ADHD MOODS

this post hasn't left my mind since i've first saw it

PLEASE HELP TRANS WOMEN!!!!!!!!!

continually awed by how american states function like separate countries

I held back on getting my gender changed in the state of Georgia because it required filing a court case and appearing before a judge to prove that I had transitioned enough to warrant calling myself male on my documents. there was a strong possibility they could deny me because I hadn't undergone any type of surgery (a requirement under Georgia law that is waived only sometimes), despite passing as male 100% of the time.

this morning I went to the Maryland vehicle administration building and they had a touch screen with buttons that said "male" and "female."

I paused and asked the lady "I can choose male, right?" and she looked at me (again, I'm just some guy with a beard) (and I think she misheard me) and she was like "Oh! Do you want to be female now?" I said no, my Georgia license (directly in front of her) says female, they wouldn't let me change it, can I be male now?

she said to just pick whichever I wanted. I got my updated license in 5 minutes.

NEW PASTA JUST DROPPED

Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.

[footage of the inside of an ordinary Eastern-European home, taken with a handheld phone camera, the man filming is walking from the living room to the back door of the house]

man, narrating in russian: Every fucking year, this time of the year, the pond at my backyard gets infested. What do ponds get infested with? Frogs? Poisonous weeds? Geese? No. Not my pond.

[The man opens the back door, stepping out into a garden. Three or four nude, human-like figures dash from the borders of a pond back into the water.]

man: Rusalki! I don't know where they come from or how they get here, and I can't afford to hire an exterminator every year. I can't let my cat outside anymore. Last year a rusalka managed to drown a whole deer in my pond, the stench was unbearable.

[He walks as he speaks, approaching the pond. There are several eerily beautiful female beings peering at him from under the surface, their long hair floating in the murky water. Their eyes are gleaming in an unhuman way. The man holding the camera stops to film them.]

man, calm and deadpan: What the fuck are all of you staring at. Get jobs or something.

[One of the rusalki, smaller than the others and clearly not a fully matured adult, slowly reaches out of the water with her white, thin hand, grasping his ankle. He appears unconcerned.]

man: You can't drown me, you little idiot. You're too small. Shoo!

[A loud thud startles the rusalki, making them scatter. A second thud makes it clear these are the approaching footsteps of something massive. The man turns around and points the camera at what appears to be a house, walking past above the treeline with chicken-like legs]

man, now yelling: IF YOUR HOUSE SHITS ON MY YARD AGAIN I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD-

This can be intersectional with other parts of the neurodivergent community but...

Having ADHD is like:

*stims* wait shit I look stupid *stops stimming* no wait shit now I can’t concentrate

“How was your day?” “Oh uh....(wait...how was my day?)” *windows shut down noise*

Alternatively: “How was your day?” “Okay so in history class we learned...” *insert essay here*

We have already talked about this on multiple occasions and I remember it in great detail what do you mean you forgot???

We have already talked about this? Uh oh.

Wow a block of text on a screen! I wish I could absorb any of this :)

Wow 100 tabs open at a time I wish I could prioritize any of this :)

Wow I have been working for hours and I haven’t received any reward chemicals (tm) I still have plenty of time today but the lack of getting anything Done makes me want to just lie down and not do it again

Wait it’s lunch time already?

I opened my conversation application and replied to things. My duty of communicating for the day is complete,,,

Spending ten minutes typing a single response so it’s short but says the right thing

I was standing too close because I got wrapped up in what you were saying I am so sorry I’m not trying to be rude

I was standing too close to that edge of the table and I fucking bumped into it AGAIN this is the third time TODAY and the tenth time this WEEK

*reciting order in my head so I don’t freeze up and forget when I get to the counter*

Someone said something slightly negative about me and now I want to explode

Having the same ten reactions for everything because those are the ones that communicate the most engagement (I promise I’m listening aaaaaa)

*checks autism symptom list* *checks autism symptom list* *che

You can’t take me on errends I am trying to work >:( *has not done anything for the past three hours*

*curls toes in shoes*

My ears feel like they’re being stuffed with thunderstorms if you don’t turn that noise off so help me I will leave (or worse, there is no noise and I just sort of have to sit there with overstimulated ears and dead air)

*makes a joke that goes over everyone’s head*

*laughs at joke I didn’t understand*

*miscommunicates something* *is not given the indication that the explanation was understood* *worries about being misinterpeteted*

*Throws essay onto table* have I mentioned?? My new hyperfixation?? It’s spy time. *james bond theme*

All you people without ADHD drink caffeine in the mornings? Weak ass, I take meth

Disability aids, medication, food, water, shelter...

It's almost like we should care about people.

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism