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incognitopolls · 6 months

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"Verbally, but not formally" = a professional told you that they think you have a particular mental illness, but nothing was formally written down, or no formal diagnosis was pursued.

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c-ptsdrecovery · 8 months

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Heyyyy this is your daily reminder that mental health diagnoses do not exist separate and alone, miles from one another in a desert. Mental health diagnoses, conditions, and behaviors exist in an enormous and insanely complicated venn diagram of traits. Many mental health diagnoses share traits with many other mental health diagnoses. Some of them share more traits with one another than others. It's an enormous 5D (or more) spectrum of traits and behaviors, and diagnoses are just a way of gesturing toward a particular area of that spectrum for the purposes of understanding and treatment.

#mental health #mental health diagnosis #this is why my friends have questioned whether i'm autistic #and i looked it up and was like #'no because i don't have ENOUGH of the traits to warrant a diagnosis. it's just trait overlap.'

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finnslay · 10 months

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Autistic, ADHDers, and AuDhHDers. Which are you and what's it like when people have the same name? For example, if you knew 2 David's, how would your brain react. Would you get them confused? Would you create different nicknames? Are you great at telling them apart? Just wondering. Thanks!

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bwbawa · 6 months

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i always see info on autistic kids vs autistic adults and stuff, but what's it with autistic teens? how r they different from the other mentioned?

/genq

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rapidhighway · 2 months

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i actually love adhd questionnaires because i could never look a human in the eye and admit all of that

#not after being brought up in this family #i wouldve gotten that diagnosis if the lady just gave me some questions on a piece of paper but no i had to sit there and i lied for 1 hour #and i didnt get anything out of it #ehh

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narcissisticpdcultureis · 7 months

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questioning npd culture is being so confused if you have npd or not because everyone tells you that narcissistics arent aware they have npd until diagnosed and you suspect you have it

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#its entirely possible to be self aware of your npd before diagnosis #npd culture is #questioning npd culture is #npd #actually narcissistic #actually npd #narcissistic personality disorder #cluster b

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abcsofadhd · 1 year

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i show almost every symptom of adhd, and i was so sure i had it, but my mom tells me she had me tested when i was 7 to see and “it was a negative”. i was so certain, but now i’m really discouraged and i feel like maybe i was just a lazy person all along. any advice?

Here's the thing..

The concept of laziness is bullshit. As a whole, but let me focus on adhders (pun unintended).

What is laziness? "Unwilling to do work".

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ADHDers (and other ND/ chronically ill folks) are often called lazy cause NTs see us as 'unwilling' to do work. A personal choice.

They are saying we don't care enough to do something.

But that's rarely the case.

Why would we not want to improve our lives? Who WANTS to struggle?

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The ADHD diagnosis process is bullshit, especially if you are afab. The diagnostic checklists focus on grades, and hyperactvity mostly.

Inattentive and internally hyperactive symptoms can be near identical to anxiety and depression. In fact, I was initially diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

And if you managed to do well in school, which ADHDers can do for a variety of reasons, well, you're kinda dismissed.

It took my sisters years to get a diagnosis. The only who took her seriously was a female psychiatrist. And mind, this was after years of counselling, and being on antidepressants and anti anxiety meds for years, and still struggling.

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So now back to the initial point.. is it laziness?

Well, you don't seem unwilling, but rather unable.

If you never cared enough to try, ie, unwilling, you wouldn't be feeling discouraged.

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Final point is this: if you relate to ADHD symptoms, you are obviously struggling.

Even if it's not ADHD, it doesn't mean it's nothing.

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Guys, anything else to add?

#adhd #actually adhd #adhd tag #abcs of adhd #abcsofadhd #adhd diagnosis #adhd questions

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the-npd-culture-is · 2 months

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Questioning NPD culture is trying to do more research into high functioning NPD, but the only thing that comes up is “10 Warning Signs Someone Is A High-Functioning Narcissist”

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#urgh that fucking sucks. ive been through this when i tried to do my own research on npd for my self diagnosis.#that's why i ended up making a tumblr blog./gen #anon #ask #asks #npd culture is #npd #actually npd #narcissistic #narcissism #narcissist #narcissistic personality disorder #cluster b #actually cluster b #cluster b personality disorder #questioning npd culture is #q

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incognitopolls · 3 months

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Anon was tested recently, but masked too hard and was not diagnosed with autism. They're certain they got a false negative but redoing the test is too expensive. They're wondering if others have had similar outcomes.

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ndcultureis · 2 years

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ADD culture is getting really stressed out by questions like "give examples of times where you've experienced __"

Like. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning 😭

#my psychiatrist has given me like five pages that I need to answer #all with questions like this #for my add diagnosis :(#just looking at it is overwhelming #neurodivergent culture is #neurodivergent culture #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #mod milo #add #adhd

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actuallyadhd · 2 months

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Hey, uhh, I'm 15 and I think I might have ADHD. It seems to match what I feel. My mom actually independently thought the same thing. It seems to fit. But my mom says that since I don't really need support or anything, I don't need to be officially diagnosed. It would be a lot of effort. I don't know if I I agree with her and I don't know what to do if I don't. I feel like I can't really say I have ADHD if I'm not officially diagnosed. I don't want to be one of those fakers who just want attention or those constantly self diagnosing kids. I also have been officially diagnosed with depression and social anxiety, so some symptoms might be from that. Thank you.

