Why I Love Speaking To Neurodivergent People 🌈✨ #awareness #neurodivergent #experience

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⭐️ FAQs ▹
1.What conditions do I have?
‣ I have Tourette's Syndrome, FND and POTS along with some mental health disorders.
2. How old are you?
‣ 18
3. What is FND? 🧠
4. What is Tourette's?
5. What do I use to edit videos? 🖥️
‣ Final Cut Pro X
6. What filming equipment do I use? 📸

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My name is Zara Beth (zeezee25 on tiktok) and I post videos about disability, neurodiversity and what its like living with Tourette's Syndrome, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and a chronic illness called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Tourette's syndrome is a neurological condition causing involuntary movements called tics.
I use my social media (TikTok, YouTube and Instagram) to advocate and raise awareness for my conditions and show what it is like living with a disability as a neurodivergent person.
I am also autistic and share my sensory struggles along with my experiences with mental health disorders.
I show what its like having a disability and the accomodations I have to help my daily life. I am also an ambulatory wheelchair user showing my life using mobility aids and how symptoms change from day to day!
I am also a musician with a popular song called "She's Mine" available on all streaming services - I wrote, produced, mixed and mastered all my songs myself! I am also an artist and a writer. I love reading and I'm currently writing a novel and a book about my life!

[absentmindedgenesequencing]

Day and night. It’s crazy the differences that pop up when having a meeting with someone typical, instead of like me.

[GrayLou]

One of my brother's best teachers had ADHD like pretty much all of his students.

One time a kid was tapping a pencil, so he just swapped it out with a foam ball he had in his desk and never broke stride from the way he'd pace all around the room while teaching. The kid got to keep tapping but all the other easily distracted people didn’t have to listen to it. The pacing also gave them something else to focus on.

It was the little things that most neurotypical people wouldn't have considered that really meshed well with his students.

[fikatrouvaille]

As a neurotypical person, I wouldn't have any problem with someone visibly fidgeting while I was in a formal meeting with them. If someone is neurodivergent, I want to know all I can for me to better understand and accomodate them. Sometimes, realizing that someone is neurodivergent helps me interpret their actions correctly. For example, if someone neurotypical doesn't make eye contact with me, they're probably not paying attention and it's a sign of disrespect. But if they're neurodivergent, it's probably something else going on. But I totally understand why neurodivergent people mask - I would too! That's why I really appreciate what you're doing to inform people about neurodivergence. Increased communication and awareness doesn't just help neurodivergents, it helps neurotypicals who want to work with them!

[elizabethfreed]

So many of our tics, needs, coping mechanisms, etc. are seen as "not work appropriate." I'm autistic and I need to fidget/stim as well, which is seen as childish, and I hate that because stimming allows me to actually be more present.

I also have a lot of sensory issues which means I hide from bright lights, jolt "exaggeratedly" at loud noises, avoid physical contact, etc. While not seen as immature, these things do attract attention, get laughs, and disrupt my work environment due to people thinking I am disrupting THEIR workplace/thinking they can just comment/not realizing I have no control over these reactions. Working with other neurodiverse humans is SO NICE!

[sbs.]

It took the longest time for me to realize that I needed to occupy myself with some sort of activity in order for me to concentrate during meetings. I became famous for drawing amazing art during a meeting but still being able to recite exactly what everyone said during the meeting, what the topics were and all the take away points. Yup, I’m a neurodivergent

[violetmartha]

I don't know if anyone who takes the time to read this can relate, but.... I'm a 58 year old lady who has struggled her entire life feeling like I'm from another planet. I can remember as a child, my mother pulling roughly at my fingers which were hanging onto the bathroom towel rail...knuckles white, tears streaming down my face, because she insisted I meet a visitor to our home. I didn't know how to speak to people I didn't know. At a very early age, I completely over analysed every conversation I had. When I was in my 20s, I had a boyfriend whose favourite thing in the world was socialising and I remember going to a party with him and I spoke not one single word to anyone....NOT ONE. I have zero sense of direction, so I don't travel alone. I get lost very easily. Busy places completely overwhelm me....too much noise, light, street signs. I recently confided in someone whom I thought would understand (she has a young granddaughter who is autistic) Oh boy was I wrong. She really rolled her eyes at me and said " Oh God, people always HAVE to HAVE something nowadays. Please don't self diagnose from the internet, that's ridiculous " She has made me reluctant to seek any help or try to get any advice. When I watch videos of people explaining things like inattentive ADD, I could cry, because it's like listening to my entire life. 😭

[Nobles_journey]

Both of my lawyers are neurodivergent and I can’t tell you how Fantastic it is

[StainTheMenace]

Neurodivergents mesh well together because we have a mutual understanding that if our thought processes were lines, neither of ours would be straight. They’d curve off somewhere, and we know how best to encounter curves in the line because we also have curves. Very easy communication based off mutual understanding.

[emmacurtis]

Same here!! Getting a job in a nonprofit for and by disabled people has been LIFE-CHANGING would highly recommend 👌🏻

[michiTHAyachi]

EXACTLY. I feel like an 8000 year old and a 6 year old at the same time. Why isn't this talked about more?!

[RealCadde]

It's not just that other neurodivergent people get each other on so many levels, it's also that neurodivergent people are wholesome and usually more honest and it doesn't hurt that aside from their social skills, they are really highly intelligent.

I don't like talking to "normal" people, but if they have something like ADHD or Autism or the like I can talk to them for hours.

Just thought i'd say that.

[millygd]

YES I'm exactly the same! Just met up with the people that are training my assistance dog and it was so much more chill than seeing neurotypicals for the first time! 💛

[sapper]

I am a non neurdivergent person. I am an old white military veteran. Who totally loves your story ❤❤

[katieweaver]

I’m so happy for you. That’s what I look for in as many aspects of my life as possible. Amazing that you can have that in your work 💗

[PhoenixFlowerEmma]

For real it like being in a completely different culture language and the shock of that AND IT NEVER GOES AWAY.

But when you find someone like you its instant understanding knowing comfort and rightness absolute relaxed because you dont have to mask without even realising it you can just be and by doing so you actually end up being more "meeting appropriate" and calm and your brains connect that you just click and are so much more efficient and good at it.

Ugh its like night and day honestly.

[sapper]

Your story is so important! Hopefully, your new project works out for you. ❤

[phishENchimps]

I like meetings where we get things done.

[julieannelovesbooks]

Same for me with being in a relationship with another neurodivergent person. We’re both just fully unmasked with each other and it’s great. Love it when neurodivergent peeps find each other

[AmyraCarter]

Eye contact. It bothers me when people tell me that I need to provide it. (phoo) Don't do that, DON'T, DO, THAT. I need more stim toys. The kind that I can use to signify my stress levels by making them squeal/squawk/scream/whatever more loudly if I am more stressed out. Maybe that will get those neurotypicals to chill with their crap.

[FrogFriend_]

Can I just say that you’re extremely pretty? Like- that is natural beauty right there, and I absolutely love your clothing style! You do you, girl!