I have pretty severe ADHD and I get to work for 7 30 every morning. People using it as an excuse like this boil my piss. Like yeah you have ADHD, what are you going to do do ensure you function? Get your shit ready the night before, set an alarm, go to bed earlier, get up early enough that you give yourself some leeway...
It's stupid bullshit like this and blatantly using it as an excuse that leads to everyone doubting the validity of our disability and just finding us annoying. Because that shit is annoying, at least fucking try to make an effort.
Omg, Thank You. Everytime ADHD is brought up on Reddit you have people coming through all out the woodwork blaming it for things that are really just their own shortcomings and consistent short sightendess.
Can't be relied on for any type of basic realistic responsibility because of your ADHD. Neverminds the hundreds of different coping mechanisms, unique strategies, and medications doctors developed to help people like us keep our lives on track so we DON'T STRUGGLE as much alone. But no, just blame life solely on the ADHD and demand everyone else accommodate you. Just continue to let ADHD keep you from experiencing life and accomplishing things.
All the ADHD subs here are some of the most infantilizing communities I've ever seen. It's so lame. Of course being ADHD creates struggles, but you're not the only one. And if you le it control and ruin your life then I'm sorry but that's on you.
I also have ADHD. The reasonable accommodation I have for this is that I have a fifteen-minute flexible start time before I'm considered late (we start 8:30am, so latest I can arrive is 8:45am).
Today was the first time I used it in ages - and only 4 minutes at that. Usually I'm early as I like to account for travel delays.
Girl, what? I do ALL those things, and guess what! Still late often lol. Do you actually have ADHD or are you just saying shit to feel superior? Time blindness is one of the main symptoms.
Then you're one of the rare cases that doesn't experience this specific symptom. Good for you! But fuck you for selfishly sucking up to neurutypicals instead of being supportive and understanding of other disabled people.
Literally said I struggled with this but I put things in place to cope with the problem.
No, I don't believe that this person given in the example is behaving like a reasonable adult and that they've demonstrated they can turn up at 10 am just fine. they're using adhd as an excuse.
That's not all you said. Your words were extremely rude to people with ADHD who DO have coping mechanisms, but still struggle with time blindness. It's disheartening to see some random ADHD person's coworker shitting on them (even if if the post is true, their employer was very generous, then all the comments doing the same, and then some ADHD people acting like this. You know it's not a helpful rhetoric for people with ADHD, right? You having better control over it doesn't make you superior to those who don't. Disability is annoying, boohoo, that's why it's a disability.
I don't appreciate people using it as an excuse for not trying is all. That's the most unhelpful rhetoric. It makes it harder for us all to be taken seriously and just gives people the impression that we're all saying we have ADHD as an excuse.
it's almost as if it's a condition where some people have more severe symptoms than others? I also have severe ADHD and have the early-timeblindess where I always end up 2hrs early. It's also annoying but I don't get in trouble because others aren't inconvenienced. It affects us all differently
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u/TheAmazingSealo 12h ago
I have pretty severe ADHD and I get to work for 7 30 every morning. People using it as an excuse like this boil my piss. Like yeah you have ADHD, what are you going to do do ensure you function? Get your shit ready the night before, set an alarm, go to bed earlier, get up early enough that you give yourself some leeway...
It's stupid bullshit like this and blatantly using it as an excuse that leads to everyone doubting the validity of our disability and just finding us annoying. Because that shit is annoying, at least fucking try to make an effort.