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Our brains just…kinda work like Sherlock Holmes not Dr Watson. I actually commented on this pin on pinterest with another theory and other people posted their theories in reply too!!!!

And on that topic!

2.       We actually can have good grades AND be social people!

I’m actually super friendly and a decent conversationalist!

And typically, people with ADHD, ARE super friendly and enthusiastic conversationalists with an unconventional sense of humor and inquisitive puppy eyes that look so earnest everybody’s just like “that person is the soul of honesty and sincerity; their faces would never allow them to lie”

The thing is, we “get” social cues really well but we get very overwhelmed with them too which tends to make us look awkward and funny in an endearing sort of way.

I have NEVER seen an ADHD person who wasn’t super expressive and naturally friendly. We’re REALLY stimuli/situationally responsive too, you will probably CONSTANTLY see our behavior/attitudes shift just slightly every millisecond and our eyes will be so intense as we re-eval everything every step of the way.

And we’ll talk to ANYBODY – even the introverted ADHDs, the introverted ones will be super quiet until they get curious or nervous and then they’ll blurt out stuff or respond really bluntly in a way that’ll make people laugh.

Like last class I was in person for the ADHD girl I just met just started chatting happily with me like we were besties and on that topic if we vibe well with someone we are going to overshare it’s just inevitable and she was cool I think she said she had schizophrenia I gotta ask her about that next time we see each other so I can get some writing advice for writing schizophrenia!

Which leads me too!!!

3.       We’re too curious to be racist

Seriously, if you kidnapped me and brought me to a gang leader who wanted to chop off my fingers I’d probably interview him…and chatter nonstop because I’m a nervous talker.

That’s just…the ADHD first response; Some different = something interesting.

Oh and the more nervous we are the less inhibitors we have so like you know how tipsy people get more and more free with themselves and less concerned with consequences – well that’s what happens when we get overstimulated we get “high” on happy chemical we’re deficient in but NTs have normally.

Which is how I can absolutely sing in front of a large crowd if I’m overstimulated enough but can’t even chat with someone at home if I feel the slightest apprehension (and by “slightest” of course I mean “THEY HATE ME I DON’T’ KNOW WHY BUT THEY HATE ME THE WHOLE STORE HATES ME BECAUSE I STUBBED MY TOE AND DIDN’T YELP IN PAIN SO I MUST BE A SNOB!!!!!!!!!!!”)