'CBR: Vanaf december geen medische keuring meer bij AD(H)D'

"Mensen met ADD, ADHD of autisme worden vanaf 1 december niet meer doorverwezen naar een medisch specialist voor een keuring als zij hun rijbewijs willen halen. Het Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen (CBR) sorteert daarmee alvast voor op nieuwe regelgeving die bepaalt dat mensen met die diagnoses geen verplichte medische keuring meer hoeven te ondergaan om hun rijbewijs te bemachtigen."

https://www.skipr.nl/nieuws/cbr-vanaf-december-geen-medische-keuring-meer-bij-adhd/

#rijbewijs #ADD #ADHD #autisme #CBR

"preparation is everything" ☝️🥲

#adhd #adhdmeme #meme #adhs #tdah

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How it started: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=443719
How it's going: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_numerals
Is this #ADHD? ​​

So much truth in this 😐
#adhd #adhdmeme #adhs #tdah #empathy

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The image is a screenshot of a social media post with a dark gray background. On the left side, there is a circular profile picture of a person with short dark hair, wearing a dark-colored top. The post contains white text over the dark background. The text reads: "Forever torn between a) wanting to tell you a story that will show you I understand your upsetting experience and b) not saying anything so don’t think I’m trying to make it about myself".

Why people with ADHD suffer from mental wear and tear

ADHD is often a major risk for depression. Many individuals only seek help once depression has fully developed. We need to catch this earlier.

Thread 🧵👇

#ADHD #ADHDinAdults #Neurodivergent #MentalHealthMatters #SelfAcceptance #tdah #adhs

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My wife said our kid and niece probably have the caffeine fast absorption gene from her family. (I used up 3 spoons not reminding I have it too. And the niece could have gotten it from her other parent too.)

I asked: Have you considered...

She cut me off: Yes, my whole family have self medicated.

More lost spoons over not reacting. I was going to say that the "caffeine fast absorption gene is really an #ADHD gene."

As a maybe (diagnosis in progress) #ADHD person: Does it also feel for you that strategy of removing tasks is a complete disaster?

I thrive in high fluctuating environments full of challenges and multitasking. I master juggling things around and landing them exactly where they’re supposed to be on time(ish). When they are challenging and fun.

So the intuitive thing of lowering the amount of items in the queue just won’t work for me.

If you're always anxious when pressing Send on an email, add a two minutes send-delay to your Outlook. That way, you have time to pull it back and make any additions or corrections.

I can't tell you how many times it has saved my skin and possibly my career.

You can set it to however many minutes you are most comfortable with, but I've found 2 to be my sweet spot.

#ADHD #Anxiety #Outlook

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The Outlook rule information: Apply this rule after I send the message, defer delivery by 2 minutes.

I'm going to be so organized!

#adhd #adhdmeme #comic #adhs #tdah

New account, new #introduction post!

I’m Rhys, a writer, solarpunk, and witch/druid living in the Midlands, UK. My pronouns are they/them, although I’m currently exploring my gender, so that may change.

I've just set up a new blog: https://www.panga.blog/about

I will accept most follow requests!

#Writing #Solarpunk #Anarchism #Witchcraft #Druidry #Midlands #Vegan #Bisexual #Polyamorous #NonBinary #Autism #ADHD #WorkingClass

Its honest work.

#adhd #mentalhealth #adhs #meme #adhdmeme #neurodiversity #alt4me

It's always funny to me when someone you've known for a while "comes out" as #ADHD or #autistic or #bipolar or whatever. And it's just like ... Yeah ... Didn't you tell me that a long time ago? It was pretty obvious. And they're like ... But I only got diagnosed last week!

@autistics I'm continuing to read #Barkley's "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" (2nd edition, 2022). It turns out that his rigidly statistical approach to defining "impairment" is by no means its only problematic feature. I just read Chapter 8, "Self-control", and some aspects of it are downright creepy.

His perspective is that self-control is liberating, because without it we're at the mercy of our momentary impulses. In the best case, I actually agree with this; it's one reason why I'm continuing to read the book, and why I intend to seek treatment for #ADHD.

But the way I would put it is: self-control CAN BE liberating. The creepy part is that #Barkley doesn't seem to understand how self-control could ever be anything BUT liberating. He even writes: "If it didn't result in a net positive, why would anyone exercise self-control?" (p. 66)

As the only child of a Methodist minister who was a career military chaplain, I can answer that: "Because they were coerced and brainwashed into it." As a mental health professional, #Barkley ought to understand this too. Psychiatry at least as far back as Freud has had to contend with the problem of internalized indoctrination masquerading as, or actually becoming, a part of the self. Subsequent versions of psychiatric theory have had their own counterparts of Freud's superego. And on the other hand, psychiatry — including #ADHD treatment — has been accused of being itself an instrument of indoctrination, disguising socioeconomic repression as enlightenment and liberation. Against this background, "Self-control is liberating" sounds positively Orwellian. It sounds like a variant of "Slavery is freedom."

I don't think it has to be that way. Increasing our self-control, when combined with awareness of the issue of social repression, and with rigorous critical analysis of the principles governing our self-control, can indeed be liberating. But it's disturbing, to say the least, that a book written by the acknowledged magister of #ADHD research would try to gloss over the problem entirely. It is immensely destructive of trust.

I'm planning to finish this book, and even to read other books #Barkley has written. It's clear that I can learn a lot from him. But at this point, I'm seriously on my guard. And although I still see no reason to question his status as the preeminent #ADHD researcher, he is coming across as a first-class ASSHOLE.