#adhd and add

[bchemiqn]

NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE !!! do u also hate it when other people u know irl (mostly neurotypicals) also like ur hyperfixation? i get weirdly possessive but since I can’t shut up about it, the people around me start liking it and then im mad lol.

i think it’s mostly due to them not matching my excitement or just some weird superiority complex i get with my hyperfixations

please share ur thoughts and opinions !!!

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

I had a thought: Nightcore & ADHD?

Without making this way longer than it needs to be...

I loved Nightcore like 7 years ago and still enjoy it from time to time, and I am going to get myself assessed for ADHD in the next year.

ADHD is correlated to brain go zoooooom

Nightcore makes the music go zoooooom

Maybe nightcore was/is appealing because it keeps up with my thought processing and such

[grilde1chesse]

BE FREE!!!

remember 2 do ur clicks!!

[solidwater05]

Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

[retrogamingblog2]

[muppetfreak]

Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

[afilmbyemma]

THANK YOU.

I think it’s really important to start teaching people that Attention Deficit Disorders don’t always have hyperactivity as a symptom. I’m not hyperactive at all - my lack of focus manifests more as mental restlessness for me - so I had ADHD written off as ‘definitely not’. Then I got tested for it when I was 20 and when my results came back the first thing the nurse said was “yeah it’s so severe that it’s probably a minor miracle you graduated from high school.” In most places it’s a lot easier to get tested for attention deficit disorders than autism (if only because of bureaucratic nonsense and lack of funding) so yeah if you’ve been saying to yourself “I’d say I was ADHD if it weren’t for the fact that I’m not hyperactive” go get yourself tested.

[mothmonologue]

My life is a constant cycle between "I need to rest before I burn out" and "I'm wasting my potential, I should work harder"

[helluo-librorums]

I'm starting to romanticize my life again. For the past 4ish years, I've really struggled with my mental health and all of its issues. Every so often, I finally break out of it and can be semi-normal, and now is one of those times. Hopefully, it can last longer than the last time, but I never really know.

I'm gonna try and keep this updated, but I have a really bad memory when it comes to stuff like this. I think it is really important that mental health is talked about more, so I'm really going to try.

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[jaxyscreams]

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[chaosinplural]

i feel like the tragedy of being aroace is that i’m never going to be anyone’s favorite person. like at some point everyone’s favorite person is going to be whoever they have sex with and kiss and i’m never going to want that. hell i don’t even have a best friend now but even if i do i’ll still be second to their boyfriend or girlfriend or husband because that’s how the world works

[neurodivergent-brain]

🎀 when you realise you’ve been masking all your life 🎀

[typhlonectes]

[that-1-url]

so something I've noticed within a lot of fandoms is that people will post their "neurodivergent" headcanons. which is fine ofc, however when they say "neurodivergent" they are typically only referring to autism or ADHD. maaaayybbee ptsd if the character(s) are "traumatized enough" (by that I mean, there's typically one who everyone uwuifies and infantilizes because their trauma is most prominently on display within the media). a common headcanon that often fails to address the trauma of other characters, or that trauma doesn't always manifest itself as PTSD/C-PTSD.

point being, while there's nothing wrong with headcanoning characters with these (autism, adhd, ptsd), maybe...do research? branch out more? imagine how nice it would be if suddenly large amounts of people were not only educated about other lesser-known forms of neurodivergence (ocd, did, npd, bpd, aspd, schizotypal disorders, etc.) but destigmatized them by giving these headcanons to well-loved, popular characters (rather than the villains or antagonists, or even just less popular or even hated characters). (and hey, if you didn't know, schizophrenia and autism can present similarly)

(that being said please do research before you head canon something stigmatizing or ableist.)

it could pave the way for real, genuine, non-stigmatizing or demonizing representation.

and this could probably be a separate post but I wanted to include it here as well:

POC CHARACTERS CAN BE NEURODIVERGENT. POC CHARACTERS ARE ALSO AUTISTIC, ALSO HAVE ADHD, OCD, AND MORE!! STOP LEAVING THEM OUT, STOP ONLY HEADCANONING THE WHITE PROTAGONISTS AS AUTISTIC.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, please feel free to add on