it's all grist for the mill🌿 psychoanalytic psychotherapist and proud #ADHD conceptual expansion thinker who is currently writing a book
Jul 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Let’s talk about the #millennial urge to adopt the personality of a manic pixie dream girl back in their early 20’s and then later identify as an empath in their 30’s.
You possibly grew up in a stressful and/or traumatic environment where you had to predict and manage another persons emotions in order to maintain physical/emotional safety. Scanning other’s emotions is your trauma superpower but it’s a double edge sword.
I’d like to clarify, as a psychoanalytic I believe two opposing things can and do exist at the same time. ADHD neurodivergent brains, I can only speak to this and more specifically only to my own, is very difficult to have.
I struggle a lot because of it. Those struggles are very real and very hard at times. I also love my brain. I love the way I think about things, make connections between topics, see patterns others don’t, and bring a different perspective to professional groups.
Just like a battery needs both the
positive and negative charge, I think we as a whole would do a lot better working together.
NT people love structure, linear points of reference, organization, and clear cut answers but struggle when things have gray area or are abstract.
Society views ADHD as a disability due to our time periods not producing or being “distracted”.
What they don’t understand is the time spent inactive and bouncing around looking at various topics is actually the time and process needed in order to inspire and build up the energy for when we go all in.
