#adhd jokes

[elementaldragon47]

Found this meme on Pinterest.

*screams in relatable sound effects*

[internetgreatesthits]

[nonbinarymlm]

We Need to Accept that Silly Things Can Hurt People

Please allow me to ruminate a bit more on mental health on this blog. I have ADHD and OCD, both disorders commonly stereotyped and conflated with minor, silly behaviors like yelling SQUIRREL when you see a squirrel and organizing things by color. These stereotypes can often minimize and erase the genuine difficulties and harm that these conditions can cause. That’s very true, and it often causes intense sensitively and knee-jerk denial around stereotypes around this. I don’t think that’s necessarily the best reaction, because sometimes people can have symptoms very similar to these stereotypes.

I think we need to accept that silly things can hurt people. Silly, ridiculous symptoms can devastate people’s lives. People shouldn’t have to react into their painful past and trauma to get people to take their symptoms seriously when those symptoms are silly on their face, because that turns things into a pain competition and can result in gatekeeping how much people must suffer before their seemingly ridiculous symptoms get taken seriously.

I think we just need to, as a society and culture and social norm, accept that silly things can genuinely, sometimes intensely, hurt people. Yes, I do have the impulse to tell an animal’s name when I see that animal, and yes it’s part of my symptoms that makes it harder to me to drive and hold conversations and do basic functioning. Yes, I do worry about incredibly tiny and silly things, that the world’s tiniest cut means I’m literally dying, and this has at times been incredibly miserable to live with and severely inhibited my functioning and nearly lost me a job. Also I’m going to joke about it sometimes because it’s funny. I’m not going to find a joke about it from a stranger with no OCD funny, because they have no idea how much pain it can cause me.

Sometimes these conditions are absurd in ways that are funny. That’s true and people with the conditions should be able to joke about it. But everyone needs to understand, just because a symptom is absurd doesn’t mean it can’t also devastate you and ruin your life. So if you don’t have these conditions and aren’t super close to someone who has them, I think you should be sensitive and avoid joking even if it seems silly and funny. I think there is where true destigmatization lies: accepting that the silly brain can also really hurt.

[damnedbeans]

adhd/autism is when you're having suicidal thoughts but there is also hamilton soundtrack permanently playing in the back of your mind

[chaosgremlin46]

I don't know what an HD is, but my doctor says I have eighty of them...

[cintsalis]

James Potter: 🗣️ "Snivelly, Padfoot and I engage in such extensive gossip about others that he often recounts to me things I shared with him weeks prior!" 🥹😅 Severus Snape-Black: 😓 Reclining in bed* "I beg your pardon, my mandrake, if I may interject on this subject, but might you be perhaps… in muggle terms… diagnosed with ADHD??" James Potter: 🤔🫤 "ADHD? What is that? Is it some sort of secret code?" Severus Snape-Black: 😐😶 "Forget it," James Potter: Draws Severus close, embracing him warmly* "What does it signify?" 😨 "Does it imply A damn hot dad? Because, Snivelly, my dear, if you turn around, I could bestow that ADHD affection upon you," 😍😘 Severus Snape-Black: 😐 "Do go to sleep." James Potter: 🥹😍🙃😱🥰 "Oh my goodness! My dear Snivelly believes I am a damn hot dad, I am utterly delighted!" 😘 Plants a kiss on the back of his shoulders* Severus Snape-Black: 💭 😕 That is not what it signifies… 😰

[adhd-attention-deficit-dumbass]

*Crying hysterically on the phone with my mom*

Me: ”Omg mom I can’t find my phone anywhere! I’m going to be late for class! I don’t know what to do!😭😭😭😭”

Mom: ”Sorry sweetie I can’t talk right now. I can’t find my phone anywhere and I’m late for a meeting, talk to you later”

*hangs up*

This has been an ADHD-joke fresh from my rotted brain, you’re welcome and I’m sorry💀💀💀

[some0newithapen]

MY ADHD MEDS JUST KICKED IN!! YAY!!!