Tag: adhd

pull-the-tooth:

pull-the-tooth:

pull-the-tooth:

The connection between adhd and aggression is something that needs to be looked at more.

I mean, I probably wouldn’t have the self-control and aggression issues I have today if someone had set me down and taught me to deal with my frustration and anger instead of just punishing me for speaking up about it more often.

I remember being treated more harshly than my peers who beat people on the regular often just because I was louder than them and failed to respect authority on a number of occasions.

3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks

adhdpie:

nehirose:

note-a-bear:

“When we step back and ask, “What does everyone with ADHD have in common, that people without ADHD don’t experience?” a different set of symptoms take shape.

From this perspective, three defining features of ADHD emerge that explain every aspect of the condition:

1. an interest-based nervous system

2. emotional hyperarousal

3. rejection sensitivity”

Oh

I’m reblogging first, then clicking through to read the article (less likely to lose it or forget to do either), but just from the piece quoted – oh. Yes. That does lay it out rather succinctly, doesn’t it?

this is it. this is the article that periodically reminds me that ‘adhd’ is a bad name for adhd.

3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks

1dietcokeinacan:

1dietcokeinacan:

One last hot take and then I’ll shut up: the reason adhd is framed first and foremost as a learning disability when it is in fact more apt to call it an emotional processing disorder is bc our society is only concerned w the ways neurological disorders impede a person’s ability to “function” aka get a job and contribute positively to capitalist society. How adhd affects interpersonal behaviors and emotional health is only relevant insofar as it relates to a person’s level of societal functioning PERIOD. There is no interest in improving our actual livelihoods

This is why girls are often not diagnosed w adhd until they are much older, bc they are forced to develop certain social awareness and self-surveillance capacities at an extremely young age and thus don’t perform “poorly” in the areas usually looked at to signify the disorder. But that doesn’t mean girls don’t take that distress out thru other avenues, just that the many alternative iterations of the disorder are ignored by professionals bc they don’t matter as far as society is concerned, as long as a girl is performing “well enough”