Child: *complains of mental illness symptoms*
Parents with undiagnosed mental illness: Everyone's like that 😘
I was able to get to a psychiatrist with actual experience treating ADHD and be recognized as pretty solidly on the money almost immediately. I was then gaslit by my parents for a week because “it’s a subjective diagnosis”… despite neither of them actually working with ADHD patients and EXHIBITING THE EXACT SAME TRAITS AS ME.
“Well I was even worse in school than you and I do not have ADD.” YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR TEMPER AND HAVE EVEN WORSE RSD THAN ME. GO TO THERAPY. JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE HEALTHY. IT JUST MEANS YOU WERE NEGLECTED.