Sent February 22, 2024

Our official position on self-diagnosis is that it's fine to do so as long as you aren't trying to use it as an excuse to get out of taking responsibility for poor behaviour. There are so many reasons people may not be able to get a formal diagnosis, and a self-diagnosis doesn't qualify you for treatment anyway.

The main problem with your mom's attitude is that you're doing fine until you aren't. Speaking from personal experience, you may be able to mask and function quite well in school because of the external structure being imposed on your time, but all of that may fall apart when you're finished high school and have to figure it all out for yourself. Even if you don't need medication or accommodations now, you may want to access one or both in post-secondary, and you'll need a diagnosis on the books in order to do that. In addition, if you're an average student right now you may find that you become much better once your symptoms are better managed and accommodated. Never mind the strategies you could learn if you access ADHD coaching!

This post will take you through the process of self-diagnosis. If you go through it and conclude that yeah, you probably do have ADHD, make a list of all the practical ways your symptoms affect your life in negative ways, and talk to your mom about those. Tell her that, if nothing else, you would like to maybe see an ADHD coach (you usually don't need a formal diagnosis for that) to see if you can learn some effective strategies to help you with these things now, before you're thrust into the unstructured, disorganized world of post-secondary education.

After you've been seeing a coach for a while, you can revisit the possibility of getting a formal diagnosis. Your coach may have some thoughts about whether that will be beneficial, too.

For a coach, I recommend looking for someone who has been trained through iACT. The owner has ADHD herself and is a Nurse Practitioner as well as a Registered Nurse. If I were to train to be a coach, this is where I would register.

-J

#adhd #actually adhd #asks #anonymous #diagnosis #questioning #parents

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wixabear · 7 months

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Yo, beans. Just got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD which yeh no shit. waiting on autism diagnosis.

#but yo i finally did good on a test cause #psycho dude #i forget the long fancy word #said i scored really high on both question test paperwork thingys #so go me #adhd #autism #adhd diagnosis #adhd inattentive

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aspd-culture · 9 months

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living in a society that’s so ableist is so wild because as someone questioning if they have aspd the ableism makes you wonder if you REALLY do because you’re just “too human”. like yeah, i see children hurt and i get uncomfortable, i see parents post pictures of their children and i worry. is it really true worry? who knows! point is, the idea that you’re inhuman for it is just drilled inside you so hard that anytime you show any sort of “humanity” you wonder if you are actually antisocial, even if you fit the criteria fine because the idea of being antisocial is boiled down to being evil and incapable of emotions; subhuman in a way. I hope that makes sense and resonates with anyone; been questioning for a while if we (system :)) could have aspd because ableism keeps making us believe a false idea of how it appears on people.

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#oh gosh I feel all of this #Please remember that pwASPD are still very much human #and whilst those of us that fit these stereotypes exist and are entirely valid #many of us if not the majority of us do not #many pwASPD feel for children in pain especially because that is what caused us to deal with this #and worry is in no way mutually exclusive with ASPD #it sucks that the world we live in makes pwASPD question themselves just because they act ‘’human’’#It makes it hard to recover when prosocials shove us in a box like that #because we struggle with healing vs feeling valid in our diagnosis #and that is just not a question anyone should have to worry about at all #aspd-culture-is #aspd culture is #aspd culture #actually aspd #aspd #aspd awareness #actually antisocial #antisocial personality disorder #aspd traits #tw ableism #cw ableism #anons welcome

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sporesgalaxy · 1 year

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me looking at the ADHD diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5-TR since I have access to it for a school paper and being reminded of every weird and annoying thing I do

#adddna #'often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes'#'often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly'#'often does not follow through on instructions'#'often avoids dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort'#'often talks excessively' 'often blurts an answer before the question has been completed'#GODDDD AAUUUUGGGHHHHH . ITS LIKE AN ADHD DIAGNOSIS IN HERE [LITERALLY TOOK STRATTERA THIS MORNING]

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blueskittlesart · 1 year

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Has anyone ever told you that you obsess too much over the most niche and pointless shit?

Stop ranting and do something else

Go get some bitches for fucks sake

cranky because no one will listen to you talk endlessly about the things you're passionate about arent you

#to answer your question! yes. all my irl friends are amazed i havent gotten a formal adhd diagnosis yet #asks #in the nicect was possible. i make money off this niche and pointless shit actually. LMAO

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sneaky-ramen · 5 months

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hey adhd tumblr. I have a question for you late diagnosed folks. did things get worse for you post-diagnosis? cause things are feeling way harder than it did before getting my diagnosis. and I think this is fucky.

#my adhd #adhd #late diagnosis #neurodivergent #actually adhd #adhd questions #help plz

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