I am actually going to get evaluated for ADHD. Apparently I was able to overcome that shit as a kid because I was smart, but it's actually now starting to fuck with my life.
I'm in a similar situation myself. The only reason I haven't consulted doctors about it is because I distrust them, their theories, and I distrust the treatments often issued for these sorts of things.
I'm tempted to ask her to stop using that shit when she talks with me because I take zero offense to being called "not normal". My brain is potentially not normal, it is fact, you don't have to sugar coat that shit to me.
My hobbies alone stand out as 'not normal'. Tabletop wargaming and scale models, as popular and big business as they may be, are really not normal in their appeal. You know they're not normal the instant you set foot into the specialty stores that cater to them; The people inside are... 'different'. Some more obviously than others, but it's impossible not to notice the great overrepresentation of people who have some one or two patterns of behavior that are strikingly unusual.
I'm in a similar situation myself. The only reason I haven't consulted doctors about it is because I distrust them, their theories, and I distrust the treatments often issued for these sorts of things.
My hobbies alone stand out as 'not normal'. Tabletop wargaming and scale models, as popular and big business as they may be, are really not normal in their appeal. You know they're not normal the instant you set foot into the specialty stores that cater to them; The people inside are... 'different'. Some more obviously than others, but it's impossible not to notice the great overrepresentation of people who have some one or two patterns of behavior that are strikingly unusual.
Yeah, take a look at the speedrunning community. None of those fucks are normal and there's a shitload of mentally ill troons in there.