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I might have just described the UK governmentโs attitude towards disability as โa bit arbeit macht freiโ.
Sorry not sorry.
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I THOUGHT THIS WAS NORMAL!
FFS
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Hyperphantasia and ADHD: A Deep Dive
Explore the connection between vivid mental imagery and ADHD, including characteristics, challenges, and management strategies.NeuroLaunch editorial team (NeuroLaunch.com)
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As a late diagnosed ADHDer there was a bit of a headfuck moment when I realised I was always mentally disabled.
Itโs the exact same feeling as the point in transition when I realised I was always a girl.
What changed is accepting it.
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OK, this is complicated by this being the 70s and 80s, but the more I think back to my childhood, and the more I remember about how my teachers treated me, and how I always seemed to end up receiving pastoral "care" from someone who happened to be the most senior teacher in 3 different schools where other "gifted" kids didn't, and the way they were ... slightly off, with me ...
They knew I have ADHD. They totally sodding knew. Or ADD, as they called it back then. Whatever. They knew, and it was very clear I was being "managed".
I wasn't being managed very well, but I doubt that's changed. Neurotypical people do NOT understand what is going on in our heads, even those who claim to be experts in the condition. That much is very clear.
But I was being managed.
What I am curious about is what my parents knew.
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I have an old school report from 1987 that reads like "Tell me I have ADHD without telling me."
katyswain.me/about/journal/202โฆ
While technically ADD was a thing back then, I don't think anybody teaching in a school like mine knew or cared. It was still very behaviourist.
I never did an appreciable amount of work in high school. I'd checked out. Yet I remained in the top class.
Except once, for one term, in chemistry, I was dropped down to the second class. The teacher, who knew me, walked in the room on day one, saw me and said "What are you doing here? You don't belong here."
Next term I was back in the top class for chemistry. No reason for it that I could see. I think my presence just offended his sense that what his profession was doing was right, so if the results don't fit your intuition of what the results ought to be, you just alter them.
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@Katy Swain OK, read that.
I don't have mine anymore, but I remember some of them.
And yes, they were pretty much all like that.
Also my handwriting was, and remains, dreadful.
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YouTube: Hey Sarah! Seen this?
Me: I donโt do that
Checks
I do, in fact, do that.
Now massively self conscious about that. youtube.com/shorts/ydgmN9XfP6Mโฆ
Weaving Around Objects? This is the ADHD Walk #coordination
Weaving Around Objects? This is the ADHD Walk #coordination. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized b...YouTube
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For me the problem is that either my symptoms are placing me too low on the spectrum to pass the diagnostic criteria, or I have learnt to compensate too well. But yeah, this scene made me: "like, aren't all people doing that?"
Also, I've shared it with a positively diagnosed friend, and she also has it, obviously. And then she has mentioned: "also, asymmetric myopia with a big difference doesn't help with passing nearby obstacles".
Ok, well, we are both nerds who used to spend waaay too much time with books, and computer screen, but...
Is there a correlation between asymmetric myopia and ADHD?
No research has mentioned this particular trait yet, but there is some research about positive correlation between ADHD and vision problems.
@Agnieszka R. Turczyลska dunno. I did have asymmetric myopia for some time but theyโve equalised now.
What is weird is โThe Clusterโ. The following all cluster and nobody knows why:
ADHD
MCAS
hEDS
POTS
Reynauds
Gender Dysphoria
Yes. Really.
@ebel aurora | map data witch ๐ฆ @Agnieszka R. Turczyลska could do an ASRS
Accommodations donโt count.
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20th anniversary of social transition
As one does
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It is with a solemn voice that I must announce that the amphetamine do be like that again.
Would have slept more, but there was this cat โฆ
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@Cy I mean, no?
Firstly itโs not reporting anything to them because while itโs synced to iCloud, itโs encrypted and they donโt know the decryption key.
And secondly, it worked all this out from my wrist movement and heartbeat.
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Skeptical they know how, but they sure do like not prescribing extended release medicines, for treatments that might help.
Oh yes, being able to function for more than 6 hours is a cosmetic luxury like celebrity botox injections, so so truthy.
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If I haven't picked up the phone by the time they reach my doorbell the delivery item will usually be lobbed over the gate... Literally a drive-by volley...
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Sounds like the UK's 'Third Sex' category bullshit.
The UKs GRA has been undermined by the SC ruling in April to imply we aren't and never were awarded protection of the sex we are. Even though the GRA said we were. Gaslighting.
You ever wonder how many of the people you pass in the street every day are serenely off their tits on speed?
Itโs probably more than you think.
And so many get the wrong idea. โOh, I bet drinking coffee on that will make you hyper!โ
No. It will make me comatose.
Everytime my son forgets to take his amphetamines in the morning I have to drive to his elementary school with a bottle of water and a can of pills like a fucking drug dealer...
