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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent

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Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. - Under the shelter of each other, people survive.

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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Nov 28

I always struggle with these sorts of things… and yet here we are!

I suppose I'll start with saying hi! And welcome!

Check out my substack for a little bit about me.

open.substack.com/pub/celticne...

A little about me

A brief introduction...

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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Aug 10

The universe is wild.

It can return home your cat that's been missing for nearly 4 years, leave you living with that for a month and then snatch that very same cat away from you again leaving you worse off than when the cat went missing in the first place.

Wild..

#universeworksinmysteriousways

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Aug 10

I should NOT have to behave in a ceratin way for you to "believe" I'm autistic.

#audhd #autistic

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yes... sitting rocking in my dark hallway while listening to my favourite emotional songs and singing along to them is therapeutic actually.... thanks for asking! 😅

#audhd #autistic #stimming #emotionalregulation

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Jul 21

Wearing headphones that aren't even playing music when I go into town just so I don't have as many unexpected meetings and conversations.

Works a treat!

#autistic #audhd #socialanxiety

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 27

CT scans are definitely my favourite type of scan!

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 20

I'm always completely shocked to find that people may actually care about me.

Even my family.

I genuinely believe that I am not a second thought in most people's minds in my life.

#audhd #autistic #bpd #borderline #rsd #neurodivergent

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thank you for your kind words! I do thankfully. 💚

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 18

I'm currently going through something similar. Although it will be a full shave for me unfortunately. I'm glad to have found this hack to help me in the mean time. And I'm delighted you've found some help from it 😊

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 18

It's a very surreal feeling when you're planning for the possibility of your own death!

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 17

In fairness condoms were illegal until the 80s in Ireland. Can't speak for after that really though 😅

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 14

Ah! That must have been me screaming back at you 😅

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 14

So ireland doesn't widely recognise the symbolism and intention of the sunflower lanyard.

But it's gaining recognition, when I was in hospital twice this week they asked me if I worked there because I was wearing it.

#autistic #disabled #sunflowerlanyard #audhd #autism #invisibledisability

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 13

I love how my routine makes me feel.

But damn the longing for it and the dysregulation that when the unexpected comes along!

#autistic #adhd #audhd #neurodivergent

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 13

I love making these!

Image of two pairs of green agate, wire wrapped, shamrock earrings.

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 13

*screams into the void!!!!*

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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 12

I'm literally living out one of my top biggest nightmares.

The possibility of any surgery is terrifying to me.

But a possible craniectomy?

A surgery removing a part of the skull????

How does an autistic person even begin to deal with this?

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 12

I don't eat the yellows or orange ones only the pink, red and purples 🤣 my favourites are always last 🤣

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 9

If you organise your packet of sweets into colours before eating them, then you may, indeed, be autistic! 😅

#autistic #audhd #autism

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Mar 9

The strange thing about growing up in Ireland in the ‘70s, was you had a ring side seat to Brit & US culture, whilst at the same time having experienced how those cultures were based on exacting a toll from the colonised, like us. It was a discombobulating experience. Belonging & not belonging.

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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 9

I wish it wasn't easier to explain to people "I'm depressed" than "I'm in autistic burnout."

People shouldn't be dismissed by saying the latter just because others cannot seem to comprehend how debilitating being in an autistic burnout actually is.

#burnout #autisticburnout #autism

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Madeleine B @onatangledhigh.bsky.social · Mar 5

Autistic people have always been here.

You institutionalized us. Imprisoned us. Assaulted us. Lobotomized us. Killed us. Left us for dead. Abandoned us.

We never left.

We aren’t going anywhere.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 3

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

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Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Mar 3

This year's been bloody crap.

Can we have a redo? 🤪

Ciara the Celtic Neurodivergent @celticnd.bsky.social · Feb 23

I get this sometimes and am reminded to slow down... in fairness it's in the kitchen and he delivers and means it in the nicest way. Like a reminder to take it easy and not get carried away just in case... they know im liable to damage myself regularly 😅

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · Feb 23

There are more *diagnosed* autistic people because they changed the diagnostic criteria and started diagnosing people other than white boys with autism. Also: 40 years of "awareness" campaigns.

That's it. Mystery solved.

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