you think your kid with adhd won’t pay attention when you say mean things about them, but they probably do and don’t like it
you think your autistic kid doesn’t have the social awareness to notice you disapprove of them and are saying mean things about them, but they probably do and don’t like it
you think your kid with a personality, mood, or conduct disorder doesn’t feel the negative emotion to get their feelings hurt when you say mean things about them, but they probably do and don’t like it
stop talking about your kids like they aren’t there. they’re not stupid they notice
listen, there’s no problem with pointing out that it’s a symptom shared by another disorder. it’s when the intentional background of a post is taken away that it becomes problematic. so, for instance, when someone makes a post about their adhd experience + tags it with the appropriate tags, and then someone else adds a comment which says “depression” and nothing else, it takes away from the original intent of the post which is to describe a relatable moment for other people with adhd. not everything on this site is about depression. i’m super depressed myself most of the time but people need to realize that there are other disorders which need just as much compassion. i’d rather have people say “this could also be a sign of depression” instead. it’s not as generalizing as the other option which, by the way, doesn’t offer much help anyway because it gets added to everything these days, in turn, creating an environment where people quickly start to believe that they’re mentally ill because they relate to a post on the internet
i hate how people with adhd/add/etc are made to feel like they are a problem. no. fuck you. you wanna talk problems? then let’s talk about our piece of shit system of education first.
people wanna act like adhd is just forgetting shit all the time but you guys need to stop ignoring our emotional volatility/vulnerability, rejection sensitive dysphoria, the high comorbidity with substance use and depression and suicidal ideation like… adhd is not pretty. it’s not fun. lots of us are miserable all the time and we’re difficult to be around and we tend to have very complicated psych profiles that mimic a lot of aspects of bpd and bipolar. adhd is god damn complicated stop trying to sideline it
no offense but if ur a mental health professional and u think anyone that gets good grades is automatically happy and healthy, u need to reconsider things?? the numbers and letters on a transcript are not the only measurement of who I am as a person?
so true! when i was at my worst in terms of untreated depression, social anxiety, and adhd i was getting my best grades. my family doctor flat out tried to stop me from being screened for adhd because i got A’s. sometimes its what the cost of getting those grades is that matters, not the grades themselves.
Hi! I have decided to make this masterpost, putting in one place everything that I have found ADHD – related!
For some links, I have listed some of the things you can find there, choosing those that I thought were the most useful, but check the whole site because everything is great!
ADHD test – please, tho, don’t take this for granted and please don’t self diagnose, talk with your doctor about the results! TO GET SPECIAL ACCOMODATIONS AT SCHOOL IN A LOT OF COUNTRIES A CERTIFICATION IS NEEDED!!!
Social networks! Use facebook to find support groups and pages, use Tumblr to connect with others like you and use Twitter to find out about new articles and resources with the tag #adhd!
Thats it! Hope you have found this mp useful, feel free to add things!
Wow. Not even five minutes in and they’re already depicting Adderol as a drug. Trippy music, weird jittery visuals, various people describing what it’s like to be on it (I don’t feel it kicking in, it’s really subtle, like I kind of realize I’m more focused and not hungry all of a sudden. If you start sweating and your heart pounds you are definitely overdosing).
Also…one guy says he sometimes takes ten??? Or two?? I don’t know with the trippy music it’s really hard to parse out. I can’t imagine anyone taking ten without having a heart attack.
People are describing having a bunch of doors and there’s good stuff behind the doors…I don’t know, they’re either taking something much harder than Adderol or absolutely none of these people have ADHD.
I hate that they mixed in regular people describing the high they get off of Adderol with people who actually need it describing what it’s like (”I can focus on one thing and drown everything else out,” “I can’t ever not be on Adderol, I need it,”).
I mean, it’s so painfully obvious they’re trying to paint this drug as equivalent to cocaine in legal form that we’re handing out to kids.
They turned the focus to a girl who takes a prescription for it and her parents telling her she needs a lock box because her dormmates will try to steal it. This would’ve been a great opportunity to make this about how other people (read: who don’t need Adderol) abuse a prescription drug that mentally ill people need and how that helps stigmatize its use, but judging by the intro that’s not what this is going to be about.
Oh my God it’s not supposed to “give you an edge on things” it’s supposed to put you at the starting level.
Okay so, I got up to have dinner and got a little sidetracked, but now I’m back onto this shitshow.
