Girls with ADD

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Yeah, um... do any of you have the same problem as me? See once a month, certain things happen... But that's not the point. When your 'certain things' happen, do you find your ADD symptoms get worse? It's just right now I am feeling so jumpy and overactive and I can't concentrate on anything. It's really p*****g me off...

Also sorry for not saying PERIOD... Mommy doesn't like me talking that way!! ! (whoops, Tourettes made me write it honest...)

I have pretty noticeable monthly issues, but my ADHD doesn't change during my period, no.

Soooo...
Do you really think saying 'certain things' instead of menstruation or period is better?

It's like saying 'whole in my body' or 'p****' for vagina or 'stick' and 'that thing hanging down there' for penis - words even kindergarteners are taught these days to avoid future embarrassment and psychological issues with their body. I mean, it's not like they're R or PG-13 or G words or anything but perfectly normal words to call your body parts like 'arm' and 'mouth' too.

I have problems to imagine that someone who calls their monthly menstruation 'certain things' has a normal, self-confident relationship to their menstruation and female identity no matter if they like either of these or not.

You may have a self-confident relationship with your body of course/autism can make one use phrases that don't fit oneself and one's situation and what one intends to express, but you really had me being stumped here for a moment for saying 'certain things' if you're really older than 18 because that's a phrasing often used by awkward insecure teen or people who have issues with their body FYI

I am awkward and I hate my body! I was kind of joking anyway...

I unfortunately lack the "hyperactive" part...and I am always extremely scattered no matter what..(except when hyperfocusing on my bad habits)...I might get sorta melty before that time of the month..or depressed..but that is the only notable difference.

I say either 'the disease' or 'I'm hemorrhaging' a lot of the time. But only around people who know me, and know what I mean by those phrases.

First, I have ADHD and Aspergers, along with Anxiety disorder and depression issues.

I usually refer to it as "that time of the month". My husband doesn't want any details what so ever. If you do, he gets ill. When I wan't to bother him(when I am in one of those really annoying moods, which I usually am during that time of the month,) and he is wanting sex, I say things that gross him out( and are probably inappropriate to post here) He won't touch a tampon with a ten foot pole( and that is an unused one).
I have always had trouble accepting my body. What my body feels doesn't always match how my mind feels or how my brain is reading it. Its like my brain and body is two complete seperate entities. I think it is mostly due to senssory integration disorder, and being isulted all of my liffe. I was embarrased by anything that made me a woman. I starved myself so that I didn't have the womanly curves or the periods. It took years of learning to understand myself and to learn to love myself.

Why is that unfortunate?


I'm not diagnosed with ADD (so far) but I think I might have it.

Hyperactive ADHD is thought to occur when someone realizes that physical activity can increase concentration and attention, and becomes hyperactive to compensate for the lack of conce-only person.

I just don't like having a uterus. I feel there's something really, really dehumanizing about it.

It's strange, because I would never look at another female and see her as a dehumanized bag of organs...

It is probably less so that you find it dehumanizing and moreso that you find it diminishing of your individuality, this reminder that you have to devote all of these resources to the maintaining of an organ for the hypothetical future use of the organ by another human individual growing inside you. That would be my guess, does that make any sense mechanicalgirl39?

I'm hoping this is not a girls only thread, I'm emphatically not one of "those guys" who gets all upset about menstrual talk. Jellybean, if you don't mind my asking do you personally gender identify as female? I've known physical females who identified with being mentally male who found menstruation a psychologically traumatic experience that reminded them of "how nature got it wrong" as they would put it. Saying you are awkward and hate your body and using non specific terms for biological processes and the adamant quality of your tone send some familiar signals to me.

I apologize if I am in any way overstepping with this post, I know these are very personal things to be talking about.

It is, I think, a mixture of what you just described, and the mismatch between being a human who thinks and makes decisions, and having an organ that spasms and bleeds and produces horrible sticky membrane like things which then pump out of you. Dehumanizing, degrading, and vile.

But yes, it's also that I hate that so much of my energy goes to an organ I may or may not use at some distant point in future.

I understand what you are saying, I just tend to think of it in exactly the opposite fashion. It is during all of the dirty messy parts of life I feel my most human and humane. Degrading and vile things seem humanizing as they happen to me. It is the human climbing out of the muck who appears most human to me, the human obsessed with the appearance of being clean seems the least human to me. Humanity is about adapting and getting it done to the best of ability, not standing above it. I say this not to contradict you, I entirely understand where you are coming from and how you would see it the way you do. Glass half full, glass half empty, glass containing half water and half atmospheric gases I guess because the truth is actually that things that humans do are human and the doing of them humanizes the act.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to take off our sexualized organs and put them in a box on a shelf for when we need them.