ADHD is looking earnestly for something urgently with a mild undercurrent of panic, and then completely forgetting what you were looking for and standing frozen in time trying desperately to recall.

ADHD is shouting OH COME ON all day long at inanimate objects that refuse to stay in the precarious locations you absent mindedly put them in and the even worse ones that won’t reveal their safe places in your whirring brain.

ADHD is knowing that you want to go to the sorting office before it closes at 12, but prioritising sharing the chihuahua story with your flatmate, who is also neurodiverse and not happy about the imposition but you INSIST.

ADHD is missing the sorting office again.

Is this ADHD?

Now having to go to the other post office which you irrationally loathe and think has a bad energy (emotional dysregulation will be an issue in the queue).

Procrastinating the anguish by tweeting a thread IS ADHD.

ADHD is panicking that you lost your house keys again when really they are still in the lock. (Literally all happening this morning).

ADHD is STILL PROCRASTINATING.

ADHD in women is having an absolute NIGHTMARE existence in the luteal cycle of your menstrual cycle when your hormones start messing with dopamine too. Just for fun!

Rising progesterone blocks dopamine access & declining oestrogen too. If you have PMT or PMDD cancel everything.

Medication barely works. You will burn yourself, fall over, forget everything, cry.

But your creativity will be off the charts.

Swings and roundabouts in your actual face.

Staying standing is a miracle some days.

My flatmate is now deeply aware of the luteal phase and the one particularly savage one where I was new to medication and still adapting and starting clapping in between words to make a point like an actual meme.

I was like a furious human furnace.

The good sides are great.

I am totally worth it I promise you and my actual pain can be entertaining for others.

Lots of neurodiverse children develop brilliant comedy skills once they realise that they can and that people respond positively and overlook your other stuff. We turn our pain into laughs.

Many comedians have ADHD.

That brilliant offbeat humour, observing everything, constant tangents, living entirely and furiously in the moment while on stage.

That’s an ADHD brain folks!

If you relate to any of this, and I know it can be a shock, embrace it.

I promise that acknowledging, embracing and self acceptance will crack your world right open.

I will be sharing loads on @myrunawaybrain

After diagnosis I was like that kid in the sixth sense (and still an) except I SEE ADHD PEOPLE and I SEE NEURODIVERSE PEOPLE.

There are a lot more of us than the statistics account for and we don’t all need to be pathologised.

Having a brilliant brain is fantastic. Controlling it is the problem. A formula one engine with bicycle brakes as is the common expression.

That’s what we learn with coaching etc. Medication helps slow it down for a while so you can focus better.