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There is not even medication for autism support - our brains are just out here absorbing the thousands of sensory inputs at all times and trying to continue to “function” in the world (work, life, relationships) - I wish there was meds to turn down the intensity of the world

Yeah, it is actually actively dangerous to one's career to disclose any sort of neurodivergence.

My primary-care guy doesn't like to do one-year prescriptions. (For me, it's an SSRI. What executive function?)

I live in the Bible belt buckle. It's crazy difficult to get the prescriptions approved, and yeah the hoops to jump thru ... ugh

I mean I have a cleaner, but only because I am lucky enough to have the resources to pay her to come clean once a month

I always think of the woman telling me all The Disabled are on the dole... While we were in the office. And yes, I regularly had to help her because computers are confusing...

I used to be a cls worker(basically 1:1 personal care). I am currently a social worker. The qualifications you need to hit for 1:1 have fuckall to do with ADHD and lots to do with acts of daily living and/or severe& persistent mental illnesses

Who do I sue for not providing me with these supports and carers immediately after my Dx?! And can I go for retroactive compensation for the first 32 years of my existence?

I don't have a diagnosis, but I would like cleaners. I don't know how to keep my house as neat as I wish it were without getting rid of my current hobbies and replacing them with cleaning. Cleaning does not give me dopamine.

I’m sad this guy deactivated before I could yell at him but I’m glad he deactivated

Good on you because I stumbled on the thread and my blood pressure spiked But yes I'd like to know!

I have a beloved terminally ill friend with a degenerative disease that keeps them in bed 24/7 and in constant neuropathic pain, and they don't get care workers every day. They should be near the top of the list for this, and yet, there are days when they don't get support. :(

So you're saying it's a *good* thing that no support is available??

Really not the point, though.

And not call us "lazy, entitled, made up dilettantes"

Meanwhile my ex-psychiatrist wouldn’t even consider me having adhd but was down with the anxiety meds.

Yeap! There’s a clear before and after ADHD meds in my life. I truly wondered why I couldn’t do tasks my colleagues had no trouble with (among a huge list of other life items to get done).

(we all know it isn’t happening anywhere, but even if it actually were I couldn’t move there! because no country with remotely decent healthcare will let my crip adhd ass immigrate! ha ha ha god i love the world we live in.)

I got arrested because of my ADHD inability to get my lawn mowed. I've had to pay a guy to mow my lawn for 20 years now to prevent it happening again. Even after being diagnosed 5 years ago.

I was diagnosed in the 90s and they gave me meds thst did nothing but make me very prone to being motion sick and then all the actual problems I was having at school and work for the rest of my life were blamed on either my other traumas or me being lazy for 3 decades.

Lol, I wish I could've made it to 50 without burning out 🙃 But yeah, getting real sick of this eugenics-y shit

My burnout started about 4 yrs ago. I'm still in burnout. Not sure it'll ever get better. Course, I still automatically mask, and take on more than I should. So...burnout gonna keep burning out.

I failed out of 3 different colleges after starting as a first year junior. 😂 so many of us crashed out after we lost the structure of high school!

Ditto here, I'm still trying to work it out. I never reallly had a job but once I discovered that I was quite good at starting entire companies to employ me, so long as others did the management.

My 'cleaner' is me inviting friends over, panic-cleaning, then collapsing and cancelling the appointment bc I need a week to recuperate. We're all just on the floor here. No support except mayyybe meds if you're lucky.

People asking you to remove your headphones in the office.

A dismissive wave.

I think they come from the same place as all the free housing and luxury items for refugees come from /s

It's Not even like everyone would accept anyway. I have ADHD and probably Autism too, I don't want strangers touching my stuff. Yes I am struggling, yes I could use help, no I don't want it. So, like let's actually do it, it'll sort itself out.

My partner and I both have adhd I wonder if we get *two* cleaners or have to share just one?? 🤔

Lol, I can't even get a prescription for ADHD meds. '1:1 carers' LOL

I so wish it did come with these things 😭

My ADHD diagnosis came b/c I burned out & was diagnosed with anxiety & depression. My therapist suggested that my preferred way of working was actually a coping mechanism, and I should be assessed for ADHD. Turns out, she was right - and I didn't have anxiety or depression!

Weird how it's "wasteful" to support people TOO MUCH instead of a terrible tragedy that people are struggling or not living fuller lives because they're struggling to manage without support. As if the goal shouldn't be that everyone has so much support to go around that everyone can get by

I would love to have an assigned cleaner but that didn't come with my diagnosis either. 😭 And even here in my country it's a bureaucratic fight to get any kind of support when you're one of the invisible disabled...

Yeah why hasn’t my cleaner finished unpacking and building furniture from my move? Oh wait.

y’all are getting cleaners and assistants? I want

bro WHAT