[ ID: A series of posts from a Twitter user named Captain Awkward. They read:
(1) My whole childhood and life before diagnosis, my intelligence and literally everything I am good at was used as proof that I must be lazy and deliberately fucking up career and academic and household stuff out of spite.
(2) The paradox of ADHD - being excellent at complex, high-stimulus tasks and fuck-all at routine, “easy” tasks was a weapon in the hands of parents, teachers, and employers and a constant abusive echo in my brain.
(3) What I internalized was that accomplishments that were fun or that came easy to me had no value, only the ones that involve effort “count”. But the things that involved the most effort for me were mundane tasks that came easy to otheres, so they had no value, either.
