids" at the pupil referral unit she taught at seemed to be on it as well.
I also had no idea that I was on the spectrum for a very long period of time. My cousin is autistic. Pretty heavily. When he got a job, it was a very big deal. Both for him and for everyone else in the family. We were hugely supportive and really happy for him. He was really happy for himself. He has a hard time making eye contact. Generally fits a lot of what you would expect of the quote unquote stereotypical autistic depiction. So that's kind of what my brain just assumed autism was. It was both eye-opening and not surprising to find out that I was autistic I opening because it definitely made me second guess a lot about myself, my personality, and everything else. Not surprising because I identified with Data on Star Trek a psychotic amount. especially in social engagements.
I love this: adaptive techniques are general improvements. When talking about adaptive teaching, there’s Carter’s golden rule: “good teaching practices for SEND are good teaching practices for all pupils.”
(Just trying to emphasise the “just improvements” point, not making any other statement).
so there's some of that and some not. like my wife worked in special education for a long time before she worked in mainstream. there are colorblind/dyslexia/dysgraphia adaptations we've added into her classroom structure that help kids before they may know (each group has a team mascot/name, a color, and a shape). seemingly simple things like that have helped the kids more easily learn to work independently