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When you finally find out about your ADHD.
reblogging for ADHD awareness month.
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The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears
I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out
WORKIN' HARD
HARDLY WORKIN'
Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad
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When a person with ADHD complains of severe anxiety, I recommend that the clinician not immediately accept the patient’s label for her emotional experience. A clinician should say, “Tell me more about your baseless, apprehensive fear,” which is the definition of anxiety. More times than not, a person with ADHD hyperarousal will give a quizzical look and respond, “I never said I was afraid.” If the patient can drop the label long enough to describe what the feeling is like, a clinician will likely hear, “I am always tense; I can’t relax enough to sit and watch a movie or TV program. I always feel like I have to go do something.” The patients are describing the inner experience of hyperactivity when it is not being expressed physically.
At the same time, people with ADHD also have fears that are based on real events in their lives. People with ADHD nervous systems are consistently inconsistent. The person is never sure that her abilities and intellect will show up when they are needed. Not being able to measure up at the job or at school, or in social circles is humiliating. It is understandable that people with ADHD live with persistent fear. These fears are real, so they do not indicate an anxiety disorder.
holy SHIT
Ooo okay, I really wanted to know what the source of this was and it’s Additude magazine, a 2021 last-updated-in-2021 article here titled Why Anxiety Disorder Is So Often Misdiagnosed.
I know I vibed with this quote and saw others do so in the tags so I thought a source would be helpful.
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for the last time i DON'T have ADHD!!!!!!! i'm just always daydreaming because of my whimsical nature, i make impulse decisions because i love spontaneity, i forget things from before because i live in the now, i get everywhere late because i'm a free spirit, my place is a mess because i'm a creative type, and i'm tapping my foot because i'm feeling the rhythm of life babey! what do you MEAN you found my wallet in the oven
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the-polysulfur-collective-deact
Autism: I need this specific routine to be followed for me to be in peace and working
ADHD: I need extreme flexibility and opportunity to work on what i want in different days
AuDHD: Okay, so, i need... A general routine, like, okay, i cannot funcition without a routine, right?, But after two (2) days, i cannot function with this specific routine, i need a little change, but if it's too much change i will literally cry right NOW
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only-tiktoks
HEY >:[
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person w adhd experiencing symptoms of adhd: why the fuck can’t I do this thing . I wish there was some explanation for this
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I hate that no one talks about just how distressing memory loss from adhd actually is. I always see memes that are like “haha I forgot my phone, I don’t remember where my laptop is, etc”, but no one seems to talk about how it can really fuck you up long term to just, not remember things that are completely mundane to non-adhd’ers. The memory loss is, however, so frustrating to us. I cannot physically count how many meltdowns I have had over the sheer mental frustration and torture of not being able to remember seemingly simple things
in addition to the frustration and shame of the actual forgetting, there's this constant background dread, because you know for a damn FACT you are forgetting something important at any given moment. racking your brain may or may not bring it to mind, but you can't be dwelling on that 24/7 or you'd never do anything else, plus it quite often doesn't even work. so you just. live with it. every second of every day.
you have forgotten something that is going to bite you on the ass at some random future moment. water is wet. this is your life.
i think the reason so many people with ADHD develop such an absurdist sense of humor is that you have to deal with constant uncertainty and absurdity while being low-key scared and high-key BORED AS FUCK. like if you don't learn to laugh this shit off you just die.
This shit is actually maddening to the point of tears for me.
I undermine so much of my own judgement because i know my head is slippery. I hate it, i cant trust myself, and on the off chance i am so certain that I am remembering something correctly as it is (esp if its in regards to something someone said/did that hurt me) just a "that didnt happen (like that)" or "i didnt say that" makes me feel like I am going insane. Or they blame lost shit on me when they move it. I swear to god I placed something in the one of four places I usually set it, but i guess ill take the blame for it because im usually pacing anyway to find the item thats currently in my own damn hand.
Its like I have this balancing act of knowing im faulty or taking the chance on being the bitch just to be assertive and I hate it. So goddamn much.
Hello the majority of my life, yeah. Absurdist humor is literally our brand because it's a survival tactic.
I don’t really “think outside the box.” I just forgot where the box was.
You can't find the box because it's been claimed by the cats and ferrets of the brain.
When you have ADHD, you are functionally being gaslit by your own brain. Every day. All the time.
The perpetual state of "did I leave the oven on?" mind games you go through, even though you know you haven't had the executive function to cook a damn meal in days, is real.
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having ADHD to they/them pipeline. idk im running out of post ideas
If I Cannot See My Gender, I Simply Forget Its Existence
gender impermanence
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And then it becomes part of the environment, That’s Just Where it Lives, until a bout of cleaning hyperfixation where you have to concentrate really hard on The Thing and the curse is broken.
The pillow has been behind the radiator for a solid two months
justlgbtthings
this is exactly what its like and i dont fucking know how to explain this to neurotypicals in a way theyll understand
#adhd#same tbh#because when I pick it up#then I have to Do something with it#it isn’t just picking it up#it’s picking it up#and knowing where it goes#and putting it where it goes#so it sits there and you look at it#like well what am I supposed to do with you#and your brain goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#and it stays right there
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How many did you get?
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Anybody else, maybe with ADHD, see something but not SEE it?
Like as I was closing the fridge I saw the garlic and was like “oh yeah I have to put garlic in the stew” and when I reopened the fridge ten seconds later I had to search around for the garlic because I hadn’t SEEN it.
Just now I’m at a craft store, I saw the word “adhesive” but I didn’t SEE it so now I’m trying to find it again, a literal 2 seconds after I saw it.
Yes! It's a mix of visual clutter and lack of object permanence. Your brain says "you saw it, no need to show you again" and leaves you crying in the grocery store trying to find cheese
Me: please god I just want to finish dinner
My brain: you may witness the presence of garlic ONCE
Me: oh hey here’s that thing you need
My sister: where?
Me: ... excellent question
#adhd#same tbh#god i do this all the time#sometimes it's where is my phone?#answer: in my hand#sometimes it's i will put this lock in a highly visible location#then completely forget where i put it#and not be able to see it in the highly visible location#where is this thing?#literally right in front of you
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I mean
adhd is stored in the ass
the a in adhd stands for ass
What do the other letters stand for then?
