Does your sister know about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria? It's not a "real" diagnosis as recognized by established psychiatry, but so many of us identify strongly. And that ex-friend of hers, ugh.
The hyperfocus is definitely a superpower, but it's also how I wear myself out to exhaustion, not eat until hangry, etc. It's good when I can goof off for hours to make up for the speed-work, but if that doesn't happen and I just keep working, well, that's what happened this past week. I'd say more if this wasn't a public entry.
I don't think a dx requires 'impairment', but those of us who appear 'successful' tend to have many-layered coping mechanisms, and/or just don't do things that are beyond them. This was good up higher: "it's not not knowing how to do time management, it's succeeding at doing time management." And then there's the Evernote/replacement sagas. Can I please have a few years to catch up?
A diagnosis is useful if you want to try one of the medication routes. Some docs may be more of the "let's try it and see if it helps you" rather than making you jump through diagnosis hoops, but most of the meds are controlled substances, so that's another set of hoops.
There are a lot of good ADHD folks on twitter - I can't keep up. https://twitter.com/danidonovan (ok, just got lost in that one for a while nodding nodding)
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https://www.additudemag.com/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-and-adhd/
https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria
The hyperfocus is definitely a superpower, but it's also how I wear myself out to exhaustion, not eat until hangry, etc. It's good when I can goof off for hours to make up for the speed-work, but if that doesn't happen and I just keep working, well, that's what happened this past week.
I'd say more if this wasn't a public entry.
I don't think a dx requires 'impairment', but those of us who appear 'successful' tend to have many-layered coping mechanisms, and/or just don't do things that are beyond them. This was good up higher: "it's not not knowing how to do time management, it's succeeding at doing time management."
And then there's the Evernote/replacement sagas. Can I please have a few years to catch up?
A diagnosis is useful if you want to try one of the medication routes. Some docs may be more of the "let's try it and see if it helps you" rather than making you jump through diagnosis hoops, but most of the meds are controlled substances, so that's another set of hoops.
There are a lot of good ADHD folks on twitter - I can't keep up.
https://twitter.com/danidonovan (ok, just got lost in that one for a while nodding nodding)
Another topic for another discussion: https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-trauma-somatic-therapy/
This article is a little old but the author is doing more research https://drellenlittman.com/adhdtraumaconnection.pdf
https://www.drellenlittman.com/pb/wp_b4f2c210/wp_b4f2c210.html
I have many disorganized notes on this stuff. we should talk :)