The help me and next button are bad gateways. 404....
It is nice to hear and reflect on the various experiences of others that are ND. I just learned (informally) that I am likely both ADHD and Autistic. Learning to navigate broken through a world that does not accept but seems to merely tolerate the 'broken' requires a level of fortitude that most (all?) NT's will never understand. Somewhat like men thinking they know what the birth experience or period pain is like... they just have a hard time understanding the effort 'we' go through to function 'normally' in a world where we are not. Normal that is.
I think you can make this a forum where people can post mini-essays on their own experiences, that then allows other's to respond. Group think, as it were.
You can also take a single topic or current event and discuss how this single topic impacts folks with ADHD differently from those that are NT. Then the subscribers might weigh in on that topic with their own experience, thereby creating a sort of 'database' of what those just learning about their ADHD might expect to experience when they encounter a particular topic.
Example- I just retired from my job. I am trying to determine the best next course of action. So, of course I am spending a great deal of time (like writing this) in avoidance. How to interrupt that avoidance spiral-other's experiences with avoidance spirals, etc... Whether reading political posts, as an example, drains executive function to the point of severely impacting the 'rest of the day's' motivation...
Every word you have written here resonates. I would like to support your org with a paid subscription, but as a late life diagnosed (post 60) ADHDer, I am financially depleted. No surprise.
My partner and I are both AuDHD, and we frequently joke that, with the 2 of us working together, we can operate like one and 1/2 to one and 3/4 "competent adults". Seems like that's one area an ADHD alliance can focus on - how we can help each other, as a whole, fill in the areas in which we, as individuals, struggle. Which is also what it seems like you were getting at with this post. I'm not sure what such a focus could look like, but maybe someone else has ideas!
Since we cant hug the whole world, maybe we could have ambassadors or chapters in the each country. We can have monthly meetings to talk about major issues.
Awareness as a first step to help recognise/diagnose those that were missed
Create an international neurodiverse think tank to move the needle of support and empowerment and creating a world where neurodivergence is not a pathology but a different way of being with different needs
The help me and next button are bad gateways. 404....
It is nice to hear and reflect on the various experiences of others that are ND. I just learned (informally) that I am likely both ADHD and Autistic. Learning to navigate broken through a world that does not accept but seems to merely tolerate the 'broken' requires a level of fortitude that most (all?) NT's will never understand. Somewhat like men thinking they know what the birth experience or period pain is like... they just have a hard time understanding the effort 'we' go through to function 'normally' in a world where we are not. Normal that is.
I think you can make this a forum where people can post mini-essays on their own experiences, that then allows other's to respond. Group think, as it were.
You can also take a single topic or current event and discuss how this single topic impacts folks with ADHD differently from those that are NT. Then the subscribers might weigh in on that topic with their own experience, thereby creating a sort of 'database' of what those just learning about their ADHD might expect to experience when they encounter a particular topic.
Example- I just retired from my job. I am trying to determine the best next course of action. So, of course I am spending a great deal of time (like writing this) in avoidance. How to interrupt that avoidance spiral-other's experiences with avoidance spirals, etc... Whether reading political posts, as an example, drains executive function to the point of severely impacting the 'rest of the day's' motivation...
Just some thoughts...
Every word you have written here resonates. I would like to support your org with a paid subscription, but as a late life diagnosed (post 60) ADHDer, I am financially depleted. No surprise.
How about a version of the old joke:
Patient: "Doctor, my arm hurts when I do this."
Doctor: "Well, don't do that."
Us: "I hurt when I try to be normal."
Therapist: "Then don't be normal"
Meaning, this space is about us. Explore and share what works for us even if it doesn't work for anybody else in the world.
And my mind has moved on to...I'm going to get a snack.
My partner and I are both AuDHD, and we frequently joke that, with the 2 of us working together, we can operate like one and 1/2 to one and 3/4 "competent adults". Seems like that's one area an ADHD alliance can focus on - how we can help each other, as a whole, fill in the areas in which we, as individuals, struggle. Which is also what it seems like you were getting at with this post. I'm not sure what such a focus could look like, but maybe someone else has ideas!
Since we cant hug the whole world, maybe we could have ambassadors or chapters in the each country. We can have monthly meetings to talk about major issues.
Awareness as a first step to help recognise/diagnose those that were missed
Create an international neurodiverse think tank to move the needle of support and empowerment and creating a world where neurodivergence is not a pathology but a different way of being with different needs