#Rejection sensitivity

[pueraeternal]

Poetry Through a neurodivergent Lens

Your poem carries a powerful emotional depth, an intimate reckoning with past wounds, self-preservation, and the cautious possibility of reconnection. It moves fluidly between internal struggle and external reality, where avoidance and distance are protective instincts, yet memory has the power to soften walls once built. The imagery of doors and the “velvet cloak” evokes the tension between withdrawal and longing. And that final, vulnerable question "Is there room in your arms for a velvet embrace?" feels like both a plea and a quiet act of courage.

[deiim]

rejection sensitivity is so fucking lame. like boo hoo look at me i felt mildly ignored for 30 seconds and already started planning my own funeral liKE BITCH CHILL it was never that serious

edit: comments on this post is now my proof that reading comprehension is truly dead and gone

[geekinator]

I just…I’m having a rough day, on the inside.

[featherxquill]

The thing about me is, I’m so rejection sensitive, at least where friendship is concerned, that I have learned to completely ignore the part of my brain that tells me that someone is mad at me or hates me and wants rid of me, essentially granting myself cockroach levels of resilience to passive-aggressive social rejection and ghosting. So yes, I will be That Person. I have absolutely no shame and I will send you 32 things that made me think of you even if you haven’t replied, I will persist in asking you to hang out. Like I choose to believe that everyone is just busy or forgetful or has their own shit going on, it’s the only way I can be a functional human being. So if you want to get rid of me that’s completely fine, but I will take none hints and I’m going to need you to Set Some Clear Boundaries, Ma’am.

[brightlotusmoon]

[melonlthawne]

[alabyte]

Just a meme about how it feels like for me

[divinedieudonne]

Did it hurt? When you were telling your parent about your special interest, and they responded with annoyance?

[openmindpsych]

i think there needs to be a shift in the way people talk about rejection sensitivity. while the sensitivity is often more than is necessary or appropriate, it's not totally unreasonably making things up to be anxious about. it reminds me of hypervigilance in ptsd - during childhood, there were tons of small rejections you experienced. and social rejection is a big deal - in the past, being rejected by your social group meant death! so your brain learned to pick up on those small rejections to stay safe. and even if you're in a safer environment now, like among friends who love you, your brain has already learned how to be cautious. it's annoying, and often unhelpful, but your brain is just trying its best to keep you safe. it's not just an overreaction or making up problems where there are none.

[neuro-nest]

Rejection sensitivity is a real prick. Not being able to handle disapproval and wishing you’d be able to take back a decision you made, that your indecisive ass thought you wanted, just so that you wouldn’t have to deal with disapproval from someone else is… bleh.

You can’t get angry or sad without feeling guilty.

You know the indecisive decision you want might piss someone off, so you keep quiet.

Then you work up the courage to admit it.

Then you learn if you had spoken up minutes earlier, it would have actually been fine, but now that you spoke up too late, you have actually pissed someone off.

And in the end you feel upset, guilty and angry over an inconsequential matter that shouldn’t even have been a problem.

Make up your mind, mind. Do I get dopamine for expressing my unexpected change in irrelevant wants despite concerns of being a burden, or do I feel like I threatened to kick puppies and take over the world? While you regulate my inexplicable emotions, mind, in the mean time, my grown ass is going to cuddle my plushies and cope through unhealthy snack cravings.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Rejection Sensitivity

Neurodiverse Journeys

[angelsonthesideline]

[therapeutic007]

✨ When Criticism Feels Like a Knife to the Heart: An ADHD RSD Workbook ✨

If you: • Melt down over tiny feedback (even when it’s kindly given) • Dread checking emails/texts in case someone’s upset with you • Remember rejections from 10 years ago like they happened yesterday ...you might be struggling with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)—the emotional earthquake many with ADHD know too well.

This isn’t "being too sensitive"—it’s your nervous system sounding a false alarm that rejection = survival threat.

The RSD & ADHD Workbook helps you:

✔ Spot RSD’s lies ("They hate me" → "I’m interpreting tone") ✔ Short-circuit shame spirals with emergency coping scripts ✔ Respond (not react) to perceived criticism ✔ Rebuild self-trust after social mishaps

📖 Inside you’ll get: → Body-based exercises to calm the RSD adrenaline crash → "Feedback Decoder" prompts to reality-check perceived slights → RSD-proof communication hacks (for work/relationships)

You deserve to feel safe in your own mind—even when others disapprove.

🔗 Find it here

[neurobivergent]

Percy being clueless about the quest vs percy immediately clocking Annabeth's weird behavior is so so adhd of him like that rejection sensitivity is setting alarms off in your head huh. Same.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[b3ndy]

Rsd or general anxiety sucks because you forget you have it and something Mildly happens or you think something happens and it's like Oh Ok sorry I'm just gonna go to the exploding room now haha. Nice seeing ya.