496- Oversharing and Underinvesting: The Social Traps That Snare ADHD Adults
Published 2024-04-10
How to Make Friends as an Adult with ADHD: More Resources
• Download: The ADHD Friendship Guide for Adults (www.additudemag.com/download/how-to-stop-overshari…)
• Self-Test: 10 Questions That Reveal Toxic Behaviors (www.additudemag.com/is-my-friend-toxic-quiz/)
• Read: 3 Common ADHD Friendship Challenges (www.additudemag.com/relationships-friendships-feel…)
• Read: “How I’m Teaching My ADHD Brain to Listen” (www.additudemag.com/talking-too-much-listening-con…)
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All Comments (6)
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This resonates with me in dozens of ways
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Fantastic descriptions and examples. I remain curious, as always, is what the hell is everyone else thinking, or not thinking. It’s that incongruity that always trips me up.
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when married, all these things about leaving parties early, disappearing for a while during a party, etc might not work. i have a controlling abusive husband who still "holds me accountable" aka emotionally abuses me for hours on end and persecutes me about incidents where i took time iout for myself or left early or broke the perfection facade and actually spoke to people at parties. im living on a prayer to get out of the situation. planning as well, but executing the plans with adhd is the issue.
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i was able to manage my life without meds until before peri menopause, and it has been a decline so significant after having kids, now almost 46 and i feel the impact of a life lived with insomnia, digestive issues, and anxiety because of silly mistakes and blind spots and hypo fixations that caused me great losses, more complex my life became less capable i felt to manage it well, this memory issue is a huge handicap and i felt crazy most of my life and it is getting so much worse, i have tried so many strategies and diets, my life is exhausting 💔 the oversharing issue i thought it as necessary because i was scared that others would not know how to help me properly. this took me a long time to understand how needy it made me look and feel 🤭
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I have a friend that I used to walk with. I haven’t contacted her this season, because I’m not sure that I want to continue growing this friendship. She occasionally brings up her religion, and wishes that I would join it. Her intentions are good, she wants for for me what she has. My husband and daughters are that same religion as her and I respect it, but I am not interested. She only brings it up on about 10% of our walks.
