adhd
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” by Simone Weil
Postanly Weekly • 20 Seconds of Courage
Many late-diagnosed ADHDers spent years assuming we were bad or broken. So by the time the diagnosis arrives, we've already built an entire identity around compensating for what we thought were character flaws.
We became perfectionists to cover up how much we struggle, and people-pleasers to make up for being "difficult... See more
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GK Chesterton
Gustav Klimt
ADHD is telling yourself you’ll relax after the task, then never doing the task, then never relaxing, then wondering why all you can do is stare at your phone while internally vibrating
Kelly Bankssubstack.com
I've started to see imposter syndrome not as a personal failing but as a natural response to the gap between our interior lives and our exterior presentations. We all contain multitudes—contradictions, uncertainties, half-formed thoughts, questions we're embarrassed to ask. But the versions of ourselves we present to the world are necessarily simpl... See more
imposter syndrome is the price of showing up
The imposter syndrome whispers: "You don't know enough yet." But knowing enough is a moving target. There's always another book to read, another expert to consult, another angle to consider. At some point, the pursuit of readiness becomes a sophisticated form of procrastination. We convince ourselves we're being responsible, thorough, professional,... See more
imposter syndrome is the price of showing up
Even well-functioning people with ADD often feel tremendously indecisive about taking new directions or making life changes. They have had so much difficulty in following through on decisions made in the past that they often become unable to trust themselves enough to move ahead at all. They also often have great difficulty saying no appropriately.
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