Thank you so much for including an audio recording of this article. As a hyperlexic person who struggles to understand tone in person and is also low vision, reading is headache-inducing and can feel like tone detection on hard mode.
Hearing a piece of writing read (especially by the author) helps us with comprehension.
I’m so happy to hear that, thank you for letting me know! I’ll listen to audio vs. reading if there’s an option as well. Substack doesn’t let you track if people listen to audio, so I always hope at least one person finds it helpful.
It is exhausting! Lately. I've been trying to stop myself whenever I feel pressured to justify my preferences. Sometimes I even say, I don't really feel I have to justify this. It's kind of empowering :)
Yep. It's exhausting always feeling "unreasonable" or "touchy" when something bothers me that no one else seems to be disturbed by. It's frustrating trying to justify one's response to everyone, but as you mentioned here, it isn't our responsibility to do so. Thank you for the reminder; I forget this often!
Wow - feeling this hard right not. Read this whilst awake at 4am trying to empty my head in to my notes section to answer the pre-assessment questions for the autism diagnosis I’ve finally put in motion - I think I’m probably over explaining out of imposter syndrome!!
Yay for you getting a pre-assessment! Don’t overthink, just answer honestly. The last thing you want to do is mask during the process. I’d love to read about your experience with the process as you’re going through it, like what your thoughts and feelings are about it. Questions, confusion, doubts, etc.
Thank you so much for including an audio recording of this article. As a hyperlexic person who struggles to understand tone in person and is also low vision, reading is headache-inducing and can feel like tone detection on hard mode.
Hearing a piece of writing read (especially by the author) helps us with comprehension.
Thanks for sharing. :)
I’m so happy to hear that, thank you for letting me know! I’ll listen to audio vs. reading if there’s an option as well. Substack doesn’t let you track if people listen to audio, so I always hope at least one person finds it helpful.
I absolutely listen to audio as well! So thank you for taking the time to add this precious option 🙌🏻💜
It is exhausting! Lately. I've been trying to stop myself whenever I feel pressured to justify my preferences. Sometimes I even say, I don't really feel I have to justify this. It's kind of empowering :)
Yep. It's exhausting always feeling "unreasonable" or "touchy" when something bothers me that no one else seems to be disturbed by. It's frustrating trying to justify one's response to everyone, but as you mentioned here, it isn't our responsibility to do so. Thank you for the reminder; I forget this often!
Thank you. I needed this today.
Wow - feeling this hard right not. Read this whilst awake at 4am trying to empty my head in to my notes section to answer the pre-assessment questions for the autism diagnosis I’ve finally put in motion - I think I’m probably over explaining out of imposter syndrome!!
Yay for you getting a pre-assessment! Don’t overthink, just answer honestly. The last thing you want to do is mask during the process. I’d love to read about your experience with the process as you’re going through it, like what your thoughts and feelings are about it. Questions, confusion, doubts, etc.
Ang you're so on point with all of this, why are you living in my brain and telling everyone what is going on there LOL
Thanks!
Right on! Thank you for sharing and making me feel like I am allowed to be me and nothing is wrong with me.