OK, I’ve seen enough of these comments that I need to make the first rule.
Do not make condescending comments like “This is just normal things everyone does, not your self-diagnosed ADHD.” or “Everyone has ADHD now /s”
This is a meme community for ADHD people, not your personal soapbox. We don’t care why you think we find these relatable.
Making comments like these is causing those posting these memes to be discouraged, and dismissing their lived experiences. Don’t be that person.
Just for the record, not every ADHD person is the same. I don’t identify with all of these memes, nor do I think they’re all necessarily ADHD-related. But even as someone with ADHD, I recognize that not every reacts the same way and I don’t know all the possible symptoms of it. And If I, with diagnosed ADHD can’t know that, you, a random lemming, certainly don’t know either!
Likewise, if you find most of these memes relatable, you might have ADHD, or you might have Autism, or both! These two are close cousins, their symptoms overlap and they have a high comorbidity with each other. Relating too much with ADHD memes is a typical first step which led a lot of people to realizing they had it! Feel free to read up on the ADHD symptoms and get diagnosed if you think it’s currently affecting your life significantly.
That said, anyone making this sort of comments, is gonna get a one-week ban from this community for party pooping. If you want to complain that “everyone has ADHD now” or some shit, go do it elsewhere. Naturally we use common sense. It’s OK to ask questions in good faith.
As always, this is a “fuck around and find out” rule. We’ll know it when we see it.
PS: Since we added a new rule, I could also use some mods to enforce it. If any of you is up for this, lemme know. I will only add people who I’ve seen interact with this or other ADHD communities positively.
And here’s an extremely relevant meme to lighten the mood:
Can we somehow ban these types of useless comments from real life too? Because I get them all the time and it’s annoying as fuck. I basically comprise a list in my head of people I will no longer talk to about my personal struggles because they find a way to make it about them.
If I have to hear another random person say “everyone is diagnosed with ADHD these days”…
The problem with ADHD imo is that it’s studied surprisingly poorly so diagnosis is a crapshoot.
Like bloody hell I was told at a young age “You have ADHD, take these pills” then years later it was “Wait no misdiagnosis you have Autism not ADHD stop taking pills” and it fucked me up hard
And only recently the doctors figured out you can have BOTH ADHD and Autism and guess what I had both.
Not me taking a dig at other people with ADHD, I just think the diagnosis system is a dumpster fire because of stuff like the aforementioned “Autistic people can’t have ADHD” which fucked me up for YEARS.
Sorry I just needed somewhere to rant/vent about my own problems tbh
honestly the diagnosis system is rancid even at a surface level, oh okay i have one too few symptoms to qualify guess i can go fuck myself and will the other symptoms away then
If social media has taught me anything it’s that you should never look to society for truth or sanity.