punny-koala-tea:

The thing they don’t tell you about ADHD is the emotions. The regulation of emotions. There is no, ‘I am happy’ or ‘I am sad.’ Nearly everything is to an extreme. You’re sad? You probably want to go hug a friend and cry or ball your eyes out in the shower- there is no ‘I’m feeling a little down today,’ you’re on the floor and don’t have the mental strength to get yourself back up. And God forbid you get angry or exited. It’s like flipping a light switch, you either feel an extreme positive or an extreme negative, either hopping up and down flapping your hands or hiding in your bedroom under a pile of blankets, but the scary thing, the thing no one warns you about, is that this switch can be balanced in the middle. The emotion of ‘absolutely nothing.’ Where you feel absolutely nothing at all.