local adhd babey

how's it going fellow alexithymia-havers?

This is some love going out to other people with severe mental/developmental/etc disabilities! I mean severe like, in of need full-time assistance or *a lot* of accommodations. I mean people who legitimately can’t always control or understand their own behaviors. People who cannot live on their own, or maybe can’t make their own decisions. The people who get left out of everything, by everyone, even those who say to support people with stigmatized mental illnesses and not very nice symptoms and behaviors. Because, for all everyone shouts that they support these things - you really show you don’t very often (even on this site). Something people on here still really need to understand and support, is what *serious* and *severe* mental/developmental/etc disability really is.

being neurodivergent does not justify nor explain away your ableism against the physically disabled. I really don’t care for creative and clinical sounding excuses. there’s people going through the exact same things as you and are not ableist shitheads towards the physically disabled. learn something from them

ngl the way some ppl, even other nd ppl and ppl in the disability community, talk abt adhd is uh…….how u say……..super fucked up.

this is so incredibly important. i worked at a middle school in the suburbs that would bus in a lot of black and brown kids from the inner city then give them absolutely no support for dealing with the culture shock. the way the teachers treated these kids was horrendous. there was one kid who was afro latino and very clearly had adhd, but instead of helping him teachers treated him like absolute garbage. he would show absolute textbook signs of adhd and get out of school suspensions instead of accommodations. the few times i was actually able to sit down with him and help him, it was absolutely heartbreaking to hear the ways he would talk about himself. he was 11 and had absolutely given up because all the teachers were telling him to his face what a horrible kid he was. the teachers, not the kids, the teachers made him a laughingstock. at 11 fucking years old.

adhd alone often fucks kids over in school because teachers are so quick to turn into high school bullies, but when you add race into the mix it gets so so so much worse.

[ID: Screenshot of a reply from transgender-anakin-skywalker. “The undiagnosed ADHD to prison pipeline (especially for POC who are massively undiagnosed compared to their white counterparts) is a huge issue in many countries, but no, apparently it’s just the funny quirky squirrel disorder that doesn’t really affect anyone ever.” This is followed by an unamused emoji.]

none of you understand what character playlists are supposed to be anymore. this is not a “what the character would listen to” situation this is not a random song order whatever feels right type of thing YOU DONT GET IT. you are supposed to tell a story . you are supposed to cultivate a vibe . each song needs to flow into the next so well you wonder how theyre not same artist. you need a list of songs in custom order with lyrics that make you think of your blorbo and then you throw up. do you get it? do you understand ?? SHAKES YOU . 

Shout out to all the autistics & adhders who were not labeled "gifted" in school or ever called "a pleasure to have in class" but were perpetually the problem kid. The ones who were always yelled at & shamed, the ones who disrupted class, the ones who got detention, the ones who were bullied by their teachers just as much as their peers, and the ones who barely made it through school, or didn't at all because you didn't get the support you needed. I see you 💙

it does

I'm not easy to love!!

Think I kind of hacked my brain into working properly?

I have ADD, so my brain isn’t wired to process the future properly.

My newest hack has been to write letters to myself. In the morning, I write a letter to my night self. At night, I write a letter to my morning self. And I ask her to do things.

I ask her, “Could you call and make this appointment for me today?”

“Could you try to get to bed on time? It would really help me.”

“Can you get started on that assignment today? Morning Jeans tomorrow is going to be so happy if you do.”

I’ve got a small sample size, but the results are fantastic so far.

Because I can’t understand the future. I don’t emotionally grok “there will be consequences for this later” because later doesn’t exist. But I can understand “I need help.” And if I can translate from one to the other, I can speak the language I need to to do the things I need to do.

Youre a fucking mad genius is what you are

EXTRAORDINARY ATTORNEY WOO (2022) dir. Yoo In Shik

time blindness is real af, credit to @wanderofmanyworlds

They will not entirely ignore my diagnosis

A Checklist Of Possible Reasons I Am Upset, To Review When I Can't Seem To Figure It Out:

and then. and THEN. I may consider:

I DON’T UNDERSTAND US SOMETIMES ???

Yes

One day I had to lie on the floor to reach something that fell under the couch and after I retrieved the item I just. Stayed there. For like half an hour

Felt great

i need to clip through the floor like bethesda made me

yes. even more so.

The fun thing about ADHD and sleep is that if you don't fall asleep within your prime sleepy window you're just gonna be awake all night

Here's a graph i made in bed to illustrate:

Anyway autism is a disability and insisting that it's not has some really harmful effects: