from romeo stevens
"high sensitivity to negative feelings in general with rejection just being of extra highlight"
"When I'm not stimulated enough I'm more likely to notice unwanted stimuli"
"Lack of a felt sense of progress and not knowing how to generate that for oneself"
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This was an interesting read, especially as someone who doesn't really know many people with ADHD IRL (hence why it's taken me almost 3 decades to look into it)
I would also add to the rejection sensitivity part: I'm v sensitive to being misunderstood. If someone rejects me ...
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For something I think is just completely wrong, that I don't believe, it's easier for me to completely ignore + dismiss them as ignorant. But if they're slightly closer but it's still not right, I feel so much more frustrated, I think partly because I know that changing their ...
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Mind takes effort and this is "boring" because it's not novel for me. Explaining myself to every single human who gets it wrong is obviously suuuuper repetitive. So the rejection sensitivity might be the discomfort of putting myself through it for someone I care about
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yep, relatable. idk if you've come across the term "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in connection with ADHD but worth a search
google.com/search?q=rejec