#adhd pride

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a drawing my pookie made for pride month @/hikari275026 on twt

[fairyb0ii]

They say:

-You can't be AuDHDer because you are "normal".

-We're all a little autistic/ADHD.

-You can't be AuDHDer because you are queer and trans and you had s3x with your partner.

And stuff like that.

But when I don't mask, when I show autistic and ADHD joy, when I stim, when they see my special interests, they say I'm "weird", "childish" or "stupid".

When I show my difficulties, when I need support, when I have repetitive and racing thoughts, they say I'm "picky", "selfish", "spoiled".

When I have a meltdown or a shutdown, they say I'm "mad".

When they know that I am neurodivergent, they say I'm "ill".

I'm not ill, mad, spoiled, selfish, picky, stupid, childish or weird.

AuDHD is a disability, difficulty, joy, special interests, hyperfocus, mood swings, hypersensitivity, etc...

AuDHD is not an illness.

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ADHD pride flag colorpicked from Nibblelinephym | requested by; @sundewhasaudhd

[ultrainfinitepit]

Disability and ADHD angel pins arrived today ✨ these charity pins will be available when my shop updates in August. Right now I’m thinking the update will be August 5 so I have time to finish pin grading. You can follow my shop, newsletter, or social media to be notified when the update is live.

[demonanastasi]

Dear fellow adhders:

It is okay to sleep among the pile of clothes you left on your bed because your brain was done with putting away laundry after you put away everything leading up to that.

The dirty dishes surrounding and resting in the sink are well to be there. You needn't wash any of them until you need a specific dish, at which only wash what you need to use immediately. Or, simply eat off a paper towel or wax paper or drink straight from the container in the fridge. If dishes are developing mold, let them be; they can be cleaned when you are mentally ready to clean them.

If there is an unpleasant smell and you can't clean to attend to it, use a good-smelly to ease your mind, and clean when you are ready (good-smellies i.e. lighting candles or incense to make the room smell nice, spraying fragrances on your clothing or comfort plushies so you are not traipsing or cuddling perturbed).

Caffeine is your friend, and utilize sugar for dopamine.

If autism is comorbid, engage in your special interests liberally to be infused with the joy and energy that dopamine you get from it brings regularly. Playlists of special interest songs/songs pertaining to/reminding you of your special interests are a passive boon that boosts spirits and energy. Place illustrations/pictures/etc. reminders of your special interests around your home so when your distractible mind ganders, you get a boost of dopamine.

Above all other things in life, focus on dopamine maintenance. Our brains have a natural deficiency in dopamine generation compared to neurotypical brains, so we must meet their baseline first before doing the things they do without issue. Truly, dopamine is the key. Getting that need met allows all the rest to fall into place -- not in a neurotypical way, but in an adhd (/audhd) way. Our lives won't be the same as neurotypical lives. Why should we compare our lives to theirs? Why should we feel externally-imposed shame for how we lead our lives? We shouldn't. We should never.

Point of this post is, shame has no place in adhd lives. We can carry out our existences in peace in our messy surroundings. Dishes remaining by the sink, with some washed and others not. Unswept floors, cat hair accumulating in corners. Laundry increasing in height in the basket. Stepping over a paper that is to be thrown away only when we are ready. A zen life in an abode neurotypicals would judge negatively and make demands of.

Our homes are not to be demanded of, realms of peace they are.

Sincerely, an audhd man who is making it on his own and leading a relatively peaceful and stable life, thanks to honoring his brain's natural ways and orchestrating his life within that innate framework rather than one alien constructed and placed before him. Shedding the judgments cast down by others in his past. It's a work in progress, unlearning the forced shame that causes us to feel distressed and useless (when we are not!) but I am close.

Don't try to lead a neurotypical life. Lead a YOU life.

We must all relearn peace for ourselves.

Attain peace, and freedom from neurotypical judgment, and pursue the dopamine like your life depends on it.

Because our lives do 💚✨

[autball]

Do you know about Weird Pride Day? It's a thing, and it’s today, March 4th!

