Living with rejection-sensitive dysphoria — the soul-sucking downside of attention deficit.
. I kind of don’t want to write about it, because there’s that impulse to skip past the hard stuff and focus on the fun stuff. But it’s hard when your mood falls off a cliff for what seems like such a little thing.
If you have this thing, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, imagine yourself asbecause there are so many choices in her closet and it’s impossible to choose an outfit and the wrong combination could give her away as being different and bring the harsh and ultimately life-ruining judgment of her peers.
Or, a boy who lashes out at his brother’s friends because it seems like he’s never getting a long enough turn in the video game and it’s not fair. Or a child who squeezes into a corner behind the door and cries at their own birthday party because things are not going the way they imagined. Or a grown-up who throws a party and can’t seem to be in the moment to enjoy it.It’s what, eventually, makes you lose interest in that job you thought you wanted.
It helps to know RSD is a thing, if for no other reason than to be able to go, “Oh, now my brain is doing thatit does.” It helps to know that social skills might not come as naturally to you as they do to other people. And it’s okay toalso helps you accept the upside.
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