I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a young child; my parents didn’t like it that ALLEGEDLY to keep the diagnosis on my IEP I had to be kept on ritalin so they raised me to believe it was a misdiagnosis.
So, my entire life I just thought i was a bad person. That i can’t do things like keep my living space clean or take in information accurately and retain it because I’m just a stupid piece of shit. My self esteem was destroyed growing up because my parents didn’t care about working with my ADHD diagnosis because “legal meth”. It makes me feel better that I’m not just an idiot, I’m still kind of steamed that when i told them i wanted to get rediagnosed in high school they just wrote me off and I could’ve gone to college and had a more successful life than I do now but it’s whatever. I know getting diagnosed as an adult is much more difficult than when you’re a kid, but I’m ready to start living my life.
I didn’t get diagnosed ADHD until I was 27. I would have had the chance when I was in kindergarten, but my parents fiercely held onto the negative stigmas associated to mental health care. They regularly screamed at me asking if I wanted to go to the fucking loony bin doctor or will I get my act together and behave. I finished high-school with C’s and B’s on the report card, then I dropped out of college. How would I have done if my parents would have listened to my teacher when she told them she suspected I had ADHD?
I’m in the same boat with ADHD and anxiety. Finally getting myself medicated for anxiety at age 30. Would have been nice if I hadn’t been yelled at about those “black box” pills when I talked to my mom about it when I was younger. But here we are and I’m just grateful I’ve gotten started healing. Best wishes friend.
I’m glad you are finally getting the help that you need. I’m diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Luckily my mother has always been in support of medication for mental health. So I was able to get treatment at a decently young age. It was mostly my own stubbornness of not wanting to accept I was “broken” that I didn’t get treatment till I was 19.
You mind sharing what you were diagnosed for anxiety and maybe how it has been going? I’ve always been a bit skeptical about what they can do for people with anxiety.
I got my diagnosis as a teenager. I am now in my 30s. To this day I continue to have realizations about how I’m not actually just a lazier piece of crap than everyone else around me.
Very good analogy!
Looked up the source. Tweeter goes by another name now but left their tweet intact.
https://twitter.com/artistAuDH/status/1469709326965219332?s=19
Just remove the PCB and put a bit of tape over the Game B contacts. No more hard mode.
(note that this applies to the Nintendo Game & Watch. This skill may or may not assist with neurodivergence.)
Diagnosis is being given a paper that makes dickbags believe your lived experience is legitimate.
You don’t, and shouldn’t, need a diagnosis to know you are neurodivergent.
Are you high? Self-diagnoses leads to an incredible amount of poor choices, and your condoning, much less outright championing that bullshit is disgustingly irresponsible. Do better. Be better. Next time.
Nah I’m championing it. I’ve spent decades in this system and worked with people who do the diagnosing. Your position of reverence for the process of diagnosis or the authority of those doing diagnosis is not well founded. People who are too poor to get diagnosed are still needing help regardless of wheather an academic has weighted in on the subject. Diagnosis is an opinion, to get insurance to pay for healthcare. That’s all it is. I can recommend you some books on the subject if you actually care to learn more about the topic of how diagnosis actually works.
Sorry, not sorry. You’re so full of shit at every turn, that question becomes more substantiated with every sentence you burble out. (For example: “…doing diagnoses”? FFS. Really?) Your feeble attempt to employ logical fallacy to prop up your lack of argument by exploiting some faceless demographic and shift the concern from your own personal opinion is juvenile and transparent AF. I know I said “Do better” already, but maybe you need to hear it more often. Do better.
I’m honestly not understanding what you’re trying to say here. But I guess that’s okay. I at least can pick up the condescension and contempt.
I’m not sure if you’re this much of an idiot or just low-level trolling, but neither are my problem. Your comments have been called out for the irresponsible, unhelpful and counter-factual shit that they are. So now, those that may’ve been momentarily curious if your opinions held any merit can safely be assumed to have been more properly informed by the replies of said replies here, thankfully. You, on the other hand, can fuck right off, kiddo. I’ve got better things to do then swat at the flies you attract.
Roger that, see yah
Who shit in your coffee to make you so hateful? Holy shit.
I wanna play with cheats on…
I was diagnosed with ADHD and BPD. I didn’t even know wtf BPD was before I was told I had it.
Life is hard for anyone with below average intelligence.
Looks like you’re doing ok to me.
Just keep grinding away at being a better person is all anyone can do. Would be nice if we treated stupid people better too and help them cope.
Need a hug, kiddo?
I get it, life is hard for you. I wish I could help! It’s probably extra hard to be dumb and have no reason for your difficulties!
Intelligence doesn’t exactly correlate with success either though.
There are plenty of breathtakingly intelligent people who either can’t or refuse to play the social game that is required for success. Many of them are neurodivergent.
woH buddy this is AdHd board we are very delicate flowers
And yet you learned to type. Truly, this timeline is full of wonders.
Ah, the Devil May Cry 3 of life difficulty modes!
Get fired from 3rd job in life
“Easy Mode is now selectable”
Getting diagnosed as autistic as an adult was/is a hell of a ride. It explains so much, and it’s good to find my people and know I’m not “broken” but yeah, life still seems that much harder, now I just know why.
