let people with adhd show symptoms without making them feel bad!!! stop degrading children with the condition as naughty little brats and instead realize that they suffer from a mental health disorder!!! don’t tell bright young minds that they will never amount to anything because of the way they are!!! symptoms are symptoms and no matter how hard one tries, it can’t always be controlled!!! let people with adhd be themselves without making them feel ashamed to be themselves!!!
ok but can we please address the issue where people with adhd often are told that they’ll never amount to anything if they keep acting “like that”. when in that case, “like that” usually simply means being themselves and acting to the best of their knowledge. this, starting from an early age on and very possibly continuing into later life… it’s no wonder it leads to chronic feelings of failure and shame
whenever you’re talking bad about your experience with adhd, you always get people with it who say something like “no!! having adhd is awesome! it is a gift, not a disorder” thereby agreeing with the countless non-adhd people who see it as just that. a gift. something which only comes with positives.
when that’s… so not the case. everyone’s adhd is different, so everyone’s experience with it has to be too. just because you’re doing just fine in spite of it, doesn’t mean that everyone is.
cherish your own success but validate the struggle of others. let people complain about their disorder if it disables them.
“I’ve always seen it as my best friend and my worst enemy, really. In the sense that it’s exciting and also it’s a gene that’s selected for. It’s not being bred out of us. I mean, we need the ADHD people. One of the psychiatrists said to me, you know, we are the ones who eat the poison fruit, we go out there, we’re the impulsive ones, we’re the sort of discoverers. And as I said, for a comedian it’s good because your mind is darting even now it’s darting all over the place.”
cara delevingne recently opened up about her struggles with mental health, in particular concerning her experience with depression and adhd. guess what the media in 99% of the articles chooses to put all their attention to and what gets reduced or erased completely
i mean…
I’m past caring about whether how much I care is secret or not. I care a lot about how people who have ADHD are treated and whether it’s understood or not. The current state of it is frankly unacceptable. Sorry.
ifesbob 