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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


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Its just like that one episode of Star Trek where Data speeds up the holodeck program to learn comedy, except he did that because hes a super intelligent android and I do it because even one second of boredom causes me intense mental anguish!

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[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

sicko-pog death to boredom

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

damn wtf i didnt get this shit in college

yall WHIPPERSNAPPERS are living in the lap of luxury. back in MY DAY we had to sit in class and act like we werent fantasizing about gouging our eyes out with our pencils whenever the professor would go off on a tangent about how divorced he was

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey I'm not a whippersnapper! I'm just a mature age student that decided to try my hand at finishing my degree as an adult.

So I got to try both ways lol

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you are an owl, your adult age is like, 10 years old.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can't really relate, they never did recordings when I went sadness

Had to force myself through textbooks and notes I tried to take

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would have done so much better if they had this the first time I tried to do my degree

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's so hard, you work 400% more than everyone else and get 50% of the same amount of work done as everyone else agony-deep

[–] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i wish that was easy to do when i went to college (youtube was sparse then and smart phones not cheap)

it would have made everything so much more crisp to my also ADHD brain

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I usually have to pause and rewind on 2x so it ends up taking the same amount of time. But god damn do I hate how some people talk so slow.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

for real, i love just skipping over the prof rambling tangents too a lot of the time

when classes were in person i usually ended up leaving early cos i got so bored

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I watch all youtube on 3x.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago