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Memes help people to not only make sense of their experiences but also to relate to one another. They serve as a universal language that contributes to a shared cultural experience, transcending our individual perspectives.
So in order to remind you that the universe isn't fixated on hurting just you but is, in fact, after all of us, we invite you to take a look at the Instagram account 'Neurodivergent Memes,' which tackles everyday problems with a healthy dose of humor.
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GoGoPDX 1 year ago
I loved when I worked the graveyard shift because there was just something about the stillness of the night. Though, as an ER nurse, that stillness would be interrupted quite often, it still had a different feel than any other shift.
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Linda Gilliam 1 year ago
I'm up from 1:00am-5:00am because my husband snores like he sawing down the Redwood Forest. 😴😴🖕🖕😉
Bored something 1 year ago
I know how you feel. I go to bed earlier than him now and use headphones with an audiobook playing. I also wake at 6 and have my peace for an hour before anyone else is up.
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Soozie Poozie 1 year ago
I completely relate. I try to make all of my appointments in the morning. Late appointments ruin my whole day.
Featherytoad 1 year ago
Me also. It makes the whole day weird. I just sit around and get antsy about it, wanting to just get it over so I can go back to my normal everyday routine. I have MS and I'm at my best in the morning. If I have an appt at say 3 p.m., I won't do anything, like chores, because I will be just too tired.
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Nimues Child 1 year ago
Agree. It takes half the day to psych myself up for the appointment and the rest of the day decompressing from the experience.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Since I've retired, having a 4pm appointment means that I have to get up an hour earlier.
The Shark 1 year ago
I hate how no matter what delusions of productivity I have in my head, I simply can never bring myself to leave the house unless I have a time-specific obligation with unpleasant consequences for not going🤦🏼♀️
Fussy1 1 year ago
Thank you! I would love to not be this way, it is a daily (sometimes hourly) struggle.
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Featherytoad 1 year ago (edited)
Oh, I hate those windows. Like if you need a plumber, it's always a 4 hour window. If it's not an emergency, I will ask if they have a day where I can get a morning (their first stop of the day) appt.
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Russell Tilling 1 year ago
Many NDs like me maybe do overplan, as they hate surprises. But they breeze through the actual event when it happens, because all outcomes have been anticipated!🥳 I'd much rather have that feeling, than have people stare at me while my eyes spin around trying to figure the next, unexpected step, on the fly. Managers, take note! You are there to help your staff do their jobs, not the other way around.
According to researchers looking at modern forms of communication, memes have the capacity to transcend cultures and construct collective identities between people.
These seemingly simple jokes can also be powerful tools for self-expression, social influence and even political subversion.
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
My pile of "stuff to be filed" sitting on top of the file cabinet...
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I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
No you won’t, but you will feel fantastic for finally getting it done whilst wondering why you didn’t do it sooner. Baby steps add up but we will never change just get a little better. And that’s enough, don’t beat yourself up.
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Potterhead934 1 year ago
Sometimes I am reading and I completely zone out and think about other things and I have to reread the whole paragraph again
Ervin Conn 1 year ago
The worst one for me was Moby D**k. It wasn't so much excited as confused. Sometimes I would read a paragraph and have to stop and try to let my brain parse what I just read and then read it again to check if I understood it. Some paragraphs I had to read 3 or 4 times. It was possibly the most difficult book for me. Not really worth it.
Wondering Alice 1 year ago
I'm with you on that Ervin. I like to read a classic every 3rd or 4th book, as I think they must be classics for a reason. Many I have loved, but many I have failed to appreciate - perhaps I missed the point or something. It happens with very intellectual books, I need to reread whole parts over as I didn't follow or understand. Moby d**k on the other hand I have never got past the first few pages. To me it's like listening to a monotone lecture, nothing goes in to my brain. I have tried many times, but I just can't read it.
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Jared Robinson 1 year ago
I don't care what the staircase looks like Stephen What happened to the kid who was just shot in the face.
Mila Sliacka 1 year ago
I have a strange habit of sometimes leaving a few last pages unread, because I feel like ‘I already know enough’. Never do it with ebooks, only with paper books for some reason.
Angrykitten 1 year ago
Sometimes the author gets too bogged down in describing something and I'll just skim it to get to get back to the exciting parts.
Mark Cusumano 1 year ago
It the reason why speed readers are taught to read with there fingers. It keep you from rereading paragraphs you already read. Most people do this without even realizing. The average person rereads 1/3 of everything they read.
Bottle Opener 1 year ago
You made that up. You made that up. You made that up.
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Nimues Child 1 year ago
Upvoting every comment because it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Internet memes "are one of the clearest manifestations of the fact there is such a thing as digital culture", said Paolo Gerbaudo, a reader in digital politics and director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London.
Gerbaudo describes memes as a "sort of a ready-made language with many kinds of stereotypes, symbols, situations. A palette that people can use, much like emojis, in a way, to convey a certain content."
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JoMeBee 1 year ago
It also preempted the digital age so now everything can happen so much faster--the result? People now hafta produce more and more all the time so as to not look lazy. More sales, more product, more projects, more people helped. Computers were s'posed to give us a break and in reality we have to think more and work harder...
