AuDHD & Neurodivergent Blog
Dormant Last read · last published · next check
Read 5 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 12 months.
So my daily medication regimen is the following: CoCodomol is the only medication that actually helps ‘dissipate’ the depressive black fog; overall sense of hopelessness and despair, that consumes me from the moment i wake up. It doesn’t lift my mood as such, neither does it feel like it’s acting as a ‘high’. It feels [ ]
Not a fan of bumping into people and feeling obligated to make small talk, and all of that stuff.
ADHD presents with paradoxical traits, meaning it can manifest as seemingly contradictory behaviors, meaning a lifetime of constantly trying to balance these opposing forces:
“Imagine you have one outlet. Plugged into it is a TV, a radio, and an alarm clock—all going off at the same time. This is what the inside of my [ADHD] brain sounds like.“
For me it’s a constant battle to keep as vocally silent as possible. There are occasions of course where I will open up, usually with a close friend, but even then it’s excruciatingly hard for me to say all the things stuck in my head, because in part I simply don’t know how to articulate [ ]
“The worst part about having mental health issues? That you're seemingly required to have a breakdown in order for people to understand how hard you were trying to hold yourself together.”
“Healing is so hard, because it is a constant battle between your Inner Child who is scared and just wants safety; your Inner Teenager who is angry, and just wants justice; and your Current Self who is tired, and just wants peace."
Stumbled across this blog post by Karla Fisher, which goes into detail about her experiences, and subsequent management, of her Autistic Grief.
There generally 2 types of ADHDers: ↓Illustration Source: https://x.com/adhd_weirdo_
“Autistic Burnout refers to a state of exhaustion created by using up all of your internal resources.
