#rivi-strata

[tfw-adhd]

Have you heard of VAST? It's related to adhd but I've not seen it mentioned much anywhere.

Sent March 2022~

I hadn’t, until you sent this! I’ve had a quick google and it seems interesting—just that it’s an alternate name for ADHD which doesn’t present it in a negative light (by using the word disorder). It stands for Variable Attention Stimulus Trait.

I’m all for changing the names of things to get rid of negative associations, but personally that one seems like a bit of a mouthful and took me quite a few reads to get my head around that full name!

[tfw-adhd]

Is adhd the reason my emotions take their leave when I'm in a dire situation? And then they come in full force when it's almost hours or days later?

Or is this some coping that I wasn't aware of?

Sent 9th November~

Yeah, that’s ADHD! A symptom of ADHD is emotional dysregulation. That means that we can feel our emotions a lot stronger than other people. It also means we can feel them a lot less—we can end up feeling numb.

And we can end up feeling them at the wrong times.