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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting my shit together < the sweet embrace of the status quo

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

46*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even now that I'm medicated I still do this everyday. Things are better, but medication has its limits.

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

It also doesn't last all day, much to my dismay.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ironically, I started actually building stuff when I hit 30.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I fucking wish I was 30

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

Just wait a little longer and you'll eventually won't believe you'll ever do any of that ever. problem solved

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

I didn't get diagnosed until my 50's. Now starting to get a grip on things.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It is just so tiring sometimes

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It never changes either. I'm past 40 and I'm still like "I'll get my life together next year. Or the one after that, surely!"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I'm exactly like that, and I find it so strange. Usually, the brain adepts to a new situation, and that isn't exactly new.

I plan everything as if I did not have ADD, and have done so even before I was diagnosed and had meds.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

DW! It get's better in the mid 30's. When you realize you don't want to stress yourself anymore. You have your career already set up. No need to prove yourself, like back in school. You can start enjoying your life and care less.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless you forget to do the whole career set-up thing and just bounce from one hyperfocus to the next.

This is a warning to anyone under 30; pick a well defined role that has a title and is transferable.

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

Can I be a house? A house has a title, a well defined role and is transferable

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Then you get into a relationship and feel your partner's disappointment every day because it turns out that while you have gotten comfortable with how your brain works, the rest of the world hasn't. But don't worry; tomorrow is the day when it'll all get better...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And then the cycle repeats. You try to comfort a society holding on to neurotypical values. You haven't learned to accept yourself. You keep working against your nature and you still hate yourself for failing.

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

That's my point. Being at peace with yourself only works until you have to regularly deal with someone who isn't. Of course you can isolate yourself from those people if they fail to adapt but that means you get to choose between being in a relationship and feeling tension over your neurodivergence on the one side and being alone but at peace with yourself on the other.

I'm not saying that you can't make a satisfying choice but it certainly ain't an easy one. If you get a partner who meshes well with your brain, congratulations. But a lot of people don't.

Also, making a choice about your relationship means making a choice that affects two people (or more if you're poly or have a dependent). And sometimes you can't in good conscience end a relationship because you know that doing so will majorly screw over your partner.

Life is complicated. Inner peace is a precious and fragile good and sometimes you trade that good away. Appreciate it if and while you have it.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Except for those people with crippling ADHD, who never get to build a career, have trouble maintaining meaningful relationships and succumb to the overhead and additional stress of having to try life on hard mode.

Let's not pretend those people don't exist or that ADHD is not a problem for adults any longer, in particular in places where healthcare is not readily accessible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

My family doc unironically told me that adults can't have adhd, and kids grow out of it. I don't even know where to start.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Those people don't exist, we all know that people with severe ADHD walk into the forest at 29 and become trees. Let's go back to pretending ADHD is not a problem for adults.

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

Ouch 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This time for real though

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

inshallah

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