do you have short bursts of motivation, then need a long break to recover from what you did? do you have problems with focusing hour-long at a specific task? do you feel like napping at random times throughout the day?

well, that’s because you’re an apex predator. a lion can only sprint for 1 km before it needs to cool down, or its body would overheat.

  • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    And [my theory is] some neurodiverse people develop adhd in response to this trauma. (Is that not what I wrote? Apologies if not, it was my intention but communication isn’t my strong suit.)

    No yeah I understood you. I should have been more specific and said that it’s hard to get through the developmental period as a person with ADHD or ASD without developing trauma. That’s what I meant by the causation going the other way. Growing up in a modern neurotypical world with an ADHD brain can itself be a traumatic experience

    I’m not in the US

    I imagine it’s similar in most places, that they have to give a diagnosis in order to provide any treatment

    Sadly it’s basically impossible to call out incompetence as a patient

    Yeah :/