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10 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
ADHD is putting a task off for a month until you receive some bizarre energy boost that carries you through it, only to realise it took you less than half an hour and wasn't worth the stress.
Okay I really didn't expect this tweet to go viral, but if you're reading this, please read some of these other tweets too!

1. If you're putting tasks off, it's likely because they're hard for you. It doesn't make you a bad person.
2. A LOT of people are responding to this saying that this isn't ADHD, but anxiety. It probably applies to both! But you should also be aware that many ADHDers also have anxiety:
3. If you relate to ADHD twitter, you might want to look into ADHD further. This is good to keep in mind:
4. And, all of you replying saying "oh I do this but I'm just lazy"... please don't dismiss yourself like that!

Lastly, if you have some spare money, please consider giving some to this!

Just jumping in to say that yes, procrastination is a normal human experience. But if you're constantly procrastinating tasks that other people find simple, you should look further into ADHD. Especially if you also put off things that bring you joy because you feel too "lazy".
For everyone asking "what do I do if I think I have ADHD???", I've put together some brief advice. Obviously it might not be useful for you, but these are steps I wish I'd known when I was pursuing a diagnosis.

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10 Apr
What to do if you think you might have ADHD: a (very long) thread ➡️

Lots of people are asking me this atm, so I've thrown some advice together. Please note, these are just some things I found helpful during my diagnosis process- they might not work for you.
1. Reassure yourself.

It's easy to start hyperfocusing on ADHD and catastrophizing in the early stages. You are still who you were yesterday. You don’t have to find out everything instantly, and if you're on here, you've found a community that can help you through this journey.
2. Don't make an appointment with your doctor (yet).

I know this is controversial, but not all doctors have the expertise to assess ADHD. I recommend seeing one after you've learnt more about ADHD, so you can figure out whether they know their stuff or not.
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15 Mar
The problem isn't just doctors not knowing what symptoms connect to what diagnosis. It's also doctors not BELIEVING patients when they describe symptoms that aren't obviously visible. #NEISvoid
My doctor friend expressed confusion to me recently about the delay in my endometriosis diagnosis. "I just don't understand" she said. "Every doctor is taught that severe pain goes with endo. They should have made the connection right away".
But the issue wasn't doctors missing the connection between endo and pain. It was that they didn't make the connection between endo and MY pain- or more specifically, believe that the pain I was describing was actually as serious as I was saying.
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5 Mar
Are you the "struggles to makes friends easily" ADHDer or the "makes friends with people you don't even get along with by accident" ADHDer?

If you are the second one (like I was), some v simple tips:
1. Conversations about deep things are interpreted as intimacy by neurotypical people. If you push to talk about "big" things (like family, politics, feelings), people may think you are close to them (even if that's just what you like talking about to everyone).
2. I know internalised ableism has made you build a mask, and that part of that mask is never disagreeing with people, but you're allowed to disagree with people! Not doing so will make them think you share the same views and values, and they will seek you out more.
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4 Mar
I can't behave like a neurotypical in my friendships- and I no longer see this as a bad thing. It's just a thing. So I've stopped angsting over behaviour that I can't help. It's okay if people decide our friendship isn't for them. But I can't sustain being someone I'm not.
I can totally see why some of my characteristics are frustrating in friendships. I suck at replying to messages, I double book by accident, I drive things to deep conversation accidentally. But also, I've spent my whole life trying to not do those things and still do them.
Because of that, I know no amount of guilt is going to get me to change my behavior long term. I will always slip back into being who I am, the mask will always slip off eventually. And with some friendships, these things are never issues anyway- we just click regardless.
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24 Feb
For an ADHD diagnosis, the DSM requires "clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, school, or work functioning."

Medical professionals define what this looks like, not ADHDers. Here are some issues with this approach (thread, 1/11)
When doctors look for evidence of symptoms that interfere with functioning, they're looking for external evidence of this e.g. bad grades, poor work history, risk taking behaviour, and so forth. It's a tickbox approach- and one that has a myriad of limitations.
First, the requirement of "clear evidence" ignores the fact that many undiagnosed ADHDers experience a great deal of shame. We are often told from a young age that our symptoms are actually moral failings, and so use coping mechanisms to HIDE our ADHD behaviors.
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23 Feb
Can you please retweet or like this tweet if you have anxiety and/or depression AND adhd?

Have had multiple friends report being told by doctors that they "just have anxiety" so can't have ADHD. So many of us ADHDers have both!
Usually I hate "trying to see something" tweets bc they always feel like people just trawling for likes. In this case I do actually want traction, but because I'm so tired of hearing about people who are dismissed because they're anxious/depressed.
The MAJORITY of ADHDers I know have anxiety and/or depression, especially those of us who got to adulthood without a diagnosis/treatment. Undiagnosed ADHD is damn hard and the coping mechanisms we form and the impacts on our mental health are often pretty bad.
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