Structured SuccessSep 6, 2025

One reason non-ADHD'ers have trouble understanding ADHD is because they never adequately consider executive dysfunction.

They'll say "if you want to, you would," but a lot of times we desperately want to, and we still can't

Some of the biggest ADHD struggles are often getting ourselves to do the things we desperately want to do.

Show threadMonikaSep 6, 2025
@structuredsucc Not only that but also many people for some reason wants ADHD so they can fake it to not be called lazy. This doesn't help at all to understand people who actually have ADHD. Literally there are videos which if you do some actions then you have it, alongside with Autism. People, mostly teens, are faking those to avoid work or show off that they are special, as they function differently than the rest. This needs to stop.
Show threadtoisseSep 7, 2025
@monika_198 @structuredsucc I detest the assumption that people are faking it. Just because theirs is different from you doesn't mean it isn't real.
Show threadMonikaSep 7, 2025
@toisse @structuredsucc There are people out there who have never got diagnosted or they received a negative but they keep talking that they have, for their own reasons, just because they got checkmarks on a video which shows the traits. The same goes for mental disorders. I just said what I saw on the Internet, and it disgust me. Never spoke about myself or called an ADHD person lazy.
Show threadStructured Success

@monika_198

One of the first steps of figuring out things about yourself is often trying on the best possibility you have until a better one comes along. I try to give people grace and encouragement when they are trying to learn about themselves.

Of course, people can do harm in their process of trying on these answer or identities, but I don't think causing harm and taking on ADHD as a label without diagnosis are necessarily the same thing

Sep 8, 2025 at 1:08amWeb