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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 😭

I have got "actually couldn't hold down a grown-up office job" level ADHD. it's pretty severe. it impacts my life in various ways for which I have basically never received support. and I will fucking clothesline anyone who tries to gatekeep care & support to people they think are less impacted

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

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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.