Thanks for sharing your perspective. From my experience there is no perfect solution, routines take time and effort to develop. You can put energy into developing routine, wake up one morning and find it doesn’t work anymore. It’s like trying to hit a constantly moving target.

My commentary is about the image. I view it as promoting acceptance of behaviors that are unhealthy. I resent the implication that I’m helpless to my impulses, when I have worked so hard to control them.

Not trying to invalidate anyone’s experience, just sharing mine

Thanks for being sincere, I totally see your perspective. However, as someone who struggles with all the behaviors in the image. I’m also allowed to simply not like the image and its sentiment.

Saying there are things you can do to control impulses, does not trivialize the effort needed. Will these things be successful for everyone? Nope.

I feel that the image communicates acceptance, and I’m entitled to simply not liking that sentiment.

Genuinely sorry if you felt hurt by this perspective

Edit: words

I’m sorry my words came across as condescending. My experiences and views are my own.

My view is that this image gives license to acceptance of unhealthy coping mechanisms. I believe there are ways to curb these impulses, however people with ADHD will always have to work harder at that.

Yes, people with ADHD all experience things differently. My experiences don’t invalidate the experiences of others.

I know what ADHD is, I have spent 30 years working on controlling impulsive behaviors in my own treatment. I’m not always successful, but there are absolutely techniques that can help.

Most of these replies seem to assume I have no understanding or empathy for these problems. I just don’t like the image, and the implication that we have absolutely zero control over impulsive decision making.

To control impulses does not mean to cure them. My experiences as a person with ADHD are just as valid as everyone else’s.

You diagnosed a stranger on a forum though a single sentence. Because you felt their views were wrong. Everyone gets to have their opinions, you can disagree without creating an ADHD purity test that you proctor.

I’m definitely a little of both

Because everyone is welcome to their own view. Just because it doesn’t align with your view doesn’t give you license to invalidate and dismiss the experiences of others.

Why do you think the inverse is less problematic?

I can’t read the room I’m neurodiverse, and ADHD is my special interest

I don’t think it’s very kind to diagnose someone from a single sentence

“stop trivializing and dismissing a real neurological condition because you lack the awareness to understand the condition doesn’t impact everyone the same.”

These are assumptions, you are assuming my intent behind my words. Without knowledge of me or my experiences.

We simply have different views, and that’s okay

Because everyone experiences things differently, your experiences aren’t representative of the group as a whole. Neither are his, or mine. Making assumptions like that does nothing positive for anyone.

Not really, you just made assumptions about my intent. I would love to understand why my experiences are patronizing to you?

I agree with everything you said. I don’t like the image, because i personally feel that its giving license to accepting unhealthy behaviors.

These are all things I struggle with myself

A misguided view doesn’t mean they don’t have ADHD

Why do you feel that my experiences as a neurodiverse individual are patronizing?

I’m sorry you feel I’m being patronizing. I have been struggling with ADHD & Dyslexia my whole life. I do understand that the condition doesn’t effect everyone the same.

Not to mention people with ADHD aren’t a monolith, everyone experiences things differently