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A place for those that got both Autism and ADHD, those confirmed as one and are suspecting they got the other as well, and also everyone who is neither and just genuinely curious.

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Question for those who are Hypersexual. (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I know that despite the classic portrayal of an autist being someone who is asexual, many of us are at the opposite end of the scale. Yet if you search for Lemmy communities, there are several for asexual folk and none for hypersexual folk. Is there any good resources for us to rant/support each other/talk about our struggles? If it were specifically for neurodivergent folk, that would be a great bonus.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Hey! There's two of us!

I don't have a lot of shame though. I've come to peace with it. I have a condition that doctors absolutely refused to treat, and I had to self-medicate.

If I had been allowed a real education instead of fucking abstinence only crap, I wouldn't have been sobbing into my pillows at night because I was burning alive and didn't know what to do. And then I wouldn't have seized so hard on what I thought was the answer!

The decisions we made were the best we could with what we had. I wouldn't hold any judgement for someone else who did the things I did, only sympathy, and I don't want to be a hypocrite so I treat myself with sympathy, too.