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If I use ADHD as an identity, please shoot me

If I use ADHD as an identity, please shoot me

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Tom Knighton
Mar 16, 2023
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I have ADHD.

This isn’t groundbreaking news. This is one of those things that this entire Substack was built upon. I’m a guy with ADHD who is trying to sort of “fix” my life, in a manner of speaking.

But the key thing is, I’m someone with ADHD. It’s an aspect of who I am, sure, but it’s not the totality of who I am.

Yet, it seems, there are corners of the internet where chronic conditions are basically people’s entire identity.

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