Zaach 1 year ago
The 40 hr work week was designed so we had a weekend and stopped working 100+ hours per week
pineapple87 1 year ago
Exactly. While I agree with the sentiment, historically, this is completely inaccurate. It's always been a standard in working class families for both parents, and all kids over 10 to be working. Up until the 1950s or 60s, Saturdays were also work/school days. And work days were easily 12 hours, and you just weren't expected to have a life outside of work, you were just surviving. In the meantime, upper classes weren't working at all, which is what lead to revolutions and wars. That and the relentless work of labour unions is what eventually led to the 40hr work week.
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Bruce Horton 1 year ago
My wife and I both worked 50+hours a week with two kids under six. It's really not that hard with a modicum of organization
JoMeBee 1 year ago
Oof, that sounds miserable to me, but if it's by choice and not necessity then I hope it's worth it. I hope it's not by necessity...
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Despite numerous examples (r/l and studies) of how a four day work week actually increases production, job satisfaction, and employee loyalty, it is still rejected by most corporations as being "impractical."
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Sandy D 1 year ago
Yes it hurts, but as I am getting to be old, it more just annoys me, and I remind myself it's their loss
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
Sometimes, I just add some absolutely weird, off-the-wall ending to whatever story I was telling and then walk away, quietly smiling at my own private joke. People can really suck, I try to not let them annoy me (doesn't always work though).
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Will Cable 1 year ago
Happened to me with a group of people and then someone said "Why hasn't Will turned up"
JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
I expect it now, so no. I don't even bother trying to start/join a conversation with my brother anymore. He's the worst by a country mile.
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D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Very true - and happening to this day... every once a while you DARE to try... you know... 'trusting' someone to be a good friend/family member... so you kinda just.. say something/ask them for a thing that gives them an easy way to be considerate, or show they care - and when you get slapped in the face for it, inside you sigh and say "well... I can't cut them off because then I'll have no one". Like... you tell someone you have anxiety over buying an item that's more expensive than you're used to... or taking a course you're not 100% sure about - and their response isn't to talk you through your anxiety, they start talking about how the thing (the purchase, or the course) relates to them, like "Oh, well, I'd never take that course, doesn't interest me" ... or ... "That device doesn't fit my needs, so I dunno if I'd get it".
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Carole 1 year ago
I'm not a gifted kid, but I've always been a bookworm. I did have a period where I lost interest in reading and it made me so sad. Fortunately, I was able to overcome my slump and I've come to realise that I'll always go back to reading even if I take a lot detours with my other hobbies. Reading will always be my favourite thing in this world.
Vanessa Hill 1 year ago
I cycle. I consume books like they sustain my life. Then I run out if things I want to read and struggle to find something to get my interest. Then a lull. Then I get book hungry again. Then I consume. ...
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Brandon Dickenson 1 year ago
No one rewatches indulging movies again unless they half a*s read them.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 1 year ago
I used to like art and was fairly good at it, I then had a homework assignment and handed it in and was told it was too good for me to have done. From that moment on every time I've tried to start doing anything those words go through my head and I just feel I can't do it. Teachers words CAN and DO harm.
Brandon Dickenson 1 year ago
F-em. Create and rub it in to the world. Stop creating for others and create for YOU. Who cares what others will subject you too. "When you realize your self worth, you'll dissalow others to continue short changing you". Start today/tomorrow. Life is short and you've a lot to make up for and leave behind. Someone will appreciate your view even if perhaps ages from after your gone.❤️
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Silver5trike 1 year ago
I used to be a gifted kid who needed books like I need air and now I can barely bring myself to read books that are popular and just want to read my old favourites...
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I could raise either hand because, unfortunately, neither one is likely to be occupied by a book.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I was supposedly a genius baby - I’m your average dumb a*s stoner now, I do a lot of art and I lack a lot of common sense. I also don’t remember any of the things adults claimed I did as a toddler which is weird cos I remember dreams and conversations I had at that point 😂
Jared Robinson 1 year ago
What happened to stories? everything nowadays is just long form creepy pasta and it bugs the s**t out of me. Beginning, middle, end. Whatever happened to that.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
I solved it by listening to audio books on my way to work, I didn’t fully realize how much I’d been missing books until I did.
Darla Hitchcock 1 year ago
Just wait till you're in a PhD program in English Lit! I just want to read for the joy of it again!
Memes tap into our collective online consciousness and because of that, they have also been referred to as digital folklore – or "Netlore."
"We can see not just the new ways people do things or the new ways people express themselves in public but also some of the themes, some of the anxieties or desires people have. All of these complex issues are reflected in things like memes," Gerbaudo added.
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Tiddlez 1 year ago
I'm the opposite of this. I'm generally a soft and very vulnerable person, but Im also extremely active on this extremely toxic meme app (if you know, you know) where I unleash my more highly offensive sense of humor that no one outside my niche friend group should ever know
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Lauren S 1 year ago
Not only do I get anxiety about that but I stress about not knowing if I’ll have to make a left turn without a traffic light, that I won’t know what lane I need to be in and which lanes end, wondering how many u-turns I’ll have to make when I screw up the GPS’s step by step directions, will there be a roundabout? I could go on.
