Going to see if I can get an official diagnosis. If I am autistic it will blow my mind because it would mean I’m also good at masking to myself 🤭

Substitute the words distractability with gender nonconformity and ADHD with gender dysphoria and it's word for word the same talking points. They even cite rising rates among teenage girls.

My kingdom for more talk about #ADHD and/or #AuDHD and #Menopause because I am quite literally playing life on hard mode, and I feel like hardly anyone gets it. I have days I'm not 100% sure I'm going to make it though this, and more ppl talking about it would help.

If you have kids with ADHD, this is a great video by Dr. Russell Barkley with tips for parents on what not to do with ADHD kids. And how to deal with ADHD kids www.facebook.com/reel/1352212...

Growth doesn’t come from comfort, it comes from stepping into the unfamiliar and actually experiencing life. 🌍 🎧 Watch the full episode on YouTube with Stephen Tonti & Aaron Smith: 👉 www.youtube.com/@attentiondifferent 🎥 #ADHD #Neurodivergent #GrowthMindset #AttentionDifferent

When we tell our neurodivergent children to make eye contact, sit still, stop looking distracted, stop crying, draw like the other children etc. We're telling them their comfort does not matter. - Virginia Spielmann, PhD #Neurodivergent #Parenting #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD

New research confirms what ADHD brains have been doing intuitively for years. Music isn't a distraction from focus. For a lot of us, it's the only reason focus was possible at all. https://tinyurl.com/7fsm2dk7

S Car Go spotted after #NoKings #oakland. Had to pursue on bike. Click for full view.

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

wish I was easy to find a psych who understands that if they treated my adhd that my other symptoms would lessen cuz im on psych number 3 and he doesn’t get it either. “set an alarm” “write yourself a note” my guy I need the bees in my brain to be quiet.

It took decades for me. All that time lost, all those medication side effects that were endured for years. So many people still don't think it is real. I was one of them.

ADHD women over 40: I am exactly 40. I want to write about what it's like to go through perimenopause and menopause with ADHD. I recently developed PMDD. With two periods a month, and adhd (which makes you more likely to get it), growing older is the gift that keeps on giving. SSRI didn't help. 1/

100% The adhd and anxiety are so tightly entangled you can’t just treat anxiety because the adhd makes all kinds of change incredibly hard.

I wasn't diagnosed until later in life. My entire life has been a fu*king struggle. I feel ripped off.

So common for women. 🩷 Sending love & support from Minneapolis.

Thank you. This is exactly how I'm feeling. I'm glad to have others opinions or more information about AI in medical situations.

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Yep. I described this to Keir Starmer in a recent email (he is my MP and I wanted to explain why letting Wes Streeting Cass Review ADHD treatment was a terrible idea)

Caffeine has different effects for people with ADHD. One of my moms has Caffeine before bed.

UK Gov: "People are overdiagnosing ADHD and Autism to get out of doing work" ADHD Person: "Could I have my numerous disparate duties written down somewhere please?" Employer: "No, and also I'm writing you up for speaking to me without being spoken to first. Now fuck off."

Just discovered my dishwasher is broken right when I was going to clean the kitchen. I got really angry and overwhelmed that I have to wash a ton of dishes. My cup of tea calmed me down...it's never given me a burst of energy. It just calms me down. Reminded me that I be tested for ADHD. 😑

lol I got labelled treatment resistant anxiety after years of describing my anxiety as purely cognitive. Turns out just adhd :p

My consultant: "You have depression because you have undiagnosed & untreated ADHD which is making your life unmanageable & treating just the depression your whole life rather than the underlying cause has been like treating the headache rather than the high blood pressure."

In my family history the evidence of undiagnosed and untreated adhd is everywhere. Breaks my heart.

THIS! My baseline happiness is very high, I can feel anxious when I’m happy! But SSRIs do make my adhd worse and that increases my anxiety. You’re correct.

That means it's probably just a normal response to having undiagnosed adhd and it's so integrated as part of my personality now it's just how it is. So, it's more like a 2-3/10 anxiety at baseline. But it's at that irritating level. So I've complained, and once you mention anxiety "ANXIETY" gets

written on your chart. When anxiety is a reasonable response to undiagnosed adhd, you need to be able to communicate that to your doctor. Once they can see you're rational, and hey, many won't anyway and that's not on you, they can be reasoned with about other things. Just my opinion.

13. What is the worst advice that you've gotten regarding your mental health?

When I was having anxiety problems (that I now realize was probably ADHD burnout) a well meaning person was like "well, can you just...stop being anxious?" Well, no.

When I think about the "overdiagnosis" argument re: ADHD and Autism I also think about the suicide risk of those populations when undiagnosed AND when diagnosed the latter is much lower you can't demand awareness & prevent suicide w/o accepting increased diagnoses & providing appropriate supports

My therapist wants to record my next ADHD session from here forward to "assist" her. I said no for now. Thoughts?

ADHD and Autism disinformation and conspiracy kook salesman Wes Streeting and the entire labour gov are spreading lies & stigma against adults and kids with ADHD and Autism And are incentivizing parents of ADHD and Autistic kids & adults with both to join the Green Party & campaign against labour

This review's 'findings' are a mirror of reactionary education tropes that have been swilling about for years before Streeting took them as gospel/useful. What a disgraceful outcome, and of course a colossal let down for children and families across the country.

I'm not reading this article because it's patently absurd people with fucked up shoulders may feel incentivized to get a torn rotator cuff diagnosis and have appropriate treatment & supports, too nonsense

I love how under neoliberalism "incentives" aren't legitimate if you're a kid with a medical need that obviously suits you (and the state!) to see met, whereas the "incentives" of e.g. the corrupt stars of Epstein's flight logs are the essence of nature itself which you're a monster for questioning.

Can someone in the UK explain to me what the difference is between the Tories and Labour?

This "review" was led by Simon Wessely, who spent decades denying that ME was a real illness, leaving sick patients to rot in their beds. Since covid the number of ME patients has skyrocketed and so now he's moved on to destroying health care access for trans people and people with ADHD and autism.

I know when this was happening this will be the conclusion. Wes Streeting hates trans people, autistic people and as a trans Autistic person he hates me doublely.

"It's so annoying when our children ask to stop being treated like shit for being different. I mean, who bloody cares how distressed they are? We didn't have to care when we were a real empire. We need to bring back corporal punishment and massive state asylums to shut them up." -Labour

the ol' stiff upper lip "just suffer like the rest of us" British attitude. super healthy, ultra-modern.

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

Took a moment write up something on May elections take a break. Given I wrote on By elections for Runcorn last year predicting the loss. You really think a SEND parent will vote Labour? A disabled person? An autistic, adhder neurodivergent ? open.substack.com/pub/ckeep/p/...

joining the club of adults diagnosed with adhd 😜

What’s interesting about ADHD is that tasks your brain doesn’t like (which is out of your control and can change daily) will feel physically painful to you in a way that’s hard to articulate. ADHD isn’t “work is boring”. It’s “My brain hates this tasks so much that it’s sending me pain signals”

Regular reminder ADHD is 80% genetic If a child has ADHD, parents should be screened for ADHD. If there was any other MH condition that was 80% genetic? We’d have mandatory screenings for it But doctors have so much ignorance and stigma against ADHD adultaddstrengths.com/2006/02/09/w...

my dad is procrastinating over a form i need for the next round of getting back on ADHD meds. but of course he couldn't possibly---

one of the funniest things about being the first person in your family with an ADHD diagnosis is that it's hereditary