Is it weird that I took my first family gathering post diagnosis as a kind of case study? How about we agree to use the word “quirky”? If you know, you know. x Lauren

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Hey, folx. Here is continuation of Episode 24, as promised. x Lauren

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My therapy sessions with my therapist of over twelve years have changed after my diagnosis of autism, but it is probably not what you think it is… x Lauren

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I am not sure if this is the double empathy problem or if something else is wrong with how I perceive things altogether. Either way, this is how it went when I was communicating with a couple of People Who Mean Well. x Lauren

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My week started out eventful to understate things, but at least what happened has also provided some context for a similar experience in the past. x Lauren

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not recognized as a disability in Singapore, and I have a few thoughts on why that should change. Is ADHD seen as a disability where you are, and also… how does it interact with your own ASD? x Lauren

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Charles Derber, a sociologist, calls it “conversational narcissism” when one has a tendency to turn the conversation back to themselves. I came across the term while trying to understand AuDHD communication differences, and am intrigued by how conversational narcissism shows up in my social exchanges. x Lauren

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I think just about everyone has a rocky time being a teenager; going through puberty and the changes to our own bodies can make for some really rough transitions. That said, these parts of my teenage years now make so much more sense with through the lens of ADHD + Autism. x Lauren

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Has anyone whose diagnosis or diagnoses got missed by their (immediate) family also tried to figure out how it happened - or is this just my overactive brain with its tendency to overthink? Is it that our parents went undiagnosed themselves and/or are there other factors at play, such as dysfunctional family dynamics? I know in my heart of hearts that it will be impossible to say for sure, but on days like these, I really cannot help mentally going over the last few decades for some kind of clue. x Lauren

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Does this qualify as a good-enough reason to have cake because ahhhhh I have just passed the one year anniversary of my ADHD assessment! It feels so much longer, to be honest; some of it has to do with my difficulty around time perception, while for the most part has been all of the things that you have (probably already) heard about on previous episodes. What an adventure!

On this one, I share:

- why I very nearly did not ask for an ADHD assessment in the first place

- what it has been like telling people in my life about my diagnoses

- the limitations of being “formally” diagnosed

- hearing “you don’t look disabled” for the first time, and

- how to go from here now that I finally and thankfully know what I know.

x Lauren

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