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OMG YES when I saw this headline I SCREAMEDDDDD. This is beautiful! I hate awareness months!!!

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ha, I'm glad I'm in good company!! and don't get me started on awareness months as a genre... my former-burned-out-nonprofiteer-self has way too many thoughts.

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One million percent. And so much talk about ADHD completely ignores the body effects and sort of removes it to an intellectual/thought pattern only realm. Or makes it sound cute but mildly inconvenient. And not a huge deal that impacts every body system and leaves you with the trauma of having to violently conform to systems not built for you, just to survive.

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"makes it sound cute but mildly inconvenient" -- yes, yes, yes. I'm so ready for more stories and language and voices that actually speak from/through/with the intensity and complexity of this wiring... thank you for saying this

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This is amazing and just what I needed, thank you. I got diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and just quit ADHD meds due to new bad side effects. I've been relearning how to see myself. Not in the lens of "awareness" or "disordered" but complex, and this feels like what I was thinking, too.

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Oh wow, it sounds like we've been on a similar timeline... my diagnosis was a few years ago, had to abandon meds due to side effects, and the relearning has been huge and ongoing. Thanks so much for reading and sharing this. It really does help to find the people who understand and are in the complexity too.

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This is me!

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Love this, thank you.

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More of this please.

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Yes.

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My teacher, Raju Tai shared a link to this piece in her essay. What a wonderful gift this is! I would love to have an ADHD Expression Month filled with incredible metaphors! Thank you for writing this :)

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Grateful to you for saying hello and to Raju for sharing -- off to check out that post! And I'm seriously wondering about doing our own little grassroots/collective/free-form ADHD Expression Month this October...

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Please do. Adult female diagnosis is such a struggle. My own therapist decided he wouldn't give me a diagnosis in my 40s because He thought I've come so far in life. Why 'label' me?!

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