being diagnosed with ADHD at 30 has been a blessing/curse. it’s cool to have some validation abt what I’ve been struggling with for years but it’s really frustrating to have a neurodivergent brain and be expected to function in a capitalist society that centers productivity

how am I supposed to thrive under capitalist conditions when my brain rejects and transcends that?

how am I supposed to love and accept myself when the nonADHD ppl around me tell me I’m simply not trying hard enough to do things? #adhdtwitter

not trying hard enough to do WHAT exactly? do things that are “productive”? fuck that.

everything I do, even the shitty ADHD behaviors/symptoms, is productive. maybe not in terms of capitalism but it’s productive bc I am building with myself and with my community. #adhdtwitter

you’re telling me that me tending to my garden instead of doing some stupid hw assignment isn’t productive? when the (literal) fruits of my love and labor will help me feed myself and my people? but bc I’m not doing my hw, im not productive.

fuck all of that.

#adhdtwitter

I struggle w my ADHD constantly. I may be mean to myself &often feel like a failure

but I know deep in my soul that I was never meant to settle & accept the shit capitalism hands us. I know that my wonky lil ADHD brain is what is gonna build towards liberation.

#adhdtwitter