Every neurodivergent person needs to hear this 💚 #adhd #autism #neurodivergent

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   Neurodivergent people often have to work harder to function day-to-day

   1. APAlex Partridge0:00

      Generally, anyone with any kind of neurodiversity has to work harder. Okay? So first of all, they've got that huge effort of masking that I know you've talked about before.

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   Masking as an exhausting, hidden workload

   1. SPSpeaker0:08

      Mm-hmm.

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   Questioning why the burden to ‘fit in’ falls on neurodivergent people

   1. APAlex Partridge0:08

      And that's exhausting. I've never quite understood why it is people that aren't neurotypical have to go the distance to look neurotypical. Why can't the neurotypical people go the distance [laughs] and meet them?

   2. SPSpeaker0:19

      [laughs]

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   Extra cognitive hoops: attention, auditory processing, and keeping track

   1. APAlex Partridge0:19

      I've not quite got that. So you've got that, and then things aren't coming in as easily as they are for someone who's neurotypical. For example, issues in the way in which you're hearing information, or you could have a very short attention span, so then you completely lose where you are. You're having to jump through many more hoops to be able to perform the same tasks as someone who's neurotypical. So, you know, we often get, for example, kids at school that have been told they've got slow processing, and I'm the first to say, "That does not mean they're not intelligent." It's got nothing

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   Slow processing isn’t low intelligence—it's an added processing load

   1. APAlex Partridge0:49

      to do with intelligence. It just means their brain is having to jump through these extra hoops before they get to even answer the question, and that's using up vital gray matter. So yeah, it's, it's hard work, isn't it? Well, the hard work-

   2. SPSpeaker1:00

      Mm

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   The real hard part: living in a neurotypical world

   1. APAlex Partridge1:00

      ... is fitting in a neurotypical world. That's the hard work.

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