Three connected frameworks for understanding neurodivergent activation: Open Loop Overwhelm, Volitional Dysregulation, and Environmental Container Model.
The bottom left of the figure with all the emails, chores/clutter, unresolved mysteries, and interpersonal tensions without clarity is very relatable. Colleagues like to 'pick my mind' by throwing problems at me because I often give fast answers, but when there is no fast answer the problems are a threat, threatening to be the last straw that ends all productivity for the day. I can be a prickly colleague sometimes, seeing a simple question as an existential threat. I have no switch to ignore unresolved problems, I'm such an intense problem solver I must be deployed with care.
Yes, I know that feeling when I get interrupted with “hey, quick question.” Quick for that person, but they don’t see that I now have to rebuild my entire current state because they just pulled the power cord on my mind.
Oo ill have to read this again when my brain lets me .
I know that feeling. Chugging along, making some progress, and then out of nowhere Brain says "alright bud, you're cut off".
The bottom left of the figure with all the emails, chores/clutter, unresolved mysteries, and interpersonal tensions without clarity is very relatable. Colleagues like to 'pick my mind' by throwing problems at me because I often give fast answers, but when there is no fast answer the problems are a threat, threatening to be the last straw that ends all productivity for the day. I can be a prickly colleague sometimes, seeing a simple question as an existential threat. I have no switch to ignore unresolved problems, I'm such an intense problem solver I must be deployed with care.
Yes, I know that feeling when I get interrupted with “hey, quick question.” Quick for that person, but they don’t see that I now have to rebuild my entire current state because they just pulled the power cord on my mind.