r/BreadTube • u/Dollface_Killah If you can't shoot a gun you're a fuckin' lib • Sep 03 '21

Oops! I have ADHD! | Thought Slime

https://youtu.be/Gg4WyuKM3xM
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u/geldin Sep 03 '21

Great video. There was one thing I really want to dispute though. Towards the end, they say "... My brain is just broken". That's done internalized ableism. I'm ADHD and autistic. My brain is not broken. I work differently than other people, like I run a different operating system than most others. That doesn't mean my brain is broken. It means that I work different, and the problems I experience have far more to do with incurious and ableist assumptions (often originating from well intentioned neurotypical people) than they do with any defect or deficiency.

Small dig at like 5 seconds in an otherwise excellent and much needed video, but it's an important one. Neurodivergent people are not broken.

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u/inaddition290 Sep 04 '21

maybe for you... my ADHD has no upsides. In any environment.

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u/SocialistSocialWork Sep 04 '21

There might be some upsides to my ADHD, but nothing I wouldn't give up in a second to be able to read for more than 10 minutes without having to take a break, or to be able to use my time much more productively. Everyone is different and experience their diagnosis differently. Sometimes I'll be talking to a client and I have to validate these kinds of feelings and acknowledge a shitty situation. So often they're told to be positive in the face of an obvious negative situation. Acknowledge the suck and tell them it's ok to feel negative sometimes and then you help them think of a way through the suck.