I wonder what being NT feels like?

[AffIt]

I'm mostly quite happy in my autistic headspace, but every now and again, when I'm having a bad day, I wonder what it's like to be 'normal' and not have a head which feels like a sack of cats.

Take yoga: apparently, yoga is brilliant, but it just makes me angry and then to want to go to sleep, which I can do at home for free, so I resent having to pay for it, which then makes me more angry, and annoyed at not being very bendy.

It must be lovely to just be able to switch off your brain, or, at the very least, just live with it.

With all due respect @Dalekjastninerels I'm not sure what your maths grade has to do with ND people just trying to support each other.

Thank you Mabelface

Does that mean ND people only post here and nowhere else?

If no- how is that fair?

I think ignoring the derails might be best. OP I'm sorry your thread has been hijacked. Can't even get any peace in your own space ffs.

Me during

It’s abundantly clear - even if you access a thread from active convos - that this us a board for neurodiverse MNers though.

There is a disclaimer on every single thread.

And the information in the OP specifies the query in the title. The OP is very obviously reflecting on her own experience.

NT people coming in to say that they have problems too and what ND people are describing is just normal is not being respectful. This stuff happens all the time, so people are touchy and protective of this board for ND MNers.

Well, that escalated quickly.

I really wish@mnhqwould remove the ND board from Active Threads.

Don't be obtuse now. Anyone can post anywhere, but this is a tiny little part of mumsnet set aside for nd people. Our nd is part of us, but we're also parents, partners, pet owners etc.

Let us have this tiny bit of safe space

@AffIt I've reported your thread for all the derailing going on. Your thread has been totally hijacked.

I’m going to work on the assumption that you have profound difficulties, which probably affect your ability to understand the clear disclaimer above the OP on ever ND thread, and respond accordingly.

I completely acknowledge that you have had a difficult set of experiences. But you are being extremely disrespectful in lots of different ways. Some of what you have posted is outright offensive. Other parts are merely dismissive.

The correct way to respond to ND MNers telling you that your posts are not ok on their support board is to stop posting.

Do you know why I identify as NT?

Because I am not qualified to say otherwise.

It’s a shame it has. I think the feeling of wondering what it must be like to not being ND is something lots of people can relate to.

Not a single person has said that all NT people have it was or are good at everything. This is a support board for ND people who may be good or bad at maths, it's not really relevant. If you want to complain about how tough your school days were, start a thread about it.

Blimey. This has escalated.

For the record, I am ND, and I feel that some posts on here were unnecessarily aggressive. I got the impression that some NT posters were trying to empathise, and these posts have been taken the wrong way. I don't have a problem with NT posters trying to understand how our brains are wired.

If we are just going to be rude to them how can we expect them to understand us?

I'm done. Going to stay away from the board for a while. Such a shame that we've been hijacked and our safe space taken from us.

Well this has been depressingly derailed in quite a big way.
I too wish the board didn't show up in active.

@Mabelface please don't go. You can see by dalek's latest post that they are totally deranged. Hopefully HQ will deal with them.

I'm working from home today as ds is ill. I'm not being very productive at all and find it so difficult to focus. At work I find myself wandering from room to room trying to find a focus. I can get on with things for about 2 hours then I get overwhelmed and bored and want to go home. I'm not sure I'll ever work in a regular job again. I think burn out is probably very common in ND people as there's just too much going on in our heads.

I reported it ages ago and nothings been done 🙄

They need to remove the board from Active. They had to do this with BM section.

I'm not sure I'll ever work in a regular job again.
The stats for unemployment for the autistic community always depress me, as I will probably be stuck as one of them forever. Like you I think part of it is probably due to burn out people have.

Anybody who's interested, go onto wrong planet forum. It's a bit 'America perspective', but more UK people are joining. There are no NTs there. This place is unbelievable.

@Sparro
There is barely a thread on BMN where posters come by to give their opinion As A White Person or complain that people are being racist towards white people.
Some people are just entitled.

I don't really go on BMN board, I've never really seen a thread that I could relate to, so I'll take your word for that. But what is entitled about saying, "I wonder if men get sympathy pregnancy pains?", and A Man answers? Why is that entitlement on the part of a man? I'd be genuinely interested to hear what they say.