Why you’re stuck in fight or flight #adhd #anxiety #neurodivergent #shorts

People have a lot of coping strategies that sort of hide their ADHD. Every ADHDer I've met, I understand it's anecdotal, but it's thousands of people, are also in fight or flight. So being in fight or flight can mask the struggles you're having, or you're at least surviving, right? You are keeping your head above water. Perfectionism is a mechanism of being in fight or flight, right? Protection. If I do this perfectly, no one can criticize me. No one can get mad. I can't get in trouble. Always feeling like you're about to get in trouble. So you're just always trying to get out of harm's way, doing those things at the last minute, procrastination. But then feel like, well, it's a superpower. Look, I can hammer out a huge work project in one day. So maybe this is just the way I work. And so you can see a lot of overcompensation, masking, but all of those things are also symptoms of being in fight or flight. So it's a very tricky kind of ball of yarn that we're unraveling once we get an ADHD diagnosis. I think the field is putting it all in a bucket and calling it ADHD instead of realizing, oh, the ADHD brain tends to fall into this state. Let's get it out of this state.