Jess👾

Spicy take: While I get that ADHD is a spectrum, I absolutely reject the notion of "everyone is a little bit ADHD".

For FUCKS sake, don't conflate occasional forgetfulness with my mental disability.

Because for all the hearts and rainbows about how ADHD is a superpower, in trying to operate in this neurotypical world, having your brain operate differently to the point that you traumatize yourself trying to mask and fit in well enough IS a mental disability.

Just to note:

When you take a self assessment for ADHD or Autism and it asks something like:

"do you have difficulty with ABC?"

And your response is

"I don't have difficulty with ABC. I've developed a System that I use to deal with ABC, and when I follow the System, I can do ABC. So it's not difficult."

... Then you have difficulty with ABC. Mark yes on the question.

I'm not neurodivergent, I just have a complicated System of which foods are "ingredients" and which are "food", and I can't eat "ingredients" until they've been made into "food". (Sarcasm - I'm certainly somewhere in the "low" end of the spectrum of autism and moderate to high in ADHD in various ways)

@CordiallyChloe ADHD Executive Functioning can be hell for anything not encoded in my brain as "Mandatory".

There's seriously people who spend an hour or more on personal grooming and makeup EVERY DAY?!? I'm over here legit congratulating myself for managing to brush my teeth, floss, take my meds, and have enough clean laundry every day for a week straight.

@damonology I mean, you have sexist (against women) cis women too. There's always bootlickers.