#diagnosed with adhd for 20 years

[fracturedgems]

Took some of my spouse's medication the other day (with their permission) while I was having a particularly aggressive executive disfunction/ADHD Brain fog episode and found out literally all my writing problems just need to be fixed with Adderall.

[nexus-nebulae]

me as a kid: i have all these problems

every adult around me: you're not old enough to know what's wrong with you, you're fine

me as an adult: i still have all these problems

my doctors after i finally got the opportunity to choose them myself: oh my fucking god why have you never gotten help for all these problems. you should have seen me 10 years ago

[applebees4prez]

kristen needs to get her adhd diagnosed it won’t fix her but it sure will be a stepping stone to get there

[valentinesparda]

i love my coworkers at the other branch I get to work at but if I have to hear the phrase "everyone is a little ADHD" in all seriousness ever I will always feel like I have rabies

[pollen]

i've been diving a lot deeper into adhd symptoms and comorbidities and misdiagnoses and whenever i tell my boyfriend something i learned that sounds like me he responds with something like

[try-to-use-supplies-art]

Didn’t think the “people with ADHD self medicate with coffee” thing was real until my EMT teacher, while teaching us what substances NOT to use as an EMT, calmly made note that he is an exception because he has ADHD and proceeded to down his coffee

[milfbrainrot]

I think if I do have adhd it's funny that spending so much time on tumblr where shitty executive dysfunction is the norm has convinced me that everyone is just like this so of course I struggle so badly rather than the "ur self diagnosing from the internet!" effect everyone thinks it has.

[dreamersneverlose]

Advice for your 20s: Sometimes you just need to dump that loser who makes you feel like theres something broken in you and find a therapist who specializes in ptsd.

Also be gay.

[ghostickle]

I been trying to get tested for adhd for like two years now and just can’t get in fuckin anywhere waitlist is always at least a year long then they cancel or put it off more or something and I already Know I have adhd it runs in my family they’ve all been diagnosed I have like every symptom they’ve been medicating and treating me for anxiety and depression for like 15 years now with next to no improvement and it’s not uncommon for adhd to be misdiagnosed like that and that would make meds not do anything cause your treating the wrong thing and I’ve taken adderall before shits life changing and atp like. I wanna just go to someone I haven’t seen before and say I have adhd I need meds cause they did accidentally put it on my chart before and I’m pretty sure deleted it but I mean it’s been on there before without testing and ik my mom never had a test result to show or anything she was able to just actually get meds and I’m only trying to get tested because I can actually function on those meds

[reddetur]

"I wish I had free time so I could draw" says me

Then when I have that free time I stay in bed and don't do anything all day except read fanfics 😭😭 (I barely go on tiktok nowadays so that's good 🔥🔥)

[ednygmasbowlerhat]

pro tip for my fellow middle children: have autism because then your parents will worry about you and have to give you attention

[hippopotatoe]

getting off the adhd meds that worked really made me realize just how much they worked. i'm exhausted. i don't understand how the fuck i made it through school in my childhood at all; everything breaks my concentration if i even manage to focus on things at all. i need to write everything down because i forget Everything. i come home from work and sleep and can't do shit all for the rest of the night because i'm just so fucking tired but i also can't relax bc i need to DO something or i'll Die. i can't fall asleep at night bc my whole being screams after entertainment. etc etc. like i took my meds 3 times/week - sometimes up to 5 - but apparently it was enough to take the load off on those days to make the rest of the week work. the pills i'm on now do shit all except maybe making me more tired. they weren't prescribed by my usual doctor and i doubt how much she was involved in the decision bc she knows i can't handle anything that might make you tired

[thelastschnitzel]

So, people often think that if you have adhd and take your medication that ritalin makes you more awake and full of energy.

I often get up early because I can't sleep anymore, eat a little breakfast, take my meds and then promptly fall asleep for another hour or two.

I have never been able to take a nap after I woke up in the morning before. Or even if I didn't sleep at all and the sun had already risen.

[shegottosayit]

The Adderall shortage is fucking up peoples lives. Adderall isn’t a punchline. It’s a problem.

Hi. After a couple years of being unemployed I’m now very part time (0-12 hours per week) employed and thinking about how to get another part time job because I’m unmedicated and fuck knows what I can and can’t do. I certainty can’t work up to what I’m capable of doing.

[akajustmerry]

hello, friends. i'm merryana. i am non-binary and lebanese and, well. 2024 has been a difficult year for me.

i've been unemployed since i was bullied out of my job for speaking up about palestine in january, i had to have emergency surgery on my foot that left me unable to walk for 3 months, i had to replace my laptop hard-drive after it fried in a power surge and i lost years worth of work, AND i got diagnosed with ADHD but due to a suspected heart condition currently being investigated am unable to be medicated.

honestly, this isn't even half of what i've been through this year, and i've been through all of it while being unsuccessful at finding a stable source of income AND i'm turning 30 on October 20. needless to say i am not where i thought i'd be at this point in my life at all. i am trying not to let that get me too down.

if you've ever enjoyed anything i've written, or anything i've yapped about on @gayvclubpodcast, or if you're a kind stranger who wants to take a few dollars off my never-ending medical bills for my birthday - i'd be very grateful. thank you in advance if you do and no pressure if you can't/don't <3

KO-FI / PAYPAL

[deconstructthesoup]

There's a metaphor here

Sometimes I think about Omar Najam playing Prince Andhera and getting a million messages like "OMG thank you king for this Autistic rep" and Omar being like "wow fam I love you your headcanons are all valid but I just played Andhera as a regular guy, like me" and then getting diagnosed a few months later.