ADHD_cel
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Don’t get me wrong, I agree it’s looks that primarily determines whether you’re incel or not, but having ADHD makes my life 100% worse than being unattractive. In fact, my current ugliness is largely a result of my ADHD.
A lot of people think ADHD just means you can’t pay attention in school or workplace, that’s actually kinda manageable especially you have high IQ. The emotional/social component is a whole different story:
I didn’t get diagnosed until recently (I’m a 30 year old virgin), and it feels like a huge revelation as to why I’ve always been such an insufferable social pariah. Throughout my life I’ve made so many people who initially wanted to befriend me my enemies by not listening, interrupting, saying weird things out of context, being forgetful etc. Oh yeah, ADHD also gives me executive dysfunction which is why I fit the archetypal “not showering” incel meme so sometimes my smell and dirty hair were off putting enough JFL.
As for foids, surely none of them were initially attracted to me in my younger years (I had some flaws like big forehead, thin neck, small frame/wrists etc.), but they weren’t immediately repulsed by me either unless I had severe acne. But without a chad face to compensate, my social retardedness just made them hate me way more than NTs who were uglier than me. I also lacked the social awareness and executive function to make the slightest effort to looksmax.
So here I am, 30 year old, nw3, 7 rotten teeth from not brushing, permanently aged skin from not doing skincare + constant depression and anxiety, eye bags, skinny fat, asymmetrical face. Not only foids will never want me but I have zero male friends either because I’m socially so inept. The only good thing is that my special talent somehow allows me to work freelance without interacting with NTs irl. I’ve given up on any further self improvement and just wait until I can’t cope anymore and I’ll rope.
Fuck being born non NT without a chad face.
A lot of people think ADHD just means you can’t pay attention in school or workplace, that’s actually kinda manageable especially you have high IQ. The emotional/social component is a whole different story:
Overall impact of ADHD on social interactions
It is not difficult to understand the reasons why individuals with ADHD often struggle in social situations. Interacting successfully with peers and significant adults is one of the most important aspects of a child’s development, yet 50 to 60 percent of children with ADHD have difficulty with peer relationships. Over 25 percent of Americans experience chronic loneliness. One can only speculate that the figure is much higher for adults with ADHD.
To interact effectively with others, an individual must be attentive, responsible and able to control impulsive behaviors. Adults with ADHD are often inattentive and forgetful and typically lack impulse control. Because ADHD is an “invisible disability,” often unrecognized by those who may be unfamiliar with the disorder, socially inappropriate behaviors that are the result of ADHD symptoms are often attributed to other causes. That is, people often perceive these behaviors and the individual who commits them as rude, self-centered, irresponsible, lazy, ill-mannered, and a host of other negative personality attributes. Over time, such negative labels lead to social rejection of the individual with ADHD. Social rejection causes emotional pain in the lives of many of the children and adults who have ADHD and can create havoc and lower self-esteem throughout the life span. In relationships and marriages, the inappropriate social behavior may anger the partner or spouse without ADHD, who may eventually “burn out” and give up on the relationship or marriage.
Educating individuals with ADHD, their significant others, and their friends about ADHD and the ways in which it affects social skills and interpersonal behaviors can help alleviate much of the conflict and blame. At the same time, the individual with ADHD needs to learn strategies to become as proficient as possible in the area of social skills. With proper assessment, treatment and education, individuals with ADHD can learn to interact with others effectively in a way that enhances their
social life.
ADHD and the acquisition of social skills
Social skills are generally acquired through incidental learning: watching people, copying the behavior of others, practicing, and getting feedback. Most people start this process during early childhood. Social skills are practiced and honed by “playing grown-up” and through other childhood activities. The finer points of social interactions are sharpened by observation and peer feedback.
Children with ADHD often miss these details. They may pick up bits and pieces of what is appropriate but lack an overall view of social expectations. Unfortunately, as adults, they often realize “something” is missing but are never quite sure what that “something” may be.
