Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria or RSD for short is a common disease associated w ADHD. It was thought to occure due to the amount of negative messages we recieved growing up because of our ADHD attributes.

Examples messages from adult figures included ..

.. sit still

.. stop day dreaming

.. if only your tried harder

.. if you can play this game, you fan do this

.. just do the thing

.. stop getting all emotional

These messages are though to reinforced the belief that asking for help will always be turned down, and worse ridiculed.

Belief or physiological, there is a way to get around RSD, which relies on simple project management risk assessment techniques.

1 .. determine if your project will need others help?

2 .. determine if there is another way to do part if this project?

3 .. determine who has done this before.

Then

1 .. do this for yourself !

2 .. remove anyone who will say NO!

3 .. find people who already want to help you do this.

4 .. find advocates and cheerleaders

5 .. reframe the NO! into an ADHD challenge.

6 .. find a buddy who just sits w you while you do the thing.

RSD is a common comorbidity for ADHDrs. It comes on every time there is even a remote possibility that an ADHDr will be rejected. To date, there are only 3 ways to get around RSD...

1 .. do the project for yourself, and yourself only.

2 .. remove anyone and everyone involved w the project that could say NO!

3 .. find people who already approves the project and want you to do it.

Based on these 3 ways around RSD, you can see that RSD involves the emotional center. Based on how ADHDrs are event driven, a no represents a negative event, which causes a negative thought storm.