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#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD nerd with #EDS/#HSD, #Dysautonomia, #MCAS, etc. | Pls link me related papers to read. 🙏 | She/her. | BLM | + @ExecDysfunction
Aug 23, 2021 30 tweets 5 min read
#Paper time! 🧵

annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an… "Thus far, the literature has identified three different pathophysiologic mechanisms that are capable of manifesting the POTS phenotype:

(a) partial autonomic neuropathy,
(b) persistent predilection for hypovolemia,
(c) central hyperadrenergic state. "
Nov 30, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
It's more clear than ever that my mom is autistic AF. But she presents so utterly different than me and my kid it's bizaare.

But also super frustrating bc well, as my also #ActuallyAutistic bf said today, "I can't tell if your mom is just always very angry and resentful or if she's just too autistic to realize she always comes off that way when she talks, aka yells, at people."

Like, she's always way loud and verbally agressive which seems angry.

As I told bf,