Hey, I’m back.

Still alive.

So not really coping with it but have no choice

I’ll be here more soon so there’s that.

Hope you’re all well and sorry for being gone all this time 🤍

There’s been some good to the bad but it’s hard to see right now.

Stay safe 🤍 #mentalhealth #mentalillness #chronicillness #fibromyalgia #spoonie #MadMastodon #disability #hello #introduction #welcomeback #endthestigma #NotAloneTalk #bpd #BPDfam #unemployment #unemployed #MadTwitter

Not gonna lie, one thing I miss already after deciding to leave the bird site for good is #NotAloneTalk. :octo_sad:

@harmlesslife
Hi,
I've installed Mastodon and added you, in case we switch to this app for the #NotAloneTalk
🙂

What is high masking as a #Neurodivergent individual?

- The ability to put a smile on your face and so everyone around you sees that you're okay and how well you can maintain yourself. However, you're struggling on the inside.

- Forcing eye contact when it's excruciatingly painful. This goes for forced conversations and being unable to disengage from the conversation and so the other person assumes you understand what is being said but you're just nodding your head for the hell of it because you don't want to appear stupid because you've been bullied and called horrendous names for being stupid in the past and not knowing better. This altogether is tremendously hard and I have no idea how I do it but I do it.

- Not really understanding how I've lived life for 28 years without a formal assessment/diagnosis for a #LearningDisability when clearly something else is there and medical professionals never took me seriously all my life. I'm serious when I say, all the signs of a LD were there.

- Unsure what to say for the majority of the time.

- Replacing words that you don't know how to say with words that you know how to say.

It's just pretending one has it all together by perfecting the PERFECT image to the public when one is really just S-T-R-U-G-G-L-I-N-G.

#Mastodon #Introduction #Autism #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #MentalHealthAwareness #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #NotAloneTalk

@RolloTreadway Hey, did we know each other on the bird site? Chatted during #NotAloneTalk perhaps? I know I know your name.

Good morning & happy #Sunday #Warriors!! 🫂❤️🌟🦄🎵🎵

#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #MentalHealthSupport #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #MeToo #PTSD #CPTSD #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #NotAloneTalk #ADD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAF #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Autism #AutismPride #AutismAcceptance #AutismAwareness #SundayVibes #SundayThoughts

The #JoinIn hashtag coming to Mastodon made me wonder if any #ActuallyAutistic folks would like to replicate #NotAloneTalk here?

@harmlesslife What’s #NotAloneTalk ?

@harmlesslife
Hi April, I'm pretty new here too...but I followed your #NotAloneTalk over on the other site. Good to see you here!

Hi! I’m April. #ActuallyAutistic #newbie feeling a bit lost so far 🙈 Would love some more friends on here 🥰

I like to talk about:
• living with severe #OCD
• #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD #AuDHD
• #MentalHealth
• #vegan stuff (non-graphic)
• #AntiTory #politics and our utterly ridiculous #government
• #HumanRights and #law
• #pokemon and my love/hate relationship with #PokemonGo
• #witchcraft
• #penguins
• #BTS
• #NotAloneTalk on twitter (every night from 8pm UK time - I currently host Fridays)

this is a pretty neat idea.
anyone wanna do #NotAloneTalk in these trying times?
https://nitter.net/thegrumpyloaf/status/1299421614786916353