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As someone with ADHD and bipolar 2, I had thought it was fairly obvious that the “Divergent” series was about what it’s like to live in the real world as a nueroDIVERGENT person.
If you haven’t yet read the series or you have and didn’t consider this (especially if you are or someone you love is neurodivergent and you seek to understand the struggles many of us have to deal with, being chastised for our divergence or told it’s a negative thing, I implore you to reread this series with that thinking (or watch movies I suppose, but the message is really driven home in the books, and as usual, the books are better than the movies (they kept my (hyper-focused) attention throughout)).
People with ADHD in particular are able to think at light speed…because we always are by default, and many neurodivergent people can see past emotional responses to come to more logical conclusions. For instance, if I am to believe my wife truly loves me, then if I were to walk in on her doing another dude, my first reaction would be to duck and look for a gun or person who is forcing her to do it. It would be irrational to land on her intentionally hurting me. 🤷🏻♂️
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it's like playing life on hard mode except hard mode is accepting every single side quest with reckless abandon and finishing main quests much later than everyone but also having the random skills and interesting anecdotes to show for it.
i'm sick of people acting like being neurodivergent is a deficit, it's low key the biggest life hack once you figure out how to harness it and work with rather than against it.
get diagnosed, learn and understand your condition, and own it - it's low key a flex.
Oct 17, 2024
neurodivergency is the best thing on earth and im so tired of pretending it isnt
i sob over nothing! i hyperfixate for hours! im painfully bad with social cues!
i've wasted so many years of my life trying to mask, and for what???
what's so cool about being neurotypical anyway???
i am not something in need of fixing! i am real and whole the way i am!
Feb 12, 2025
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I resonated with the last sentence in particular. Neurotypical people seem to just be able to... do things? It's truly wild how they are able to keep up. I think ADHD could be something to rule out?! I'm getting a psychiatric appointment this Friday 🤞
Oct 1, 2024
