Neurodiversity thread - for all MNetters who are neurodiverse - ASD, ADHD, Dyspraxia and more.

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Welcome one and all to the new thread. A safe haven for MNetters who identify as neurodiverse, diagnosis or not, and those waiting for assessment. Links available in recent threads. Newbies welcome. We just ask that you introduce yourself

Yeah, but you'd think they'd manage to make the walls straight!

I think my current house has melted a little in the 120 years since it was built. The bedroom ceiling is hammock-shaped (I spend quite a lot of time staring at it, willing sleep to take me over).

Where I lived until I was 9 there was a massive picture that had been hanging in the same spot for years. My parents wanted to move it, but there was a big hole with (iirc) with spaces within the wall. They put the picture back and left it where it was! (Not that this has anything to do with house building, more house anomalies).

My house is one of a joblot development built on an old posh estate just before the war. It has been tinkered with by every owner. I believe we were the first people to hire actual professionals to do anything and I cannot begin to describe What Lay Beneath ... Everything. I was particularly fond of our staircase insulation (crumpled newspapers from 1981) but the DB had fuses in it from the 1960s and the drains ran uphill through random concrete slabs. Every day I appreciate the symmetry and usefulness we have brought to the house. Can't conquer the quirkiness of the curves in the ceiling though ::stares mournfully at uncupboardable corner::

I've been getting my daughter settled into her new school this week. Tough for both of us! She's a friendly soul though, and other kids like her. It's been nice to be able to follow everyone's adventures. So impressed by the people who are happy to drive for 4 hrs! But then, London is relatively easy for me as I live in a commuter town and have been practicing getting to London from here for years. I like the nice maps and layers of history, and the way there's always someone odder than you. Still don't go far out from my Easy Train Stations though if I can help it; buses are an abomination and a curse, and the Tube gets too full, and taxis talk.

Morning. What's everyone doing today? I've got my dad coming round. He has my brother today and DS1 stayed at my mums last night so she will get my dad to bring him home. Then dp is round later on. He's going to start painting the boys bedroom while I get on with some college stuff.

Quiet day for me. Chores. Food planning. Possibly board games later with kids.

And of course more obsessing about getting a diagnosis, and whether I should tell my boss I have been referred. It's like a have a cheerleader in my head waving Pom poms shouting lots of things about Aspergers and not letting me think about the normal everyday things I need to.

She's not a very good cheerleader either. And I think cheerleaders are an abomination so it's irriatating from many perspectives.

Rosalie, I think the way my brother has dealt with living in London etc. is by becoming obsessed with the tube. He seems very bemused by the idea he might be autistic yet he can tell you the frequency of trains through any tube station per hour, knows all the routes, knows about all the history and any proposed changes etc. etc.

One Christmas my family had a 'quiz evening' where we all made up quizzes for everyone on various topics. His was on the London Underground and each question was split into like four points and then there'd be a 'part two' etc. It was ridiculously detailed and difficult!

But he's not autistic or anything.

HRF, how's college going?

Since I was out last Saturday and yesterday and DH is working next Saturday (Saturday is normally the morning I get to rest and write whilst DH sorts the boys) DH said we'd treat today like a Saturday and he'd keep the boys entertained whilst I go up to the bedroom and do some blog stuff.

I'm just about to wake him up.

College is good thanks. Frustrating because the assignments have to be uploaded onto something called one file. Which I'm not allowed to access until ive been shown how to use it. So I have 2 assignments finished ready to hand in, that I keep worrying will be completely wrong.
Then in maths I keep surprising myself with how easy it is.

I've forgotten that what you're studying, HRF. Is it interesting?

rat I'm doing good childcare. Not very I threshing to lots of people but I like little people and helping them.

I've just noticed all the mistakes in my last post

Thank you polter

I go to a tech college, where most of the courses are vocational (catering, hair and beauty, counselling, construction, floristry…) so I meet some of the childcare students. It looks interesting. Difficult, though.

Polter, a confidence crisis is completely to be expected under the circumstances, but it's not real.
You have every reason to be confident in what you're doing.

Polter I have those same pillow cases btw!

Do you have some strategies you can use on the day?
Eg. Give yourself time to process questions, remember to breathe, things like that?

I'm answering 2 pages behind so apologies for that.

Music - what sort does everyone like?

I like mainstream radio 2 type stuff, but for listening to in a proper listening way (not as a background noise) I like classical, but only certain ones. I generally don't like opera, but some men singing opera is ok (can't stand women's opera voices).

My list is very similar to Polter's other than inwould swap out folk and swap in some pop.

I do like some classical e.g. Shostakovich Jazz Suite (bough ironically generally hate Jazz).

My favourite band are the The Dandy Warhols (who I liked long before The Advert)