What Is One Thing You Want Non-ADHD Adults To Know About Adult ADHD? Explain It Here, Anonymously Or Full Name

Problem:  Have you ever heard any of these? “You just need to focus.” “You just need to try harder.” “ADHD isn’t a real condition.” “If you use ADHD meds you’ll become a drug addict.” “Everybody has ADHD.” As someone who has been coaching adults with ADHD since 2003, runs an Adult ADHD support group, and has ADHD, I’ve heard these  ignorant stigmatizing comments far too often. So have my Adult ADHD clients, who hear them so often, and see so few willing to call them out on it, or impose a cost for stigmatizing us, some start to believe the lies and stigma on adult ADHD. They start stigmatizing themselves by internalizing the stigma and blaming and shaming themselves with it. Which of course makes their ADHD worse and can lead to things like anxiety disorders and dysthymia or depression. And some ADDers even harm their fellow ADHD Adults by repeating the stigma to others. Because of the ADHD Catch 22 & ignorance & stigma on adult ADHD, most ADHD Adults hide in ADHD closet, don’t call out the stigmatizers and don’t complain to politicians/media about a lack of resources for us. So they both think it’s not a real problem = don’t mandate and fund proper diagnosis or treatment of adult ADHD (and kids too). Too many spread ignorance and stigma against ADHD, which harms us and our families, and keeps many from seeking a diagnosis or treatment & others hiding in th...
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