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freisan
2
1 year ago

Friends

I always feel so guilty when I am with my friends and my adhd wanna come out. I interrupts their conversations and sometimes I get a feeling that I NEED to touch them or say a word repeatedly (right now it’s just bep) until they get tired of me and says to me that I need to shut up. Often when this happens we are at school and they are trying to focus. I know I did wrong but when they say that I did I always get offended and sad. So then I won’t talk or be “happy” in 30 minutes or so. After that I feel like “normal” again and I can do my task and after another 30 minutes I need to do something impulsive again. I just feel so bad for my friends and everyone around me. I know that adhd is normal but it’s not “the normal” if you know what i mean. And these friends I have now is my first friends that don’t have adhd or other diagnoses so it’s very new for me to feel like “the wierd one” bcs me and my old friends are all “wierd”. I just wanted to ramble I’m sorry 🤘

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katters avatar
katters
1y

This is how my daughter was before her Tourette’s diagnosis. She has autism and adhd too. Vyvanse helped her manage all her symptoms especially impulsivity.

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Carien
1y

Hey, don’t feel bad ❤️ having an adhd friend also has many up sides: at least it is never boring with you around, you have original idea’s, and people get spontaneous hugs. Maybe you can talk with them about how it is for you to have adhd, and how you sometimes feel sorry, but can’t stop it? If they recognize all the funny things about you as adhd, it is easier to laugh about them together.

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Carien
12mo

Yes indeed, that really helps! All my crazy little adhd behaviour used to irritate my husband and we had comstantly small arguments about it. I was diagnosed late, and now we know and has read about it, we both recognize my behaviour as being part of adhd and laugh about it together

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ameliabjorn
1y

Exactly, vocalizing and explaining how ADHD works changes a lot! I see this in my relationship

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