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october is adhd awareness month, so be sure to give your local adhder a hug!!

it’s me

i’m the local adhder

please give me a hug

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something about my usual existence is slightly off. guess it’s time to spontaneously combust because that’s enough to overwhelm and upset me!!

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PEOPLE WITH ADHD

are you the "caffeine makes me tired and/or drowsy" adhd or the "caffeine makes me so insane i feel like im gonna have a heart attack/explode" adhd

rb for larger sample size pretty plz

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sensory issues really aren’t just “thing feels bad” and i feel like sometimes neurotypical people don’t get that. how can i explain to someone without sensory issues that i’ll break down into tears if i feel my hair when it’s greasy? like hey i’m sorry i’ve been the human incarnate of rage today i just noticed the tag on the back of my shirt this morning and i’ve been on a rampage ever since 💕

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every day i am percieved™️

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return of the happy stim

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Say it with me: ADHD ≠ being lazy

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surely i will not be consumed by my interests this time

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*Notes:

specifically discussing physical fatigue, not mental overwhelm.

please answer based on what you experience when you are not medicated. (you can also mention in the tags if you are medicated for it & whether the meds alleviate your fatigue to some extent)

self diagnosis counts

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DPD as a diagnosis is widely contested in psychiatry

as is AvPD (although there's more evidence for it being viable as a diagnosis)

Both of them are severely underresearched tho, because both disorders are the most troublesome and painful to the sufferer themselves but in a 'quiet' way unlike NPD or BPD

And a case of C-PTSD could look like symptoms of either of them

That’s really interesting, I’ll keep looking some more into the controversy and everything. Thank you for the info!!! Much appreciated!!

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Accidentally found out about a mental disorder that fits me too well, will never recover from this shocking blow

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people who experience psychosis and anger issues and paranoia and delusions and intrusive thoughts and addiction and dissociation and other “ugly” non-romanticized mental health issues i love you and i believe you and you are not a bad person

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me and my brother: *explains how adhd affects us*

our parents: that's not adhd, that's normal

me and my brother:

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some of yall really be like “support mental illness!” up until someone is schizo-spec or psychotic. it shows and it’s ugly

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you’ve never known true jealously until you’ve met another ADHDer who hyperfixates on something useful as opposed to your garbage collection of unrelated interests. Bastard won the ADHD lottery

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heyo,

i've been suspecting being adhd or autistic for around 4ish years now and one thing i haven't found much on is my weird speech development. i started talking extremely young, and whenever my parents filled out the checkpoints they were given when i was born my speech was wayyyy far ahead (i'm talkin' forming full sentences pretty comfortably before i was a year old). i just heard (from a medical study) that unique speech development is a trait of neurodivergency, do you have knowledge/advice on this topic?

thanks :]

howdy anon!!!

this is a really interesting question, because it’s kinda all over the place. the most “common” effect for adhd and autism (since they are the two neurodivergencies mentioned here) on speech is often speech defects and delayed speech, such as i had serious issues with enunciating as well as stuttering as a kid and had to do intensive speech therapy for it. of course, “common” was put in quotes for a reason, because it’s more just what is expected from neurodivergent people and especially from adhd and/or autistic people. that doesn't mean it's the only kind of unique speech development to come from neurodivergencies.

there’s a large range of speech development when it comes to neurodivergency. experiences aren't universal, and sadly there's just not a lot of information easily available without paying for textbooks and research papers, which most of us are not in the position to do. of course, a very important aspect is the words of neurodivergent people themselves, who have in several places on the internet, come together to discuss their own experiences with advanced speech at a young age.

I know of one particular popular post written by C.L. Bridge of the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network that's been shared around often about this subject of precocious speech, specifically in terms of autistic youth. it is written by an autistic author and takes into account the experiences of other autistic people the author has spoken with on the issue.

generally, the answer is that yes, there definitely can be a link between unique language development and neurodiversity! often it's expected that our speech be delayed or otherwise different from most neurotypicals (such as my own issues with enunciating and stuttering that made it difficult to communicate, which after a lot of digging over the years seemed to be connected at least partially to my adhd). however, there are many instances that speech can be accelerated. i often see it linked with the "gifted child" idea, or the large amount of neurodivergent kids that are seen as "little adults" based on their communication abilities.

i would like to note quickly, that the couple sources used here only really discuss autism, because that's all i can really find on this topic with the time i had. adhd sources mostly seem to focus on speech delays, which is also not universal. the overall idea is, from my own personal experience and the experiences i've heard from other neurodivergent people, there are plenty of people that are on either side of the speech development argument.

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you heard him