I “cope” with these things, largely by
- Isolation.
- Other ailments being louder.
Terribly, mostly.
Long at pictures of Anna Kendrik helps.
It’s absurd how attractive she is.
Even more so when she speaks.
eh, kind of horse face
She is beautiful; horses are beautiful
She is one of my favorite icons of dangerously sexy. Like, mantid tier, easily. 😶
I realized how many extra steps I was going through to mask, and that the end product, behavior, was made off wildly wrong assumptions about what people or situations expected of me. And when I realized that, I wanted that fucking time and energy back. I found my own language to describe my own thoughts and feelings and just put that out there. It’s weird and vulnerable at first but my doctor seemed to understand. Meds made space in my brain to learn and unlearn different things. Stimulants helped get through the turmoil of chores. Anti-anxiety made the urge to please quieter. It’s my life, I want to feel good in it, as authentic as possible, as comfortable and natural. I didn’t know the color of my hair, had been dying it for 30 years, that was a nice surprise. Like they said, make the best of this, you should feel good. If something is hard, figure it out so it’s easier from here on forever, think if how good it will feel when the hard thing today is easy. Reduce sugar
That liberating feeling of finally inhabiting your own skin. Very well put.
Oh it’s simple, you keep going because you know you’ll be unable to get back up for months if you stop.
Me when my wife asks if I ate anything today.
Adderall, weed, music, a whole lot of time outside, and giving as few fucks as possible.
Medication eases/fixes most of the function-impeding symptoms, which in turn helps with imposter syndrome, etc. The rest is really just self-care.
As another user pointed out, though, I also stopped trying to “mask” at all.
Realize that nobody is “normal” and most people are a lot more fucked up than you realize. Almost every single person you interact with on a daily basis has some kind of bullshit going on that makes their life difficult. Depression, anxiety, addiction, financial problems, relationship problems, health issues, you name it. For the most part, people are far too focused on their own shit to care about anyone else’s.
You guys are coping?
I deal with them at home, in private, instead of sleeping.
At night when everyone else goes to sleep; fighting sleep because it’s the only time to relax, but knowing you’ll have a horrible day again tomorrow because you won’t get enough sleep but also be awake for 2 hours after finally laying down in bed trying to not fuck it up again tomorrow?
It’s more like:
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sleep when exhaustion overcomes anxiety
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wake when anxiety overcomes exhaustion
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Well…this “neat part” is really ruining my life.
Dude just accept it, accept it that it’s ruining your life, accept that you have ADHD, stop fighting it. Started doing that a few years ago and shit still sucks, but at least I’m not stressed about trying to fix it. Because it’s so fucking tiresome trying to adapt to other people’s expectations, you always crash.
It’s me and my who a I am, embrace the positives with that it gives you, stop trying to compete with people that don’t have it, you fit into a different mold. I would never have the work I have if I didn’t have ADHD, it’s a fucking super power you bafoon
I have come to realise the world is a stage and you decide what role to play. Its all a big improv play. So just go with the flow and dont think too much. Its working quite well
I’m not sure I do cope! What I do know is I don’t think I’ve come across a single ADHD meme that I haven’t seen myself in, but I’ve never been diagnosed lol
Weed, martial arts and making music.
Occasionally shouting at inanimate objects to fuck the fuck off.
I realised that I’m reading this post when I’m supposed to be in a meeting.
Drinking and smoking
To have imposter syndrome gets harder ;.;
With all the incompetence like AI relianceIt really is challenging, but hang in there!
You’re not a fake imposter, are you?
I can a bit of programming
I thought at least the imposter syndrome was neccesary when writing code (especcially without help from al)
