Just thinking about how as a society, we'd rather blame individuals. Whether for their fatness, their addiction, being poor, being disabled, etc. Rather than understanding and helping them. And realizing that it's a societal issue and that barriers exists that marginalizes them.

Autism & Group Conversations: being the silent listener Illustration 1/2 #ActuallyAutistic

Does every newly diagnosed ADHDer go through an “am I also autistic??” phase? Or??

I do this! Got to have my hands CLOSE

A major part of having ADHD is struggling with self-regulation, or the ability to monitor and manage our emotions, energy, stimulation, attention, impulses, and motivation. Self-regulation struggles can have serious impacts on our mental health, relationships, and self-worth

One of the most pervasive & damaging myths about ADHD is that it’s overdiagnosed. This is absurd. Experts estimate ~85% of adults with ADHD are undiagnosed and obvious symptoms often go unnoticed by parents, teachers, & doctors. My 10 favorite ADHD tweets/threads of the week:

do you know what really grinds my gears? the ‘lazy’ garlic/ginger/chilli brand requiring or even just preferring pre-chopped food is not LAZY. you’re ableism is showing.

Having ADHD and chronic illness is a trip. ADHD requires routine while the rest of my body is a hoard of feral raccoons gnawing on my organs, randomly falling asleep just cuz while my ADHD brain tries to herd them into a box I can't find bc I set it down somewhere & forgot abt it

The “ADHDers have sensory issues too” to “Am I autistic?” To “i’m Adhd-Autistic” pipeline >>>>

Hey, what's up, my name is Alyssa, I run this account and sometimes I get overwhelmed and abandon everything. 🤙 [Hang ten emoji] I think I have things under control now though.

Not even going to apologize for my absence, I was Going Through Things. But, I have book recs for club-related reading!! I shared them in our Facebook group.

People at work think I have "leadership potential" but actually it's just that I get bored very easily and my desire for things to happen outweighs my resistance to being the center of attention.

The anxious ADHD urge to be incredibly clean in common spaces but have your room look like a storage room and a landfill had a kid

Someone posted this in my WhatintheADHD Facebook group and I cannot BREATHE. 🤣

This belief is also used against disabled people whenever we succeed at anything. As soon as we succeed at anything, our disabled identity is questioned. Society needs to learn that success doesn't make us any less disabled.

In other news, I (Alyssa ) have been dx'd with ADHD and dyslexia

#knivesout2022 #sorryforshitposting

ADHD+burnout is having a club twitter and updating it for only 1 month then periodically after that. Anyway, so long folks, new social media coordinator will be handed the "keys" to this acct

Also, if uhh the new coordinator messages this acct, that'd be cool. Not necessary, but it'd be appreciated