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27 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Tbh growing up is just constantly reminding myself that I'm allowed to have different views to those who I respect. I'm always reevaluating stances on things, but have to remember that doing this should come from strengthening my understanding, not trying to make others happy.
ALSO have to remind myself that disagreement and conflict DOES NOT MEAN that those people I respect will lose respect for me. Disagreement is okay, and everyone has different filters that they learn and build opinions through.
This resistance to disagreement is totally a Fawn trauma response, but it's also a White ™️ thing, and I do think that being an advocate would require me to get much more comfortable with disagreement, bc otherwise I'll end up prioritizing civility which I don't want to do.
(I don't consider myself an advocate but I do think I want to be one at some point)
Anyway this is a useless string of tweets but before you all followed me I totally used twitter as a diary/sounding board and I miss it, so this is me doing that again.

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26 Apr
I've seen too many tweets this week claiming ADHD is actually just a trauma response, so here is a thread unpacking that assumption.

So, is ADHD actually just trauma? As far as I can tell, no. For my reasoning...keep reading. 1/16
For starters, most scientists agree there is a strong genetic component to ADHD, which suggests that ADHD is an inherited neurological difference, rather than a condition developed in response to external factors. 2/16
However, I CAN see how people think ADHD is just a trauma response, bc they have lots of symptoms in common. This diagram from a paper I read is simplistic, but helps demonstrate how one can appear like the other, and how they can look the same from the outside. 3/16 Venn diagram. Under trauma: Feelings of fear, helplessness,
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25 Apr
I can feel a long thread about the limitations of neurotypical based therapy for ADHD coming on, but atm it's all just messy thoughts so if someone has already written that thread, please link me and save the angst haha ❤️
There's so much big structural stuff to unpack but today I'm just thinking about my therapist asking me if I had tried taking over mopping the floors and ironing from my partner as a way of "participating" in the face of my chronic illness inadequacy anxiety.
A. My neck pain makes that impossible

B. We both have ADHD...you think we iron our clothes????? You think we own a mop for our 1 bedroom apartment???

Her point was to find new things to replace the old things I did...but like, my partner would never value me doing this anyway?
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25 Apr
If you can afford it, I highly recommend getting some Tiles from @TheTileApp for things you use and lose regularly. I have some on my keys, my work lanyard, my wireless headphone box, and this personal details folder I always used to lose.
They have key rings, tiny buttons and wallet cards. If you lose them, you just turn the bluetooth on on your phone, call the item and it will ring if it's close. If it's not close, any time another tile user works past it, it will ping on your map so you can go find it.
If you have bluetooth on on your phone all the time, you can also use it in reverse, by pressing a button on them that calls your phone, even if it is silenced.
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23 Apr
If you considered and then discounted ADHD because you're academically or professionally successful, but your personal life is an absolute mess, it might be worth reevaluating. Same goes for doing fine until a big life transition.
Me during my Masters: On three major scholarships, acing my writing, volunteering for academic collectives, present in the community.

Also me during my Masters: ten mugs hidden in my draws, wearing unwashed clothing, not messaging friends back for months, dropping all hobbies.
And then after FINISHING my masters (when I told myself everything would be better): listless, daydreamy, losing things constantly, struggling to get started and always feeling three steps behind everyone around me.
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23 Apr
Why do some people on who generally put a lot of thought into their stances, and also have ADHD, not bother to learn anything about it and instead share their ableist takes everywhere as though they are an authority?
It makes me so tired! They pull out all the same ableist tropes we hear all the time as though it's new or insightful? Like pal, that's not your originality it's your internalised ableism and you're not "smarter" than everyone or edgy for refusing to deal with it.
I don't understand people who are committed to intellectual rigour in all other aspects of their lives but don't do any critical thinking about their own brain and just internalise everything one doctor told them once or try to claim ADHD isn't a real thing.
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20 Apr
I know many disagree with me, but I earnestly don't understand the benefit of only framing ADHD as an exclusively bad thing. To me that just ends up with eugenic thinking about getting rid of ADHD, which would mean getting rid of me as a person. It's intertwined with who I am.
This isn't me trying to be edgy, this is me genuinely reflecting and trying to understand why so many people think challenging the pathologising of ADHD is oppositional to accepting it as a disability. To me they can both exist in unison.
I think "superpower" narratives are harmful. It makes it seem like every ADHDer could be "successful" if they worked hard enough, which is untrue. People who push this always seem to be rich, white, and male, so they have access to implicit accomodations that many of us do not.
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