local adhd babey

im tired (they/them)

[ashbur-deactivated20250915]

[actualmermaid]

[autism-affirmations]

how's it going fellow alexithymia-havers?

[voidxbrat]

This is some love going out to other people with severe mental/developmental/etc disabilities! I mean severe like, in of need full-time assistance or *a lot* of accommodations. I mean people who legitimately can’t always control or understand their own behaviors. People who cannot live on their own, or maybe can’t make their own decisions. The people who get left out of everything, by everyone, even those who say to support people with stigmatized mental illnesses and not very nice symptoms and behaviors. Because, for all everyone shouts that they support these things - you really show you don’t very often (even on this site). Something people on here still really need to understand and support, is what *serious* and *severe* mental/developmental/etc disability really is.

[spacelazarwolf]

ngl the way some ppl, even other nd ppl and ppl in the disability community, talk abt adhd is uh…….how u say……..super fucked up.

[spacelazarwolf]

this is so incredibly important. i worked at a middle school in the suburbs that would bus in a lot of black and brown kids from the inner city then give them absolutely no support for dealing with the culture shock. the way the teachers treated these kids was horrendous. there was one kid who was afro latino and very clearly had adhd, but instead of helping him teachers treated him like absolute garbage. he would show absolute textbook signs of adhd and get out of school suspensions instead of accommodations. the few times i was actually able to sit down with him and help him, it was absolutely heartbreaking to hear the ways he would talk about himself. he was 11 and had absolutely given up because all the teachers were telling him to his face what a horrible kid he was. the teachers, not the kids, the teachers made him a laughingstock. at 11 fucking years old.

adhd alone often fucks kids over in school because teachers are so quick to turn into high school bullies, but when you add race into the mix it gets so so so much worse.

[raining-anonymously]

[ID: Screenshot of a reply from transgender-anakin-skywalker. “The undiagnosed ADHD to prison pipeline (especially for POC who are massively undiagnosed compared to their white counterparts) is a huge issue in many countries, but no, apparently it’s just the funny quirky squirrel disorder that doesn’t really affect anyone ever.” This is followed by an unamused emoji.]

[virtualtoybox]

none of you understand what character playlists are supposed to be anymore. this is not a “what the character would listen to” situation this is not a random song order whatever feels right type of thing YOU DONT GET IT. you are supposed to tell a story . you are supposed to cultivate a vibe . each song needs to flow into the next so well you wonder how theyre not same artist. you need a list of songs in custom order with lyrics that make you think of your blorbo and then you throw up. do you get it? do you understand ?? SHAKES YOU . 

[upsetgazette]

Shout out to all the autistics & adhders who were not labeled "gifted" in school or ever called "a pleasure to have in class" but were perpetually the problem kid. The ones who were always yelled at & shamed, the ones who disrupted class, the ones who got detention, the ones who were bullied by their teachers just as much as their peers, and the ones who barely made it through school, or didn't at all because you didn't get the support you needed. I see you 💙

[autism-affirmations]

it does

[wormbus-art]

I'm not easy to love!!

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

Think I kind of hacked my brain into working properly?

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

I have ADD, so my brain isn’t wired to process the future properly.

My newest hack has been to write letters to myself. In the morning, I write a letter to my night self. At night, I write a letter to my morning self. And I ask her to do things.

I ask her, “Could you call and make this appointment for me today?”

“Could you try to get to bed on time? It would really help me.”

“Can you get started on that assignment today? Morning Jeans tomorrow is going to be so happy if you do.”

I’ve got a small sample size, but the results are fantastic so far.

Because I can’t understand the future. I don’t emotionally grok “there will be consequences for this later” because later doesn’t exist. But I can understand “I need help.” And if I can translate from one to the other, I can speak the language I need to to do the things I need to do.

[teaboot]

Youre a fucking mad genius is what you are

[ahsung]

EXTRAORDINARY ATTORNEY WOO (2022) dir. Yoo In Shik

[autism-affirmations]

time blindness is real af, credit to @wanderofmanyworlds

[autism-affirmations]

They will not entirely ignore my diagnosis

[adhd-induced-happiness]

A Checklist Of Possible Reasons I Am Upset, To Review When I Can't Seem To Figure It Out:

did not eat

new hyperfixation and no time for it

have not done a creative in 24 hrs

Bad Sounds

clothes are touching my body

cold

people

one (1) comment is stuck in my brain like a popcorn kernel

last time I drank water was ??????

nervous nervous nervous nervous

got a Slightly Worse grade than expected

last hug was ??????

slept a full 45 minutes

lonely ............

guts are shredding (again)

have not seen sunlight in 24 hrs

stuck inside

too much screen time

Yay Overwhelm

room is disaster area

have not talked to Person in a while

bored

imposter phenomenon (again)

no current routine

how long have I been working???

Too Much Socialization

and then. and THEN. I may consider:

something is actually wrong

[ladyshinga]

I DON’T UNDERSTAND US SOMETIMES ???

[daughter-of-rowan]

Yes

[kingscrown666]

One day I had to lie on the floor to reach something that fell under the couch and after I retrieved the item I just. Stayed there. For like half an hour

Felt great

[dietspam16]

i need to clip through the floor like bethesda made me

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

yes. even more so.

[adventures-in-adhd]

The fun thing about ADHD and sleep is that if you don't fall asleep within your prime sleepy window you're just gonna be awake all night

Here's a graph i made in bed to illustrate:

[defectivegembrain]

Anyway autism is a disability and insisting that it's not has some really harmful effects:

It trivialises our impairments and needs, making it harder for us to get services and accommodations

It denies us specific and accurate language that holds social and legal power to address our needs and protect us from discrimination

It alienates us from the larger disabled community, which includes many people with similar experiences and shared histories and political causes

It further stigmatises some of the most vulnerable of us, such as nonverbal people, those who need carers or special education, etc.

It's often insulting to people with other disabilities, implying that we're better than them or that disability is a bad thing to be associated with

[qweerhet]

if you want to actually truly support autistic rights, you need to accept the fact that many autistics will forever and unchangeably be wildly socially incompetent, and this does not make them bad or dangerous.

[qweerhet]

like, seriously.

you need to accept that autistics will:

make you uncomfortable

misread your body language

not pick up on your signals

make jokes you think are stupid or weird

give off body language that upsets you

flirt in ways that upset you

use tones of voice that upset you, especially ones you perceive as "angry"

not notice your facial expressions

want explanations for things that genuinely upset you to have to explain

avoid touch in ways you find offensive

seek out touch in ways you find offensive

say things that are so blunt or truthful you find them offensive

and so many many more examples

and autistics can't just "act normal," can't just "learn" to not do these things, and you need to understand that this doesn't make autistics dangerous, doesn't mean autistics need to be isolated from the rest of society, certainly doesn't make autistics fucking predators like so many so-called leftists are keen to brand autistic behavior as.

like, portraying social incompetence as inherently predatory and evil is ableism and its fucking rampant in left spaces, and it's genuinely fucking horrifying! between this and frankly horrifying anti-intellectual-disability sentiment and the overall refusal to make irl organizing spaces physically accessible, leftie spaces have a massive fucking problem with refusing to unpack societal ableism baked into y'alls brains. disabled people have fucking nowhere to go other than to each other because the so called "inclusive" moments legitimately hate us and refuse to unpack why--oh it's just a coincidence that every autistic person i know is ostracised from most irl leftie and queer spaces for being "creepy"/having "bad vibes," certainly can't have anything to do with how all of society says we're all predatory and creepy and have bad vibes 🙄