neurodiversity

What’s the best mental health advice you’ve ever gotten that motivates you in your mental health journey? Mine is before you help others you need to help yourself and also we’re more than our challenges and diagnosis. #ADHD #ADHDInGirls #MentalHealth #Depression #Motivation #AddictionRecovery #Neurodiversity

I'm getting more and more people noticing that I seem to have some form of neurodivergence, unsure if it's ADHD or autism - my suspicion is that if anything it's dyspraxia. But I've not had a formal diagnosis and while I'm struggling at the moment I don't know if getting a label for what's going on will help so I'm wondering if anyone had any experience of getting a diagnosis as an adult, in what way did that help and what was the process like? Or, if you've not gone down that route, how was that? #Neurodiversity #Dyspraxia

Our inner voice, often harsh and unforgiving, can magnify feelings of inadequacy and failure, especially in a world that doesn’t always accommodate neurodiversity. By practicing self-compassion, these individuals can transform their relationship with themselves, viewing mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth rather than evidence of insufficiency.

By taking a kinder approach to our self-dialogue we are fostering stills like resilience, and empowering ourselves to see that, even though we’re still going through challenging moments, we had the strength and the ability to defined those moments, even though we may not do a perfectly we still can do it. And even though this article is based on ADHD challenges, because it isn’t about being perfect it’s about having the skills in the clarity get through the different challenges life throws at us.

Self-Care, Compassion and Adult ADHD - TotallyADD

#adhd #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth

Our inner voice, often harsh and unforgiving, can magnify feelings of inadequacy and failure, especially in a world that doesn’t always accommodate neurodiversity.

By practicing self-compassion, these individuals can transform their relationship with themselves, viewing mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth rather than evidence of insufficiency.

By taking a kinder approach to our self-dialogue we are fostering stills like resilience, and empowering ourselves to see that, even though we’re still going through challenging moments, we had the strength and the ability to defined those moments, even though we may not do a perfectly we still can do it. And even though this article is based on ADHD challenges, because it isn’t about being perfect it’s about having the skills in the clarity get through the different challenges life throws at us. Self-Care, Compassion and Adult ADHD - TotallyADD

#ADHD #Neurodiversity
#MentalHealth

I am feeling profound sadness because I am learning that my daughter is being systematically excluded from my husband's family. Despite my persistent efforts to integrate her into our extended family's social circle, she is constantly excluded from birthday parties and playdates.

Time and time again, I extended heartfelt invitations for my husband's cousins (they were all raised like siblings in the past) for them to join us and bring their children to my mother-in-law's house for my daughter and their children to have a playdate (as me, my husband and my daughter live in another city), and always invited everyone for her birthday parties. I always made it very clear that I wanted them close, and that my daughter loved to be around them. Yet, despite my repeated reminders, they consistently disregard her, almost never extending an invitation to her for their own events or celebrations.

Recently, I learned that one of their children was hosting a birthday party to which my daughter was not included. I could not understand why.

The one time she was invited, it was a bittersweet experience. She stood on the sidelines, as the parents who were hosting the party called the other children of the family together for a group photo, and simply left her out, they did not call her for the photo. During the same event, my daughter struggled with the noise and commotion of the party, and she would always ask to go to the bathroom or somewhere calm or put her hands in her ears to try to calm herself, despite the challenges, she insisted she wanted to stay because she was so happy to be included in the party. Instead of offering comfort or understanding, the grandmother of the child who was having the birthday party (my husband’s aunt) laughed at her distress.

My daughter, like my husband and myself, is neurodivergent. I can't help but wonder if her differences – her unique way of experiencing the world – are what drive this hurtful treatment.She is extremely sweet and well behaved, she just has a hard time with noise (and she gets nervous just when it is extremely loud, she attends other birthday parties of her classmates and she is completely happy). And she also has a hard time socializing, so probably her cousins don't think she’s fun to be around. But there is nothing wrong with her, it hurts as hell to realize that perhaps her adult relatives don't want her around because of her unique way. Me and my husband are not fun to be around, we are strange to most people, and I understand that the adults of the extended family don’t make an effort for us to be around, but extending that exclusion to my daughter is heartbreaking.

Does anyone have a similar experience? I am so sad and feeling so isolated by this experience, I would like to hear it from you. Thank you for your time.

#Neurodiversity #Depression #FamilyAndFriends #ADHD #Autism #SensoryProcessingDisorder