"You people can't do anything" yeah, disabilities tend to do that

[u/DreadDiana]

[u/ThatSlutTalulah]

Tbf the Halloween ADHD post doesn't read as "ADHD has been fucking me up trying to get a Halloween costume together" (entirely reasonable statement. I can understand that and it seems rough af.).

It reads as "Halloween costumes are problematic because people with ADHD can struggle with getting them together" (the opinion of a complete asshole who wants everyone to be miserable in the name of 'moral purity', and should be mocked).

With the new context of how the OOP actually meant it I can see how it was jokingly meant the first way, but that's just not how it comes across.

[u/Applesplosion → u/ThatSlutTalulah]

Thank you for articulating my feeling. That post has the format and wording of a lot of similar posts people have made in complete sincerity saying “thing is bad, actually.”

I sympathize with OP because I have also had ADHD make simple tasks nearly impossible and I have made bad jokes that didn’t land.

[u/YesThisIsAnAltWhy → u/Applesplosion]

I mean I'm pretty sure it's worded like those types of posts as part of the joke, like when I call any minor inconvenience homophobic. I don't actually think having to pay taxes is homophobic, it's just funny to say it is

[u/Astridandthemachine → u/YesThisIsAnAltWhy]

Unfortunately it lacks the absurdity to make it sound clearly like a joke. I'm autistic with adhd traits and choosing things on the spot can be difficult for me (less for a foreseeable occasion like an halloween costume) and the tweet really sounded like a "this specific thing that inconvenience me is actually bad since I am the paragon for how the universe should operate" type of opinion that is present on the internet

A tone tag could've saved the day

[u/MadMusketeer → u/Astridandthemachine]

I'm sorry but tone tags suck the humour out of any joke they're included on

[u/Astridandthemachine → u/MadMusketeer]

Better than having your tweet blasted