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[A @justalysn]

@ADHDelaide It pisses me off that ADHD always seems to be a dx other people identify because of bothersome behavior to them and it's hardly talked about from an ADHDer's viewpoint. It only exists if it bothers someone else.

[A @justalysn]

@SNeurotypicals @ADHDelaide Well, it's kind of funny because I don't really remember much about being a kid, and that's a symptom for one of them, isn't it?

[A @justalysn]

@ADHDelaide @SNeurotypicals Seriously! Every autism self assessment comes back with "Uh, probably not." Every one of these? "Sure, add autism to the list that is you!"

[A @justalysn]

@soundcube It seems you, as I, prefer a very literal/grammatical use of words. Unfortunately, we have to deal with the way people have overlaid emotion and experience on top of pure definition, that beast colloquial usage. 1/2

[A @justalysn]

@twillierod See my follow up to Jon's first response. I think this form of communication is limiting and confusing our understanding of each other.

[A @justalysn]

@cai_boxer I'll say "neurodivergent", "I have a neurological difference", or "I have a neurodiversity" (which I acknowledge isn't exactly correct) but I mostly prefer to just say ADHD. Sadly, that has more baggage than the grammatical contortions of neurodiverse.

[A @justalysn]

@soundcube And I agree 100%, all brain types should be accepted, but right now, co-opting the usage of neurodiverse to remind others of the right to own one's divergence when it has been previously only seen as a disability seems a small grammatical price to pay. 3/3

[A @justalysn]

@soundcube Using neurodiverse to mean neurodivergent diminishes a grammatic/definitional principle of neurodiversity, yes, but only in the similar way that saying black lives matter means white lives don't. Rather, it doesn't erase it so much as change focus. 2/3

[A @justalysn]

@dreamsofskies @LamerRiver I've a large house with it's own dining room w/large table *&* a breakfast area w/4 top table yet my husband & I eat every meal on the sofa at the coffee table (that doesn't even lift up). I've moved a lot & learned to place furniture & live the way I'm comfy, "rules" be darned.

[A @justalysn]

@ADHDelaide Interestingly, the inner monologue is less and I outwardly verbalize more when my meds are at their highest concentration. So when I take the meds to feel more normal, I sound much less so, lol. 2/2

[A @justalysn]

@ADHDelaide ABSOLUTELY. I can't think of a time when my thinking has been anything but verbal, unless I'm forcing myself to visualize something. Even at that moment I still have the dialogue side by side with it. Oddly it feels as though it occurs in two separate places in my head, too. 1/2

[A @justalysn]

@QueenlaQueefah_ I should add, though, that I have been working on kindness and acceptance of others being just exactly who they are capable of being (as a philosophy, really) for over a decade, so I was definitely primed to come to terms with any possible resentment a lot faster. YMMV. 💗 4/4

[A @justalysn]

@QueenlaQueefah_ Even in parenting, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and I definitely wasn't the loudest of the lot. I'm actually surprised that they even noticed I was struggling at all. Add on bad advice from "professionals" and they just didn't stand a chance. 3/4

[A @justalysn]

@ADHDelaide I do better when I treat it like negotiation, but it can still be endlessly tiresome. And some days there's no negotiation, no fighting, just defeat, but having ADHD Twitter helps a bunch.

[A @justalysn]

@hoakwrites @blkgirllostkeys She helped get me on the path, too, though at 46. It's a wonderful high to realize there are answers to what you've likely struggled with your whole life. Congratulations and welcome to #TeamADHD!

[A @justalysn]

@ADHDpositiveuk I'm so very sorry.