Explore tweets tagged as #SensoryOverload
🎭 Unmasking is difficult. It takes courage to show who you really are. Difficult personal situations & ableism can make that even harder. But masking has its own cost: exhaustion, disconnection, and slowly losing touch with yourself underneath, and with your self-esteem, too.
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🧠 I’m ADHD-Combined Type, but most of my hyperactivity is internal. Thoughts racing, impulses held back, energy redirected inward. In school I was quiet, but I wiggled on my chair, doodled, used other invisible stims. Yet inside, my mind never stopped spinning.
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I am at stage 8, but couldn't really find good, educational, specialized #autism resources for adults. So I started building them myself. Coming this December: @sens0ryoverl0ad Autism Courses.
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🗺️🧠This is the infographic that taught me the most about myself. It gave me a detailed, structured overview of the traits and challenges I live with every day. I am all three: ADHD, autism, and giftedness. Where traits contradict, they also collide in daily life.
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🏠 My house is cluttered. The clutter overwhelms me… which creates more clutter. A cycle that feels impossible to break. #ADHD
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I’ve shut down more times than I can count.
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