HurlWurk 1 year ago
I use Google maps on satellite view so I can learn the area before the final few turns first
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Ronna Black 1 year ago
If I have to go anywhere, I google the parking situation. I need to know where I should be parking or I make an excuse to not go.
Ottawa 1 year ago
Haha, same. I have a doctor appointment on Tuesday, I know the parking lot is impractical for my vehicle so I've been googling the nearby streets.
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Keira Pendragon 1 year ago
I think the other folks are the not-normal ones. o.o Cars are 2 ton deadly weapons, one OUGHT to be a little nervous about going somewhere they're not sure where the heck they're gonna holster the thing!
Keira Pendragon 1 year ago
(To say nothing of potential fines and fees eating a chunk out of your wallet!!!!)
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The Shark 1 year ago
Parking, always. Also stress about not knowing what's on the restaurant menu in advance because never know what I want and get all anxious under pressure to decide.🤦🏼♀️
Featherytoad 1 year ago
I always look up the restaurant online to see if they have a menu online. Most do and it's less anxiety inducing when you get there.
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Louisa Spoke 1 year ago
Google street view is great. You can literally drive there and pick out land marks, work out which lane you need to be in and where traffic lights are and speed cameras. I use it whenever I have to go somewhere even by public transport. Keeps my anxiety so I don’t have a bad time.
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Lauren S 1 year ago
I don’t remember posting this but I must have because it sounds exactly like the inside of my brain.
intrrat666 1 year ago
After a while even a the best of best friend can get tired of being ghosted.
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Vanessa Hill 1 year ago
It's like they're hiding in my bushes watching me. Only I send periodic memes as a life line.
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Ilyanna Gerzanich 1 year ago
Or do you know what you want to write in your mind, bit it's not in words? Like it's a feeling of exactly what you want to write but no words. The only way you can write is when you are concentrated. And sometimes it's a feeling and a color?
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
Just curious, do you think that you might have associative synesthesia? Or just that’s how your brain works?
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columbokateUK 1 year ago
Omg this is so true! My internal monologue is common sense on a stick, when I try to articulate, I sound like a 6 year old ☹️
Michael Largey 1 year ago
My mind is so slow that my mouth tries to fill in for it. Needless to say, things rarely go well.
Janice Seagraves 1 year ago
I usually think my subconscious is the smart one and dumb part of my brain is running my mouth.
New Everywhere 1 year ago
Only when my emotions are high. I'm learning to be quiet and let my brain have a sit down with my mouth first
If you're still scrolling this list, chances are, you are part of the meme subculture.
Gerbaudo thinks that if you're looking at a meme and "you get through the kind of enigma or mystery around that at face value" you are probably part of the group it is aimed at.
"You understand [the] language, you understand the assumptions of the group," he added.
#14
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
"This may sound mean and petty, but I am, so it comes out that way" - Bill Hicks
Pink Panda 1 year ago
I had this thought earlier today! Can't remember the last time I wasn't in a bad mood.
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michael Chock 1 year ago
People say I am smart, then I look around at my life and think "prove it"
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
Cunning, cleverness, wisdom and intelligence are four different pairs of shoes...👞👞 👠👠 👟👟 👢👢
Load More Replies... Vanessa Hill 1 year ago
People think I am brilliant, but it's really just ADHD getting me to the logical conclusion that everyone will eventually arrive at first.
BWC 1 year ago (edited)
People don't like me in meetings at work because they want a quick fix to "X" and I always extrapolate it to the worst case scenario and state that, "we need to start here and work back to the solution." 🥸
Load More Replies... BrownTabby 1 year ago (edited)
Just think of your penchant for self-deprecation like American politics. It seems normal when you’re on the inside but outsiders are like “wtf”. You probably can’t instantaneously kill your self deprecation habit, but you can stop voting for it (ie try to reframe things instead of building your identity as “a funny person” around it.)
Brandon Dickenson 1 year ago
I don't think Relating politics to depression is going to make an impact on too many people. Frankly, they're too depressed to care.
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Robyn Picknell 1 year ago
Yes, massive amount of general knowledge, but my life is a dumpster fire!
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Libstak 1 year ago
It's an overused trope fiction writers use. Never heard of it happening in the real world.
Lyoness 1 year ago
Writer here. We may not stay awake with thoughts of a saga but you're damn skippy ideas do keep us up, particularly in the middle of a project. So trope? Yes. True? Also yes.
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
I have much sympathy for people who have trouble sleeping. I could fall asleep in the middle of a war zone and not notice anything was happening.
Sandy D 1 year ago
They have to be lying. No way people get enough sleep or quality sleep most nights. And the nonsense about waking up refreshed....yeah right
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago (edited)
I only get deep quality sleep on weekends and during vacation breaks (July week and xmas/new years break) since I don't need to go to sleep or get up at a certain time. I can go to sleep and wake up whenever I want. Lack of alarm and go to sleep time makes a huge difference. Also I don't have to do revenge sleep procrastination either. (where you stay up way past bedtime trying to get private 'me time' that you don't get cuz of work stealing your 'me time').
