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Nov 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I was just minding my own business when I saw y’all tweeting about the Twitpocalypse so if anything terrible happens to Twitter here are 5 things I want you to remember:
1. You, as a person with #ADHD, have so much worth, value, heart and meaning. It’s not easy to have ADHD sometimes! But I want you to remember that you deserve as much care and gentleness as you give others.
#2. There are many other space to find neurodivergent community & acceptance. Idk about mastodon but there are discord servers, tiktok and IRL spaces. Find them and find your group.
#3. If you want to stick with me I’m launching a new website on Tuesday (vancouveradhdcoaching.com) <— check it out on the 15th or at adhdstudio.ca
#4. ACAB
#5. Fun is medicine and it’s not optional, your brain needs play. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow or any day, let this be my legacy: FUN IS MEDICINE FOR ADHD BRAINS

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Nov 9
Today was one of those great days where everything came together; I had only a small amount of obligatory tasks, my #ADHD wasn’t raging and it actually felt like I had *time*. I could move slow and not be overwhelmed cause I didn’t have much to do. I’ve got spare time to putter.
Some days, I’d be crawling out of my skin with boredom. Other days I might be overwhelmed. It can be a hard balance to strike because adhd really does give you a variable capacity. It takes time to get into the swing of structuring options
and understanding how to navigate between high, medium and low energy days. One of the things I did today, for example, is that I wanted to make breakfast for my partner and his friend who slept over and my housemates and me and my child, rather than pay to eat out
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Jul 27
OK let me tell you a story about an #ADHD thing that happens to me and maybe you. It's when you slowly plan and build up to doing a thing but then your secret brain plan gets interrupted and you ABSOLUTELY LOSE IT.
I find this most often happens to me on a day off but not always - sometimes there's a thing I need or want to do. Say, paint a picture. But for some reason I don't feel like I can paint the picture *now*, but I KNOW I have a free evening tonight at like 5 pm.
So maybe I have time in the morning.. maybe I have time in the afternoon.. but for some reason in my brain I feel like I need to "build up to it" so I do a bunch of other stuff first that my brain is telling me is important or like, a prerequisite.
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May 30
Did you know that when you have #ADHD, a part of your brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex sort of.. doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to?
According to Dr. Russell Barkley, the ACC helps us organize our behaviour toward future social goals. So, it helps us to inhibit impulsive action in the service of long term goals. Ie, not oversharing about a wart on your butt to a group of people you’re trying to befriend.
Essentially, part of the ACC helps us to anticipate social consequences between the now and “what’s gonna happen in the future if you act this way”, according to dr. Barkley
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Dec 31, 2021
You know what I’m really self conscious about? The amount of content I can consume. Right now everyone is posting like albums they listened to and books they read in 2021 and every year, what I took in was a fraction of this.
Especially music, as a musician I feel like I just live in constant imposter syndrome about how little new music I get exposed to. Books at least make more sense because they take time to listen to/read. Same with shows and movies.
And before you say, “but Dusty, you’re the mother of a toddler so you’re busy all the time”, it’s been like this for as long as I can remember.

Actually that’s not true; things were different when music was physical. When I could buy or even take music out of the library
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Dec 31, 2021
You know what is one of my least favourite #adhd traits? How challenging it is for me to shift gears when a plan gets changed, no matter how legitimately. This is an aspect of managing my ADHD which I think the people around me don’t understand how impactful it is.
And disclaimer:

before people get in the comments going “did you know that’s actually an autism thing?”

1. I’m about to talk about cognitive rigidity & emotional dysregulation which BOTH neurodivergencies have

2. I do not meet the criteria for an autism diagnosis
(Love me some autistic folks, I just want to sidestep the armchair diagnoses in the comments right now)
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Dec 29, 2021
Oh. I forgot that this weird hideyhole closet in my garage existed and…. Image
I MEAN IM A LITTLE RELIEVED BUT ALSO NOW MORE MYSTIFIED ABOUT WHO CAME IN MY YARD THROUGH THE NEIGHBOURS YARD AND WENT UNDER MY DECK AND WHY CAUSE I AINT BEEN IN MY BACKYARD IN LIKE A MONTH
Im gonna hope the neighbour hopped the fence and came over to get something that blew from his yard to mine 😬
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