Many of us wish we had your system, but—alas—we do not!

I get so tired of hearing people say that "Oh wow he has OCD? His room must be spotless". Um, no. My son's room is chaotic and he can hardly wash his own hair. But each car/rock/toy/can must be JUST SO. He must lock windows and doors and he worries constantly about his sister. It's not fun. As for his sister, it's her skin. Any bump must be picked off. She literally cannot stop herself from picking and will ask for bandages when she catches herself picking. She knows that she shouldn't make herself bleed but simply cannot stop. I wish people would stop thinking that OCD means perfection. It does not.

Yes! A moment's rational thought would tell you this is NOT a feel-good headline, it's horrifying. But people DON'T (or don't want to) have a moment's rational thought - they take the superficial happy feeling because it's easy. It's like "thoughts and prayers". The minimum amount of effort to give someone who isn't them any of their attention.

I heard of someone who pretended to have depression because it was "cool". I feel like I would've stabbed them. If you want my depression, sure. You can have it. You can also have this fun benefit of wishing you were dead every other week. I'm not going to keep you from the kitchen knives; if you think depression is cool you should be able to handle the side effects. (Apologies, but I needed that out of my system.)

I have ADHD, the only 'superpower' I have is being able to make the easy things seem a lot more complicated 🥴. Although I hate calling it an illness. I prefer the term 'condition'. And how I would love for critics to switch places with me just for a day, I've made peace with the fact they will never ever understand how frustrating life and especially their comments can be. 🖖🤷.

I have had ADHD all my life. Sure, sometimes it allows me to do things that normal people find hard, but by and large it has been like carrying a ball and chain with me all my life. Unfortunately, when I was in school if ADD was known at all, it wasn't known by educators.

Well, i do have a boss with ADHD, yes I know he struggles too but overall he also knows how to channel it into getting things personal or work wise done. In that matter he's nailing it and his family and colleagues learned how to live with it too (not many could).

I've always had anxiety and let me tell you...it is anything but glamorous. You want to do things but you physically and mentally can't do it.

A related one: To create great art/writing you have to be a tortured soul with crippling depression! No. When I'm depressed my writing doesn't magically get better - in fact it gets significantly worse because I don't have the energy or enthusiasm I need to put in a proper effort. Everything comes out half-assed, when I manage to produce anything at all. I produce my best writing when I'm happy, confident and enthusiastic.

I'm really glad mental illness has become normalized and I'd rather it be seen as cool and trendy than something fearful and have people shun me.

ADHD is friggin hard. When my medication wears off, the screaming and tantrums start ( I’m 14, it’s humiliating)

Not to mention that when it comes to mental illness, the medical community (in the USA at least) estimates that as much as 70% of patients are mis-diagnosed to begin with.

It's also like people saying how strong I am for raising an autistic child. First, I didn't do it on my own..I had a husband that helped. Second, I did what any parent should do and stepped up to the plate. It doesn't help me or my child if I crawl into depression and wait it out. But when the toughest part of raising that child is over, the depression hits you like a ton of bricks.

i have symptoms of adhd, and its kinda annoying. not gonna elaborate

Damn! People out there romanticising depression? Thats some depressing reality in retrospect...

Totally true on both accounts. Adhd IS a disability because you are always held to neurotypical standards which you have no hope of meeting because your brain literally does not function that way.

ADHD is a blessing and a curse. (I am an ADHDer). It can be a superpower but it can seriously impact your life, negatively. However, I would not call it "super debilitating". FWIW, I am also autistic, so there's that.

I'm gonna stab the next person who calls ADHD a superpower

Thank you, yes!!! People treat it like it's just a cork to laugh at.

I truly hope the person pictured here understood that pic could be used for the face of mental illness!

there is a reason why I can't get a girlfriend, and it won't take long for you to guess (hint: what was this commented under?)

If anyone out there thinks depression is "cool," then go ahead, you can have it! Give me your happiness! For years I felt like I wasn't good enough, like no one loved me because no one ever told me they did and I was thrown into foster care, I felt completely empty, I felt everything at once and then nothing at all. All that time, I didn't even know what day it was, nor did I care. All I wanted was to be dead, dead. Bullied, everyday of my life, shook for what I had, and no one cared enough to help me. No. One. Cared. Depression is not a joke. It's not cool. It's not fun. It's a complete, horrible, terrible, empty disaster.

Pretty sure that the super power things is for the people who have it, especially children who feel alienated because of having it. Don't be a douche!

Holy crap this! Anxiety and depression, the delightful one-two punch of my existence! Feeling up to doing stuff today? Great, how many anxiety attacks do I have to contend with if I'm out running errands... not if, but when I get them. Meds make life bearable, and I invite any ass-hat who tells me "it's just in your head" to skinny-dip in the nearest port-a-potty.

I call ADHD my superpower because If I don't focus on the positive then I spiral into deep depression. Also I like my ADHD it makes me who I am.

I think part of the problem is that we calls so many things "mental illness". Mental illnesses are as different as parts of the body, the arm, the eye, the foot, the finger. Yes, having dysfunction in one of those body parts is a problem, but the problem is completely different depending on the body part affected. So it is with mental illnesses. Biopolar disorder is not schizophrenia is not OCD is not dysthymia, is not sociopathy. Mental illness is one of hundreds of specific issues of brain dysfunction. We need education, not memes.

Yes, my superpower is executive disfunction. /s

This!!! This, and this again. Because of my debilitating anxiety I have almost lost my job, and still can, it makes me forgetful, miss certain things, it's an absolute disaster

I read some time back that of UK weirdos, if you're an aristocrat, you're 'eccentric', otherwize you're just plain nutz. Worldwide, how many aristos are institutionalized for valid, non-political reasons?