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M Calad 1 year ago (edited)
My dad is like this! He falls asleep as soon as he puts his head on a pillow. He sleeps very sound and wakes up early and refreshed. He ALWAYS naps after lunch. Sometimes he has bad nights but those are rare. He can also sleep at will. At will! He truly masters the art of sleeping. Edit: I once asked him how he could do this and he said that his mind just goes automatically 'blank' every time he closes his eyes for sleeping. Man... Why didn't I get that gene?
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I fall asleep easily and sleep well. I am just pissed off that I wake up, only to repeat the same lousy stuff I did the day before.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
Hahaha... what's worse? Analyzing the conversations you actually had or the made up one's you had thinking about what you should or could have said?
Linda Gilliam 1 year ago
My husband had to do a sleep study and he falls asleep in 86 seconds !!! THAT pizzes me off !!
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D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Or... you start it in private and tell NO ONE because she raised you to believe that no matter how well you did, that it was a failure anyhow - so now you're in constant paralyzing fear of 'failing', and that NOTHING you do is good enough. Then ... you see random-others on the internet posting/selling/advertising ridiculously sub-par garbage... and you wonder "I can NOT possibly be that bad. How are these people getting away with it?"
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
OR you plan in private because if you tell anyone your ambition, you suddenly have to carry someone else's expectations and timelines around which then makes doing the thing 100 times harder cus it was just supposed to be a thing for YOU, and now they're all "How's that cool thing you mentioned wanting to do? It was such a great idea!" Back off Tiffany, that was none of your business and I regret ever talking to you.
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Lyoness 1 year ago
Let me guess... You were labelled gifted as a child and after years of having other people's expectations dumped on you and being told you weren't good enough you developed a crippling fear of trying something new just in case you wouldn't be successful at it. Destructive perfectionism is what I call it. Thanks mom.
Victoria D 1 year ago
Anytime I would try to learn a new hobby, my mother would decide to try the same thing (i.e. piano lessons, painting etc.) And she was so good at everything I just stopped trying.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Yes, exactly! The kind of moral support where you end up supporting your support.
Sandy D 1 year ago
Gahhh, I shouldn't try to do this without my glasses, the answer should say yeah or yup. Apparently to difficult for me
Load More Replies...Oftentimes the most viral, most loved memes are memes that are about things that are very recent in public memory. However, there's something timeless about 'Neurodivergent Memes.'
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François Carré 1 year ago
Also at 3AM : let's get confused for a while and feel adamant that it's 3PM and you have awfully overslept, even if it's completely dark and silent outside. Keep it going at least until you've panicked enough to already have one leg in your pants and then realize what the f**k you are doing. Now try to go back to sleep while you feel dumber than ever.
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Amelia Jade 1 year ago
I do this with my hobbies. I have too many of them. I will have an entire day ahead of me to do whatever I want and I freeze up because I don't know how to best spend it. There are so many options. Which one do I want to do most? Do I want to binge Doctor Who? Do I want to play GTA? If I lean toward GTA, then I start thinking of the million other video games I'm in the middle of and that just makes it worse. Do I want to work on one of the ten crafting projects I started? But what about the book I'm in the middle of? Then the end of the day comes and I realize I didn't really do anything except browse BP, or Reddit, and watch stupid stuff on youtube.
The Shark 1 year ago
My to-do list gradually descends into a f*ck-it list by the end of every day
Abbie Daigle 1 year ago
yep. brain's like "oops you lost your doing-things privileges for today"
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
I'm always ending up doing some secret fourth option that's not on any "do soon" - list
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giku T 1 year ago
i have a sticker chest resting in my "s..t that u'll need someday for sure" drawer
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
I have a shoe box full of stickers that will look real cool somewhere...someday...maybe...
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I had a whole bunch of stickers waiting for something. My noise laptop died, and I picked up a used one cheap, and it had a smooth case. All my stickers! Of course it died six months later... (moral of the story: save your stickers!)
Isabel Care 1 year ago
I buy stickers only when I have a place I want to put them. Usually on my walker or wheelchair
Keira Pendragon 1 year ago
UNLESS it's an impulse buy and the thing you bought it to stick it on is RIGHT THERE when you buy it. I have a butterfly sticker on my car - its twin has been sitting in a drawer meaning to go on the other side for nearly a decade >o>
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Amelia Jade 1 year ago
Once, in college, the teacher called on me while discussing some topic. I had been listening, but it was like everything he'd said just flew out of my brain the second he put all the attention me. I just sat there, unable to answer. He, thinking I hadn't been listening said, "They're beautiful creatures, aren't they?" I stupidly, just nodded--I think of Ralphie in a Christmas story when he is nods along when Santa says, "How about a nice football?" That was me. There are few chuckles from the class, and the teacher moves on with the lecture, and eventually his next victim. That is when I realize he'd been talking vultures--which aren't generally considered beautiful. I wanted to melt into the floor. I'm nearly 50 and still think about this from time to time.
