I Don't Need The Diagnosis For Myself. I Need It So People Actually Take Me And My Needs Seriously :D

I don't need the diagnosis for myself. I need it so people actually take me and my needs seriously :D

Something that makes me excited to finally get an official answer as to whether I have ADHD or not after being pretty confident I do for half a decade now is that I'll finally be able to explicitly call people out on their regular ableist exploitation of what was very likely executive dysfunction.

The most common manifestation of this would be whenever I'd tell my parents I was bored and/or wanted to do something fun with them.

The answers were always either

"It's too early to be bored!" Sorry my neurology doesn't wait to clock in, mumsy.

"Go and do..." [thing you've already considered and really want to do but can't because executive dysfunction, which will then result in the classic neurotypical response of "well just do it."]

And my personal favourite, being told to do a boring chore or menial task instead and being told "well clearly you aren't that bored then, you said you wanted something to do" when I get mad and try to explain the difference between asking to do something fun socially & asking to do something boring alone.

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Thank you for this ^^

Can we normalize having a special interests and not knowing everything about it? Like I throughly enjoy my special interests but I can't remember what I ate let alone every fact about giraffes. I used to make fact pages on the computer filled with information but I've never been able to actually remember most of it.

And I think it's okay to not know every detail, and it doesn't make it any less of a special interest.

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