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Yesterday, I received this unsolicited email from a basic white dude named Stephen…
Having your second identity on your home page be a “disorder” is cringe and not professional.
Maybe your therapist tells you to announce your “disability”, and maybe this is normal within your friend group, but outside of these two slivers of society, that was created in the last 10 years for some really bad reasons, others with many other life experiences see this use of ADHD as a cry for pity and/or a use of victimhood to excuse yourself from being a white male with lots of advantages and abilities.
This time period of apologies that we live in now is going to be looked at with an eye roll in the years to come. My consultation is that you focus on your strengths and have that be your identity, because I can tell that you have a lot of strengths and abilities. No need to mark it with a trendy psychology label that is exaggerated beyond its usefulness anyway.
Ohhhhh boy, so much to unpack here!
But let me start with this: my ADHD is not “a disorder.” My brain is different. Not better. Not worse. Different.
And I really, truly, deeply and absolutely fucking love that for me. I’m weird, deeply flawed, and rad AF.
I’m not a victim. I never pretend to be. I never make excuses for my privilege. I use it to help people with less. And one way I do that is to talk about my ADHD a lot, to normalize it for people with less privilege.
I’ve gotten a lot of emails from folks who sought and received diagnoses after reading about my experiences. Who learned more about themselves. Who are more comfortable with themselves because they realize they’re not broken or alone.
Stephen wants me to focus on my strengths?
ADHD is one of my strengths. It makes me more creative. More innovative. More able to see patterns and connect ideas in new and interesting ways.
It makes me less prone to peer pressure and gives me a stronger moral compass. It gives hyperfocus, a form of super flow.
And let’s be honest: nothing is more “cringe” than a boring, basic white dude telling a stranger what to do with their own website.
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This content originally appeared on Go Make Things and was authored by Go Make Things
Go Make Things | Sciencx (2025-10-05T14:30:00+00:00) ADHD pride. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/10/05/adhd-pride/
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