Social acceptance can be viewed as a spiral going up or down. Individuals who exhibit appropriate social skills are rewarded with more acceptance from those with whom they interact and are encouraged to develop even better social skills. For those with ADHD, the spiral often goes downward. Their lack of social skills leads to peer rejection, which then limits opportunities to learn social skills, which leads to more rejection, and so on. Social punishment includes rejection, avoidance, and other, less subtle means of exhibiting one’s disapproval towards another person.
It is important to note that people do not often let the offending individual know the nature of the social violation. Pointing out that a social skill error is being committed is often considered socially inappropriate. Thus, people are often left on their own to try to improve their social skills without understanding exactly what areas need improvement.
Research on children with ADHD and social skills
Researchers have found that the social challenges of children with ADHD include disturbed relationships with their peers, difficulty making and keeping friends, and deficiencies in appropriate social behavior. Long-term outcome studies suggest that these problems continue into adolescence and adulthood and impede the social adjustment of adults with ADHD.
At first, these difficulties of children with ADHD were conceptualized as a deficit in appropriate social skills, such that the children had not acquired the appropriate social behaviors. Based upon this model, social skills training, which is commonly conducted with groups of children, became a widely accepted treatment modality. In the typical social skills training group, the therapist targets specific social behaviors, provides verbal instructions and demonstrations of the target behavior, and coaches the children to role-play the target behaviors with one another. The therapist also provides positive feedback and urges the group to provide positive feedback to one another for using the appropriate social behavior. The children are instructed to apply their newly acquired skills in their daily lives.
More recently, ADHD has been re-conceptualized as an impairment of the executive or controlling functions of the brain. It follows from this conceptualization that the social deficits of the individual with ADHD may not be primarily the result of a lack of social skills, but rather a lack of efficiency in reliably using social skills that have already been acquired. Social skills training addresses the lack of skills, but does not address inefficient use of existing skills. Medication produces direct changes in the executive function of the brain and may therefore help children with ADHD more reliably use newly acquired social skills. Researchers have also added components to social skills training that help children with ADHD reliably apply what they have learned in various settings. To accomplish this goal, parents and teachers are trained to prompt and reinforce children with ADHD to use newly acquired social skills at home and in school.
Only a small number of controlled investigations have studied the effectiveness of social skills training for children with ADHD. These studies have found that social skills training improves the children’s knowledge of social skills and improves their social behavior at home as judged by parents, and these positive changes last up to the 3 or 4 month follow-up periods in the studies. However, these changes only partially generalize to school and other environments.
Researchers have also found that embedding social skills training within an intensive behavioral intervention, such as a specialized summer camp program, is a highly effective way of increasing the chances that the children will maintain and generalize the gains that they have made. There is no research yet that addresses the question of whether children with ADHD who benefit from social skills training have more friends, are better accepted by their peers, and have better interpersonal relationships as they move into adolescence and adulthood. Clearly, this is an area where more research is necessary.
I didn’t get diagnosed until recently (I’m a 30 year old virgin), and it feels like a huge revelation as to why I’ve always been such an insufferable social pariah. Throughout my life I’ve made so many people who initially wanted to befriend me my enemies by not listening, interrupting, saying weird things out of context, being forgetful etc. Oh yeah, ADHD also gives me executive dysfunction which is why I fit the archetypal “not showering” incel meme so sometimes my smell and dirty hair were off putting enough JFL.
As for foids, surely none of them were initially attracted to me in my younger years (I had some flaws like big forehead, thin neck, small frame/wrists etc.), but they weren’t immediately repulsed by me either unless I had severe acne. But without a chad face to compensate, my social retardedness just made them hate me way more than NTs who were uglier than me. I also lacked the social awareness and executive function to make the slightest effort to looksmax.
So here I am, 30 year old, nw3, 7 rotten teeth from not brushing, permanently aged skin from not doing skincare + constant depression and anxiety, eye bags, skinny fat, asymmetrical face. Not only foids will never want me but I have zero male friends either because I’m socially so inept. The only good thing is that my special talent somehow allows me to work freelance without interacting with NTs irl. I’ve given up on any further self improvement and just wait until I can’t cope anymore and I’ll rope.
Fuck being born non NT without a chad face.