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…I really need to get tested for ADHD. This community has single-handedly convinced me.
Last time I tried I was told there was no way to have it if you did well in earlier school years :/
I think it's fair to say that schoolwork just outpaces attention span and focus at some point. Many people do well in their first years, and the struggles often only manifest themselves when more and more subjects get added, each with higher workloads than before.
Makes a lot of sense, but some people just cling to the but you did so well in elementary school thing
You're normally expected to have lifelong symptoms, but that doesn't mean you had to do badly in school.
You can constantly daydream, lose stuff and turn up late for everything and still ace tests, at least early on. It gets harder to get away with this later in life.
I'm not expert by any means but I'm pretty sure most of these things aren't ADHD
Good thing you’re not an expert.
Whether they're directly caused by an ADHD neurotype or not, all those things are associated with ADHD
To pick one at random, Rejection Sensitive Disphoria (RSD) is often found with people who have ADHD. People dealing with RSD often imagine rejection where none was intended. That includes reading negative feelings into text messages, conversations, etc.
(CAVEAT: I am not an expert. This is not my professional field. This is speculation from someone who has ADHD and is around ADHD kids) I don't know if there's good research out there or not about RSD+ ADHD, but I suspect RSD is conditioned. Growing up with ADHD, you get a lot of negative feedback from people. You aren't paying attention well enough, you're often clumsy, you often say the wrong things at the wrong time, etc. With enough of that sort of feedback, developing negative self talk which turns into full RSD sounds like a natural outcome.
Yeaaaah all of these things are very common among people with ADHD. So, not to put too fine a point on it, but you are super wrong.
"What kind of idiot do you take me for?"
"No, thanks. You can stay right where you are."
This one I don't get.
Yup.
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Very well. I shall never forget this experience.
I don't really understand if this is a negative or positive experience, but I just wanted to add that like you said some of the things listed are common for many people without ADHD. But people with ADHD can relate to many or all of the things listed in the post, and it often irks them when people without ADHD talk about the disorder as something insignificant. Maybe you didn't mean to do that but it does seem to be insensitive. Thanks for understanding.
It's both negative and positive. I wasn't aware of that rule, so good job pointing it out to me.
I do have ADHD and I experience most/all of these, I just never thought they are all directly traceable to ADHD. What I thought - which perhaps wasn't clear - is that these are all distinct disorders, which are just as much out of one's control as ADHD, but which are not necessarily symptoms of ADHD itself.
I did preface with "I'm no expert", and I can see that I might be wrong. I'm happy to leave my comment up and let the downvotes and replies do their thing.
Also a ton of overlap with autism
Was about to say most of what's in OP is Autist not Adist.
There's a ton of overlap between the two, to the point where if you have one you should subscribe to the others community because the memes will still be very relatable