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A casual community for people with ADHD

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White and pink noise show promise in enhancing attention in those with ADHD (www.psypost.org)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish they would stop this:

ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders affecting children and young adults, with about 10% of young people between the ages of 3 and 17 diagnosed with the condition.

What about women and inattentives who are usually diagnosed way into adulthood???

This makes it sound curable, temporary or like it only impacts young people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Diagnosed at 29. I swear if anyone had paid any attention to me I wouldn't have gotten this far with masking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I read my (dementia/alzheimers) mother’s journals and they were full of “she’s just so angry” and “I don’t understand why her room is so messy” and “She’s lazy and won’t help with the family business, but I would have been happy to as a teenager.”

I’m like damn mom you were never given language to actually understand me.

Even my sister to this day goes: “Well now that you know you have it you can just come up with strategies to overcome it.” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ahhh 37 for me, my fiance ended up pushing me in the right direction.

Running through a good portion of my life never really being able to get anything done, not going anywhere and just kinda existing.

I hope that your getting treatment, and it's making an impact in a positive way ❤️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thankfully after you stop being a young adult the ADHD magically goes away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have the belief that ADHD is both over and under diagnosed. If you mask or compensate, even hyperactive or combined get passed off as "quirky behaviour", loss of structure was massive for a lot of people getting diagnosed during the lockdowns, while I was in that boat too I had already been working towards getting an eval for years.

Also super annoyed about the hoops we have to jump through to get treatment, feel like I'm a criminal for having my meds and I have to call in a refill every single time I need them, the entire processes to even get diagnosed is almost hostile to ADHD (multiple appointments, evaluations, shit my psych gave me homework)