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UnpopularPanda 1 year ago
If I say I am in Paris and you see me in the local market next day, you're in Paris too. No need to make it complicated.
kath morgan 1 year ago
I think it’s ok to have a wind down period where you’re not socially available but you can still read fanfic and look at memes.
oddly_informed_raven 1 year ago
I tend to treat "good night" as a conversation ender, not necessarily an indication of me going to sleep. I'm done talking to you, I'm not done doing things for the day
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UnpopularPanda 1 year ago (edited)
I got misophonia (Idk, self diag'ed maybe) and I can't watch anything on phone with sound. If it ain't have subtitles I am not watching it however if it's on TV or big screen and the sound volume is just enough I don't get that mad. I tried to work on it and normalize after being married but couldn't pretend to be okay so my wife understands it and doesn't play videos without headfones or going to other room. I sometimes feel bad for her :( I read people getting irritated by other people's loud phones in public all the time but that makes me extramad and I have picked multiple fights for this very reason because asking nicely didn't help.
Sunflower Moon 1 year ago
I have the exact same issues except my husband*knows* it but doesn't understand it. Also, noises outside such as landscapers or children can just grate on my nerves until I'm either incomprehensibly angry and/or crying in misery from agitation. I don't do anything about it unless it's my husband lol because people have a right to be doing whatever but it is incredibly taxing. I'm actually on some anxiety meds now that helps soften the agitation but it's definitely still there.
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Sunflower Moon 1 year ago
Yeah, I sleep with earplugs or else if never sleep.
Load More Replies... Surenu 1 year ago
It's a bit of an issue here. One of my roommates has hearing damage and refuses to wear his hearing aid because "that's for old people" (he's 22). He's also a night owl, so I have to remind him very, very often that after 10 PM he's not allowed to blast his TV on full volume...
Jennifer Hartigan 1 year ago
Same. It's our own personal hell, isn't it?! He is such a kind human and all I wanna do is throw him in a black hole
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Darla Hitchcock 1 year ago
Nope. I grew up under the flight path of LAX so loud noise doesn't bother me. On the other hand, regular, barely audible sounds like a faucet dripping three rooms away, or a mechanical clicking drive me crazy!
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Lauren S 1 year ago
This was my childhood so I don’t think my heartbreaks anymore. It’s more like it’s hardened edges ju— …
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Oh, this is on repeat... and then the hopeless-and-confused rage you feel when these SAME PEOPLE who utterly ignore/neglect you... will accuse you of 'not trying' to to share anything about yourself, which is why no one cares about you. Fun times, way to go, jerks.
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
I’ll wait politely for someone to finish talking but people will just walk up and interrupt me in the middle of my sentence. Even worse when the person I was talking to walks off with them without so much as a backwards glance at me. They also don’t come back and ask me to finish what I was saying.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, I always make a point to make people stop so we can listen to you, I can’t stand this and talking over someone. Plus I personally love hearing what people have to say 😂
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The Shark 1 year ago
Hell, my dream is to be able to live WITH a job. Just one, tho. Not several...
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 1 year ago
As a kid I wanted to be a lighthouse keeper, until I found out that they work together in threes. Then I changed it to being a hermit. Chronic illness made my dream job possible...everything else impossible
kath morgan 1 year ago
I would like to be an artist toiling in obscurity in a picturesque cabin in the forest.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Disability! Of course, you have to give up a lot of stuff you DO like as well because hey, chronic debilitating illness. Honestly, I don't recommend it. But not being forced to interact with others 40 hours a week? PURE GOLD.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I always wanted to grow up to be a philanthropist. Failed on both counts - having lots of money and growing up.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
It's not so much I don't want to, I just don't want to HAVE to. There's many wonderful people in this world that I am glad I met but it's the forced situations that I have no control over that I want to peel my skin off over.
Lene 1 year ago
My dream job is about to not exist anymore. I want to write stuff by hand. Keep track of stuff by hand. Be in charge of an archive and have microsoft word and excell be the most hardcore computer programs to use for that. I want to go through piles of notes and either gather specific info and write it down by hand or type it into a computer. I want to research stuff and get published -but it's topics that are not popular anymore so nobody would probably want to help me publish anything.
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JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
I have, what I've coined, "emotional strokes". My maternal grandmother (in the last year or so of her life) had TIA quasi frequently. It's like she "wasn't there" for a day or so then she'd be totally back to normal for a while. The thing that hurts the most about my lovely gems is that I'm fully aware they're happening, which makes them even worse. It's not like a space out per se, it's just my brain decides to take a day off emotionally. As if my chronic depression couldn't get any worse...
MichelleDonut 1 year ago
Please elaborate. My TRD-brain thinks this might be relatable...? [*Treatment Resistant Depression]
Load More Replies... Louisa Spoke 1 year ago
I have CPTSD and PTSD. Flashbacks are not fun. I also have depression and anxiety. Life a beach and then you swim.
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Robyn Picknell 1 year ago
Oh I feel you on this one. You forget to eat, then when you remember you go on a binge to "make up" for the meals you missed.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
Ya, people don't get how people forget to eat but I have done it plenty.
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
I totally forget to eat all the time. Just another thing I'm a failure at.
Heather Wolmarans 1 year ago
I don't understand how I managed to get to 59yo and my brainy bit is forgetting to keep me alive ffs. I forget to eat often.
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Soozie Poozie 1 year ago
Yes! I rarely ever ask for help and then get completely overwhelmed and stressed out trying to do everything on my own.
