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The Dichotomy of My Mind
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today, I am going to talk about my brain and the strange dichotomy that lives there.
In a way, I am comfortable with the weirdness with in myself. I feel that I know it and have worn it like a familiar, well broken in pair of boots. But I have always struggled to talk about it in a meaningful way. It is difficult to talk about it in a manner that makes sense to other people. I usually just leave people giving me that vague, quizzical look. Or the one that suggests I have grown another head which happens to be of an alien variety.
Continue reading “The Dichotomy of My Mind”My Executive Dysfunction
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with executive dysfunction as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series.
Continue reading “My Executive Dysfunction”Judging Choices
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I am glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about the weirdness that surrounds the use of stimulants for ADHD. I frequently run up against odd comments about these medications that drive me bonkers.
Continue reading “Judging Choices”My Other Sensory Stuff
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with sensory processing problems as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series. In my last installment in this series, I talked about my auditory processing disorder specifically. However, there are other ways that sensory processing effects my life.
Continue reading “My Other Sensory Stuff”My Auditory Processing Disorder
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with Auditory Processing Disorder as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series.
This disorder is also known as: Central Auditory Processing Disorder and Receptive Language Disorder
To start off, Auditory Processing Disorder is a neurological disorder in which a person has difficulty properly interpreting sounds received by the ears, particularly the phonemes of speech. Auditory Processing Disorder is common in ADHD and ASD. So, it could be caused by either of these conditions, both or neither. No way to tell really.
Continue reading “My Auditory Processing Disorder”Find Your Fidget
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today, I’m going to be talking about fidget toys. I never imagined how helpful having a fidget would be. I was encouraged to try one when I was diagnosed with ADHD and I went into it thinking that it was not going to be helpful. It seemed like such a silly thing and something way to simple to be of much use. Well, I was wrong. It is one of the most effective things that I have used.
Continue reading “Find Your Fidget”My Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors or BFRB as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series. This post comes with a warning: there are some photos included that show injuries from BFRB. Please, don’t proceed with the post if this kind of photo will trigger you.
Continue reading “My Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors”Late Diagnosis of ADHD
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today I just kind of want to talk about parenting and ADHD, as well as some of the strange emotional things that come up when you are diagnosed as an adult rather than as a kid.
Continue reading “Late Diagnosis of ADHD”
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