#adhdawareness — Public Fediverse posts
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Latest ND same food/safe food: jacket potatoes cooked in the air fryer. I'll eat them for days/weeks/months until my AuDHD brain decides it's had enough.
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ADHD PSA: ADHD meds won't make you lose your sparkle. You still have executive dysfunction and it's hardwired into your brain.Your meds are like taking iron for anemia, you won't have anemia symptoms while you take it... but you're still a dehydrated potato, so go drink more water.
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This Is Why It Seems Like Everyone Has ADHD Right Now Including You
Confiding in a friend of mine after I was first diagnosed with ADHD, I opened up to her about my lifelong struggles with time blindness, lateness, general disorganisation, and emotional dysregulation. I was relieved to finally have a label for what I’d been experiencing. ‘But isn’t it normal to get a little bit distracted sometimes? I probably have ADHD too, if that’s the case’ she said to me. My heart sank, feeling both rejected and my experiences diminished in one simple […] -
As I learn more about ADHD, I realize why I’ve felt different my whole life. Neurotypicals have a saying, “Time makes the heart grow fonder,” and “Time heals all wounds.”
*ENTER ADHD*
We deal with “bookmarks” in our emotional memory. Limerance is very common. What seems to be rumination and obsession is just the ripples of limerance and looking for relief, solutions to solve the problem. It’s two decades later and I still feel the same towards old significant others, former friends, prior bosses, and others that left any sort of an impact on me, for better or worse.
Time healed nothing, it just faded the reasons, not the emotions. And on a scale of 1 to 10, the feelings are just as strong as they were the day they happened.
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Did you know? About 1 in 12 children and youth in Canada has diagnosed ADHD. Based on the 2023 estimate of 8.4% for ages 1 to 17. In a classroom of 25 students, this means approximately two students may have diagnosed ADHD, based on Canadian prevalence data.
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ADHD isn’t a fun quirk, it’s an invisible disability, often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. It’s a different set of motivations (interests, novelty, competition, urgency, pressure). It’s a nervous system that learns to maintain the neurotypical status quo to keep the peace for everyone else while being bottled up. It comes with rapid “mood swings” which are emotional regulation dysfunction caused by… executive dysfunction. Nervous systems that struggle to keep bottled up emotions in check like any nervous system would.
It leaves those with its “quirkiness” a life expectancy at least 10 years shorter than neurotypical peers. It comes with a 6x risk for addiction. It comes with 20000+ peer social rejections and criticisms by age 12. It comes with a higher rate of suicide. It comes with higher rates of peer alienation. It comes with challenges in the workplace. No place is “safe” for long. ADHD seeks change when stagnation hits. It seeks things others don’t, stimulation and novelty.
Burnout doesn’t look the same. Rest & recovery isn’t the same for those with ADHD. We crave deeper relationships and closeness, which many times leaves us alone again. It’s explaining yourself and intentions 100 times, only to have to do it a 100 times more. We coregulate to understand our neurotypical peers, but it doesn’t mean we are regulated, we’re regulating to keep the peace and fit in.
ADHD is knowing that while things are good, change takes one bad moment or misunderstanding to put us back in isolation. Everyday is doing the best you can with what you’ve got, but a brain that doesn’t want to do the boring stuff like laundry, exercise, or food prep unless it’s fun and exciting. It leaves our partners & families wondering if we’re lazy and broken; we are not broken, we just have different operating directions built in.
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"I'm not a problem. I'm just the scapegoat. We are the scapegoat for a society unwell. And all we want to do is stand in the sun and shine."
To say people with ADHD are misunderstood is an understatement. We're attacked. By the pharmaceutical industry. By an underfunded education system. In the workplace. By governments where we tick boxes saying we're the ones with the problem. #ADHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #ADHDAwareness #Neurodiversity -
When a neurodivergent brain gets stuck.
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Neurodiversity-aware means recognizing that people think, learn, process information, communicate, and respond to the world in different ways.
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Vivir con TDAH supone imaginar nuevos y excitantes lugares en los que dejarte olvidadas las llaves de tu casa
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ADHD behavior isn't the problem. It's the signal.
Fighting, interrupting, shutting down, explosive reactions — these aren't character flaws. They're a nervous system communicating that it's reached its limit.
The behavior you see is never the whole story.
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ADHD isn't one thing.
Inattentive. Hyperactive. Combined.
Three types. One nervous system that never gets a break.
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ADHD isn't laziness, an excuse, or a phase kids grow out of.
It's real. It's neurological. And it doesn't look the same in everyone.
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Adhd is a thought processing challenge.
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The question shift
Try changing one question.
From: "What's wrong with this child?"To: "What's overwhelming this child?"
One leads to shame. The other leads to safety.
That shift changes everything.
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Children with ADHD are estimated to receive approximately 20,000 more negative, corrective, or critical messages from parents, teachers, and peers by age 12 compared to their neurotypical peers.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at School
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💎 This space is for sensitive, thoughtful, and neurodivergent Souls who long for understanding, gentleness, and genuine human connection. What I am sharing is a path that leads to an inner feeling of wholeness and peace.
You don’t have to walk this path alone.
💎 See here https://www.adhdneurodiversitylife.com💎
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What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Understanding mental health.
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ADHD and anxiety don't always come alone.
Did you know that 25–50% of children with ADHD also have anxiety?
Not one or the other — both, at the same time, often masking each other.
When you only look for one, you only find one. And that means your child only gets half the support they need.
A proper assessment gives you the full picture — and the full picture is where real progress starts.#ADHD #ADHDAndAnxiety #ChildMentalHealth #ChildPsychology #ADHDAwareness #AnxietyInChildren
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Neurodivergence includes differences in thinking, learning, communicating, sensing, regulating emotions, and interacting with the the world.
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Problems that come with my ADHD. By Elise Gravel
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Apparently I can only write long-form stuff in moments of (a) anger or (b) procrastination (two sides of the same coin). So, when you see me writing long threads or, God forbit, a blog post, I either need a whip, a hug, or both. #ADHDAwareness
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ADHD is more than distraction or hyperactivity — it’s a brain-based condition that affects focus, organization, and impulse control. With the right treatment and support, people with ADHD can thrive. 💡
#ADHD #MentalHealth #Neurodevelopment #Telehealth #ADHDAwareness
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Neurodivergent: differing in mental or neurological function from what is considered typical or normal; not neurotypical.
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15 common aspects of neurodivergence
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Neurodivergence isn’t a trend. It’s a biological reality. It is NOT a disorder. It is a natural variation in how humans think and process.
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