I’d like to talk about how black folk are more undiagnosed with ADHD than you think.
A 70% underdiagnosis than their own white counterparts.
So that means someone that you love, work with, see in class, etc has undiagnosed and untreated ADHD and/or other cognitive disorders.
As someone who has been recently diagnosed with ADHD/ASD, I have time today.
The medical industry has never been friends with black people, and so has the education system.
Those younger than 17 are at a very prime and important age to be evaluated for ADHD as recommended by their teachers.
Teachers due to racial bias would rather suspend the black girl for talking too much rather than interrogate why.
Would rather give detention to the black boy for being loud.
Would rather humiliate the black child for not paying attention in class rather than interrogate why.
The poster child for ADHD is an impulsive white boy—and that’s what educators and *professionals* look for when evaluating children (and adults), rather than acknowledging how ADHD falls under 3 types and is a spectrum.
ADHD is not a “boy disease”
Girls and others of marginalized genders are extremely under-diagnosed, because it shows differently.
And if you’re black and adding the pressure of your own community and family who don’t believe in mental health?
Well you gotta fend for yourself.
I urge you to be kind to others. Because a lot of people in our community are out here with no accessibility for diagnosis on mood/cognitive disorders.
And when we try to get them done, nobody believes our symptoms. I urge you to advocate for yourself.
Those with ADHD/ASD can suffer from depression and anxiety due to a lack of treatment & lack of support in a neurotypical world.
If you believe there is something wrong don’t stop till you get the answers you need. And if you can’t, surround yourself with people that understand.
I know this is already long thread and I could definitely write more. But some of y’all also have ADHD so I’m not gonna do that to y’all.
But to everybody else, we start tomorrow morning sharp 😂
Helpful Video that I love:
More information on 3 types of ADHD and the dominant symptoms of ADHD like the lack of emotional regulation and rejection sensitivity:
You’re not gonna be able to pray away cognitive disorders or choose to not believe them.
A loved one could be silently suffering without the access to get help & the support. It will benefit the entire community to advocate for everybody in it.
Here in this thread, I have time again to talk about the 3 types of ADHD. And how emotional regulation and rejection sensitivity are one of many defining components you could probably recognize in an ADHD person
If you ask me, everyone who stole from my people should have a heavy tax added to the return of the artwork. And to pay for the first few years of return housing and maintenance of these items.
What’s so important about this? Let me educate you on an empire lost in Bronze.
We should start acknowledging the wounds our mothers left us.
The inability to trust anyone. The lack of confidence in all your projects. The hyper-critical voice in your head. The lack of healthy self-esteem.
Being without nurture or care, and then looking for it in the wrong places. Or caring for everybody else but yourself.
Mother wound issues is one of the focal reasons why intimacy may make you feel uncomfortable. Or even why you butt heads with other women frequently. It’s a pattern.
Most girls first hater was actually their own mother.
Since Esu is gaining more popularity on the socials, let’s talk about how due to religious imperialism in Nigeria, they decided to link Esu to Satan. Esu is not Satan.
Linking traditional divinities to Christian demons is spiritual warfare and religious genocide.
Esu is not a devil, a demon or anything related to Christianic frameworks.
This all happened because of the translation done by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Nigerian linguist and the first bishop. In his Yoruba to English dictionary. He translated Satan to Esu.
With the rise of Islam & Christianity, this has led for Esu to be translated as Satan in Yoruba Bibles continuously.
Esu acts at the will of the Creator. He is not Satan. And the slander against one of most important divinities in the Orisha traditional religion is a shame.
I love listening to stories of people who tried shrooms, because they really found the meaning of life on their trip.
I had one very profound trip last year that changed the way I viewed life forever.
When I tripped, I had my window wide open because it made me feel closer to nature. But for some reason, I felt anxious having it that open and went to close it.
When you trip on shrooms, you end up thinking. A lot.
It was like someone told me, “What are you afraid of?”
Which I replied, “I’m scared of a bird flying through my window.”
My thoughts said, “Why would a bird who has total freedom outside, come into your room of captivity?”