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The Mental Health Thread

They call it executive function, but there's no executives in my brain. Just an overworked and underpaid assistant manager and a couple of teenagers who would rather be on their phones instead of actually working.
 
3 years ago today, I was diagnosed with severe inattentive ADHD.
While my life has significantly improved since diagnosis and proper management, I know I have a long way to go. Especially when I have two brains that HATE each other. There are times I've wanted to take a vow of permanent silence due to glitching social and situational awareness.

I also grieve the life I never got to have due to not knowing what was happening. I was always "lazy, stupid, reckless, and always distracted." Leading to lots of housing and career instability. I also know in 1980s and 1990s, "management" was simply a bottle of Ritalin.

But I've been coming into my own over three years, learning how to handle situations that used to confuse the hell out of me. And again, as Anthony Bourdain once said:

"Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."
 
I wonder if we're going to be bunk mates at RFK's ADHD Wellness Camp.

(Their language is oozing with eugenics. To be honest, I'm more terrified of this than the anti-trans BS.)
 
There's too much money to be made. Pharma hasn't spent tens of billions on lobbying to get one of the best sellers cut out of the market.
 
Being trans and neurodivergent, there are two ways I can look at this:

"The government sees me as a threat. Sad face."

Or...

"The government sees me as a threat." *plays Feel Good Inc*
 
Living and working in a genuinely safe environment have definitely boosted my mental health. I'm not being screamed at, groped, having my hair ripped out, nor am I dealing with slamming doors.
 
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