[image: FB Screenshot Of Mine, Text As Follow:

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I found the ultimate ADHD life hack for chores

There’s….There’s no rules, y'all

You don’t have to do… everything at once

You’re in the bathroom for a few minutes? Just put a couple of things away and wipe down the faucet and then leave. You don’t have to clean the WHOLE THING at once

This is both an ADHD life hack AND a disability life hack

SO OFTEN I feel helpless and useless because I can’t do chores. But. What if. I do. SMALL things. I can wipe a countertop down while my coffee brews. I can sweep up just a small area. I can only put away half my clothes.

ANY progress is good. ANY AT ALL!

R e v e l a t i o n

Don’t make fun, my “GET THE WHOLE JOB DONE OR DON’T BOTHER AT ALL” mentality drilled into my brain for years isn’t easy to overcome ;)]

[ID: Black on white text. "Recognition Responsive Euphoria" or RRE.

The ADHD brain is turned up to 11; our neurotransmitters burn bright. On an emotional level, this means we feel the stabbing pain of rejection, frustration, and failure more acutely then do others. On the flip side, we also experience a meaningful and powerful zing of energy and esteem with every word of encouragement, praise, or approval we recieve. The smallest gesture can power euphoria -and great accomplishments- for us. End ID]

other peoples laughter is sweet as nectar and ambrosia... call that acceptance sensitive euphoria

[ID: Two black and white panels of two characters. They look like they might have been drawn on MS paint with a mouse.

First: The first character is asking the second: "hey man do u wanna get french toast". The second, looking confused, answers: "sorry what did u say i couldn't hear u im sorry"

Second: The first character repeats: "i said do u wanna go-" The second interrupts them: "oh shit yeah i heard u actually lets get some french toast" . Their text is red and has shadows. It's overlapping with the other speech bubble. They are more poorly drawn and their eyes are crossed outwards. End ID]

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If someone looks uncomfortable when you hug them, please stop hugging them.

If someone shuffles away when you stand beside them, don’t move closer to them again.

If someone shrugs your hand off their shoulder, don’t fucking put your hand back on.

Don’t be an asshole. If someone says they don’t like to be touched, I don’t care how much it “offends” you. Stop touching them.

Stop.

Shitty website: How to make your cruch fall in love with you.

Me, who's in love with a fictional character: Interesting!

a lot of children - especially mentally ill children - end up traumatized not because someone was specifically hurting them but because their needs weren’t being met, or because their problems weren’t being seen, or because they were rendered particularly vulnerable by other aspects of their identity, like queerness or race. 

and it can be hard to look at your childhood and go “I was hurt” and also know that the hurt wasn’t deliberate. it’s uniquely painful to not have someone to blame. 

you do not have to excuse the people who hurt you, even if it was unintentional. & acknowledging your own pain does not necessarily entail blaming them for it.

you are allowed to do what you need to do in order to recover.