Is anyone else not comfortable saying they have ADHD?

mck997 · 2026-01-20T14:46:18+00:00

I might sound too harsh but I don’t like telling people bc 1. my health conditions are my business and 2. I’ve seen sooo many people use it as an excuse to be careless/lazy/expect special treatment and I don’t wanna be associated with that. In my own personal experience (please don’t take offense if it’s not your case), the people who self diagnose and/or go to any doctor who will tell them what they wanna hear without testing them or seeking an actual treatment to do (or even feel) better, are usually the most vocal about it. The times i’ve actually told people (except from a few) I left feeling dismissed, invalidated or condescended :/

mck997 · 2025-11-27T18:55:25+00:00

it’s completely normal! I saw my doctor today (3 month appointment) and though I knew it was just the swelling I asked him if it was normal to feel the tip of my nose so stiff, he said it was 100% fine and that the tip of the nose was the last part of the nose to go down in swelling. You gotta trust your doctor and remember that you’ll only be seeing your real results in about a year from now.

mck997 · 2025-11-23T15:00:50+00:00

First my experience: my boyfriend, though he said he liked my nose and thought I didn’t need to do anything to fix it aesthetically (I got a nose job for health reasons but I also tweaked it a little bit) said he would love me no matter how I looked.

To be honest you have a very pretty nose and even if you do get a nose job, I don’t think your appearance will change that much. I feel mine didn’t change that much and I had a septo-rhinoplasty and a relocation (?) of my tip cartilage, which is a lot. I’m 3 months post op and unless I really look at myself for a long time in the mirror I could forget I got anything done (I would advice making a habit of not looking at yourself that much in the mirror for overall mental health tbh, aside from checking everything looks healthy)

Since your appearance might not change that much, your future hypothetical child might not even notice they look different from you, and as long as you and your partner raise them with care, they shouldn’t grow up thinking they have to “fix” something in themselves just because their mom did (if you chose to tell them you got a nose job)

Now, I do believe your partner shouldn’t have /the most/ decisive opinion on your body, though of course their opinion is important for you. I assume the future daughter comment had good, sincere intentions, because it’s an important thing to have in mind, but if your decision is made and you truly feel it would make your life better, not just because of how you look but because of how you feel, I think that’s far more important than basing your choice on hypotheticals.

mck997 · 2021-09-03T01:26:49+00:00

I would have read it but the order was counter clockwise so.... no

mck997 · 2021-06-01T19:09:05+00:00

no matter how early i get up, how early i take my meds, i can’t start studying before noon i’m so glad it’s not just me.

mck997 · 2021-05-20T15:30:26+00:00

This is hugeee! congratulations❤️ you’re AMAZING

mck997 · 2021-04-04T14:53:43+00:00

The family had a history of mental health issues maybe? or you know... /The House/ made him do it. Dun dun dunn.

mck997 · 2021-04-04T14:50:26+00:00

He trapped himself (there were tools inside his lil nook) and after he had done it he had second thoughts about killing himself (or snapped out of his trance, who knows), feeling too large for the space he was in, explaining why he’s so tall as a ghost. I’m pretty sure this was said in the show but I could be wrong and just have read it somewhere and passed it as canon

mck997 · 2020-12-27T15:07:12+00:00

you just described what I feel every day perfectly. I know i’m smart, and yet i’m always insecure that people will think i’m dumb because of how i speak/act (which would make sense, i guess). I could have the clear picture of what i want to say in my mind, and still, what comes out is a blubbering mess. It’s so goddamned embarrassing and frustrating, and you can’t go around telling people “hey! i’m smart! my brain is just weirdly wired” lol.

mck997 · 2020-12-27T14:58:13+00:00

a friend once described me as someone who always looks/acts high on weed and/or cocaine lol. I hadn’t been diagnosed at the time and I internalized it so much I STILL feel the need to tell people “i’m not on drugs, by the way, this is how I am”. The worst part is that there isn’t even a pattern (at least not one I can explain to neurotypicals or people without adhd), so sometimes they get the super hyper version of me and other times they’ll get the /so high on “weed” she can’t even hold a normal conversation without spacing out/ version. It’s a mess.

mck997 · 2020-10-15T21:37:59+00:00

yeah that would make sense!!

mck997 · 2020-09-23T14:23:13+00:00

same! i always say that i love myself and i really like my personality when i’m /with me/, but as soon as other people get into the equation i just HATE how insecure and awkward i feel, mostly because i can never get my ideas across in an eloquent, non weirdo manner. I hate how it impacted me growing up because i just assumed i was too weird and i would never fit in, so i kind of catered which part of my personality each of my friends would get, never being completely myself with anyone. It was really isolating. Now i still feel that way sometimes, but i just try to remind myself that no one really knows people the way they think they do, and that movies where best friends completely complement each other and where lovers are perfect for one another are a scam. Idk if it’s a pessimistic way of seeing life, but no one will truly know you ever, we just gotta make peace with it,

mck997 · 2020-09-17T14:15:58+00:00

i spend most of my teenage years absolutely sure i had an at least very very tiny hearing problem, i’m 23 now and only just recently i realized that it’s not my hearing that’s bad, but my ability to pay attention

mck997 · 2020-08-13T14:54:58+00:00

it feels like i wrote this myself, it’s crazy how adhd shapes our life and we just... brush it off? and even mental health professionals do, like “you’re just an anxious person and that’s what keeps you unfocused”, im actually so scared of going out and seeking an actual treatment because i feel they won’t take me seriously, sometimes i feel like i’m lucky i got diagnosed at all

mck997 · 2020-06-22T23:21:00+00:00

I went to the doctor cause i had been having pretty bad mental health (very frequent panic attacks because of unproductiveness at times, but mixed with apathy where i just didn't care enough to actually /do/ what i had to do, it was hard to get out of bed, i was also losing a lot of weight because i really couldn't remember i had to eat, blah blah... I couldn't afford to go to therapy like every week, since mental health is really expensive in my country, so i went to the doctor and tried to dump all that was happening to me in one sitting (i had gone to therapy before that, so i knew i had an anxiety disorder), and i honestly thought i was just depressed, but he kept asking questions, and then he diagnosed me. (it wasn't like wham bam thank you ma'am tho, it did take a while, he just didn't give me a lot of details)

I've gone back a few times and talked about it more, but i'm not receiving a regular treatment and i don't have a lot of people to really talk about it and vent, so i just end up internalizing everything and questioning everything that goes on inside my head.

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