You have ADHD, therefore you're 💩

Can we just... not?!?

Oooh, an angry, ranty post. Haven’t had one of these in a while.

1 - Medication Shortages.

Why the hell do I have to ring up my doctor every month, begging and hoping and praying that the medication that’s been life-changing for me is available when I need it?

I sometimes kinda wish I’d never tried medication, because knowing how much easier life can be (should have been) is just setting me up for anxiety & disappointment every month as it becomes increasingly more difficult to get hold of.

It’s hard to describe quite how much it means to me to now live in a brain that gets therapy & medication and the gut-churning fear that comes with thinking I might have to suddenly go back to living in a brain that doesn’t.

2 - Clickbait Articles

Another week, another headline telling me how worthless & attention-seeking I am. I’ve not hyperlinked it, because we shouldn’t give it the time of day… Except here I am, giving it the time of day.

3 - ADHD Memes.

I’ve started to post more on Instagram. Mainly because every tells me I should. Partly because I really like to connect with likeminded people and, finally, there’s a wee bit that just loves to show off.

BUT - this is a big but - I’m getting properly sick & tired of all these ADHD memes telling me how 💩 I am at life, how I’ll never succeed & how, LOL, isn’t it funny how rubbish ALL PEOPLE WITH ADHD ARE AT ALL THESE THINGS.

On a side note, why TF is my own brain being mansplained to me on Insta?

It feels so toxic, so patronising & so effing annoying.

Nahhhh, enough of that. Seriously. Stop reducing me to a list of symptoms, defining me only by the areas I fall short (and half the time, aren’t even ‘ADHD things’, anyway).

I know, I know, I engage with it. I feed the algorithm by doing so, just encourage more people to make these reductive, disempowering posts.

But seriously, can we just…not?

There’s got to be some ADHD content out there that’s funny & engaging, while also not making me feel like the butt of the joke, or piling feelings of failure on top of feelings of failure.

Believe me, my own brain is capable enough of giving me a kicking, I don’t need the rest of the world to join in.

Anyone else relate?