I come home and immediately my whole body and brain shut down. it's like I've exhausted everything I have in me at work and home is just where I sleep. I don't see how people have the energy or brain power to come home and LIVE.
2026-08-30 13:56:19
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ThumbtheeFaerie :
I’m a single blk woman, if I stop masking at work I won’t have a job. When we don’t mask we get fired
2026-08-31 22:17:29
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KLou :
I literally can’t do anything outside of work. And work isnt even important to me - it’s necessary to live and I’ve burnt myself out trying to live and have no actual life
2024-02-14 17:44:47
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Rayray :
It’s not even that. It’s going to work and dealing with unexpected changes or transitions. Tolerating sounds and visuals that are highly agitating. Then having to function properly without being able to take breaks to reset your nervous system. So by the time you get home, your system is so overwhelmed that you shut down to recalibrate.
2026-08-30 21:02:57
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Gecko :
"what did you get up to in the weekend?" .... recover
2024-02-17 05:21:19
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abz :
Everytime I don’t mask well enough at work I get fired
2024-02-14 19:36:10
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PurpleRavenMoon :
I literally zone out once home. And need at least an hour before I even consider cooking dinner.
2024-02-14 18:29:02
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Dan :
And when you work from home, and there is no place to collapse, you explode. There’s no end. Life needs to be simpler.
2024-02-14 17:25:54
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Dakoda :
When it gets to the point where the mask HAS to drop at work, that’s generally when I start looking for a new job, before it affects performance.
2024-02-16 11:24:05
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Lydia Armour968 :
Like I had to pretend to be nice all day and don’t have anything left when I get home
2024-02-15 17:15:21
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Mute Vandergrift :
*disassociates when I get to the car... wakes up enough to see I made it home only to disassociate again til I can stumble back into the house
2024-02-14 19:07:36
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thekyndal :
We have also figured out that ADHD 110% is everyone else’s 300%. We do too much and still feel like it’s not enough! In everything.
2024-02-16 17:12:22
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Boba the Moo Cat & Company :
I mean yes but, speaking as someone who has ADHD, it's *also* important to not exceptionalize this to only adhd masking
2024-02-15 14:15:45
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Amanda :
I’ve never been able to describe why I never want to do anything after work. You’ve explained it perfectly!
2024-02-14 20:23:43
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Dasha :
This just explained my life. I genuinely work like 150-200% more than my counterparts and then when I get home, I barely can get myself to eat dinner
2024-02-16 00:10:40
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HeyNonnyNonnyHey :
I’m not even struggling anymore…I’m defeated.
2024-02-14 18:04:25
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Rebecca Sullivan369 :
I wish I could stop masking at work but I'd probably lose my job. I spend most nights on the couch watching tv unless I really push myself to do more
2024-02-14 18:03:48
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Maura :
So accurate and eloquently verbalized. I just sit in the car forever afterward. I even avoid texting on workdays because I am so burnt out after work.
2024-02-15 00:46:10
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TheCookedGoose :
DUDE THIS IS SO VALIDATING!!
2024-02-19 01:07:41
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Jillie Avila :
I know this post is hella old but I didn’t need to be called out like this so early in the morning 😭 makes sense though.
2026-08-30 16:33:48
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Steady On, Mama :
This is why I didn’t realize I had ADHD until I became a mom and couldn’t use all my brain power for work anymore
2024-02-16 00:13:07
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Frankie :
Got laid off from corporate job. Cannot get the energy to go to another because of this. Took a job at a convenience store just to be able to relax in life 😩
2024-02-15 15:12:17
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Jimothy Scubbadood :
every time I see something about aud/adhd i think "that describes me to a T" but then gaslight myself to thinking I
m making it up b/c no diagnosis
2024-02-15 03:56:17
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BananaBear :
When I realized my 50% was the same as everyone else’s “100%” the second part of my life began.
2024-02-15 14:34:31
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