If you feel misunderstood and want others to, take a serious look at this...

“If you treat patients for their symptoms rather than for a flawed label, you find that the biggest impairment to people’s lives with ADHD tends to be impulsivity,” said Quinn. Hoo boy, that's definitely the truth in my case.

Anyone else save this post and plan to read the article later?

Interest based nervous system.

I was getting along fine with the author until I got to the part where they say ADHD is a gift.

I’m really struggling with this forced positivity, about something that is a disability.

Sure our brains can do some pretty awesome shit.

But raise a hand if you were diagnosed late (>30 years old), and wouldn’t have preferred to trade your « gift » for a normal brain..

I get the idea, but it’s been a bandwagon I’m finding hard to jump on. And even the author says it after having spent 3/4 of the article explaining how debilitating ADHD is…

I think we can talk about the things an ADHDer only can do or can do better than most, without calling this disability and mental illness, a gift.

Yeah, it is pretty complete, thanks.

(I could finally use my beginner's free award, I wanted to use it in this community, so, thanks again).

this is amazing. i feel so seen

That was a big article. Got about 1/4 done.

I love the Ferrari powered brain with bicycle brakes!

Combined with impulsivity, interest-driven nervous systems can lead to issues like emotional hyperarousal, making those with ADHD prone to sudden explosions of everything from anger to sadness to joy.

This is ME

Edit: also ME

In the same way that mild or merely perceived criticism and rejection can cause a person with ADHD to wilt, the smallest forms of encouragement and recognition do wonders to motivate them

I shed a few tears reading this. Thank you for posting it ❤️

People with ADHD often have at least one or two other conditions, like depression, anxiety, OCD, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, or substance abuse. “It takes a really good clinician to be able to figure out, alright, is this other disorder traveling with the ADHD and needs to be treated separately? Or is it caused by the ADHD?”

This is still an obstacle psychiatrists and psychologists struggle to deal with successfully, often leading to a later diagnosis or the wrong meds being prescribed.

I’m five pages in and I’m shaking. I fucking want to scream in SO FUCKING MANY faces…..READ THIS, MFR, every. Freaking WORD. This is the literal definition of VINDICATION, you guys. Read this piece. Just START reading it. Hang on tight.

I’ve read it, got the link saved, and going to get a couple of people to read it.

Thanks for sharing, OP. Definitely going to get some use out of this.

👍

Seems like a really good article but… I’m sure you all know why I haven’t read it all…

Amazing article! Definitely will be sending it on to a few people.

That was an excellent read

Thank you for sharing. It’s a really good article.

I feel lonely because I don’t want to admit that I need a better support system.

This is exactly how I feel about it inside my head and I wish people would understand, but I can never explain it and would rather hide those traits. Only part i disagree with is the “gift”

Good article. Definitely worth a read

This hits home on so many levels. I've never felt more misunderstood in my entire life while reading this because this article understood me! There are legit research out there that can define me and how I am without people questioning why I do things the way I do. (And I got no answers for them at the time.)

While reading this, I just kept thinking about my previous job.....

I got fired 4 months ago about something that I actually did as I was told, only to have them turn around and gaslight me saying "I didn't say that." And when they approached me about it in the most unnatural setting for an ADHD person, I wanted to place my input about what happened and I actually wrote a written statement about it because I thought that's what you're supposed to do while they, the HR, are going to "investigate". Turns out, they didn't want to take my written statement. They just flat out fired me. And me, trying to explain what happened trying to defend myself, I was automatically coined as me not taking responsibility for the event that happened and instead I "deflected". How do you take responsibility for something that you did because you were told to do it, and then get fired?

Anyways, I realized that workplace, while it's GREAT for ADHD people, the work environment with the staff is NOT. And I think that's most likely the case as to why some people with ADHD can't hold down a job whether they quit on impulse or just get fired because your manager expected something completely different from you, even if you follow the rules and excel on other things.