Jenn has ADHD

jennhasadhd.com // ADHDer fighting stigma // awareness & advocacy ♡

[jennhasadhd]

[adhd-alien]

Holding the illusion that I have my life together by my last nerve (he did go eat a sandwich for an hour so he wouldn't be an hour early)

[jennhasadhd]

That feeling when youre super tired but your ADHD just wants you to ADHD despite you being tired because of your ADHD

[jennhasadhd]

My ADHD conversations can literally go like this:

Me: "Sorry what did you say?"

*Brain Bee noises instead of hearing a second time* 🐝

Them: "....which one do you want?"

*Brain Bee noises reappear while trying to recall literally a single thing they said either time* 🐝

🥺 Me: So the thing is I need you to say that again..

Them: *sigh but repeats a third time*

Me: *Brain clings to a single word then goes on its own tangent and still hear nothing being said* "..maybe this isn't for me".

Them: "so you want me to cancel your order?"

Me: 🐝

[jennhasadhd]

ADHDer but you're an RPG character in a video game:

✨️[you are overencumbered with thoughts, you can not carry anymore]✨️

✨️[you failed to turn this task in on time]✨️

✨️[you cannot cast focus here, there is too much noise]✨️

✨️[you talked too much, the neurotypical didn't like that]✨️

✨️[buffer de-buff active: 52 hours remaining until you can attempt this task again]✨️

✨️[medication acquired, focus increased by 80%]

✨️[you do not have the required amount of neurotransmitters to cast this spell]✨️

✨️[you cannot sleep here, there are intrusive thoughts around]✨️

[jennhasadhd]

Stop punishing neurodivergent who don't understand because you don't always understand how they understood things unless you're both communicating it.

Stop making harmful assumptions and applying rules of neurotypical communication onto neurodivergent folx like it's a test they have to ace to deserve respect in their perspectives.

[jennhasadhd]

Ways to be more Neuroaffirming

- reduce pathological blame within your language towards others. don't call people stupid, lazy, dumb and crazy etc.

- stop correcting other people's grammar when it's unnecessary. If everyone understood what they meant anyway, then it doesn't matter when it's low stakes, unserious matters.

- be kinder around accidents, life happens, and people don't need more tough love when going through a tough time.

- stop punishing neurodivergent who don't understand because you don't always understand how they understood things unless you're both communicating it. stop assuming.

[jennhasadhd]

Asking me to wrangle my ADHD like a type of beast to be tamed, as if my mind is a feral creature that you can be force into submission by saying as much, is often how people other entire parts of my being and reduce me to something that's nothing of my own.

That being myself is a problem.

That I'm something to be cured and fixed and reformed and how I tried to do it is all wrong somehow.

That I made a mess of myself. That it's a matter of personal choice.

But actually pathologizing me is a choice.

Caging me in a hierarchy against neurotypicality is a choice.

[jennhasadhd]

Toe Walker things I experienced:

- Everyone tells me that I do it as if I'm not fully aware

- Everyone stares, especially children 😭

- No one thought it was a trait of Autism because I'm NT passing

- Forced therapy that ignored neurological connection

- Pain, chronic pain...

- No one told me it's also a type of tick

- No one told me it's also a type of stim

- I didn't really know or seen many others like me

- No one considered how living like that made me feel

- I felt VERY different from other children and they made a point of telling me that

- Feeling self conscious about it

- Still doing it while wearing high heels feels awkward

- My ankles are f*d

- Super prone to accidents

[burntblueberrywaffles]

[I.D. an edited version of the "is this a pigeon" meme. A man with glasses, captioned "my overstimulated ass" points at a butterfly, captioned "someone making an annoying noise". At the bottom of the image, a dialogue caption reads "is this a crime deserving the death sentence?" end I.D.]

[jennhasadhd]

That constant ADHD feeling of "not being organized in life because someone else's ideas of living is louder than ways of being that actually can work for you and trying to move past that mental/physical barrier every day just because someone else decided that you have to live this way for no reason at all and are never considered in any decisions even when it literally disables you from participating like everyone else".

[deepseasmetro]

people need to stop using the word "addiction" when they mean "compulsive behavior" or "maladaptive coping mechanism" or "hobby i think they spend too much time doing"

[jennhasadhd]

Them: Explain that gap in your resume!

I was trying to regulate my body against arbitrary timelines..?

[jennhasadhd]

[jennhasadhd]

I love you tumblr fam. Sorry that I am terrible at posting here. Just know I appreciate you helping me to build a lil community here and reach ADHDers in this part of the interwebs. Wishing you all an easy day!

[rubbishraven]

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