neurodiverse
What is Neurodivergence?
It's ADHD, Autism, OCD, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bi-polar, aspd, etc etc etc etc
“neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behavior”
So, it’s very broad, if you feel like it describes you then it does as far as we're concerned
Rules
1.) ableist language=post or comment will probably get removed (enforced case by case, some comments will be removed and restored due to complex situations). repeated use of ableist language=banned from comm and possibly site depending on severity. properly tagged posts with CW can use them for the purposes of discussing them
2.) always assume good faith when dealing with a fellow nd comrade especially due to lack of social awareness being a common symptom of neurodivergence
2.5) right to disengage is rigidly enforced. violations will get you purged from the comm. see rule 3 for explanation on appeals
3.) no talking over nd comrades about things you haven't personally experienced as a neurotypical chapo, you will be purged. If you're ND it is absolutely fine to give your own perspective if it conflicts with another's, but do so with empathy and the intention to learn about each other, not prove who's experience is valid. Appeal process is like appealing in user union but you dm the nd comrade you talked over with your appeal (so make it a good one) and then dm the mods with screenshot proof that you resolved it. fake screenies will get you banned from the site, we will confirm with the comrade you dm'd.
3.5) everyone has their own lived experiences, and to invalidate them is to post cringe. comments will be removed on a case by case basis depending on determined level of awareness and faith
4.) Interest Policing will not be tolerated in any form. Support your comrades in their joy!
Further rules to be added/ rules to be changed based on community input
RULES NOTE: For this community more than most we understand that the clarity and understandability of these rules is very important for allowing folks to feel comfortable, to that end please don't be afraid to be outspoken about amendments and addendums to these rules, as well as any we may have missed
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I just realised that I didn't touch on stimming aside from at the top part where I described a few behaviours in myself.
So there's a lot of be said about repetitive physical behaviours, generally known as stimming, (and my comment above doesn't have room in the character limit for me to edit this part into it 😬) and the distinction between autistic stimming and allistic (non-autistic) stimming is actually surprisingly blurry - stimming kinda problematises and stigmatises autistic self-stimulatory behaviour when just about anyone is going to rub or apply pressure to a bruise when they get hit, they're going to move their body to a rhythm, they're going to sing or whistle or hum.
In autistic people, stimming behaviour is much more common and sustained - an allistic person might whistle to themselves every now and then but an autistic person may hum a lot of the day every day, for example.
There's also so many different ways that stimming manifests that it's almost impossible to list in a comment. I can go into more depth on this in a reply if anyone's interested but know that this offer also comes with a serious mucho texto warning.
I also forgot to mention that the above comment is focused on describing autism from the perspective of internal experience over external observations because it's easy enough to find the info about the external observations but imo this is significantly lacking in dimension and it's much less useful for late self-identifying autistic people in particular.