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I imagine they can implement the incredibly unhelpful advice I’ve received so many times.
“Just don’t think about it.” Whatever “it” is at the moment.
Neurotypical people seem to have the ability to just stop thinking about stuff when they want and let their brain rest.
I usually associate that more with anxiety, which I don’t have, because I can sometimes short circuit the bad thought spirals by switching to the latest hyperfocus. Like playing through doom levels in my mind’s eye.
For me it’s not anxiety (although I have certainly dealt with that). My brain is just always on as long as I’m awake. Shifting from topic to topic. And if something is on my mind, even if it’s not bad or anxiety inducing, it just doesn’t go away until my subconscious decides to move on or I find some way to distract myself.
The only thing that stops this is weed. I gives me some peace and quiet inside my head. It’s p. sweet.
You nailed it.
Having a thought you don’t want to think about and being able to stop thinking about it sums it up pretty well.
I suspect not as constantly exhausting. That’s the thing that I don’t think we realize about neurotypicals and that they don’t realize about us. Just how much work it is running our fucking brains in such a “chaotic” manner.
I suppose being on the proper medication would give you a small glimpse of what being neurotypical is like.
Saw this post on the autism community and made me wonder from an ADHD perspective, what would it be?
My psychiatrist keeps asking me what I think being normal is whenever I wonder what that is like, says there is no such thing, I just want to know what I’m striving for you know.
Quiet. Easy. No “normal” or constant pain.
Fuckers… /s
Sometimes I wonder if my “advanced” meditation skills from a decade of training is just what neurotypicals always experience when they meditate, even with just like 10 times of “practice”.
That’s interesting take on this. I never thought about meditation in this context. If I am able to meditate anytime it ends up being a list making session in my head
What I do then is to observe myself making the list, or to observe the thoughts involved in making the list as they swim past me.
This could lead to an infinite chain, where I then observe myself observing and so on. But with practice and methods beyond normal thought and expression, that can fade into nothingness.
