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Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wearing one ear bud & listening to You're Dead to Me (a history podcast by the consultant for BBC Horrible Histories) so I can hang out & play w my kid without getting too bored and agitated about it, wandering off, or zoning out into daydreams. Yup. I've got #ADHD

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I love my toddler but she is not a sparkling conversationalist ok
Lost focus on the podcast while I was typing and now Paul Robeson is in front of HUAC while my toddler is shoving a plastic piece of pizza at my face
I've been doing the one earbud trick for over a year when we go walking or to the park, but I guess I felt like I couldn't put an ear bud in at home, like it would be too rude. Extra input makes it easier for me to be present without being so bored I mentally wander off #ADHD
Now I need more podcast recommendations. I'm partial to history podcasts, but I'm open to all sorts of suggestions

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Before I was diagnosed w #ADHD & figured out my autism, I'd bring up my pacing, rocking, swaying, skin-picking, tapping, & Drs always told me it was anxiety. I thought of myself as an extremely anxious person, but outside of specific contexts anxiety isn't much of an issue for me
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People with #ADHD are more likely to have poor oral hygiene, we have higher levels of plaque, gingivitis, pretty much every dental complication because we can't focus/remember to brush our teeth. ADHDers are also more likely to live in poverty & not be able to afford dental care
Its cool to know that if I were a boy & lived in a family with resources I would've been dxed, & maybe I could've gotten meds to help me remember to brush my goddamn teeth. Instead, Drs see my poor person teeth, don't know about ADHD & oral health, & conclude I'm a "drug-seeker"
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This is wild considering that Kolodny himself financially benefits from anti-opioid efforts, as does Jane Ballantyne, and anti-opioid groups get funding from companies which financially benefit from forcing patients into their never-ending list of opioid-sparing therapies
When anti-opioid zealots make bank on expert witness fees & anti-opioid groups receive generous financial contributions from anti-opioid pharmaceutical companies (i.e. Shatterproof and Pacira) that's apparently ethical. But pain patients are only allowed to be shills & "addicts"
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A major struggle of late diagnosed #ADHD &/or #autistic ppl is realizing that a massive chunk of your life has been spent just managing symptoms, trying to make them acceptable so you can be accepted, or so you can feel at ease in your body. While everyone else was just... living
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Feels like a lot of #ADHD & #autistic women get misdiagnosed w anxiety, or their anxiety is seen as the primary condition, rather than secondary to ADHD/A. Psychs told me my rocking, swaying, skin picking, fidgeting was all anxiety. Prolly bc they couldn't explain it w depression
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