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I also get a lot of value from Jessica McCabe’s How to ADHD – I bought her book a while ago and I promise I’ll start it any day now :3 I think a lot of the strategies may be appropriate for other flavors of neurospicy too.
You know the joke about how everyone who drives faster than me is a dangerous maniac, and everyone who drives slower is incompetent? We really do tend to see the world in relation to ourselves, and I think that it’s because we take ourselves as the “normal” baseline there is this fear of appropriating. ADHDers struggle with focus “more than normal”; I’m normal; therefore they must have it worse than me and I’m not part of that group.
Coming out as trans taught me that it is possible for me to be in a minority group without realizing it, and I’ve been trying to see myself and where I fit in in relation to the whole of society without centering myself. And also not to compare myself to some perceived “normal” baseline, but just play with the hand I was dealt. (I’m not trying to be maudlin there: I have qualities than I’m happy about too!)