Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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Well I mean…
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@RightMeow In seriousness, I applaud your strength to acknowledge past missteps and your ability to take responsibility for them rather than taking the easy path and blaming the disorder. Well done.
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@RightMeow Honestly, I relate hard to this. Now if I could just remember to take my meds every day I bet I would relate to it even more.
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LOL - the irony of this is – I forgot to take my meds today.
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@RightMeow there was a meme going around the book of faces about how ADHD people lack the ability to form habits when we aren’t taking our meds so then we don’t take our habit-forming medication to form the habit of taking our meds and I was like
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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@RightMeow as someone who once had to be pulled aside by staff on a game about how my internet ‘tone’ was coming off, and I’m not even ADHD, I sympathize so much with this. I don’t think we played together, but hopefully those that played with you and might have felt any offense will see this!
Also, I’m glad you are getting help!
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Thank you. I figure that just because I didn’t know, doesn’t mean I didn’t do it. I can’t undo it either, so it’s just moving forwards. My hope is anyone that I left a sour taste in their mouth, they realize it was all me (and my brain) and I really, really, really did not mean it personal and I did not mean to offend.
When I do mean to offend, I own that too.
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@RightMeow YAY! Glad to hear you are doing better!
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I’m about to get tested for ADHD. If it turns out I have it, I will hunt you down, @RightMeow, for advice. I am so clueless.
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@L-B-Heuschkel Don’t worry. So are most medical professionals.
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@L-B-Heuschkel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
I’m about to get tested for ADHD. If it turns out I have it, I will hunt you down, @RightMeow, for advice. I am so clueless.
I (and my psych provider) swear by How to ADHD on youtube. Very digestible, helpful, and relatable.
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@hellfrog Could you post a link? That title seems vague enough to feature many options.
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Absolutely!
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@hellfrog Thank you. I’ll definitely take a look at it. It’d be ironic to get diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 51, after all these years of being called lazy, stupid, and unfocused.
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@L-B-Heuschkel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@hellfrog Thank you. I’ll definitely take a look at it. It’d be ironic to get diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 51, after all these years of being called lazy, stupid, and unfocused.
I got diagnosed at 39 and IDK you but just from that sentence alone, I say: welcome.
Just knowing was a big help on its own, to start unlearning all that internalized criticism. It’s a process.
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@hellfrog Yeah. I’m kind of hoping because it’s been a long time since gave up on even going to college and frankly, I’m tired of it. I’m no dumber than the next person, I just have chronic fatigue and struggle to focus for long.
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@hellfrog said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@L-B-Heuschkel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@hellfrog Thank you. I’ll definitely take a look at it. It’d be ironic to get diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 51, after all these years of being called lazy, stupid, and unfocused.
I got diagnosed at 39 and IDK you but just from that sentence alone, I say: welcome.
Just knowing was a big help on its own, to start unlearning all that internalized criticism. It’s a process.
I just got diagnosed this year and I’m not young. So I feel this deeply. Someone posted this how to ADHD and you HAVE to watch it. It was like hearing my life that I couldn’t explain. It’s why I went and got diagnosed. Which was this year. You got this. We got you.
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I used ‘How to ADD’ to get my boss diagnosed. I showed her the various videos (hey watch this for how my brain works) and she came back a while later and was like “so I went to my doctor…” with no tough conversations had. A++ do recommend them.
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I was just wishing we had the ADHD thread again because I wanted to yell at someone that my insurance approved my assessment so I get to be assessed!
I was just reading some old livejournal posts recently, and I was an even more embarrassingly hot mess than I am now. I relate so much with wanting to apologize to the people who had to deal with me before I grew any sense of self awareness.
But also thank you to the people who could look at me and be like… yeah, I could friend that.
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I am so happy to hear about the assessment! I hope it goes well! I recommend enlisting the aid of a get-me-to-appt reminder buddy JUST IN CASE.