people who are like āadhd shouldnt be classified as a disorder/wouldnt be a disorder without capitalismā have you experienced executive dysfunction or rejection sensitive dysphoria??? first of all it makes your life harder regardless of the fucking economical system youāre living in because it has nothing to do with capitalism when you cant get up to pee for 7 hours and feel like everyone secretly hates you for a typo you made in a facebook post
#like YES there are some parts of adhd i can get saying like#āitās just a different way of brain wiring and isnt inherently badā like hyperfixation or a shorter attention span etc#but like op says theres some fucking Downsides#i cant remember Shit and i cant fucking SHower
YES THANK YOU
like yeah sure having a brain wired to want to sleep from 2am to 10am wouldnāt suck if society didnāt make it suck, but you know what would always suck?
-having a hard time making friends because i miss all the social cues and have no volume control, talk over other people, and have no filter to stop me talking about inappropriate topics
-difficulty maintaining relationships with people you donāt see every day
-constantly lose things
-personal hygiene is Hard
-canāt focus on doing something i WANT to do unless it happens to be the most engaging thing around at the moment. If itās also something i NEED to do? oof.
-canāt follow through and complete long-term projects
-canāt plan for future
-shitty spatial reasoning
-shitty emotional regulation
the arguments ofĀ āoh but hyperfocus would be so USEFUL for persistence hunting!ā orĀ āno attention span so youād notice berries!!ā just do NOT hold any water for me because
-do you know how goddamn fucking BORING persistence hunting would be. Newsflash, i donāt control what i hyperfocus on, it just kind of HAPPENS. And whatever it is has to be a constant source of dopamine. Following around a deer for a few hours or days would be SUPREMELY unlikely to be a constant dopamine hit. Forcing yourself to attempt to do something that is NOT engaging the brain is almost physically painful to an ADHD brain. Weād be way more likely to get distracted by something else and lose the deer.
-ānotice berriesā no?? that doesnāt even make sense? Attention jumping around doesnāt mean you notice everything, it means your focus jumps to the most interesting (read: brain stimulating) thing around. Other people notice the same things, their brains just donāt force them to immediately devote all of their attention to it. and tbh berries are only occasionally going to be the most interesting thing around, with how my weasel brain works iād be way more likely to walk right past the berries 80 times without ever seeing them
all the things i listed are definitely made worse and have a stronger negative impact because of the society we live in, but are direct outcomes of the way my brain works (or rather, doesnāt work), and would be problems no matter where or when you lived. Like yeah it would be super awesome to live in a society where a displaced sleep schedule didnāt mean itās hard to get a job and you gotta choose between getting enough sleep and being Awake when all your friends are, and it would be SUPER COOL to live in a society where i didnāt have to fill out reports or answer emails or remember to text people back, but even if ADHD would be much less disabling in a society that doesnāt expect you to regularly do a lot of things that fall directly in to the ADHD Weak Zone, it would still negatively impact you and make your life harder
hey so um guess that. I am disabled and thus i live kinda outside the main capitalist society. bUT GUESS WHAT Adhd to me is still a disorder. I canāt keep a good sleep schedule no mater how hard i try. My room is always a mess. I canāt focus on the tasks i need to focus on. I still lose everything i forget to eat. These same things wouldnāt go away even in a nonĀ capitalist world. I really hate the wholeĀ āadhd isnāt a disorderā cuz like yeah maybe for some people it is but not to me ALSO it needs to be listed as a disorder so people can get help with adhd when needed.
