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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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I recently figured out I have ADHD. I also recently discovered that having a daily routine makes me feel a lot better. I learned this in a structured environment (rehab) and once I left that, I still know what I need to do and I know it will make me feel better and more productive, but I don't know how to do it...

I have lists (yes I have to include stuff like eating breakfast and brushing my teeth lol) but I dunno how to have them in a way that I can see and implement them. I have them on my phone, in my journal, post it notes around, etc. The only way that sort of works so far is to have an alarm on my phone titled with a long list of things to do, and just hit the snooze every ten minutes for hours, so I'm constantly being pestered. This annoys people around me, lol, and isn't all that effective anyway.

I'm looking forward to maybe medication but in the meantime I fucking KNOW that I will feel better if I can do these things. Any advice on how to trick myself to do them?

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[–] ComradeOohAah@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I have so many alarms, a php tasklog running on raspberry pi, RFID tags that my phone use to update the tasklog. I have php/database based around gtd that I'm supposed to be tying into the tasklog that I haven't gotten around to yet. And I have a couple of tablets mounted on walls in my house that are also set up as rudimentary dashboards/ endpoints for updating the tasklog (still not implemented that part). But the most helpful tool has been setup up some cardboard kanban boards with post it notes on them (which is probably why I haven't gotten around to tiying the gtd php code in the tasklog yet.)

I also have routines set up on my phone to block out social media during working hours to keep me from getting lost doom scrolling. Like if I open up instagram in the middle of the day, it redirects me to firefoxwith the webpage for the tasklog.

I've also considered setting up some code to text message me reminders of what I should be doing if I'm on a task for too long. Like if my current tasklog entry is Duolingo and it's past 20 minutes, send me a text ask me what I'm working on.

I am not diagnosed with anything, however, if I don't resort to this shit and trying to gamify/gaslight myself, nothing gets done. So who knows what that means. The weekends when I (try to) sleep in and go of my m-f schedule is chaos and none of my important projects get done.