A few days ago I read a piece about #NeuroDiversity and #adhd in particular that stated how dopamine is produced by either motivation or fear. To simplify. Like the drive to do stuff can be triggered purely by fear. Be it of failure or anything.
It haunts me now thinking about my late identified audhd and the whole "high performing" thing or "but you are doing so well" thing. And how this is gendered and how so often women with adhd/audhd are not diagnosed or validated because they "do so well". Yet it is all there.
Think about the amount of fear, trauma, masking and harmful learnt behaviours there has to be and where it has come from to produce one "high performing" neurodivergent person? It's all invisible harm that produces an indivual who seemingly does sort of ok in todays world. The implications of this are so violent in nature it makes me shiver.
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