Friendly reminder that ADHD/ADD is as big and handicap of a problem as Depression and/or Anxiety disorders
Friendly reminder: Not all people with ADHD are bouncing off the walls hyperactive like little kids with too much ice cream, caffeine, and/or cake.
People with ADHD can be very reserved and completely normal, and sometimes you can’t even tell the person has the classification.
Friendly Fun Fact: People with ADHD actually have incredible minds. ADHD people actually really fucking smart, and they’re usually incredibly creative, but, they have the handicap of their mind spazzing out and having the most limited attention span of a gnat. Most projects they start never get finished as their brain has already moved on to five other things.
Fact huzzah: If you’re ever talking to someone with ADHD, don’t get mad or annoyed when they suddenly kind of space out or look distant (Like they aren’t even part of the conversation). It’s generally hard for them to focus, because they’re minds are already a whirling vortex of seven other things they’re focussing on. Just keep talking, odds are, they’re paying attention and soaking up what you’re saying in a multitask like channel.
Friendly important reminder: If someone tells you they have ADHD don’t wig out and make fun of them if they are hyperactive most of the time. It’s makes people feel legitimately bad and like they don’t fit in when they already feel awkward and different because they may be on fucking medication to help their mind focus and lay off the whirlwind of thought chaos.
Friendly extra reminder: If a person with ADHD is doing something extensively, like they’re focussing on something to the extent that they seem completely absorbed in it and like they’re not there in the room but they’re inside of whatever they’re doing, DO NOT FUCK WITH THEM.
THEY HAVE ENTERED A HYPERFOCUS.
It’s one of the times their brain actually takes a chill pill /by itself/ and they can focus intently on the thing they’re doing. You screw that up and it’s impossible to go back to what was originally being so extensively focused on.
Oh, also: People with ADHD find it harder to be in relationships
PEOPLE
If your partner has ADD/ADHD please, PLEASE be patient. Be supportive and willing to listen. Don’t be rude and blame mistakes on your partners handicap, it makes them feel like shit and it’s not nice.
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