They don’t even mention ADD until over a full minute into the film. AFTER they’ve already given you the impression that ADD medication is a happy fun times drug that gets compared to cocaine.
And when it does mention it, they only list the most well-known symptoms, distractability and difficulty paying attention. No mention of memory problems, emotional imbalance, sleeping problems, social deficits, comorbidity with dyslexia or autism…nothing. They just, mention it in passing that “oh it’s hard for people to pay attention but then it gets real fuzzy because there’s no clear-cut line”
AND RIGHT AFTER THAT, they show the girl who got diagnosed and she was “thrilled” because she had her SAT coming up. Motherfucker I am livid.
We got two book authors talking about stimulant use (ADHD Nation and On Speed) and based on the books they wrote I can already tell what angle they’re coming from.
Now they’re talking about the history of amphetaminse and their abuse/misuse by people as a recreational drug throughout the years.
One consistent pattern I keep seeing: every single person they’re describing/is talking about the way this drug affects them is neurotypical. No one, at any point, is talking about what this does to an ADHD brain or why it’s considered helpful to them. And the almost constant flashing, glaring visuals tell me this documentary wasn’t made with someone prone to overstimulation in mind.
You’d think if you were making a documentary about a mind-altering drug used to treat a mental disorder, you’d elaborate more on the mental disorder and explain how someone with completely different brain chemistry experiences this drug compared to a typical brain.
And amazingly, Take Your Pills never did that. Not even once.
ADHD affects the prefrontal cortex and levels of seratonin and dopamine. This impacts concentration, focus, sensory processing, memory, impulse control, sleeping, and emotion regulation, among other things. An ADHD brain is fundementally different from a typical brain.
It is impossible for someone with ADHD to get the same euphoric ‘high’ from Adderall that a neurotypical can because our brains are fundementally different.
Take Your Pills only briefly touched on ADHD and only covered the most well-known symptoms (inattentiveness and inability to concentrate) without going into how much they can impact your life. Heck, never once do they let someone with ADHD describe what they go through or what their brain is like, despite letting multiple neurotypical people describe at length what it’s like to get high on Adderall throughout the entire video.
They describe ADHD in really broad terms and list 2 or 3 symptoms, point out that the U.S. has the highest percentage of diagnoses of ADHD in the world, but not once do they actually talk about what ADHD is like. There are all kinds of testimonies from NTs about what it’s like to get high off of prescription uppers but no one is talking about having a brain that “doesn’t work” the way it should.
Oh sure, you get all kinds of colorful, trippy visuals of whole piles of pills and psychedelic glitches and images of people dancing, jumping, snorting lines of cocaine to scare you about the harmful effects of this big bad evil drug, but nobody gets into why it can be necessary for some people. Then they go on to say “Everyone has a little ADHD”.
This is the kind of propaganda and fear-mongering on par with Autism Speaks. Take Your Pills demonizes an entire subset of people who live with mental illness and never once lets them speak on an issue pertaining to them.
Adhd can go into partial remission with therapeutic techniques, but go off.
ADHD is a lifelong neuro developmental disorder. There is no such thing as ADHD remission.
Some other more temporary conditions can mimic many of the symptoms so it is possible for your depression to make you unfocused and inattentive and then you use therapy treat your curable illness and that could be the end of it. Not to say depression isn’t serious or debilitating but you can overcome it, that is entirely within the realm of possibility. I know because I’ve put the work into it and done it.
But neuro developmental disorders are different. It is still extremely important to learn how to cope with different aspects of ADHD to the best of your ability and that involves therapy or ADHD coaching for sure. But this post is much like my own story, like lots of stories of those of us with ADHD. And misinformation (like your shitty sensationalized documentary you want to defend with every breath) prevent people from being diagnosed. And then how are you supposed to get therapy for ADHD if you don’t even know you are exhibiting symptoms of a legitimate disorder because nobody told you the truth about what ADHD even is?!
I would try as hard as I could and still I couldn’t compete with those with normal functioning brains in even the simplest of tasks. I could take care of myself, and communicate, and think positive, and break things down into a plan and it would all unravel no matter how much effort I put in. You know why? Because my brain is different. Thinking, eating, acting differently doesn’t change the way my brain developed. It does help make me function as optimally as possible and that’s important, but that will never be the same as someone with a typical brain. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but when you won’t accept any different from your type of brain functioning and insist I can jump through hoops to put my ADHD in remission it becomes a problem. Especially if you have a problem with medication as a treatment option.
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