Farah Kamal 1 year ago
YES! Also, Ive gotten to this phase in school where I don't trust ANYONE to do groupwork with me :(
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 1 year ago
Finally asking for help from someone that offered to help...they decline
Robyn Picknell 1 year ago
I would rather do it myself than trust anybody else to do a good enough job if they helped me.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I ran a pro-audio repair shop. I always would beat myself up for not being smart enough to fix a unit which had a tough problem. Then when I finally broke down and called the manufacturer for tech support, found out they had no clue either.
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LB 1 year ago
I'm in this picture and I don't li.. - wait, scratch that. I am in this picture and I am deciding to not judge myself I need two hours to get out of bed this week.
Vanessa Hill 1 year ago
The hardest part of my day. If I have no obligations I usually fail more than once.
Student River Basler 1 year ago
15 min zoning out 40 min streching 10 min picking out clothes 15 minuts staring on bed rep 5 times
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LB 1 year ago
And in my case, needing to finish each detour after getting interrupted which happens a lot.
Load More Replies... michael Chock 1 year ago
This is my one good story, so we are taking the scenic route after this I promise I will never talk again.
Poison Ivy/Boo 1 year ago
My daughter (who has ADHD) always pulls me up for my stories lol. She tries to get me to stay on point, but I can't help it.....my brain is like a squirrel at a rave.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
You can always fall back on "I pulled Excalibur from the stone", because everyone will start making Monty Python jokes and forget you exist.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I always go with "The CIA put microchips in my brain". But since my last relationship, I can also say "There's a file about me at the FSB in the Kremlin". One of these is honestly true.
Load More Replies... Kristal 1 year ago
My passport and driver's license are different countries! Is that a fun fact?
Red Foreman 1 year ago
I believe a watery tart gave him Excalibur in the Holy Grail but been a while since I watched it so could be totally wrong.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Even worse id the 'two truths and a lie' because not only do you have to have two fun facts, I always somehow mess up and forget to lie...I have no idea how it happens!
Tracy Wallick 1 year ago
Make a pop culture reference. Or just make something up so outrageous it can't possibly be true, but do it with a straight face.
Lene 1 year ago
Fun fact: I am on a waiting list to be examined for ADD because I think it's 98% likely I have it. But my doctor and my oldest friend both try to tell me it's just a pop-diagnosis that everybody wants (why?) And I certainly do not have ADD. By bf thinks I have ADD as well, though. And since he spends time with me on a daily basis I think he is better to judge than the other two.
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wuchi51 1 year ago
Prithee kind sir perhaps if it isn't too much trouble, I hate to ask this but
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Another Panda 1 year ago
My brain is 100% sure everyone is mad at me. Even people who don’t know I exist…
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michael Chock 1 year ago
I get very comfortable around people when I am tired, listen to me then.
Wendy Miller 1 year ago
I get this. I get super chatty when I'm tired. Otherwise, I prefer to be quiet.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
People who accept my being quiet are the ones I'm most comfortable with.
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The Shark 1 year ago
Not alone. I also indulge in self-hatred when I invest far too much money into supplies for a hobby I tried once and wanted to pursue, only to have an unopened box fort of c**p I never use stare me in the face as a reminder that makes me instantly exhausted. 🤦🏼♀️
Whatshername 1 year ago
My therapist advised me to write a recipe on "how I make myself miserable" when I shared this exact thought. So now I have even more on my to do list 😅
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
I have a fantastic record collection. I love music. I work too much and am too tired to ever take them out and play them. I should sell them and enjoy the cash, but I love them and collect them and someday, they'll get played. Probably at my funeral but hey...
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Sunflower Moon 1 year ago
The mortifying embarrassment of knowing that other people know how you really feel is terrifying. I always know this and yet still do it randomly for some unknown reason.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
NDs find it really hard to talk about feelings. As I found out while doing a leadership training course and was on a table of psychologists!
Kristal 1 year ago
Of course there's always exceptions to that. Me, for example.
Load More Replies... Louisa Spoke 1 year ago
That’s why you talk to a psychologist. Never tell friends or family really private things as it will be discussed by everyone behind your back. By law psychologists have to get a court order and that’s pushing it before they will tell anyone what you said.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I tell everyone my problems in the hopes that they have experienced something similar and might have found a solution.
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Candace 1 year ago
I misread that as eating too much and instantly agreed. Then I reread it...
The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 1 year ago
It works, though. (BED here, hi!)
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Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago
Even with people I'm close to, it freaks me out if there's no warning
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Shawn NowayJose 1 year ago
I had a customer once misread a price then when I was pointing out thier mistake they ran thier hand across my arm. Took every ounce of self control not to yank back like I was bitten. Could feel my hairs standing on end. Alot of customers have no concept of personal space or boundries.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
Funny, I'm ND and I love it when someone looks at me and touches my hand or arm!
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
We are all different and it depends on who does the touching. I resonate with nearly all these posts but I don’t mind people I know well being tactile.
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago
I scrolled to this image just as my partner turned in their coffee grinder.
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CamiCamilion 1 year ago
This is the worst part about having kids. Like, how do I keep them entertained all weekend?! Give mommy some damn space! 😂
François Carré 1 year ago
Still acceptable for good friends who know and like you how you are. Much more controversial in a couple relationship.
