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@myadhdlife
idk if ive said this before but
this is a NVLD and ASD positive space. we are in solidarity with these funky brains of ours and my memes are your memes <3
i am also self diagnosis friendly. this blog is not welcome to terfs, homophobes, maps/nomaps ect.
have a funky time my dudes
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Accessible text for the lot numbers in this article, quick reference image below if it's useful to you
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trick! you went back in time
Every day I mourn the irrepairable damage that cringe compilationers have done to the art community as a whole. Fly high possessive undertale selfshippers and amateur flipaclip furry animators. Your legacy will not be in vain and I wish people weren't so cruel to you
These are all genuinely so beautiful to me. If you don't think this is love and sincerity in its purest form I don't know what to tell you
If you even fucking care.
Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free
I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.
The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.
But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.
So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.
Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.
Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.
So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.
When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.
S++ tier addition to the post, thank you tumblr user butts bouncing on the beltway
When my son was a newborn baby, I noticed that his fussy times (the times when the baby is crying even though they're not hungry or wet) were extremely responsive to outside time. As in, he would be crying, I would step outside carrying him, and the fuss would shut off instantly.
It would be seventeen more years before he and I both got diagnosed with adhd. Adhd that was clearly passed down from my father. So many questions were answered with that diagnosis*. However, I attribute the fact that we managed our lives with any success at all to the fact that we were able to have LOTS of outside time.
'* Did my doctor educate me about adhd after the diagnosis? No. Of course not. Tumblr users did. Which is how I even knew that I should ask for a Dr's evaluation in the first place. Bless Tumblr.
graph of what being hungry is like with adhd
Hi :) So I was pretty sure I have adhd and I went to the psychologist for an adhd diagnosis and she told me that I have it (still need to go for a second visit but so I can know earlier). At first I was EXTREMALLY happy (I cried) but after I left I started thinking whether I tricked her somehow (unintentionally) and that maybe I'm overreacting with my problems. So now I kinda feel guilty and ashamed like I don't deserve this diagnosis :| Do you think it's possible that she made a mistake?
Hi! I'll be honest it's been a long time since I've checked this blog so I don't know how old this is but I felt compelled to answer because omg that was exactly how I felt at first!!!
The first like 2 years after I was diagnosed I felt like I had tricked them into it (despite know very little about ADHD at the time)
While professionals do sometimes make mistake I doubt this is one of them đ nearly everyone I have spoken to who got diagnosed after they were a kid felt like this at first it's super common and I really don't think you're tricking everyone.
When you have had to cope with a disability without knowing it existed for such a long time it can often feel like you're being extreme at first when you acknowledge the parts that are disabling that you have been trying to hide for so long đ¤¸
I wish you well in this journey and I hope you learn more about both yourself and ADHD soon!! But dont go believing everything you read online or see on tiktok lol there's so much misinformation about ADHD sadly :((
Also while you're here let me point you in the direction of where you could start!
https://youtube.com/@HowtoADHD?si=DrMhDigq24XlbzTU
Jessica was hugely helpful to me when I was first diagnosed back in 2017 (oh god that is so long ago wtf??) And I always point people toward her!
I wish you all the best!
Not sure who needs to see this, but if a Service Dog starts backing into you, pushing you away from their handler, or they sit down at a leash distance from their handler
You Should Move Away.
They are performing a task known as "spacing" or "blocking" that helps reduce or prevent anxiety in their handler.
They are NOT "asking for pets" or being disobedient or asking to be spoken to. All you have to do is stay back from the dog and handler.
This is not a capslock PSA because I'm not sure how many people that don't have a SD actually know this is a trained task.
I did NOT know and this is both very cool that SDs can be trained for this, and very important that we all know how to respect it.
I donât understand when people complain about âlikespamming.â If I see the same person 20 times in a row in my notifs, even if they donât reblog anything or follow me, Iâm excited that they came to my gay little museum and had a good time! Thatâs literally what itâs for!!
mannnnn until we all get okay with the idea of people needing other people to get them water/food/etc like. idk weâre just never gonna make it
yes you have autistic in your bio but are you rude to people who need carers and assistance with basic tasks? do you call me lazy for a text post where i ask my father to bring me water? yes you have adhd and post constantly about executive dysfunction but if a schizophrenic person who needs but doesnât have have a carer hasnât showered or worn clean clothes in months exists, how are you going to react to that?
yeah yeah youâre all for disability rights but if someone is campaigning for adult changing tables in disabled stall bathrooms because they have incontinence and have to wear a diaper are you going to think theyâre weird? if a person has a visible colostomy bag are you going to think itâs gross? what about feeding tubes? how does your opinion on these issues change if the person in question is fat, or homeless, or a person of color?
This is the most adorable non-bot blank blog Iâve ever seen. People, this is all you need to do to let us know youâre a human if youâre confused.
Different people respond better to different types of therapy, and most therapist will do multiple types of therapy with their patients.
CBT - Most common type of therapy because it works well for all mental health problems.
ACT - Especially helpful for treating anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, OCD, psychosis and substance abuse.
DBT - Specifically created for BPD. This type of therapy works really well for personality disorders, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse and impulsive control disorders.
Interpersonal therapy - Created to treat major depressive disorder but is now also used for other depressive and mood disorders.
There are lots of other types of therapy too (:
Gonna add my two cents as a research psychologist:
CBT does NOT work well if the individual has a history of being emotionally manipulated or gaslit, nor does it work well when the individual is working through traumas that have been used against them or disbelieved. CBT can feel like gaslighting, toxic positivity, denial of the seriousness of a situation, or emotional manipulation if not done very carefully. As such, it might be best to avoid it and find something else if you have a history of problems with the aforementioned experiences.
