ADHD & Masking🎭 #shorts #adhd

[Jamison]

One of my most prominent symptoms of ADHD is my impulsive need to speak/share my thoughts. Bc I know I’ll forget them. It definitely gets easier with practice. I’m a nurse, so I have to be careful. I slip sometimes, but I always apologize for the interruption. But I’ve definitely made a few patients laugh with my seemingly unrelated comments.

[jordo]

This is probably why my symptoms are showing more and more, because I realized that it’s normal to be different and that I will have a better time with adhd in my opinion

[kathrynmcclellan]

This 😩 In elementary school I exhibited way more symptoms of hyperactivity until I got bullied by the other kids and scolded by the teachers for being “annoying”. I was so quiet and withdrawn for the longest time and it’s only now that I’m out of college where I’m starting to get back to my true self.

[lilmnky]

*laughs in still a minor and went through the same thing*

[atiqahdiyana]

Mood. It takes SO much energy. I come back from school and I’m emotionally and physically exhausted. Sometimes you’re not even conscious of the fact that you’re masking until you get home and realize how tired you are

[amberheartstudios]

Yes 100% I was yelled at for my symptoms and told it’s not acceptable to forget things when I can’t control it.

[thetalker]

Omg this is what I’ve been going through recently and didn’t know others struggled with it too and now I understand why I have been having a midlife crisis at the age of 24 lol it’s not a midlife crisis but it’s me re-establishing myself as a person with ADHD since I was misdiagnosed my entire childhood and got in more trouble because of it.

[brendaburgner-williams]

I'm a talker. I talked to myself, I talked to my pets, I talk to lots of people.
My new nickname?
Is, "Shut up Brenda!"
My mom constantly tells me to shut up. My dad constantly tells me to shut up. My family constantly tells me to shut up. I try to explain that it is extremely difficult for me to shut up. I talk to myself when I need to remember things. I can't just make lists all the time.
Back when I was a kid, it wasn't called ADHD or ADD. It was just hyperactivity disorder.
I had an EEG done, the doctor said that my brain, one side goes fast, the other side goes slow. That's just the way I am he said. He told my mom that I just go to the beat of A different drummer. My doctor understood me more than my own mother. LOL.

[fionajansen]

This would definitely explain why I was so exhausted after coming home from public school

[avisbc]

Grew up in 70's and 80's. Masked pretty much my whole life. I get it totally.

[Sam-urwn]

Omg, your message this time really hit home and I almost cried. I've been saying this for years!

[_cloudface_]

When you've got depression and anxiety problems thrown in the mix interacting with normal people is just a full time acting job.
I work in retail and when the ADHD stuff slips out and I go on some random tangent or make a weird reference etc or keep talking to a customer that's leaving and they're trying to disengage it's not so bad, they just think I'm weird. But when you're depressed or anxious most of the time the days you're more overwhelmed than usual and can't mask it people seem to get confused or annoyed that you're not hiding what you're going through well enough especially if they're regular customers that see your "everything's fine" persona most of the time 😐

[PssuMRt]

“This is why awareness is so important” AGREED if being a people pleaser was more talked about I would not have went through so mutch trauma

[adzukibean]

You know, I have ADHD and was raised with respect for authority. My parents from the beginning knew that with my ADHD I was basically living life on hard mode, so they taught me how to speak to adults, and how to communicate clearly and professionally with adults, so they wouldn’t discriminate against me, and come to respect me and not treat me like a trouble maker. Because I learned these skills at an early age, I basically learned how to be the ultimate teacher’s pet. A lot of people were annoyed at this, but it worked. And I earned the respect of all my teachers. Little did they know it was just a survival skill.

[DarkWonder]

I've learned so much about my ADD from your videos, I'm almost 40 and I'm finally making sense of a lot of my behaviors. Thank you.

[luyun]

The psychiatrist confirmed that i don't have ADHD or ADD but i do have BPD. After watching multiple videos i do realise i've been masking as well and has been relearning to unmask. It causes my depression level to drop exponentially 😃

[stardust.]

The finger guns at the end made me smile, thank you for posting content like this :, )❤️

[dualkitsune]

My mother constantly telling the doctors to raise my dosage because I wasn't sitting perfectly still... to the point I started to live in a weird distant haze of hyperfocus on one task.

I was in orchestra. You can't do that.

[rynbow-skye]

Please make a video about your micro greens I don't no much about them and I love listening to people talk about what their passionate about even if I wouldn't seek out that information myself

[DarlingMySweet]

I have ADHD and your videos mean a lot to me, thank you.