Another reason I find that mentality harmful is because it treats ADHD as a separable “thing”, as if I could imagine what kind of person I’d be without it. It’

Another reason I find that mentality harmful is because it treats ADHD as a separable “thing”, as if I could imagine what kind of person I’d be without it. It’s fundamental to my cognition! It just is. I find it a waste of time to try to assign “good” or “bad” labels to different parts of my lived experience. That is why I dislike it being called a “superpower”. Not because it is “bad”, but because it is just is who I am.