Collie

Lovely!

It's just a huge site. You can block/ignore rude people.

I've heard of people doing this when they see furries, but I assume you're not walking around in a fursuit

On 5/8/2023 at 1:08 PM, Eclipse said:

Sometimes I feel detached from my body, disgusted by it, and the disconnection scares me. And I don't know who I am anymore, cause I seem to lose my sense of self, don't feel like myself, and then I don't know who to be anymore, and that leads to me crying begging for myself to come back, and being very frightened. And I don't know what to do.

And I think it's just me being dramatic, overthinking, and stuff.

Sounds like you're disassociating. 

I'm converting Catholic (not officially yet) and that is dumb. But I think a lot of Christians just automatically hate anything related to the LGBTQ+ specifically because it's LGBTQ+.

You know you have sensory processing issues when even listening to music in your room at a reasonable volume sends you into an overload

Yikes on bikes

I'm not formally diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain after talking to my professionals that I am autistic

Yep, I wouldn't want it any other way

On 4/17/2023 at 8:17 AM, KoconutBounty said:

am i the only ADHD person who gets annoyed when certain things arent "done right"?

Like how?

If you have ADHD you're neurodivergent.

As for the rest, uhhh..... please share all of this with your mental health professionals. ADHD can come with trouble regulating emotions and intense anger can be one of those. I used to have anger issues as a kid. Not proud of some of my actions. But it sounds like you have more than that going on, too.

Bowsette by Chalkeaters

That is definitely an awkward situation. They may just need some time to get over the feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment. I know when I rejected a friend I felt incredibly awkward about it for a couple weeks. Hopefully that's all it is.

Yesterday at work a customer got onto one of my cashiers for not making eye contact, she was pretty insistent and went on for a couple minutes. Struck me as odd. I'm likely autistic and struggle with eye contact, and no one has ever commented on my lack of eye contact in all the time I've worked here.

I would, but it's probably going to remain an online-persona-only identity for me. I'm out as asexual and lesbian, I don't think I could explain the grey area of aromanticism to people without a huge hassle

Yep, aro, ADHD, avoidant personality disorder, sensory processing disorder

On 2/28/2023 at 2:43 PM, DeltaAro said:

I wonder if you can belong to the LGBTQ community but not identify as queer. I've encountered one trans person who said she belonged to the LGBTQ community, but rejected the queer label and identified as straight because of heterosexual and heteroromantic attraction.

On 2/28/2023 at 8:14 PM, 7ev said:

ye. some ppl doesnt like identifying as queer bc of the history of this word or some other reason. the trans folk didnt identify as queer likely due to their hetero attraction not being queer; but as a trans person they chose to identify as part of the community bc well; trans ppl are included in the lgbtq community

Certainly. I'm personally fine with calling myself queer, but the general etiquette I think is to not refer to specific others that way unless you know they're fine with it.

1 hour ago, Keith said:

Hello! I wanted to ask, is it okay for me to be active on this topic? 

I'm asking because I've been suspected with autism and ADHD by multiple adults (including a therapist), but I wasn't able to get a proper diagnosis (due to private reasons). Also, I've done a lot of research, and I'm pretty sure that I have both autism and ADHD (I'm aware that self-diagnosis might not be the best thing to do and that it might be inaccurate).

I don't see why it wouldn't be. I'm diagnosed ADHD, but only "suspected" autistic. Being able to get a diagnosis is a privilege, and even my ADHD diagnosis wasn't really done properly.

13 hours ago, KoconutBounty said:

Okay so, im genuinely trying to listen to the teacher explain one of the "harder" math problems, and my ADHD makes it harder to focus than other 'normal' people and there are two boys at my table talking and I can't focus on the teacher, they're also playing music from their phones and trying to blame it on me (because I always have my headphones on) and it's so annoying

That's the worst. I remember doing homework in the kitchen and my (also ADHD) sister either goofing off with her schoolwork in the next room or playing co-op video games VERY loudly and being unable to concentrate because of it.

The more I actually look into autism, the more things kinda make sense.

I've always been socially weird. And then add onto that having intense interests and things like hand or arm flapping, swaying back and forth for no reason, picking at things (nails, hair, objects with peeling paint or similar stuff), and like..... bro. 
I also have sensory stuff, but it is on the more mild sorta side. The only times it has ever been very intense has been connected to my anxiety disorders.

Diagnosed ADHD, suspect dyscalculia which is similar to dyslexia 

Possibly level 1 ASD? I have always been very socially awkward. But it could also be explained by my mental illnesses.

I recently found the term "pupgender" and the description was "a gender that feels like the qualities of a puppy". So I guess it's not so much "my gender IS a puppy" as it is "my gender FEELS LIKE a puppy".

I don't really identify as having a xenogender, but I think the pupgender flag is super cute hehe

My tics usually involve my eyebrow or eyelid twitching rapidly for several minutes.

Mildly. Not enough to be diagnosed with a serious disorder. Have a few facial tics. I remember them showing up maybe once a month when I was a kid, rarely as an adult. Apparently this is termed "provisional tic disorder".

3 hours ago, Atypique said:

I do think I have tics that help me feel better in my habits. However, I don't really, why are you talking diagnostic. If your tics get so heavy that you would need to diagnose them, wouldn't they be ocd instead of simple tics ?

Tics are involuntary movements that you can't really control. OCD is about compulsions that you feel like you have to do.