It’s nearly impossible to get ourselves to start anything, and once we do, it’s nearly impossible to actually pay attention to that task, which then makes it nearly impossible to ever finish that task.

regardless, I want you to know how incredibly needed you are in this world. It doesn’t matter if you can’t work a full-time job or if you can’t date or if you can’t fill out paperwork or if you can’t speak.

Laughing at the sensitive characters on TV and calling them silly felt like a way to connect with the people in my life who thought I was too sensitive. Maybe if I made fun of this trait too, I could earn love in ways that I couldn’t by just being my sensitive self.

It’s okay if there are things you can’t do. It’s alright to admit defeat, to stop smashing your head up against a brick wall, and let others help you. But you have to talk to them about it.

Difficulty processing energy: You know how some people are lactose intolerant, and their bodies simply can’t properly process dairy? ADHDers are kind of like that, but with energy. We can’t process it in a way that’s useful for us, either internally or externally. Here’s what I mean by that:

Another common example is driving. Many AuDHDers can drive, and many cannot. Driving is a very social activity, which means our autistic struggles often show up on the road as well. We may struggle to merge because we can’t get a read on other drivers to anticipate what they’re going to do, and we might follow speed limits to the letter and end up

We all have an internal sense of energy, but for those of us with ADHD, that internal energy is often chaotic, unpredictable, and switches rapidly

dysfunction. This often makes us late to social events, either because we couldn’t accurately perceive the passage of time, or because we got caught up in a million side quests when trying to get ready and out the door.

Getting your assessment results is nerve-wracking. And even if the results are exactly what you expected, it can come with a lot of different emotions.