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From: Denc 🗡
I thought I was just a useless twat but ….. My ADHD diagnosis lifted years of shame. Now I see it as my superpower I’d been written off and told I’d never amount to anything, but once I understood my brain, my entire life made sense I get into hot water for calling ADHD my “superpower”, and I do understand why. For plenty of people, it’s a drain rather than a gift. It can be brutally hard – I should know, I’ve lived through some of the worst of it. But I also strongly believe there is beauty in an ADHD brain, and I refuse to apologise for saying so. My aim is to give children hope. They will have many people throughout their lives telling them how hard it is to have ADHD, and they will know that already, so where possible I want to share a positive message. I think I was part of the last generation of children who were simply written off as “naughty”. Every single report card I received between the ages of eight and 18 said almost exactly the same thing: “Nice enough kid but easily distracted” “needs to concentrate more” “has potential but is really disruptive and doesn’t listen”.

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I thought I was just a useless twat but ….....[more]	Denc 🗡	10:15:57
>> ….but I’ll still claim PIP for a free car	Hamsterwheel	10:24:37

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