I!!!!! Had SUCH An Issue With This!!!!! I Think I Got Metaphorically Kicked Down Far Top Many Times In

I!!!!! Had SUCH an issue with this!!!!! I think I got metaphorically kicked down far top many times in grade school, since I stopped talking so openly about my hyperfixations by the time junior high came. At least to everyone except my mom, and my closest friends, because I KNEW for CERTAIN that they would never make fun of me.

I still remember a few things that were said that will forever haunt me and make me doubt myself. The one that hurts the most would probably be when I was... Ohh, 12? Maybe 13? I had just experienced my first abrupt fixation shift, from Invader ZIM to I THINK it was Alien??? Or maybe Assassin's Creed... But I remember talking about my new fixation with my mom and step-dad one day, when my step-dad pipes up and tells me; "You know what I find weird? You know how you keep talking and talking and TALKING about [X Interest] nonstop? Yeah. You used to do that with something else, too- you were absolutely Bat Shit Insane over it. You remember Invader ZIM? Yeah, you were Bat Shit over it, and now you just FORGOT it? It's fuckin weird, kid."

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Thanks. Now I will forever be self conscious over how hard I fixate, and how much I gush about them. :)

DON’T MAKE FUN OF THE HYPERFIXATIONS OF PEOPLE WITH ADHD

I have ADHD.

Elementary school - judged for being hyperfixated with cats

6th Grade - bullied relentlessly for hyperfixating on Harry Potter

8th Grade - bullied for hyperfixating on Hamilton

9th-10th Grade - teased by my friends for being hyperfixated on Supernatual; people telling me I talk about Supernatural too much

Result - I’m too scared to talk to people about my hyperfixations because I don’t want to be annoying so I just bottle up all my thoughts about it and it’s really sucky

Just don’t make fun of people’s hyperfixations!! It’s literally such a dick movie!!

Okay okay okay I KNOW this isn't like... A Relateable Post or educational, but THIS IS MY CURRENT HYPERFIXATION AND IT STILL RELATES TO THE THEME!!!

also it's MY blog and I can do what I want!

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Okay! Now that that's taken care of.... YEEEESSSS YES YES YES YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT OP!!! Yesssss gimme more. I LIVE for relateable BJTM content!!!

I am SO SO glad other people have picked up on the ADHD Maitlands!!! The whole "Picking Up Hobbies and Projects and Then Dropping Them" deal just SCREAMS hyperfixations to me!!!! Yes!!

Beej also stims by flapping his hands, and has an oral fixation. You can't take that from me even if you tried to pry it from my cold, crusty bone hands.

beetlejuice is adhd & autistic and experiences extreme rsd. please applaud my huge galaxy brain moment

When you keep getting easily distracted while writing:

my mom: why do you use subtitles despite the person speaking english????

me: because of my crippling adhd, mother. i would like to be distracted as i am also focused.

O h.... Oh this makes so much sense....

Dyscalculia is a learning disability, a lot like dyslexia, but with math and numbers. Everyone knows what dyslexia is, but for some reason, dyscalculia isn’t as well known. I want people to know about this so no more kids are gonna believe uneducated adults who tells them that they’re just lazy and no more kids are going to think they’re just hopeless idiots when they try and try but just can’t understand. It happened to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else.