Audhd Problems - Blog Posts
Don't usually do this but does anyone has any useful advices how to deal with ADHD burnout while it's already happening? And not just how to prevent it.
Google shitty advices they're comically bad.
I guess useful information for nd people online will never be a thing unless you ask other neurodivergent ppl.
My phone isn't even aware that neurodivergent is a real word.
Not trying to trauma dump, but this has been my life for as long as I can remember. Before I started suspecting I had some form of audhd, I had a really difficult time unmasking in front of anybody that wasn't my dad for years (I still struggle there). It's especially discouraging when family, friends, and peers had rejected me or were freaked out when I showed signs of those behaviors, even before I was aware of it. Masking seems awesome and great until you're the one suffering for someone else's comfort. Reading everyone's experience has honestly been super cathartic and it comforts me to know I'm not some monster for simply being myself or having a different way of functioning.
Sending love to all my neurodivergent pookies! ❤
My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit
Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before
Being Autistic/AUDHD is having one or multiple hyper fixations and not being able to talk about them to the people around you because 1) You don't want to cringe and bother them and 2) No one will give you the time of day about your fandoms. Then, once your hyperfixation is over or you have fallen out of it, someone gives you the time of day. Now you're stuck in a kind of limbo where you can't tell them that you aren't into it anymore and have to sparse the lore and tidbits that you know about it and just tell them to look it up and experience it themselves.
You can’t believe how lonely it is being touch-avoidant and single but also wanting so badly to have someone to cuddle with that it hurts. My social battery has been so dead the past couple days and I just want someone to cuddle with while I recharge. But I don’t have a partner and it’d be weird otherwise so here I am suffering in silence YET AGAIN
the pipeline from "undiagnosed but something is definitely wrong" to "diagnosed but my parents don't believe it" is very real, be warned