Like I’m still in monochrome but I still have things in my life with color to keep me going. I’m still trying to figure out if it’s the toll my meds took on my brain or if it’s just adulthood. Maybe both.

Probably more a mixture of ADHD and adulthood, honestly. I totally relate to the monochrome with bits of color. I've felt like that for the better part of a decade and just always assumed it had something to do with the ever present anxiety/depression that ride with the ADHD. I never took Ritalin, but I was on adderall for a few years in college after I finally got diagnosed; didn't really have any mental fatigue symptoms like you described, just made my body constantly run hot.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

my single favourite saying in regards to neurodivergence is that we don't generally need to treat people, we need to treat society.

in the past people largely just figured out something they're good at, court jesters were apparently often just straight up autistic people who didn't have a filter and this made them useful for rulers as a bullshit detector, and i'd imagine a lot of adhd people might have done odd jobs here and there so things don't get repetitive.

it's like how nowadays autism is basically synonymous with science and technology, that's where the neurodivergence is really actively beneficial