Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

RSD & Students: The Hidden Impact on Advocacy

22 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston explores how RSD, rejection sensitive dysphoria, affects students' ability to advocate for themselves at school. When others push for accommodations without considering their feelings, students often experience shame and feel singled out, making them less likely to ask for help.

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So let's talk about how RSD can affect your, your high school student, elementary student, college student. Yeah, just because of past things that we've had to deal with because of our ADHD, autism, whatever.
I mean, definitely, if you— it can definitely affect— I'm thinking the first thing that's coming to mind is your advocating skills, right? And so, or whether you advocate or not, you know, I would try to accommodate or advocate for myself, or teachers would say, you know, use your accommodations, you know, whatever. And I just, I didn't like being pointed at or being associated with, I, because I thought like disabilities were bad and I just didn't, because of the way others chose to advocate for me and didn't take my feelings into consideration, you know, that caused me to be shameful of advocating for myself.