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Gem of a comment on this Reddit post

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It's so hard to learn to unmask sometimes. I feel like as I learned more about my ADHD, I found I was doing it so unconsciously because I was the main culprit of holding myself to neurotypical standards. I didn't know my brain was literally functioning differently, so I just thought I had a poorly performing typical brain.

I suppress my emotions and reactions, because I didn't think I was supposed to be feeling things as deeply as I did.

I try to hide the amount of chaos and mess I create in my living space, thinking I just needed to be less 'lazy' or buy different furniture I can't afford.

I'd stay silent in group conversations, because no one else seemed to have trouble interrupting or going on strange tangents like I did if I let myself speak up and let out the barrage of thoughts.

I clenched up my body and posture, because other people didn't need to fidget or sit in weird positions to be able to listen or focus.

I'm still doing a lot of these things, because 3 decades of behaviour is hard to let go of or unlearn.

When I feel bad because of certain behaviours I now know are linked to my ADHD, at least now I am more forgiving of myself. I know now I'm not failing at being normal, I'm finding out who I really am and learning new ways to manage. There are good things about being ADHD to embrace, but there are a lot of negatives that impact myself and the people around me too, so I still need to try and improve.

The tools I need to do that are different though. Masking taught me a lot of useful tools, but it also hurt me, made me burn out faster and left me unable to be myself fully.

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before

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You. can't. reheat. already. made. coffee. or. tea. in. a. kettle.

I'm so tired of this being folks main take away from this post.

Am from UK.

Make hot bevvy.

Using my kettle.

Forgot to drink.

Bevvy cold.

Go to reheat.

IN THE MICROWAVE.

(sometimes a drink I have already done this with previously is still there)

Why is this difficult to grasp? The point of the post is the layers of forgetting things I want to have/do leading to scenarios like this.

Not weird gatekeeping of how hot drinks should be made.

living with ADHD is being stuck in a Matrix of your own making, and forgetting you made it

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I love cooking really, I just don't. Because of reasons.

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Ahh, fed, washed, refreshed and ready to start my daa.....mmmnn and it's 2am.

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Facts!🤭

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"I made a new friend today!"

The friend:

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I think I've worked out (part of the reason) why there's been such a huge uptick in folks who don't reblog things on here.

This post has like 14k notes right now, and the tags and comments and reblogs are FULL of people who didn't know about fast-reblog, and -- you guys have been slow-reblogging this whole time!?!??!?!?

In the interests of a) making your lives easier, and b) encouraging you to reblog posts, which is what keeps this site alive, here's how you fast-reblog:

On mobile: press and hold the reblog button. Your blog icon will appear. If you have sideblogs, all of the different icons will appear. Drag to whichever blog you want to reblog to, and release. Job done.

On desktop: hold down the E key and click reblog. Job done.

You're welcome. Now get reblogging.

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If you had any important plans, do not click this.

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@yeahitsak

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graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

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me getting any new clothing: I will wear this for 5 weeks straight

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Me after I send anything to someone and they take a little bit longer to respond.

I am totally healthy mentally.

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