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9 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I keep seeing things like "Imagine if doctors dismissed other things like they dismiss ADHD" and "neurodivergence is the only diagnosis that comes without support"....and I'm sorry but in the nicest possible way...this is just not true at all?
SO MANY other conditions are dismissed or go untreated by doctors. I know a woman who died from stomach cancer last year bc doctors thought it was just anxiety and refused to do any tests. It took me 7 years of bugging doctors to get my endometriosis diagnosis and treatment.
Not to mention how much worse things are for Black and Indigenous people, who are not only dismissed at greater rates than white people, but have also literally been harmfully exploited by doctors in the name of medical science. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/ups…
Multiple studies show that patients of colour are less likely to receive diagnosis, treatment or pain medication than white people...and we're talking for seemingly cut and dry conditions like appendicitis, broken bones, and cancers.

improvediagnosis.org/dxiq-column/wh…
It's not as simple as improving doctors' understandings of neurodivergence. Medical knowledge is built on a foundation of ableism, sexism, and racism. We have to address all of it to have any meaningful change- otherwise those treatments and supports will be inequitable anyway.

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I hate that practically every resource about ADHD and relationships is framed around "how to put up with your ADHD partner and all the ways they will fail you".

My partner and I BOTH have ADHD, and it is the most fulfilling, stable, and joyous relationship I've ever been in.
Honestly, if you're dating an ADHDer, and you find ADHD traits like losing things, being late, interrupting etc to be dealbreakers...don't date them. You don't have to put up with those things, but you also can't force your partner to magically be someone else.
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I’d rather live in a world where some people mistakenly think they have ADHD before doing more research, than a world where ADHD has no visibility. A psychiatrist confirmed my self-diagnosis, but I never would have known to look into ADHD without memes and social media.
ADHD's diagnostic criteria is based on what it looks like to others- how much we seem like we're not paying attention, how much we seem like we're not listening, how much we talk "excessively" (who determines what excessive is, by the way?).
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On ADHD + catastrophizing:

Do you ever think about the impact of consistently telling kids their ADHD related struggles mean they're lazy, careless etc? No wonder some of us catastrophize- many of us were taught that small mistakes DO make us inherently bad.
Growing up, adults consistently made assumptions about what my behaviour meant. I lost things because I was careless, forgot homework because I was lazy, was late because I was selfish etc. As a child I knew this wasn't true and that I was trying really hard to be "good".
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Don't mind me, just sitting here thinking about how angry flatmates and family used to get at me for leaving kitchen cabinet doors open, when it turns out it's related to my ADHD. They always made me feel super inconsiderate even though I tried SO hard to remember.
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Too many doctors resist diagnosing people with chronic illness bc they think it's not worth it, or that people get "worse" and "depressed" after the diagnosis. Hmmm, maybe people appear visibly worse bc diagnosis validates them and they stop pretending everything is fine???
It's absolutely bizarre to me that so many doctors seem to think the diagnosis is what causes the discomfort, rather than the symptoms. It really feels like they're revealing the extent to which they believe what their patients are telling them.
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