ADHD

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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

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Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay.
Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).

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Questions on confusing situations.
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Relevant Lemmy communities:

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

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First 24 hours of being medicated and... wow. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fuck. Was I always supposed to be able to get to sleep inside of ten minutes? What do you mean my attention is supposed to be like a searchlight that follows my eyes, and I'm not supposed to look through things? Why are all these objects in a pile distinct entities? I thought I had to use the 'search' function to return random loot from the pile? Why aren't these random background noises filling me with a steady, seething rage?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I finally got strong enough to tolerate stimulants about five years ago. The new capabilities are still amazing to me. In fact my life has steadily improved in almost every way.

The big challenge has been to learn to trust my new super powers. This is me, this is who I really am!

For me the ‘searchlight’ feeling has remained and has become the norm. I was able to go through EMDR a couple of years ago and the feeling of personal efficacy increased even more.

The only problem is that I now see how utterly shitty our society is. But I am also strong enough to keep carving out my own alternate path.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all of the joy within you dies, what then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Luckily, I saw how shitty our society is long ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Go make your own joy, with blackjack, and hookers!