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Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 1 year ago
I've gone skydiving, self published a book and started doing stand up comedy this year. Yeah, I am absolutely running from myself. The crash is going to be epic when it hits.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
That's a great one! The best part is pretty much EVERYTHING you do other than what you have to in order to stay alive, like sleep, eat and drink, are ALL coping mechanisms.
Mint the tiger 🩷 she her 1 year ago
Mom! Stop exposing me on bored panda!
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michael Chock 1 year ago
I am obsessed with new skills until I am good at them, then they are mind numbingly boring. I have a hard time in interviews explaining I am good at everything I have done but only want to do what I haven't done so I can be good at that too and move on.
setsuriseikou 1 year ago
There is an old Russian tale that takes place in the 19th century, where the main character apprentices to every craftsman available in his home village, mastering all of them, but never settling down with any. Until he takes up that one trade... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Spark_of_Life)
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
Sometimes multiple times during the day as well!
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keyboardtek 1 year ago (edited)
Actually I got myself into most of my life's problems by underthinking.
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Keira Pendragon 1 year ago
No, but it's most frustrating at times when one is trying to get some sleep xD
Load More Replies... martymcmatrix 1 year ago
...and congrats to bp's censoring algorithm(s)...🙋🏽
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pineapple87 1 year ago
Ha, I realized this in high school already when my grades suddenly dropped because simply showing up and listening in class was no longer enough. Aiming for minimal effort can make you effective at improving working methods, though, so it's not all bad.
François Carré 1 year ago
Realized that at 30 years old and finally with a sustainable job. Rehabilitating myself was pretty intense, like getting used to showing up every morning and paying attention to what I was told to do. Not sure I succeeded completely.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Perfection is a required skill when you are a heart surgeon, are building an airplane, and assembling the brakes on a car.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
That and random 'I adulted today' posts for me :)
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Moosy Girl 1 year ago
Let me save everyone the trouble: penguins have legs, and knees, and femurs, tibias and fibulas. I didn’t check if they have elbows though… :p
Zephyr343 1 year ago
As I was reading this comment, I was watching a show that focused on bones. They had a skeleton of a penguins wings and I can conform, there are elbows.
Load More Replies... D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Actually... penguins have legs... their knees are just kinda... up inside their bodies. I know. I felt hurt when I read that too... like... ow. Why ... why would they be designed like that???
Kylie 1 year ago
But but, I've never seen a penguin bend their knees? They're always either upright or horizontal. Do they have waists? Can they bend over?
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Nina 1 year ago
Oooh yesss. Word choice, use of caps or lack thereof, use of emoji's (or lack of them), punctuation, etcetera.
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Leslie Gully 1 year ago
The ones who aren't doctors are the girls with undiagnosed ADHD. Or was that just me?
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I know a doctor who is definitely both. Now that I think of it, more than one.
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D. Pitbull 1 year ago
I feel that. Even worse when you know you've been a better friend and better person than those other people have ever been. It sucks.
Load More Replies... Sunflower Moon 1 year ago
Well I don't even really have any friends, let alone a best friend. Although that is sort of my fault because I'm both really introverted and shy but also no longer willing to have friends who only take advantage of me and don't give anything back.
Settled for Infamy 1 year ago (edited)
Always. Since grade school, I've been the 3rd wheel or equivalent
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
The problem is that my best friends are twins so they will always prefer eachother over me. But I don't really mind at this point tbh
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Look at it this way. The closer the friend, the harder they'll disappoint you.
Nerd Groupie 1 year ago
The wedding guest friend. I've been invited to tons and tons of weddings over the years. So many I've lost count. But be good enough friend to be in the actual wedding party? Three. That's reserved for the best of best friends. There were more than a few where I kind of assumed I'd be in it and had to swallow a hard pill and reevaluate entire friendships.
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D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Problem: Some people will completely and totally ignore that you told them exactly this - and then they sh** on you for years... because y'know.. it's all about them.
DiscoMamaNea 1 year ago
Or how do I explain my lol reading this but it sounds like I’m laughing about them 😂
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Just say "Excuse me", and never return. Everyone will know what you meant.
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Blaze Onyx 1 year ago
This is me right now. I have an assignment due in like 2 hours that I havent even started but instead I chose to listen to a new musical my friend sent me (Epic: The Musical) and rambling about how good it is
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michael Chock 1 year ago (edited)
Do both to be safe. I like green and my dad was getting his testicle cancer removed a couple of rooms down while I was being born.
Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
Ooh, my turn! I like brown and I nearly got burned to death in a house fire, so now I can't look at nor think about fire or else I start to panic... oh god. yep, im thinking about it now...!!!
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Ha! Yup! My cousin asked at Christmas dinner what I'd been up to and I panicked SO hard because it was between auto dumping my current special interest... And housework. I went with "Just parenting and housework" as my response and totally killed any follow-up conversation....
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josh Mcnally 1 year ago
I have two strategies: don't talk and hate myself after, or talk and hate myself after. Yaaayy
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I worked in various forms of customer service for a couple years in my twenties. I quickly learned that if I thought I hated everyone, I was either at work or commuting.
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deejak 1 year ago (edited)
Lol, me for the past week. Changing the sheets is, like, a major and exhausting task.
Amy 1 year ago
The sheets are so much worse than the duvet and pillow cases!
