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I really wanna speak on the way ADHD affects people. There’s mad stigma about it and people just try to brush it off and think it just makes people hyperactive or have short attention span, it’s way more than that
I don’t usually talk about things this close to home but I know it’ll help someone
Most people with ADHD are diagnosed from a child, and learn different tactics to deal with it and have different outlets. When you go through most of your life knowing you’re different but not entirely sure how, shit is sooo different
In my experience, I could never ever concentrate in school, I was excessively talkative or I would randomly make bare noise, or sing in class
but I was also really emotional until I learnt to hide it. A lot of the time through primary I’d cry really easily over small things
but I was also really emotional until I learnt to hide it. A lot of the time through primary I’d cry really easily over small things
I remember other kids always asking me why I’m crying, and I didn’t even know how to answer why, because I literally couldn’t control it sometimes. Other kids can have anger problems or be violent and lash out
Outside of school, I’d take part in risky and impulsive behaviour that could damage people around me, or I would constantly forget my responsibilities in the house, and be punished for it day in day out and never be able to change it or explain why
Fast forward to my late teenage years / early childhood years and I started to notice a lot of my friendships started to fade the closer someone got to me. I’d constantly hear things like “there’s something about him I can’t trust”, or “he’s too unpredictable”
I now realise it’s because most people like to put peoples behaviour and personalities in boxes, which you can do for most people and work them out. In someone that has ADHD, it’s extremely hard to do that because their behaviours can be so impulsive and random that you don’t —
Know what type of that person you’re going to get through the day. Especially as there’s always 1,000 thoughts racing through the persons mind 24/7, they can one minute be so talkative then seem like they’ve zoned out in their own world and aren’t even taking you in
Don’t even get me started on relationships boy. A lot of the time, your partner will think you’re avoiding confrontation, being selfish and lazy and forgetting things they say because you simply don’t care, when that isn’t the case at all
A persons brain with ADHD is literally wired different to the ‘normal’ brain. For example during conversation if you say something I know isn’t correct, it’s extremely hard for me to take in more information after that without feeling overwhelmed and like I’m going to explode
This can cause impulsivity and cause the person with ADHD to interrupt and correct the person, or simply zone out and start to over analyse the conversation from tone of voice, the words they use, body language etc
Before diagnosis, I never understood why I’d quit jobs really quickly and easily, why I would have mood changes really quickly and whatever emotion I felt it was always so intense and full on. If I’m happy I’m super over the moon, but if I’m sad then I’m almost depressed
