'People with ADHD are not a list of flaws or shortfalls – we’re whole and trying our best.' imteddybless
which is a relatable and honest practical guide for anyone who has a mental illness. She's also very, very funny on Twitter.in 2020 at the age of 27. By then, I’d started and abandoned the assessment process several times – an unsurprisingly common occurrence among people who are eventually diagnosed.
The process itself is an ADHD nightmare, requiring that you fill out seemingly endless forms, keep up to date with appointments and correspondences, remember to pay the correct fees on time, and collect supporting evidence from various sources, all the while enduring a berating from your own mind, long practised in receiving and repeating negative messages.
The diagnosis was both a relief and a source of real grief. I had spent my teens and adult life quietly but deeply suffering, mis-characterising myself as lazy and less disciplined than my peers. In reality, I had simply not had access to the accommodations, tools and patience that would have allowed me to cope and even to thrive.
Like a lot of people with ADHD – and many without – I have measured difficulty with executive functioning. Executive functioning refers to the skills that help a person to manage a human life- to organise their time, think and act flexibly, focus, set priorities, rely on memory, regulate their emotions and just feel like they’re coping in general.
My own executive dysfunction looks like struggling to organise my time effectively, transition between tasks and keep up to date with admin . I rely on a rotation of apps, lists and organisational techniques – a complex juggling act because of my brain’s need for novelty. Even the most effective and seemingly groundbreaking systems needs to be shelved and replaced after a few weeks or months.
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