ADHD is a crap
Just wanted to complain a little, bear with me.
Something that pisses me off to the moon and back is when people say your disability is a "superpower".
With all due respect, super power my ass.
It's called a disability for a reason. It's disabling. It prevents me from doing things as they should be done. It stops me from living the life I could live or succeed as I could have, or connect with people as they (and I) deserve.
I do understand where the sentiment stems from, and I do appreciate and am aware that neurodivergency and other disabilities can open new windows for knowledge, understanding and perspective -- even scientific advances. I swear, I understand that.
But.
The average ND person struggles. Every. Single. Day. Until the day we die.
I remember having to completely leave a group chat with cool, interesting people because of a dumbass saying "oh I love my depression, it makes me special". As a person with dysthymia, fuck you very much. Contemporary internet culture created this romantization of neurodivergency. You can been a cool ND person and still admit your shortcomings and how it makes life fucking hard without saying "I love my depression", you guys. I promise. I promise.
Jesus this makes me so MAD.
Yes, I may or may not been going THROUGH it with my ADHD lately (we'll never know lmao), so I'm particularly short-fused for ND bs right now.
Having said that, there's two things I found out that don't work for me in the slightest and alternatives that do:
New Year's resolutions: okay, this one doesn't work for most people I guess, but there's a good chunk of people who follow through it or at least try to and gets it partially done. That's a no for me, dawg. But in the year of our lord 2025 I've discovered that making resolutions for the end of the year can work pretty OK. As in, "I gotta do this stuff before January 1st". It would be funny if it weren't just an actual symptom of ADHD.
I forgot the second one (I swear to god 🤡).
Well. At least I remembered to eat today.
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