What people think ADHD is: little boys bouncing in their chairs, not paying attention.
What ADHD is: Not being able to do the things you want to do, get chastised, blame yourself for it. Repeat until any rejection feels unbearable and emotionally painful. Suffer in silence.
What ADHD is: Not being able to do the things you want to do, get chastised, blame yourself for it. Repeat until any rejection feels unbearable and emotionally painful. Suffer in silence.
The perception people have of ADHD and our reality are very different. Inattention and hyperactivity can be annoying, but they're not that debilitating. Usually, the most impairing traits are our inability to start tasks we want to do and difficulty controlling our feelings.
While inattention and specially hyperactivity are more visible from the outside, emotional dysregulation and difficulty initiating tasks can be more easily camouflaged, and they might go unnoticed. It's important to know them and address them to improve quality of life.
There's many traits that make ADHD hard to deal with. The common ground is that many of them are invisible from the outside and lived in silence. People with ADHD don't know that what they're feeling isn't "normal", so many of us just think we're weak or broken.
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