#almost all my cousins are autistic or have adhd lmao

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I keep telling my mom she probs has mild ADHD and she says “well I wasn’t diagnosed when I was little so no I don’t” ma’am you grew up in the 60s. Ofc you wouldn’t be diagnosed back then unless you were an extremely obvious case. And then she says “well I only have trouble paying attention to something if it doesn’t interest me. If it interests me I can pay attention really well” like you literally just described ADHD!!!

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Dude I did the head banging too!!! It made my parents rlly considered and yet they didn't realize I'm autistic until this year. The problems of being AFAB

Oh also that last ask from like 5 seconds ago, wasn't me saying you might have autism I'm just going "oh mood"

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It’s kind of a funny story bc I did depthy research into autism because of an autistic main character I was writing, identified with enough of the symptoms to be concerning but it wasn’t quite right, and I already knew ADHD overlapped a lot, and then I just shoved it away into the back of my mind and didn’t acknowledge it for like.... a year LMFAO

When ADHD posts started popping up a lot during quarantine and with nothing but time to be alone with myself, I finally realized, “wait a minute. oh shit, that sounds like me.” and then I did a lot of research and identified more and it was like the “(chuckles) I’m in danger” meme

I don’t think I have autism because I don’t have the intense sensory issues that present more with autism, but I do think I have ADHD because it feels right in all the places autism didn’t and explains everything better as I think that’s more of a dopamine-based disorder? I don’t know how to explain it because someone else did and they did a really good job and I barely remember it lmfao like while autism is more sensory based ADHD is more like dopamine regulation

Lmfaoo I don’t think my parents are ever gonna realize because:

I visibly stim in front of them, almost constantly with quarantine (with arm shaking my mom asks me if I have Parkinson’s, I once did this idk arm flapping thing in front of my mom while crying after a family fight, and I pace specifically in a circle at literally any given opportunity I ate my breakfast doing that multiple times)

I openly have memory issues (I try to explain my memory is bad except for inconsequential details and they seem to keep under the impression it’s good because of those random details I remember)

They know I procrastinate badly

And I have been described a little bit as a wild child with no explanation so I don’t know how much that implies ADHD symptoms as I don’t exactly understand what that means lmfao but I know I was kinda willful and possibly active bc I remember it being mentioned time out never worked because I’d just leave (though this isn’t exactly strange toddler behavior)

And I don’t think they fully understand what ADHD is (my mom has kinda implied some ‘ADHD’ kids probably just need discipline) and and my cousins have ADHD and they’re incredible hyperactive so their experiences with it are with a totally different presentation.

Plus, you know, another AFAB lmao

I’m gonna make a PowerPoint explaining everything as if talking to a child and ask for a diagnosis test or something or just wait until I’m independent and hopefully have the money to get checked out myself