if someone feels it’s appropriate and fitting to call their ADHD – or honestly, any condition – a disability, people have no business denying them that right. 

and i mean that without any exception.

gatekeeping someone’s experience by hemming and hawing about how they shouldn’t use the term, because of some specific line you’ve drawn between disabled and abled, is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

adhd, for all ignoring people downplay it, can be extremely fucking destructive to one’s life if not treated properly. impulsivity, executive dysfunction, inability to focus, etcetera: these things can literally crumble someone’s ability to live the way they desire. hence, in my opinion, it can be disabling.

it is one of the most classic forms of ableism: downplaying and doubting. and it’s ridiculous that it’s accepted on such a mass scale, even on this website. 

what benefit does one reap from guarding the term so obsessively? what benefit does it have to our community? what fucking benefit does it have to the individual you’re bombarding with your shit?

enough of the bullshit. focus on building community instead of destroying it.