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ADHD exists. I've been diagnosed with it, and I believe that was correct.
When I was 15, ADHD brought me to the first contact I had with people who gleefully insulted me in an attempt to prove themselves right. ADHD is not real, it's just laziness/stupidity/lifestyle/some other bullshit, and thanks to big, evil drug companies I have imagined an ailment that frankly fucking ruined my life for a decade or so. I was 15 and innocent---this argument came off as a sincere and dire threat to my person.
I'm choosing my words and sentences very carefully because I am so explosively angry about this, even a decade later, that even I cannot believe it. I could say a lot more, specifically a lot more about the sort of lazy, unrepentantly thoughtless toad that insists that any mental illness is not real, but instead I'll just finish up here. ADHD is a mental illness, and mental illness has a stigma. "Life with ADHD" for me is life with a(nother) stigma, and there are lots and lots of people who make me feel like shit for something I can't help. Including myself.
I want my friendslist to listen, but I wish that many more people would understand that judgements of mental illness are only to be made with honest understanding and caring, the kind that comes with training and personal experience. Anything less is inexcusable and devastating, and if that's your game, you need to shut the fuck up.
Certainly the casual judgment is enough to make me climb the walls and sit on the ceiling, clutching my pills and baring my teeth. >:EEEE I'll stop being scary now guyz, I promise
ADHD exists. I've been diagnosed with it, and I believe that was correct.
When I was 15, ADHD brought me to the first contact I had with people who gleefully insulted me in an attempt to prove themselves right. ADHD is not real, it's just laziness/stupidity/lifestyle/some other bullshit, and thanks to big, evil drug companies I have imagined an ailment that frankly fucking ruined my life for a decade or so. I was 15 and innocent---this argument came off as a sincere and dire threat to my person.
I'm choosing my words and sentences very carefully because I am so explosively angry about this, even a decade later, that even I cannot believe it. I could say a lot more, specifically a lot more about the sort of lazy, unrepentantly thoughtless toad that insists that any mental illness is not real, but instead I'll just finish up here. ADHD is a mental illness, and mental illness has a stigma. "Life with ADHD" for me is life with a(nother) stigma, and there are lots and lots of people who make me feel like shit for something I can't help. Including myself.
I want my friendslist to listen, but I wish that many more people would understand that judgements of mental illness are only to be made with honest understanding and caring, the kind that comes with training and personal experience. Anything less is inexcusable and devastating, and if that's your game, you need to shut the fuck up.
Certainly the casual judgment is enough to make me climb the walls and sit on the ceiling, clutching my pills and baring my teeth. >:EEEE I'll stop being scary now guyz, I promise
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