I would just like to express my gratitude to everyone for sending me down a rabbit hole of research after reading many comments and relating to almost every single meme that was posted.

After my diagnosis, I have a plan moving forward to help better my decisions and what I should do next. Do it if you are questioning and can afford it, is what I would say!

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[–] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Samesies! (Sort of, am still on the waiting list.) I used to think: "these stupid "adhd" memes are not specific to ADHD at all, I'm normal and I experience life exactly like this!" Only to realise that not everyone experiences life like this and I am not normal.

[–] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly grateful too for everyone here for validating my feelings and making me feel more okay about myself. It has been quite confrontational to realise that what I thought was my identity was actually a disorder, but at the same time quite comforting to know that my struggles are something I can learn to deal with

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I realised I had ADHD, being able to recontextualise my struggles and set aside all the negative self talk allowed me to see that actually, there are parts of my ADHD-ness that I think are really cool. For example, I found it useful to have multiple tasks on my "menu" for a given day, so that I can cycle between them and not get burnt out on any one task. As well as being a strategy to cope with some of my ADHD deficits, it turns out that putting a tricky problem on a back-burner while I focus on something completely different is a great way to generate new ideas and connections about the original task.

Have you found anything like that so far? It took me a while to get to that point, but I think it's part of the liberation of neurodiversity as a framework — it's a way of acknowledging the quirks of our brains in a way that isn't constrained to thinking of ADHD as a disorder.

[–] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago

I have, and it is basically exactly that same thing. Being able to switch contexts quickly can sometimes be a superpower.

Similarly, being suddenly interested in learning a new skill very often but always only for a brief amount of time, has allowed me to get a little bit of knowledge of many things. I'm not an expert on anything but I have had so many hobbies and interests that I can easily pick up new things because there's always some base knowledge to link it to.