Open When the Shame Won't Let Go

If there's one thing ADHD knows, it's shame.

Not the small kind.

The deep kind.

“I'm broken.”
“I'll never be enough.”
“Everyone else can do this. Why can't I?”

Shame builds slowly.

Too loud.
Too distracted.
Too emotional.
Too much.

Eventually the brain stops saying,
“I made a mistake.”

It starts saying,
“I am the mistake.”

Shame talks in absolutes.

Always.
Never.
What's wrong with you.

But shame ignores wiring.
It ignores effort.
It ignores how hard you've been trying.

Broken things don't try this hard.

You are not broken.

You are someone navigating a world that never adjusted for your brain.

Of course that leaves marks.

I see you.