i’ve seen so many iterations of this on tiktok. people saying “this tweet motivates me to get out of bed”
how?
“omg you people cant do anything”
i mean… yeah? that’s kinda how executive dysfunction rolls?
is the tweet supposed to be insulting? and that motivates people to do shit out of spite? if that’s so, i wish my adhd was so weak i was able to prove her wrong out of spite
is it something else? please explain, thank you
I think it’s important to note that is is a twitter interaction, so both parties are most likely the worst people alive (even before Elon). The original poster seems to want to start a discussion about an entirely optional activity (wearing a costume on halloween), the retweeter has lumped all people with ADHD together and suggesting they are all complaining about what the retweeter sees as a completely non-issue. Suggesting that the retweeter thinks that ADHD people are paralyzed by absolutely anything. People saying it’s their motivation are motivated by not wanting to be one of those ND people.
I think the first person actually wanted to say something like “my ADHD is making it so hard to pick a Halloween costume this year,” but they’re so twitter-poisoned that they have to turn it into a universal experience, assume the existence of an existing discourse around that experience, and imply a societal failing.
Yes, this too. The whole interaction is broken from top to bottom.
makes sense
but it’s kinda out of our control, though, isn’t it? we can try our best to do shit, but sometimes we can’t do shit, and that will be it. beating ourselves up over it does nothing to help. in my case, simply accepting that sometimes i won’t be able to do shit is actually what helped me the most
Absolutely. Far be it from me to tell someone how to motivate themselves, but the whole thing is really toxic.