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This right here is the very worst thing about ADHD. All those people pointing out that they also have trouble with some of those things some of the time and the

This right here is the very worst thing about ADHD. All those people pointing out that they also have trouble with some of those things some of the time and therefore ADHD isn’t real and you don’t have it. So then you have to explain to those people why they’re wrong, but a tiny little part of your brain holds on to what they said, and the next time you really are having a hard time with tour ADHD that little part says ‘it’s not real and you’re just a terrible human for having these problems.’ Built up over a lifetime, especially during formative years, the secondary, knock-on effects are actually much worse than the actual underlying condition. So thanks runawaybottle, for very subtly making thousands of peoples lives slightly worse today.

runawaybottle 6y ago
If it helps any, you can see my hypocrisy from 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418525 I’m a total hypocrite about this, but as many have pointed out, I can easily be an edge case. But if you read my comment from 7 years ago, you can see roughly the level of justification I was using and denial I was in. But not everyone is me, and it’s possible in the process of accepting I’m not particularly special, that I’ve begun thinking we are all in fact the same and will go down the same path with this stuff. I’ve talked in length in this thread mainly because it’s been a defining thing in my life. I know how it started, ended and have thought carefully about every juncture where things could have been changed (tapering down, etc).