27 | She/her | Disabled activist with ADHD, BPD & HS+ | Tatted dog mum | BSc (Hons) Psych student | Queer 🏳️🌈 | Feminist
Highlands, Scotland
Joined July 2010
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Theres always a lot of bad news in the world. Please just enjoy 80 street dogs I feed having their big treat day today.
What a day they had. Unbelievable scenes 🥰🙏
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I wish I had learnt about pacing earlier in my health journey.
I used to push through my pain & fatigue.
It was really hard for me to accept that resting did not mean I was weak or that I wasn’t trying hard enough. I felt like a failure, to be honest.
But now I really understand what pacing with EDS is and what it is not. I was able to implement strategies that I needed to find a sustainable rhythm to manage energy and avoid the boom and bust I used to experience regularly.
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As a physician, I’m just not so sure our brains were made to stream this much grief and tragedy day in, day out, while not being able to do anything to stop the hurt/suffering.
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Don’t beg. They knew you were breaking and still chose silence.
Don’t forget ,they watched you struggle and did nothing.
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I absolutely HATE the idea of ‘well someone else has it worse’ like NO.
Your pain and trauma are completely valid despite what someone else went through..
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If you live with ADHD, BPD, C-PTSD, ASD, anxiety, or trauma recovery
I want to follow you.
I want to connect with you.
I want us to remind each other: we are not alone in this.
Drop a hi 👋 or 🩵 in the replies if you relate.
Let’s build community, and let’s stop trying cope in silence.
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Things my mental illness sometimes stops me doing..
• picking up the phone
• leaving the house
• eating healthy
• exercising
• laughing
• doing my hair or makeup
• getting dressed
Sometimes being able to do one of these things is a victory.
Retweet if you understand
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been passively suicidal for most of my life & never Truly planned for the future bc i didn’t think i’d still be here but now it’s Here & all my bad coping mechanisms are catching up to me & idk what i want to do idk what im passionate ab & idk how to live bc idk if i ever started
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There are people who will deny your story because it requires them to be honest about their role in the ways you’ve been hurt. These are not your people.
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The Autistic/ADHD urge to sing (internally and/or externally) lyrics that match what someone has just said, because: your brain instinctively connects words with corresponding lyrics; and you know the lyrics to so many songs.
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With ADHD, our emotions sometimes take over.
We forgive too fast. Or not at all.
We can blow up and then forget what happened happened.
Or hold on to a grudge for years over something meaningless.
Here’s why that happens and why it’s not just a personality thing:
ADHD affects the parts of the brain that help you manage emotions.
This can lead to:
- Overreacting
- Anxiety
- Mood swings
So when someone upsets you, your brain doesn’t always move after a while like most people do.
It can hold onto the moment. Replaying it over and over again. The more you replay it, the harder it is to let go.
On top of that ADHD makes it harder to shift focus or reframe things. You might want to drop the grudge but your brain can’t change its mind easily.
BUT… it’s not the same for everyone.
Some ADHDers never hold grudges because:
their attention moves on
Strong emotions run out quickly
or their brain finds a new thing to focus on.
So yes, ADHD can make you hold a grudge longer.
Or let everything go in 15 minutes.
Either way, it’s not just about being sensitive or careless.
It’s about how your brain handles emotion, memory, and meaning.
Understanding this helped me stop blaming myself for all of my actions and reactions.
These are the kinds of patterns I write about in my weekly newsletter.
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