Because we have been constantly punished for, and taught that the symptoms of #ADHD are just us being garbage people, it is important to change your internal narrative.
I mean, I AM a garbage person, but that is in addition to my ADHD symptoms. :)
There is just a tonne of things I now know I should NOT feel guilty for, because I am not playing with the gear the neurotypicals are.
No, what I should feel guilty for is now that I know I have ADHD, I have to be responsible for working with it.
Example: I cannot perceive time like a neurotypical. My frontal cortex doesn't do that shit. Awesome. I know this, and will no longer feel guilty or let people make me feel bad for this.
But...
I am responsible for setting alarms, timers, reminders, calendars and prompts.
Example: I am prone to emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity dysphoria.
I am not going to feel guilty about that anymore, or let people bully me about it.
However...
I AM responsible for monitoring my moods, medication and learning emotional strategies.
I am not going to let people treat me like shit because they do not understand my neurodivergence, and that starts with ME.
I will NOT allow myself to repeat back the negative messages I have been fed by people who did not understand ADHD.
I WILL educate myself about it.
I have ADHD.
I am not a garbage person because I have ADHD.
I am a garbage person because I dunk my fries into my thickshake, watch zip popping videos and am immediately and deeply attracted to the evil bisexual character in any given show.
And maybe because at an "all you can eat" restaurant I just fill my plates up with fist loads of shrimp and ignore all the cheap filling stuff like pasta and rice that they think you are gonna balance out the meal with.
Fists. Of. Shrimp.
And I think pineapple and anchovies belong on pizza.
At the same time.
Great. Now I am hungry.
Support this fucking dirty, incorrigible, antiauthoritarian fuckslut of a human dumpster fire here. *sips tea*
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And support yourself whilst you are at it. Adhd comes with huge loads of guilt and negative messaging.
Be the fists of shrimp you deserve.
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