I apologise for the negetiveity....

But this is the reality of the situation...

I am wondering if it is at all possible to be seperated from all these 'added extras', anxiety disorders, depression etc. However I have recently (or perhaps I have had this thought before?) that I have never really had 'true depression' or anxiety and such, just that I seem to experience emotions TOO INTENSLY!

Instead of getting a little sad, I get over come with grief!

Instead of getting worried, or a bit fearful, I go into full blown anxiety.

And when other people would be simply happy, or exited, I experience euphoria to the extent that I am jumping around like a young child.

Then when you consider that what sets these emotions off can be somewhat different to what most people would react over...
As well as not having the capabilities to understand emotions and communicate them accuratly...

(oh and also does not help when significant others also have difficaulty with self-regulation)

You can start to see why such disorders as adhd and ASD are a disability, that needs to be understood and for strategies for the individuals and the people involved with them to be developed and utilsed.

Instead we are just out here feeling very much alone and misunderstood. The confusion and frustration.....the struggle, the guilt of not being able to 'get it together' and to work out methods to get through life from reading manuals not written for us!

Most people with suffer some form of mental illness in their life time at some stage....

but the mental repercussions of have ADHD and or ASD does NOT GO AWAY! At best it can be managed, understood, accomodated for....but it still will always be there.

Something that gets to me a lot is when people do not acknowledge all of these things. Some people believe that by saying 'but everyone struggles with (that)' that this is somewhat reassuring to us. Or they see it as an excuse, that perhaps we are just being restricted by the label and if we just have the 'will power' we can overcome anything.

Or when we do push through and become 'indistinguisable from our peers', that it is evidence that we can't possible have such disorders or that no further accomodations or supports are needed!!!???