RoryA pervasive sense that you are going to be abandoned isn't a trait of ADHD.
It's more likely related to trauma.
Today on 'things that are not just RSD'.
When people start attributing stuff that most likely needs to be dealt with outside of just saying "Oh, just my RSD", I get frustrated.
Rejection sensitivity issues can be worked on as well with the right support structure around you. It's not something that has to be a permanent fixture of your life.
Josh@roryreckons this is probably my main issue with much ADHD/neurodiversity discourse: how self-limiting it seems to be. I’m all for identifying problems (and identifying with them) but so much of it seems to enshrine a permanent, pathologised victimhood. I’m like, ok, I have a thing. It won’t go away. But that’s where so much of the content out there seems to stop, as opposed to start.
This is one of my issues with the biomedical model. People think that is ADHD etc.
Most stuff you can improve on, but this attitude is so pervasive.
RSD sucks. It was awful when I had it control my life before I knew what it was. But after I knew what it was I got curious as to how I could use the identification of that reaction to take back as much control as I could, and a lot of that takes introspection.