AuDHD here and proving to my college art students that you can be neurodivergent and live with chronic illness and not just make authentic work, but find success too. It’s important for other ND darlings to know it’s possible!
i am so inspired by your authenticity 💜 i am also autistic and it can be Hard! i appreciate what you do so much, i hope you know theres lots of us who do 🌻
Most neurotypical people I know consider autistic people especially good at art. There’s a degree of focus many autistic people seem to have that’s difficult for neurotypical people to achieve. Even supposed attention deficit seem to have this with art. My own son is often inattentive until, art.
Supposed attention deficit? You sound like you may not understand how ADHD works.
ADHD is a disorder of not being able to control attention well. So we may focus incredibly hard on one thing for hours, and be unable to stop, but not be able to focus on the things we need to do.
"Inattentive until art" is absolutely typical! And the ADHD still affects how we make art. We have to learn to work with and around it.
ADHD isn't as well named as it could be, probably because the focus was more on how inconvenient it is for people around you, rather than what it's like to have.
I'm just here to shitpost poetry drafts trying to beat Bradburne, not consider my damn 5x neurodivergent artistic logos, pathos, or ethos. Now I gotta go for a rip.
A psychologist told me I couldn’t be autistic because I was too creative. I thanked her, walked out of the office, and threw her “assessment” in the garbage. With that kind of backward thinking I knew I couldn’t trust anything else she had to say.
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ADHD is a disorder of not being able to control attention well. So we may focus incredibly hard on one thing for hours, and be unable to stop, but not be able to focus on the things we need to do.
ADHD isn't as well named as it could be, probably because the focus was more on how inconvenient it is for people around you, rather than what it's like to have.
Which blows
Thamks Mr Tingle 💖