Hello, everyone, and if you’re seeing this after midnight, Happy New Year. It took longer than expected for me to finish this up, since Christmas plans kept me busy and I was trying to figure out where to actually post this. I want to give a brief shoutout to the user doipy hooves for reminding me to post this on time. Thankfully I saw that before midnight myself.
So as you may have heard, my online username is bdt2002, and I spend most of my time on Smogon exploring casual conversation discussions and talking with people about my special interests. As a person who doesn’t just have autism and ADHD, but is actively studying developmental disabilities as both my career and a personal interest, I often have really specific ways that I like to do things but I’ve loved being a part of this community ever since I joined this site and Pokémon Showdown in the late 2010s.
Let’s get started with some questions, shall we? If anyone has any more questions, feel free to post them.
I started majoring the human/social services in my second year of college after going interdisciplinary my first year. I’ve known about my diagnoses for a long time and have always had an interest in helping other people. As for things I do in my personal time, I tend to enjoy more relaxing games and things I grew up either since I feel like I do my best work with a sense of familiarity. Lately I’ve also started exploring getting back into creative writing, something I was particularly fond of during the pandemic. And, of course, I would be reminded not to mention my crippling addiction to the Pokémon Ranger games which got me interested in the entire franchise the moment I fell in love with the third installment. Video games and creative writing have both helped teach me a lot about perseverance, patience, and teamwork, among other things.
Nowadays, people can usually find me watching Seattle Seahawks football games and highlights and recapping these in the NFL threads and find me playing Pokémon, Smash, Mario Kart, and a list of other Nintendo games. Thank you all for inviting me into this community. I am accepting questions if you have any.
So as you may have heard, my online username is bdt2002, and I spend most of my time on Smogon exploring casual conversation discussions and talking with people about my special interests. As a person who doesn’t just have autism and ADHD, but is actively studying developmental disabilities as both my career and a personal interest, I often have really specific ways that I like to do things but I’ve loved being a part of this community ever since I joined this site and Pokémon Showdown in the late 2010s.
Let’s get started with some questions, shall we? If anyone has any more questions, feel free to post them.
I started majoring the human/social services in my second year of college after going interdisciplinary my first year. I’ve known about my diagnoses for a long time and have always had an interest in helping other people. As for things I do in my personal time, I tend to enjoy more relaxing games and things I grew up either since I feel like I do my best work with a sense of familiarity. Lately I’ve also started exploring getting back into creative writing, something I was particularly fond of during the pandemic. And, of course, I would be reminded not to mention my crippling addiction to the Pokémon Ranger games which got me interested in the entire franchise the moment I fell in love with the third installment. Video games and creative writing have both helped teach me a lot about perseverance, patience, and teamwork, among other things.
Nowadays, people can usually find me watching Seattle Seahawks football games and highlights and recapping these in the NFL threads and find me playing Pokémon, Smash, Mario Kart, and a list of other Nintendo games. Thank you all for inviting me into this community. I am accepting questions if you have any.
