Nuelxx
@nuel_szy
For overthinkers, hopeless romantics & people who loved the wrong person. 🥀
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Late-diagnosed autism is realising you spent years trying to fix parts of yourself that were never character flaws.
→ I want accommodations. I also want to prove I don’t need them.
→ I can recall every social mistake I’ve ever made. I still can’t predict the next one.
→ I finally have language for how my brain works. Using that language still makes me feel exposed.
→ I understand myself better now. My body still reacts like nothing has changed.
→ I built entire systems to appear normal. Removing them feels more dangerous than keeping them.
→ I can see the pattern in other people immediately. In myself, it took 28 years.
→ I know I’m not broken. Some days I still have to remind myself.
→ I spent years thinking I was just bad at people. Turns out I was translating everything in real time.
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Your relationship with yourself shouldn’t be one endless self-improvement project. At some point, you have to stop treating yourself like a problem to fix and start enjoying the person you already are. You’re allowed to be proud of yourself as you are, not just who you’re becoming.
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One thing people underestimate about autism is how exhausting certain lights can be. Fluorescent lights may flicker in ways that are hard to consciously notice but still feel uncomfortable. Sometimes the room isn’t too bright. The lighting itself is the problem.
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At 11:40 pm my ADHD brain always has a plan to finally get my life together tomorrow. Which one are you at night: the planner, the scroller, or the "one more episode"?
Being on social media asks a new question. Are you really bad at grammar or do you just have ADHD and too distracted to see the typo?
My favorite ADHD gift is believing I become more productive with that one new app or that next 17-minute video
An old lady came up to me as I was browsing TJ Maxx about 10 years ago and asked if I could show her how to free up space on her phone so she could take a picture of a handbag… I was like, lady, you came to the exact mf’n right place… gimme that iPhone 3.
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small business owner” energy is cute until they get bought out and become the same monopoly they used to hate. name a bigger scam
Pharmaceutical companies will spend billions convincing you that you need a pill for existing while lobbying against anything that would actually keep people from getting sick in the first place.
You dont gotta match my energy you cannot handle it.
this adult shit be confusing
texting people back takes so much effort i promise i think ur great i just can’t
Some apologies come so late that you don’t even want them anymore.
Why bitches always fake their voice when a nigga come around.... Like bitch you sound like daffy 🤦
Problem with wanting Shut-In GF (Bc most of what I want follows that trait) is how TF do you find one locally? Online community is easy but I'd perfer local for being able to regularly visit their Clingy Touch-Starved ass. But they don't engage with local things, do they?
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My buddy is quitting drinking. Tonight he had 14 Non-Alcohlic beers… I have no idea if that’s good, bad, weird?...for me I keep smoking joint.
When the setup is this clean, you already know it’s about to be a vibe 🔥😮💨
No rush, just enjoying the moment.
Cannabis used to be in the same class as Heroin but now it's in the same class as Codeine
When I eat too much, I drink pineapple juice because I feel like my digestive system is digesting the food from the bottom, and the pineapple juice is digesting the food from the top so then there’s less food for me to physically digest
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Preventive care is the cheapest form of healthcare and somehow the one they make the hardest to access. Make it make sense.