ACT also works REALLY WELL for individuals coping with sudden and "devastating" changes! It's often adapted for use by disability specific clinics to help newly diagnosed patients learn to cope with the limitations on their environments. People with disabilities (PWDs) tend to feel pressured to not express their disability related distress around non-PWDs and, as such, tend to see those feelings as shameful. There's a lot of "I should be more grateful" or "it's not as bad as it could be" feelings around disability as a result of this pressure and ACT is great for undoing them!
DBT is generally amazing for stress disorders and preventing stress disorder symptomatology in at risk populations. It teaches you stress tolerance skills and how best to avoid or diminish conflicts, allowing you to avoid the sorts of environmental triggers that commonly worsen stress disorder symptoms.
Interpersonal therapy is also great for neurodivergent folks, victims of childhood emotional abuse, and children of parents with untreated/unmanaged psychiatric disorders. Essentially, if you grew up with difficulty interacting effectively with and relating to others, interpersonal therapy can help you understand why and change those interactions in the future. Healthier relationships and social interactions are a great way to break the cycle of abuse for those of us raised by parents who were emotionally abusive and/or had untreated mental illnesses.
Since no one has mentioned it on this post, I'd like to add that most therapists these days practice a sort of integrative therapy. They'll take what they find most effective from each type of therapy for each individual problem, and piece together something a little more tailor made for their patients. This is part of why seeing an actual therapist is so important. Not every aspect of the aforementioned therapies will be relevant to every problem. Some aspects may even be harmful to handling some problems. The therapist is trained to pick out these things and adjust accordingly, unlike the average self help book or online resource. But knowing the types of therapies available and what you want to get from therapy is an immense part of finding a therapist that will suit your needs, so please research things carefully and think over what you need before selecting one!
Go to therapy, y'all!
People love to talk about whether or not disabled people can work
but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all your energy and more)
Dead silence. Nobody cares.
File this under, oh you can be active for 4 hours? You can work part-time. Um no, I have to get ready for work (30 min) get to work (15 min) get home from work (15 min) feed myself all day (30 min) maintain myself, my home and my life (15 min, yeah right), which leaves 15 min for work and absolutely nothing else.
This is so accurate, back after Iâd relapsed I wanted to try and go in for one class at school so I could still stay in contact with the education system. I let slip during a meeting that I managed to drag myself to that I could manage about 4 hours of activity a week, which the teacher sprang on to mean I was being lazy for just trying to get to 1 hour class. Never matter that it was 30 minutes travel, that I would have to get washed and dressed, that I would probably still need to recover for 3 days from it.Â
Far too often abled people see the things they do easily as ânon activitiesâ, they donât realise that for many disabled people these things have to be carefully planned and measured, and sometimes they simply canât be done.
reblog bc the non activities thing seems really important words
I get X number of pain-free steps per day right now, which means that, for large conventions (like SDCC), I need to be in a mobility device. I had someone ask if I used up my steps every day before transferring to the scooter, and look surprised and a little horrified when I said âno, I save them so I can go to the bathroom unassisted.â Like, they had never considered that walking is involved in peeing.
Reblogging for the important point that the term âactivityâ may mean something very different and much broader for a disabled person with a chronic pain or fatigue related condition compared to its meaning for a non disabled person. If youâre tired enough, simply sitting up in a chair rather than lying in bed is an activity that drains energy otherwise usable for other things. A thing I knew from other people with pain and fatigue related conditions, but worth reinforcing for followers who didnt know or had forgotten.
How do any of you earn things?
We donât, itâs almost like disability puts us at risk of poverty or something.
A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:
When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications. Â
If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasnât the original poster (i.e., youâre liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well. Â
This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from. Â
Consequently, you cannot âstealâ user engagement from someone by reblogging their post. Â
This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms. Â
Note that this is only true if you use Tumblrâs built-in reblogging function. If you save someone elseâs content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on. Â
This means that on Tumblr, ârebloggingâ and ârepostingâ are two different things; if you see someone complaining about ârepostingâ, this is not the same as reblogging. Â
Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this â unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet â and you can and should do so freely. Â
However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may âback upâ one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment. Â
Nobody understands tags, and thereâs a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning. Â
Tags are a divine mystery.
(For those going âhow is this not obviousâ, itâs about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)
Itâs really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while! Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.
DONâT FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts! (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.)Â
Many also donât mind if you âspamâ their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row. Â
Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.
Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times. Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please donât.) But you do see a lot of âoh this came across my dash again, must reblogâ with posts users are fond of. This is fine.
Tags ARE a divine mystery. People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary. Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications.Â
So again â you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it. It just wonât âstickâ with the post⌠necessarily. Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone elseâs tags included. So bear that in mind as well â something you put in the tags could get âpulled upâ into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.
Adding on, due to current events: Tumblr both does and does not have an algorithm; in a way itâs âopt-out,â but most long-time users have opted out vehemently, and youâll probably have a better experience if you do the same.
Go to Settings, then Dashboard, and turn off âBest Stuff First,â âInclude stuff in your orbit,â and âInclude Based On Your Likes.â This will get you a feed based only on people that you choose to follow, and this, arguably, is part of why Tumblr is the least hellish of many hellsites right now.
Thank you someone for finally explaining why people ask you not to QRT stuff on Twit. I was only there for like 5 seconds and I was like, âwhy donât people want me to say nice things on their posts??â
Apparently people are claiming the term âchronically onlineâ is problematic because it downplays the struggles of chronic illness. and as a chronically ill person lemme just say that take is the definition of being chronically online
