Jan 23
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Living Well as a Neurodivergent Person
Neurotypical productivity and lifestyle advice can be frustratingly useless to people who think and respond differently to life. These articles from neurodiverse writers of Better Humans offer new perspectives and tips you might consider if "the usual thing" doesn't work for you.
It's a plain fact of life that most of us have to do work we don't love, at least some of the time. The things we do love, sitting there waiting for us, can pull us away via hyperfocus. This writer describes how distraction and procrastinating up until deadlines can sometimes be used to her advantage.
A compassionate guide to the types of routines that this writer found most useful in her own life.
Four quick tips to consider if anxiety intersects with other factors to affect sleep.
We all know exercise is good for us—but this author has a lifetime of learning how exercise helps him with emotional coping, focus, and happiness.
Being different can take a toll. This author has learned to recognize that particular cost of his gifts, and offers ways of coping:
"It helps to remind ourselves of these things from time to time, particularly when we’re cursing our DNA for wiring us differently. Yes, it’s hard to focus on boring tasks sometimes. Yes, we can be bad at managing money. Yes, it sucks to lose your keys fifteen times a day.
But we’re also creative and humorous, and energetic. We can make the lives of people around us better because of these things. We’re great to have in a room when people brainstorm, which makes us valuable employees."
This massive guide offers a wealth of specific techniques and habits that can be useful if you struggle with directing your attention. You don't have to try everything here all at once!
This author's journey through reading and taking assessments culminated in an appointment with a psychologist—resetting the stage for self-understanding.
How this writer found solutions to redirect her focus through a process of intentional dissociation and self-directed boundaries.
Specific tips to handle the environment many of us work within: the web browser. Offers important tactics for customizing Chrome, Safari, or other browsers to make work easeier.
This article comes from the specific viewpoint of handling a mixed-age group of yoga students. But the solutions this writer found may offer useful keys for understanding how to create a welcoming, happy environment—inclusive of neurodiverse people.
