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I have been dodging the thread with the "mild ADHD" guy running the goal posts all over the globe, but I just stumbled across this one and I am begging someone to tell me where we sign up for the cleaners & personal carers that apparently comes automatically with a diagnosis 😭

if there's one thing we know people love to do, it's give people with ADHD too much support automatically. lolol

man, I have cleaners but I fucking have to pay them my own damn self and I count myself wildly fortunate that I CAN pay for them, genuinely where the fuck does this person think this kind of support for people w/ ADHD is just happening automatically and CAN I MOVE THERE.

because let's be so fucking for real right now: 1) you can't appease the people who don't want ADHD to exist by sacrificing the "functional" ones who have managed to string together coping mechanisms that will burn them out by 50 2) stigmatizing support will make it harder for all of us

as someone with adhd who relied on anxiety to get through high school until that system broke down catrosphically in college, to this day I still don’t have a bachelor’s and have not ever truly recovered fron burnout: the “functioning” ones are usually a few bad gos from total system collapse.

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!

I failed out of 4 (i think) and took 4 years to finish my associates LMao. Thankfully I decided to do a coding bootcamp right during the tech hiring boom and got into my industry without a 4 year degree. Probably should have just gone into the trades but it was never on my radar.