• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I dislike it when you describe your disorder and how it affects your life and people go “Oh that’s normal I do that all the time.” No, you fucking don’t. You don’t understand the difference between a little quirk that lasts half an hour that you can train yourself to stop to a thing that lasts months that you physically cannot stop and affects your ability to hold down a job.

    Sometimes my ADHD gets so bad that it actually causes me physical pain to spend hours doing a menial task that my brain finds boring. That’s not a cute quirk, it’s not fake, it’s not fun, it’s fucking crippling.

    Even worse is people think you’re doing it to get attention, play victim or avoid work.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sometimes my ADHD gets so bad that it actually causes me physical pain to spend hours doing a menial task that my brain finds boring. That’s not a cute quirk, it’s not fake, it’s not fun, it’s fucking crippling.

      Erm, excuse me but I believe that I was promised that being dysfunctional would be fun?