And yes, all teachers know me personally now. And whenever they see me they grin: "Hey Momo, that's the third time this month, right?" - "Yeaah, tell me about it." - "I'm just glad you're doing this, I have him in PE later today, he has to take the second dosis at 10:30, right?" - "Yes. Have fun with the kids!" ๐
@Momo there are many things I forget.
โTake the drugs which temporarily end โฆ THIS โฆโ is not one of the.
So I'm gonna go Messy (friend group term for when the ADHD meds wear off) soon and I don't want to and it seems terribly unfair. NT people don't have to go Messy each night. This seems like discrimination. ELI5 why I should have to go Messy? It's bullshit is what it is.
There should be a law.
Can't explain why you have to go Messy, but I like the term.
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Dissociated today for the first time in my life at the age of 52.
That was profoundly weird.
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There are two types of medicated ADHDers: the โI keep forgetting to take these and donโt bother at weekendsโ type and the โYou can take them from my cold dead handsโ type.
Iโm the latter
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My GP and my neurologist have a "battle" regarding my blood pressure. The neurologist is like "Uh, we have to keep MPH at a low dosis, your blood pressure is at 135/85!! Maybe you check in with your GP and tell her to alter your dosage?" and my GP is like "Whats her issue?? The blood pressure meds work fine, these are good values. I mean compared to the 220/120 you got without my meds, this is very good."
Somehow like being a kid that stands between two fighting parents... ๐
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Apple Health: โAvoid stimulants before measuring blood pressure as they can raise it!โ
Me: 45 minutes after taking enough lisdexamphetamine to fuel an entire army:
Having ADHD be like, โyeah, Iโm prescribed daily Speed by my doctorโ
โOh! What does that do for you?โ
โDunno. Nothing reallyโ
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The world had gone mad. Utterly mad.
I mean, Iโve got the whole โis a bit insaneโ diagnosis and even then โฆ this whole โvenerate the dead Naziโ thing is beyond batshit even for me.
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Alpha methylphenethylamine
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_Et_hyl
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A_M_Ph_Et_Amine
Obvious when you realise!
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@marlies And look up its systemic name on Wikipedia having taken loads of it.
Anyway, very fond of it
I had long term amplification in efficacy after some years. Had to cut the dose. My dealer* said it was common.
* licensed nurse practitioner
I couldn't sleep more than 6 hours on the stuff. It made my heart race constantly, like 90bpm, for years. Just gave me a feeling of always being on edge. And mild overdose produces extremely painful urination, so there's that. Amphetamine is pretty awful as far as drugs go.
Can't comment on how much I looked like a vacuum cleaner salesman.
In todayโs episode of โInsights From Alpha Methylphenethylamineโ, comes the realisation of how two ADHDers communicating, especially if they like each other, will dance around the usually unspoken elephant in the room, RSD, in a way that usually never specifically acknowledges it.
If they donโt like each other, it may get weaponised. This is the ADHD equivalent of โmean girlsโ behaviour.
This is not a subpost.
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ADHD brains really are built differently โ we've just been blinded by the noise
A new study significantly strengthens the case that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder brains are structurally unique, thanks to a new scanning technique known as traveling-subject method. It isn't down to new technology โ but better use of it.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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Humans are nonergodic, hence diagnose the person!
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Only in hindsight! I've had several friends who, after I've heard that they've been diagnosed, I've gone "oooohh; yeah, that tracks."
So insofar as there are vibes, they're usually subtle enough that they're not usually a "tell" by themselves.
You ever have that experience where somebody tells you something about themselves that you didn't know, and suddenly about 5% of the conversations you've ever had with them get re-contextualised and feel more... authentic? It's like that.
At least from my (neurotypical, probably?) perspective.
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Bear accused of shitting in woods
Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
The agency said the source of the interference had been traced to Russian territory, and also affected shipping. Other European nations have accused Russia of being behind the jamming, which Moscow denies.Sweden says Russia behind surge in GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
Interferences to satellite navigational systems occur almost daily, aviation officials say.Aoife Walsh (BBC News)
Might have mistimed the ADHD meds booster a bit, lads.
Oops
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in reply to Jules • •Heather ๐ป
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •"over-diagnosis" my ass.
God forbid we help people.
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Next: Vaccines cause AHAD
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •There is so much swearing going on in my head.
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in reply to Heather ๐ป • •@Heather ๐ป Yeah. Stimulants fix us and so that can't be allowed. It is SUPPOSED TO HURT.
Stupid wimmins chaos goblins don't know what's good for us.
Heather ๐ป
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Antidepressants are handed out like candy every day from GP offices around the country.
But slowly if you read information on NHS direct's website everything is being replaced with CBT. Because that magically helps (except for neurodivergent people)
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