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22 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
God I'm really slow this morning

*remembers meds*

Ah
God I'm hungry this morning

*remembers putting breakfast bar in pocket*

Ah
We're having a day folks. We are having. a. day.
Boy is my throat dry, and I've got a bit of a headache. These meds are kicking in weird.

*reminded to drink water by a tweet*

Ah

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Geraint Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Profile picture
24 May
ADHD is: being pretty good at basically anything you want to be and absolutely terrible at anything you need to do to live.
*no experience is universal.

But of course, we all know that because not every experience applied to us before dx/self-dx but the weight of it did and so we still accepted our ND.

Once again. Not saying some, is not the same as saying all.
That instinct you have to be like, "oh but," is the *same* instinct dudes who invented the notall hashtag have.

I know. We know. Everyone knows. The fact you're subtweeting me means *you* know.

I'm not invalidating your experience - I'm sharing mine.
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Geraint Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Profile picture
22 May
Mythbusting ableism?

I'll start.

Non-ADHDers, who take adderall to help them study, are statistically *more likely to fail* than the non-ADHDers who don't.

ADHD students who take adderall are statistically *as likely to pass or fail* as non-ADHDers who don't take adderall. Buff dog vs Crying dog meme...
Learning this was important for me.

ADHD (in the USA especially) has become a sort of moral panic. But... Its hard to fight doctors.

So, as with all moral panics, they start to try and pin things that society considers wrong on it.

In this case. Cheating.
Academic Doping with Adderall is largely a made up problem.

But.

Academic Doping *concerns* are a brilliant way to attack ADHD (and ADHDers by extension).

It let's you do 4 things all at the same time.
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Geraint Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Profile picture
20 Apr
So this is my least favourite kind of response to this. I understand not every person with ADHD (or even anything else) will have the same traits. So if you don't vibe with it that's cool. Not saying 'some' is not the same as saying ' all'. But this super feels like gatekeeping.
See I was diagnosed late, at 34.
Part of that is I don't fit in to some of the typical stereotypes. I'm ADHD-C, and clinically more hyperactive - but, that hyperactivity is mostly internal. I also grew up poor, where adhd kids are more likely to be dismissed as 'naughty'
My mum, almost certainly has it, and I can see traits of ADHD and autism throughout her side of the family. So she would have perceived my behaviour as normal. Also, she had me late. She's in her 70s now. 'hyperkinetic impulse disorder' wasn't recognised until she was 22.
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Geraint Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Profile picture
18 Apr
So the really interesting thing I'm finding with this is the diversity of people identifying.
It seems to span age, race, gender, nationality and language - that feels really rare to me, esp when talking about communication which traditionally varies wildly across demos.
Reach on this is relatively low, but engagement is over 20% which is massive (average is 0.5%). The Rt:Like ratio is at 1:2 - social media hat on, this tell me the post is highly 'relatable'.
Like normally, I'm v aware that a lot of my 'this is adhd' musings will be strongly influenced by my whiteness, gender etc.
Like, Hygiene. I know that I, as a white man, have a lot more societal privilege that allows me to get away with, say, forgetting to shower for a few days.
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18 Apr
How ADHD people write VS how we have to write. ImageImage
*Yes I know. Just ignore it yeah? I made it in 5 minutes and I was excited - I proofread as well as I was ever going to in that situation.
Christ the embarrassment I'm feeling over posting this because it actually looks like I've put some effort in rather than just adhd shitposting.
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