r/Rwanda • u/Federal-Occasion9143 • 4h ago
This is a rant about either love or ADHD.. idk 🤷
Y'all without wasting anyone's time and all i do have something so share. I actually confirmed that i am in love and it was the most weirdest way to find out.
He yelled at me. That is how i found out.
For context i was diagnosed with ADHD years ago. It is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder that i guess most people deem quirky because of its symptoms, normal people have them too but for people with it it's a disability which is very detrimental. With ADHD we experience things differently including any emotions like love, etc..
Adhd has very many horrible symptoms, the one i hate the most is the impulsiveness that it brings and the rejection sensitivity dysphoria( basically any slight change in routine will have me believing that this person hates me solely), there's different types of ADHD. Mine is combinational meaning i am hyper focused but also very inattentive it is a constant war zone in my head. I will hyper focus on the weird things he said but not very attentive when i am being loved.
You can imagine how hard it is for me yes, but also for the people who love me, i know it's hard for them. I know no one wants to admit it but i am really hard to love sometimes, other times i am awesome.
The combination of the two symptoms i mentioned above makes it hard for me to have fulfilling relationships and since it is hard, i thrive to leave when things feel hard, also the combination i mentioned above ruined the relationship i had with the person i mentioned i think i love, i can't cry wolf and blame everything on my diagnosis but if i am being honest it really is my diagnosis that led to that chaos lol. And as accountable as i am all i can hope for is to keep going to therapy and taking my medication and working on myself. I wasn't diagnosed so long ago so i am still learning myself not as a faulty person i thought i was or someone who can never makeup their minds like i thought i was but rather as a person whose brain works differently who needs grace sometimes. So they are days where i fall back in my habits and these habits ruin good things for me.
Now back to what i was saying. He yelled at me and i deserved it, i want to stay and work on myself and better myself for us. The thing is he understands me probably better than anyone i have ever known. Knowingly or unknowingly he's very reassuring on days where i don't know how to ask for it, i grew up masking a lot so vulnerability feels like death to me at least. With him i am nothing but vulnerable, and it's so embarrassing but safe. I guess what i am trying to say is that i have been yelled at a lot by so many people. He yelled at me in a way that was so harsh but also so reassuring and idk if he knew that as he was yelling or if he's just an incredible person. Anyway i think i love him.
This whole rant is really not going anywhere, it's just a realization that i have had in all my years of living and i know we all struggle differently especially since different developmental problems aren't as addressed in our community so i figured incase there's someone out there who goes through what i or anyone who is neurodivergent goes through. They're not alone.
And to boast that i am actually in love and it feels okey With or without this person. I used to wonder if i ever will feel that because i had to wear a mask everywhere but now i know that there's at least one person who knows me as messed up as i can get and even when they're completely enraged by me they still find ways to yell at me in a very loving and human way.