The autistic experience of liking research and learning, which means you eventually learn a lot and are usually right as a byproduct, not realising youre triggering people... Until the moment you misspeak or aren't perfectly right and people dog pile and attack you with such venom it catches u off guard and surprises you 🥹
AuDHD is a strange experience.
Your autistic side wants routines.
Your ADHD side wants freedom.
So you build a routine...
then immediately want to escape it.
Add years of stress, misunderstanding, masking, and being told you're lazy, difficult, or not trying hard enough.
Eventually, what looks like "not wanting to do things" is often a nervous system that's exhausted from surviving.
Sometimes the problem was never motivation.
It was carrying too much for too long.
You don't seem autistic...
But also...
- Why are you so sensitive?
- Why cant you just go with the flow?
- Why do you need a plan for everything?
- Why are you so rigid?
- Why do you over-explain everything?
- Why do you take things so literally?
- Why do you ask so many questions?
- Why do you get overwhelmed so fast?
- Why do you need so much recovery time?
- Why do you fidget so much?
As a neurodivergent, you don't actually want a "normal" life.
You want:
• mornings that don't begin in panic
• work that doesn't require constant masking
• friendships that feel safe instead of exhausting
• enough money to live without chronic stress
• a home that feels like a refuge, not another responsibility
• time to pursue interests without guilt
• permission to exist without explanation
Most neurodivergent people aren't asking for special treatment.
They're asking for a life that doesn't require them to fight their own brain every single day.
The most painful part of ADHD is something called RSD – Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It turns even the tiniest mistakes into a disaster, making you feel like you are a failure that ruined everything.
Neurodivergent people will cancel plans to recover from existing and then stay up until 2am because being awake alone still feels better than being around people exhausted
ADHD Internal Conversation
Friend: You're an incredible person
Coworker: You're so incredible
Therapist: You're really extraordinary
Me: oh no, I've tricked everyone into thinking I'm great. They're going to find out and reject me
This is Rejection Sensitivity Disphoria (RSD)
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society thinks adhd is a hyper 8 year old boy who can't sit still in class. adhd is a 34 year old woman who hasn't opened her mail in 6 weeks, eats the same lunch every day, and cried in target last thursday because they moved the seasonal aisle.
Them: what do you do for fun?
My ADHD: I hyperfixate on a hobby for 2 weeks, spend $400 on supplies, produce one (1) item, get bored, marinate in shame about the money I spent, then do it again and again until I die
"LISTEN TO YOUR BODY" IS TERRIBLE ADVICE FOR ADHD. 🤡 If I listened to my body, I would eat 2kg of sugar, quit my job via text, and sleep for 3 years. My body doesn't want "health." My body wants Dopamine. It is a toddler screaming for candy. If I do what it wants, I will ruin my life by noon. Who else has a body that tries to sabotage them daily?
People who’ve never experienced hyperfixation don’t understand what it’s like when an interest becomes more than a hobby. It becomes your comfort, your motivation, your source of joy, and sometimes the one thing keeping you going when everything else feels exhausting.
BREAKING: Texas man allegedly killed his unborn daughter, Presley Mae, by secretly crushing abortion pills into his girlfriend's drink after she refused to abort.
She was 14 weeks pregnant.
Abortion pills are used as a tool of coercion and abuse against women and children.
Ban the pill now!
@chaislynmusic That’s funny because I thought I was 5’9” until height was an issue with passing a Physical Training Test in the military. I argued I should have passed because I am 5’9” and then he measure me and showed me that I was actually 5’ 8.5”. It was quite an anxiety spike.
Prestigious doctor leaves a crowded room stunned after asking pro-abortion politicians:
"If abortion is healthcare, my question is: what disease are you treating?"