I honestly have a tendency to avoid taking responsibility and acknowledging when I’m wrong, but I’m trying to do better. Feel free to correct/confront me in the future.
I appreciate it. As someone who fought some hard rejection sensitivity issues, it feels way better to own up than to double down when I know I’m wrong.
I learned it’s part of ADHD, which I have. Naming it has helped me acknowledge when it’s happening. Since anxiety goes hand in hand with conditions like ADHD, it might be related.
Depending on where you live a diagnosis can be very hard to get but worth it to start working toward sooner than later (fucking impossible with ADHD, I know.) You learn a lot along the way even if you don’t end up having it.
The book Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté started my journey.
Thanks for listening and owning up. I know it’s hard to break a habit when casual sexism becomes your norm.
I honestly have a tendency to avoid taking responsibility and acknowledging when I’m wrong, but I’m trying to do better. Feel free to correct/confront me in the future.
I appreciate it. As someone who fought some hard rejection sensitivity issues, it feels way better to own up than to double down when I know I’m wrong.
Oh. I looked it up, and that sounds like me. I wonder if it’s connected to my social anxiety.
Also, yeah, owning up does feel better than digging my heels in.
I learned it’s part of ADHD, which I have. Naming it has helped me acknowledge when it’s happening. Since anxiety goes hand in hand with conditions like ADHD, it might be related.
I feel like I’m an egg, but for ADHD.
So many signs, but I won’t say I have it unless I’m diagnosed.
Depending on where you live a diagnosis can be very hard to get but worth it to start working toward sooner than later (fucking impossible with ADHD, I know.) You learn a lot along the way even if you don’t end up having it.
The book Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté started my journey.
I don’t particularly want to be diagnosed with anything. I’m definitely autistic, though, but I’m not diagnosed.
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