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Rude People: "Have you tried XYZ???"

Me: "Have YOU tried being chronically ill?"

you know what pisses me the fuck off about adhd? i know i’m talented. i know i can learn things quickly. but my adhd won’t let me focus enough to progress- and if i get lucky enough to hyperfocus on it, all that drive goes away and i stagnate. but i still love the thing!!!! and i know i could be good at that thing if i could just focus

conways

something that people really dont understand about ADHD is that we dont “jump from one idea to the next”

we have very fast, very associative minds that connect ideas. we have a train of thought, it just goes WAY faster than yours!

example: im thinking about dogs. that makes me think of pitbulls, which makes me think of an animal planet show i enjoy. the show connects to tv in general, which makes me think of my favorite cartoon. i associate my favorite cartoon with art and animation, and i wind up thinking about shading techniques.

TL;DR: having ADHD is kinda like playing a lifelong game of 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

gazztron

…WHAT THE FUCK

daggers-drawn

I am plagued by this but also that associative learning makes it really easy to be a hyper-generalist in terms of skills and knowledge.

rptheturk

This is how my brain works….

reassambled-dragoon

The downside is, very few people can keep pace with these jumps, and I’ve actually been told my “mind leaps” are annoying.

Yeah.

Let that sink in.

Being told that the way my mind makes connections between Point A and Point D while seemingly bypassing B and C is “annoying”.

inyri

… this.

It drives my husband absolutely NUTS- we’ll be having a conversation and in a lull between sentences I’ll have jumped ahead six topics, pop back in with a “Yeah, and-“

Meanwhile, he’s looking at me like I’ve grown another head. To him, whatever I’ve just said is a total non sequitur, but I can track EXACTLY how I got there… it just doesn’t make any sort of sense to anyone but me.

real-istik

Finally seeing this in words is very therapeutic for me

adhdisgay

hplyrikz

“You can tell how dangerous a person is by the way they hold their anger inside themselves quietly.”

— Unknown (via hplyrikz)

Clear your mind here

(via hplyrikz)

freakygirlsworld

Hugh Jackman`s reaction when they finished filming This Is Me scene will forever be one of my favourite things in the world.

ijustcantgetahandleonit

Did anyone notice

moonles-sky

When you’re limping around because your hips or knees are acting up and someones like ‘aaaaww what happened?’ And you’re there just like ’…well I was born’