God I feel this, it took showing my mom hours of footage talking about childhood ADHD for her to finally believe I have it and I’m 24 years old! I have no resources that accurately describe my symptoms now as an adult, and so many of the ones discussing childhood symptoms emphasize that by adulthood they go away. No they don’t!!!

I only recently heard ADHD described as an executive dysfunction disorder and not an attention disorder and I was gutted that such a simple distinction has made receiving adequate care so difficult.

It’s been hard learning to deal with the feeling that there’s something fundamentally wrong with me, finally feeling validated that this disorder isn’t just “sometimes focusing on homework is hard” has helped a lot

Yes absolutely! From about 19-22 I was diagnosed bipolar and on mood stabilizers and just thinking “why the hell isn’t it working”. Now I’m finally on Ritalin and it’s helped so much, but I still have difficulty with my executive dysfunction and no one really seems to know what to do about it! /rant

Frankly I’m happy Mastodon didn’t become the leader in the fediverse. My main paint point with twitter was how the character limit really stifled long form discussion. Much more nuanced, complex conversations can be held here since we’re not chained to 250 characters.

Oh god, I shouldn’t have looked. Their idea of free speech is posting obvious propaganda and shitting on minorities. Classic

ope, sorry for jumping the gun with a post haha

hey that’s neat, didn’t know you can embed images

I don’t even like Bud Light, it’s a damn shame such a mediocre beer became the focus of a silly controversy. I started buying it when I went on beer runs just to show my support haha

Very cool! Thanks for teaching me

Heres another pic just for posterity

ope, I don’t know how it got turned upside down and don’t know how to fix it :(