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

Problem:  Have you ever been treated like crap because you have ADHD? Has your self-esteem ever been damaged by how other people treat you because you have adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? The purpose of this campaign is to spread the word on what it really feels like to have adult ADHD. So non-ADHD adults can understand us better and do less shaming or humiliation of us for having a genetically inherited neurodevelopmental condition, i.e., stigmatizing us. 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, and internalize them and repeat it to themselves and others. Solution: Tell me in the form below what is the most important thing that you want non-ADHD adults to know about what life is really like living with Adult ADHD. You can do it anonymously, or your full name. I post your most important point about living with Adult ADHD on my blog and social media accounts. I and others will use the Twitter and Facebook hashtag #ExplainAdultADHD so other can find, read and share your stories, and share their own. Outcomes: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if non-ADHD people know more about ADHD from us, the actual people who had it? Wouldn’t it be ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Explain One Point About Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs