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{"color": 9633856, "title": "ADHD Is Not a Gift", "description": "**ADHD people can be happy, successful, gifted, special, and talented. However, it is almost always not _because_ of our disorder, but in spite of it.**\n\nThere's no credible scientific evidence to suggest that ADHD imparts any definitively positive abilities or traits, and the negative consequences of framing ADHD as some kind of giftedness or special ability far outweigh any benefits.\n\nDue to how [ADHD is defined and stigmatised](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430836/) in the public consciousness, we feel compelled to support ADHD people by raising awareness of the tangible day-to-day and lifetime harm of ADHD and providing a space to discuss how to mitigate it, instead of telling them that ADHD advantages them. In our experience, distancing oneself from the idea of being disordered or disabled is almost entirely an attempt at avoiding stigma. We feel that destigmatizing the concepts of 'disorder' and 'disability' is the better approach.\n\nWe frequently hear how people feel alienated, feel that they're complete failures, when they see this messaging that ADHD is really a superpower or gift *if you learn how to harness it*. In society at large, this superpower/gift/etc. messaging erases the struggles we face and normalizes and perpetuating the stigma against. It gives ammunition to people who don't believe in ADHD to try to deny us our right to medication, access to treatment, and the need for society to better accommodate us.\n\n[Click here to see leading ADHD researcher and doctor Russell Barkley discussing this.](https://youtu.be/Z9w6YL5__Z8)\n\n[Why I won’t call my ADHD a gift (it’s about privilege)](https://adhdhomestead.net/adhd-not-gift/)\nA great blog post by [Jaclyn Paul](https://adhdhomestead.net/) that discusses why the framing of ADHD is as a gift is a privilege that isn't available to most people with ADHD, and how it frequently comes across as judgmental."}

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