It's time to take back "lazy" and "scatterbrained", people!

Lazy: "Yes, thank you, I do recognize when I'm in need of some downtime."
Scatterbrained: "Indeed, I can be very imaginative."

#adhd

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2026-07-25 13:20:52

that's classic #reappropriation

so, a slur is used on you:

what do you do?

you smile and embrace the insult and turn the term into one of pride

happens for individuals

happens for groups

it's quite powerful

"queer" is a classic example

so is "yankee" believe it or not

thousands of other examples

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THIS

And also, taking the emotional temperature of an entire room EVERY TIME its occupants change is damn exhausting, y'all.

#neurodivergent
#AdultDiagnosis
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#empathy
#tired

There's "project management" and then there's "trying to coordinate time, energy, and attention in such a way that the project successfully finishes just before the hyperfixation expires."

#ADHD

Hey I'm Carroll (she/her), a newly out trans girl just looking for community!

I'm early 40s, live in the UK (), and enjoying tinkering with older computers

#Introduction #Trans #ADHD

"It doesn't have to get done,
It just has to be perfect"

— Old #ADHD Proverb

When I wanted to use this as an #adhd metaphor a few years back it suddenly hit me that not everybody already knew what the term meant. Fortunately, somebody put together a pretty good visual guide: How to gird your loins.

(Disclaimer: I know nothing about the rest of the site, although at a quick glance they are a lot saner than you would expect from the name "Art of Manliness"...)

MYTH: ADHD is overdiagnosed.

REALITY: For every person diagnosed,
there are ten more sitting somewhere right now thinking they're just broken.

#adhd

One of my favorite things about being neurodivergent is wrapping up a serious work meeting and immediately breaking into a musical stim. Today it’s me singing this mashup from eons ago

#neurodivergent #adhd #audhd #adventuretime

youtu.be/cUYSGojUuAU?si=T3PDO1…

sometimes people ask me how i seem to be able to 'do so many things'. i say i have the type of #adhd that feels like this:

- instead of feeling like i can go 200 miles per hour randomly distributed in a single place or project
- with time, coaching, training, and better sleep (undiagnosed sleep apnea made it even worse), i now have the kind where i feel i can go up to 200 miles per hour across 3-4 things at a time
- things i'm not interested in are still very very hard to do
- so at some point i decided i will only do the things i'm very very interested in (took a while to get to a place where i could do that)
- now that i'm there, as long as i am able to shift my 200 mph focus consistently across the 3-4 buckets of projects
- eventually i'll do a few pretty fun things!

this is a difficult topic to talk about because everyone experiences this differently, and no one should ever say 'see, this adhd person can still do things' as a way of weaponizing it against another person with a different experience. that's also ableist

for me it also helped when i stopped thinking about the 'all the things i can't do because i suck stupid adhd' and more of 'ok my brain works differently how can i trick my silly brain'. even with that, veering too much into 'my adhd is my superpower' is also super ableist

at the end of the day, i like doing all of these things not out of a 'i have to do this or i suck', but because i feel truly compelled to expend my energy on the many many things i care about!

but if i had to do things i didn't like and people told me i sucked all the time for not being able to do the things i didn't like, it would probably be a very different experience.

"The Telegraph is inciting hatred of disabled kids, again. The right-wing shit rag published a piece suggesting parents are forcing ADHD diagnoses for benefits. Coincidentally, this comes just as the Department of Health and Social Care has published an interim report into their review on whether the condition is overdiagnosed."

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence

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