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fact checking for fun 🧠 #actuallyautistic #TeamADHD #neurodiversesquad
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Jul 31, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
A 2020 study on #autistic camouflaging strategies! They identified four types and made some interesting observations on how they affect diagnosis.

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molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Participants were mostly intellectually-able female autistics, and they looked at differences between diagnosed and undiagnosed people. /2
Jul 7, 2020 20 tweets 5 min read
friends, I give you a thread:

A Short History of #ADHD

*for anyone who thinks it's a New Thing caused by phone screens, high fructose corn syrup, or bad parenting* 1/ Our boy Hippocrates wrote in 493 BC about people with “quickened responses to sensory experience, but also less tenaciousness because the soul moves on quickly to the next impression”

aka, an Entire #ADHD Mood