I don't know exactly when it happened, but I embraced weirdness a long time ago. I still have a journal of mine from middle school, and this is what I wrote on the inside front cover at the time:

--

THINK AS I THINK by Stephen Crane

"Think as I think," said a man,

"Or you are abominally wicked;

You are a toad."

And after I had thought of it,

I said: "I will, then, be a toad."

--

Now admittedly, I found it way easier to apply this to accepting others who were different in some way than to myself for a long time. I was friends with the closeted gay kids and the gothy kids and other "outliers" even though I didn't necessarily identify with any of that myself. I still masked hardcore for most of my life, though.

What finally made me proud to be weird instead of ashamed was finding out there's an actual name for it and whole community of other weirdos like me! I'm not broken, I'm just autistic, and we're supposed to be the way we are!

So now, I'm not afraid to be weird. I'm teaching my kids it's okay to be weird, that our whole family is weird! I own it, and no one can use it to hurt me anymore.

More here: https://oolong.medium.com/weird-pride-day-232465b67dd9

[thebeesbox]

Day 33 of Pride Flags Drawn as Foxes: ADHD flag

[armoralor]

Neurodivergent & Disability Flag Icons with Sabine Wren ✰ Sources: [2023 Updated Ann Magill Disability Pride] [2022 Updated Samstarium ADHD Pride] [2021 Neurodivergent Elephant Autistic Pride] [2021 Autistic Empire Autisim Pride] [2020 @autistic-trans & @sonazeflags ADHD Pride] [2019 Ann Magill Disability Pride] [2017 Eros Recio Flag of Overcoming] [2016 MissLunaRose12 Pastel Neurodiversity Symbol] ✰ please note the designs update & change regularly ✰ reminder that T*RFs can fuck off, only interact if you love trans and nb folks ♡ different versions below!

There is sadly a 30 image limit to posts, so this is the max number of variations I am able to include- BUT! If there is a specific Sabine or a different character you would like to see on a specific flag, just let me know! Always happy to make more.

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A whole bunch of ADHD meds emojis.

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Representation!!!🦋

[prideful-palace]

My Yasuhiro Hagakure Pride Headcanons!

Pronouns - He/Him

Transgender Male

Pansexual

Neurodivergent - (ADHD)

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Emma Perkins color picked for the ADHD flag?

ADHD pride flag colorpicked from Emma Perkins | requested by; thecrabbybarista

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Ghostbusters logo Pride icons*⁠.⁠✧ | (1 / 2 / 3)

Made these for fun, credit isn't necessary but it would be appreciated! if you want a custom flag send me an ask or check the other parts 1 / 2

[demonanastasi]

I am spending my lull period (of my circadian rhythm) on this happy beach day crafting, just as I have done yesterday at home. When the adhd mind slows to yearn for resting in these hours, it gets interested in the things it has found noteworthy and collected.

And in my grinding down of this piece of wood I found with a porous sea shell to make a more comfortable handle for a tool of some sort, I achieved an epiphany.

Belphegor is the Demon of Sloth and Patron of Inventors for this reason.

I pondered, in ancient times I would have been a god in the community, an inventor of various things that aided human life, because of what I was doing at present: making something out of all the things I collected while I found a spot on the beach. And then it hit me, the Belphegor revelation.

Adhders of ancient humanity created so many innovations for their communities through means of their minds' instinctive urges to pick up objects they find, and then create something useful in the lull periods when the mind calls for rest in the afternoon. We are not broken. We are smart and amazing inventors. Hail Belphegor, God of Rest and Invention!!

[neurodivergent-alien]

As a neurodivergent person, I feel things very deeply. I can’t hold emotions in my body so I express them outwardly through movement. I flap my hands, hop in place, sway to music only I can hear. I used to try to hold all of the stims in for fear of how people react, but I don’t do that anymore. I’m done with being ashamed of how I express things!

[pocket-sized-nightmare]

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adhd mara greer stimboard!

yet another neurodivergent riftside headcanon, i know. there's a reason this show means so much to me. even if it wasn't intentional, mara is one of the most accurate representations of adhd i've ever seen. (yet again, i should post this rant analysis someday. maybe i will.) i love her, and i love the way she and phee are so different but so similar. mara's such an interesting character, and this is just one of the reasons why she's one of my favorites ever.