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 1 year ago
I at least chuck a big fleece throw onto the mattress and cover myself in another one. That or grab my sleeping bag. Thankful that I have camping gear
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Yes... I have... full negotiations with myself. "Well. The blanket and the bedsheet need a-changin'... I shall do one. JUST ONE... and then... I will feel accomplished. I will play a game... and then pray my spouse will do the other one when they get home."
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Lene 1 year ago
I need: a week to organize everything in the house, a week to deep clean everything in the house, a few weeks per project I'm working on, a week per old project I didn't finish but still intend to, a week per new project I want to do, a week per kid to do everything she wants, a week away at a hotel or vacation house with my bf without the kids, a week for constant sleeping, a week for tv, naps and snacks, a week each month for gardening..... I think I could go on. 😬
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Passerby 1 year ago
No, I dread the new notification. What if it is something bad that will change my life for worse forever. I know that it is unlikely, but what if it is true?
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
If you have an explanation, I would love to hear it. This is me rn
Keira Pendragon 1 year ago
With executive dysfunction everything from the slightest stimuli to any and every problem in the known universe, including simply trying to figure out what to do can be exceedingly overwhelming. At least, it is for me \@.@/
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The Shark 1 year ago
I've had dishes in my perpetually leaking, completely clogged kitchen sink (that I haven't given up and thrown out yet) for a solid 3 years now. I shamefully use paper plates to cope rather than attempting to fix the problem or carry them to the bathtub with a working drain and faucet....
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
This is both the correct answer AND the correct question
Load More Replies... Surenu 1 year ago
This. Being hated is so easy to deal with, you cut off contact with that person and both are happier. It's a win-win.
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OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
I am actively trying to avoid this exact thing in every. damn. conversation I have. I did it again though didn't I?
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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
But when your friends are of the same mind the results can be hilarious..
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Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 1 year ago
Couldn't get that out of my head as a teenager. I'm a lot happier now. (Hint: it's because I don't live with my parents anymore)
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I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Did we not literally just have a post about people hijacking phrases like mania which totally diminishes what actual mania is? Some of these are very relatable but not because I'm nuerodivergent. Come on BP do better
Gracie Lou 1 year ago
A lot of these had to do with depression and anxiety. I've heard and read of people including depression and anxiety as a type of neurodivergence now. I'm a person with depression and anxiety, and my kids are all neurodivergent, and I don't agree with this emerging theory, but it is it there.
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MayaGeGe 1 year ago
I don't get the 'neurodivergent' point, and how any of the memes are representative of it
LB 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, disappointing. I don't find these that relatable, or mostly it bugs me that they are super unspecific.
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)
Yet another bunch of stereotypes from BoredPanda.Stop posting harmful c**p like this BoredPanda. Not every neurodivergent person hates people, is antisocial, and doesn’t like doing things. These sound more like stereotypes about depression and agoraphobia than neurodivergence. I honestly don’t even think BoredPanda reads the crud they post anymore.
v 1 year ago
Here is another example of how social media does more harm than good. People latch onto a word (nuerodivergent, genocide and antisemitism are popular right now) and use it because they think it makes them sound cool or better informed and they're too lazy to take the time to learn what the words actually mean and how/when they are properly used.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I can relate to some of these, but was hoping for more that deal with autism
SilverSkyCloud 1 year ago
sometimes i make up scenarios in my head and end up hurting my own feelings
Renee Prete 1 year ago
Somebody has been spying on me and just told the world about what they saw!!
Everest Hernandez He/She/They 1 year ago
Being autistic and depressed and anxious, these hit quite close to home
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Did we not literally just have a post about people hijacking phrases like mania which totally diminishes what actual mania is? Some of these are very relatable but not because I'm nuerodivergent. Come on BP do better
Gracie Lou 1 year ago
A lot of these had to do with depression and anxiety. I've heard and read of people including depression and anxiety as a type of neurodivergence now. I'm a person with depression and anxiety, and my kids are all neurodivergent, and I don't agree with this emerging theory, but it is it there.
Load More Replies... MayaGeGe 1 year ago
I don't get the 'neurodivergent' point, and how any of the memes are representative of it
LB 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, disappointing. I don't find these that relatable, or mostly it bugs me that they are super unspecific.
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)
Yet another bunch of stereotypes from BoredPanda.Stop posting harmful c**p like this BoredPanda. Not every neurodivergent person hates people, is antisocial, and doesn’t like doing things. These sound more like stereotypes about depression and agoraphobia than neurodivergence. I honestly don’t even think BoredPanda reads the crud they post anymore.
v 1 year ago
Here is another example of how social media does more harm than good. People latch onto a word (nuerodivergent, genocide and antisemitism are popular right now) and use it because they think it makes them sound cool or better informed and they're too lazy to take the time to learn what the words actually mean and how/when they are properly used.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I can relate to some of these, but was hoping for more that deal with autism
SilverSkyCloud 1 year ago
sometimes i make up scenarios in my head and end up hurting my own feelings
Renee Prete 1 year ago
Somebody has been spying on me and just told the world about what they saw!!
Everest Hernandez He/She/They 1 year ago
Being autistic and depressed and anxious, these hit quite close to home
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