Media ADHD: "Ooh, look a squirrel! Let's go ride bikes!"
Real ADHD: "I am currently ruining my own life by refusing to perform a 3-minute task that would solve 90% of my anxiety.
I am fully aware of this. I am screaming internally. I physically cannot make my body stand up and do it. And yes it as stupid to me as it is to you.
@Dearme2_ Gain a chronic illness. Was in so much physical pain for three months until I got diagnosed and medicated. When the pain went down enough for me to be able to think like a human again, I realised that I no longer wanted to end my life.
@obviouslacking For Freshman Year, our Lit Prof told us we'd me studying Romeo and Juliet. She then proceeds to drop the book into the bin before pulling out the manga version and told us to read that one to get knowledge of the plot first before we'd work on the actual words 😂
The autistic burnout creeping in when I have the easiest job ever
and then it hits me that no matter what I will always be autistic and struggle to work and I'll ALWAYS feel this way and allistic ppl will never truly get it even if they say they do.
My "high functioning autism" is basically everyone else seeing me as "completely normal but maybe just a bit picky/ particular"... while internally it's me in constant sensory overload, social overload, and fighting against my executive dysfunction to just do stuff
@angelalimony I have this for a particular piano piece. Friends and I went to "fancy tea" for one of their birthdays that had a live pianist. Towards the end, I heard the opening chord on the piano, and according to my friends, I went pale and looked like I was gonna be sick. cPTSD is a bitch.
ptsd: something terrible happened to you.
complex ptsd: something terrible WAS your entire environment and you had to just live in it. there was no escape.
@GameboyLuke It's gross enough that he dated his close friend's ex fiancee, but the fact he was the reason for the breakup...
And then has the audacity to put "We did not sleep with each other before the breakup"
I've met Luke, I've hugged Luke, and I'm disgusted.
Undiagnosed or unmedicated/unmanaged ADHD is saying "Tomorrow will be the day I'll finally get up, do the stuff that needs to be done, and start living my life to its fullest" and you unironically believe it every time until you look up one day and realise you're 30
my therapist told me this and it hit me: “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace."
“But you survived.”
I dissociate, like, a lot. My heart drops when someone raises their voice. I shut down very easily. I’m far too observant. I always feel like a burden. I isolate often.
But yeah, sure. I guess I survived.
@AutisticCallum_@ashleyann_atx Husband and I say "words" when this happens so the other knows we've hit a block and are trying to get past it. Works so well for us
@leafumn Had this growing up until my mum asked me why I didn't argue back at age 11. I told her I'd just get in more trouble for defending myself, cos I always did, and you could see her flinch when she realised what she'd been "teaching me".
I was allowed to argue back after that.
There’s nothing sadder than a naturally bright, bubbly neurodivergent person slowly dimming their sparkle after years of being excluded for simply being themselves.