#AuDHD YouTuber (Yo Samdy Sam), working on upcoming book on Autism and Trauma (out 2026), mentor and strategist for autistic/ADHD entrepreneurs. My life involves crochet 🧶, cats 😺, motherhood 👨🏼‍👩🏼‍👧🏼‍👦🏼, and coffee ☕ (not in that order).https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lnkdc5cgls2zI've started a Substack, would love it if you would subscribe https://yosamdysam.substack.com/p/a-place-for-the-loose-threads24 Apr 2025 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnkdc5cgls2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3ljn2ws67jc24Any #AuDHD writers out there who love the self-imposed Kingdom of Isolation that comes with working on your book but also suddenly become desperate to socialise and meet people? But then all you want to talk to them about is your book? https://media.tenor.com/pOqHf3X0gyoAAAAC/isolation-a-kingdom-of-isolation.gif?hh=208&ww=49805 Mar 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljn2ws67jc24https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3liwefpxifk2qI'm at the point in my book writing where I'm trying to finish up chapters instead of jumping around. I think I'm doing well then I read sentences like the one below and wonder why I'm so obnoxious:24 Feb 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwefpxifk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lhviqgnehc2eI just love that my writing software tracks somewhat irrelevant stats like this. You can clearly see where my energy dropped off a cliff and picked back up. #scrivener11 Feb 2025 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhviqgnehc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lhlfw7xtyk2bIf you didn't know I have a podcast, it's probably because I've been shit at promoting it. But you can find it on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon/Audible and there are two new eipsodes on their way soon! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0E4fE74KGi8Xt6x9DrVe8U?si=305560fdf9104c7a07 Feb 2025 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhlfw7xtyk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lhiw76jfp226Just passed the 40k word mark. Book is really starting to book now! #Muchwritersuchwow06 Feb 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhiw76jfp226https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lhga6b7qok2wMy publisher gave me the feedback that I was perhaps a little too deep into the science of my book and needed to add some softer touches, and more of my own personality, so I'm adding little sentences like describing fMRI machines as "expensive and exciting scanny devices"05 Feb 2025 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhga6b7qok2whttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lhbj5qulv22dWe'll be opening tickets soon for the 2nd ever Wild Brains Retreat held in the Netherlands in May, specifically designed for neurodivergent business owners, entrepreneurs and the self-employed. If you want to be notified when tickets are available, sign up here: subscribepage.io/WildBrains03 Feb 2025 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbj5qulv22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lguq6u4mlc2wI cannot make any kind of a flattering face for a screengrab but happy to say there are two upcoming episodes to the Awkward Conversations podcast coming soon, one with Sarah Hendrickx (about autism & menopause) and one with my friend Dianna Moylan (about grief and terminal illness as a ND person).29 Jan 2025 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lguq6u4mlc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lgs3sg7yhc2wSo depressing to be reading through papers on what we know about brain differences in autistic people and come across sentences like "Finding the markers and therapeutic targets for ASD treatment will significantly impact the global economy." Sorry, are WE supposed to be the problem here?!?28 Jan 2025 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgs3sg7yhc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lgpyclcpm22kMy grandmother, second from left, having been forced out of their home in Berlin, then settled in the UK. However, after her school was evacuated, she was classified as an "enemy alien", and was interned for 6 weeks on the Isle of Man while her father desperately tried to get her returned to them.27 Jan 2025 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgpyclcpm22khttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lgpqevkljk2cMy great grandparents, Frieda and Adolf Stein, murdered in Izbica in April 1942 aged 59 and 67. #NeverForget27 Jan 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgpqevkljk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lgfto3qlrk2sYay! Thanks to all the new followers coming over from YouTube. You can be the sky and I can be the old man yelling at the clouds23 Jan 2025 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgfto3qlrk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lgd3ksomc22yFinally transitioning from 2D to 3D crochet, I'm having lots of fun this January going full Goblincore. The jellyfish in the background was my first go without a specific pattern, and this unicorn was from my Mythical Creatures crochet book. Now someone stop me from getting into needle felting.22 Jan 2025 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgd3ksomc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lg6l2dfw6c2uReally struggling to embrace the "just say what's on your mind" mentality necessary to actually contribute to apps like this. Probably being slightly traumatised by being repeatedly misunderstood (as is the life of an autistic person) has led me to be obsessive about what I write and share. Hmm.20 Jan 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6l2dfw6c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lfmz4666a22gMeet Storm, either an emotional support cat, highly attuned to the needs of her person, who can tell she's been writing too long and needs a break, or... her bowl is empty. Word count update: 27500 - almost at the halfway point!13 Jan 2025 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmz4666a22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lf5kemfb5c22It turns out I've not been receiving emails to my yosamdysam email since late October. Whoops. Problem is now fixed, unfortunately everything during that time is lost. Still, life kept going and maybe good that I didn't get distracted during that time by shiny new opportunities.07 Jan 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5kemfb5c22https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lf3p2wzjqs2zThat feeling when you're admiring how much work you've put into getting your inbox organised and cleared for the new year, before someone DMs you to tell you their emails aren't getting through and you wonder how many emails are sitting in limbo 🙂06 Jan 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3p2wzjqs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lcxixz3o7s26My son is finally at the age (7, precocious reader) where we can enjoy lovely chapter books together, and the first one we went for was "A Kind of Spark" by @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social A few hours after we finished it: "Mum, wait, are WE autistic?!?" 😂😂😂 yes honey10 Dec 2024 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxixz3o7s26https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lcxi7jib5226The unfiltered documentation of my writing process pt 1: passed the 20k words mark a while ago, hated everything I'd written, decided to take a little break for a few weeks, weeks turned into over a month, got back to it today, turns out... yes I still hate it all 😂10 Dec 2024 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxi7jib5226https://bsky.app/profile/yosamdysam.bsky.social/post/3lckcgieyw226Hello #ActuallyAutistic friends, going through the tedious process of setting up a new social media account and having to remember who I was following elsewhere.05 Dec 2024 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:fpjb45wj2zeaj6vfqqvxmudv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckcgieyw226