Creative Divergents
@creativedivergents.bsky.social
Dedicated to the art of #creativity, and everyone who engages in it. Focusing on creative process, and the intersection of #creativity and #neurodiversity You don’t have to be neurodivergent to be here, but it helps! CreativeDivergents@gmail.com
Reasonable Accommodations, my debut novel, is out now:)!! Links are in my pinned post
Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · yesterdayQ6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters
Spookie Authors Chat for writers who manage spoons, October 22, 2026: Is there something about horror/paranormal writing you find cathartic? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat!)
Pre-Transition I would be fucking depressed or self loathing all the time saying I had lost my creativity after I graduated high school. 2 years later I transition and I'm less miserable and much more creatively driven. Not going to say it was just transitioning but it helped a large amount.
Teaching theatre/dance I’ve watched the creativity and freedom of expression decline due to all the testing. Students are often looking to be right and perfect. So I design lessons so students feel safe to make mistakes and enjoy the creative process no matter how messy it gets.
“Nearly three in four Illinois parents experience sensory overload related to child-rearing. The most common causes of parents’ sensory overload were: children arguing, loud noise level from children, and messiness from toys and clutter.” I think this is for ALL parents not just autistic!
The Sensory Overload of Child-Rearing
Over 1,000 Illinois parents share what drives “sensory overload” in child-rearing. Review top triggers, who feels it most, and other key takeaways.
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God I am so fucking angry Queer folks, tell your stories. Mainstream, independent, comics, zines, games, shorts, novels, film, whatever your medium whatever your genre There are increasingly fewer platforms for them, so it is more important than ever to make sure they get out into the world
“I’m pretty sure that at this point the contract says that she gets to keep her soul, gets mine as well, and has dominion over all the kingdoms of the Earth,” said Lucifer Morningstar, 6028, “but at this point, I just want it to be over.” 🤣🤣🤣 you know we would!
Whatever, fine! Satan gives in after 15 weeks of negotiations for autistic woman’s soul
An autistic woman has officially become the first person to ever to out-negotiate Satan, it has been reported. Paige Thomas, 45, has claimed that she entered into negotiations with the Prince of Darkn...
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For my fellow neurodivergent storytellers out there who, like me, may be struggling with confidence: www.patreon.com/MarkGuyer/po... #art #writing #reading #editing #creativity #books #writingcommunity
Dear Neurodivergent Artists | Dustin Pinney
Dear Neurodivergent Artists, You are not stupid. You are not useless. You are not broken. You've likely been told that you are all those
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Creative focus rarely arrives by force. Sometimes it appears after you clear one small corner, begin with the interesting part, and let momentum do the rest. #CreativeFocus #Creativity #Neurodivergent
Creative focus can begin before confidence arrives: a blank page, one intriguing detail, a few protected minutes. Give the small spark somewhere to land, and it may surprise you with what it becomes. #CreativeFocus #Creativity #Curiosity #Neurodivergent
I was on another podcast! Thank you so much to Stéphanie for having me - it was wonderful talking about neurodivergent characters in dark fantasy 💙 Watch now:
Writing Neurodivergence and Dark Fantasy with Mylee Miller
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Balancing Story, Neurodivergence, and Creativity
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Just reading that @simonpegg.bsky.social has ADHD and I am not surprised tbh. Why? Because in my day job I work with people with neurodivergent conditions and so many of them have a streak of creativity I can't fathom, nor do I want to fathom it, I just appreciate and admire it.
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There’s a college paper to be written about The Little Mermaid as a metaphor for masking.
I’m told that Hans Christian Anderson was Autistic, and i’m inclined to believe it
Us NDs seem to always be the ones to point out the king is naked.
Spoonie Authors Chat for writers who manage spoons, October 12, 2026: Are you thankful for anything today? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat!)
This. Same with drawing. I don’t do it just to see the finished piece, I do it because I enjoy MAKING it, the process is my hobby and therapy both.
Kayla (The Mango) 🥭@kayla7kat.bsky.social · 2w agoI have found the fastest way to piss off someone trying to pit h you AI as an author is to simply respond "but I like writing" AI is faster "ok but I like writing" You can make more money "ok but I like writing" Its so efficient "OK but I like writing"
Spoonie Authors Chat for writers who manage spoons, October 8, 2026: What are your goals as an author? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat!)
One of the reasons I despise AI is how it robs imagination twice. First it steals from creatives and thinkers to make slop. Then it lets users bypass rather than learn a creative process. The political timing isn’t accidental. We need imagination to envision a better world that we’ll fight for.
An oldie but goodie thread 🧵 on neurodivergence (specifically #ADHD), cycling in and out of #hyperfocus and/or the actively creative phase, and #procrastination Takeaway: If you’re still feeling the #anxiety over a problem, you are not procrastinating. Procrastination would be avoiding that anxiety
Medusa’s Wink@medusaswink.bsky.social · last yr.#ADHD #hyperfocus I’m working with someone on adjusting their professional process to accommodate ADHD symptoms, and in fact get them to be beneficial. A lot of this involves reframing the phases around hyperfocus. Most professionals like their hyperfocus. It makes them highly effective. However…🧵
When we’re talking about creativity, what most us need help with isn’t figuring out the “rules” — it’s disregarding them. What does it mean, to have our own process? If everyone’s isn’t the same, how do we even know what “our process” is? What really IS this creativity thing all about?
Creative Divergents@creativedivergents.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you so much for sharing your thought process here! If what we’re enabling (complimentary) is not just a question/answer process, but a “refine our thoughts and ask a better question” process— —I would be thrilled with that. Because ppl may have answers, but will they be the answer for *you*
found a problem! i like: imaging things that are or could be possible i dislike: working in isolation i am averse to: being told something is impossible
I ask this question because we have all been trained to work a neurotypical “creative process.” Which is slightly ironic, insomuch as #creativity is really more about breaking through our predetermined expectations. So it’s natural that neurodivergents have unusual, or undefined, creative process.
Creative Divergents@creativedivergents.bsky.social · 3w agoWhile pondering your dilemma, a question occurred to me: Is this struggle a newer one for you, or has it been ongoing throughout most of your life? That might give us some clues about what your process is, and how to make it work better for you. (If I’ve misunderstood, please correct me)
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
Q4: What role do you think autistic/neurodivergent pride plays in autistic/neurodivergent communities? In the broader world? #AutChat
Q3: Has your relationship to the idea of autistic/neurodivergent pride changed over time? #AutChat
