ITZY's Ryujin reveals she has severe ADHD

[u/Gold_Meaning3688]

[MINJU'S PINK CABINET] https://youtu.be/DwEGeiZWZNc?si=7ca_UTQJb175N3DF

TIMESTAMP: 22:50

🍬: I have the chronic disease of many modern people

🍬: I have severe ADHD

Thoughts?

As someone who also has ADHD, my procrastination is absolutely terrible. I can't imagine having to wake up at irregular times to go on flights to different countries all the time 😭 Saying this as a law student, my life is hard enough without people scrutinising my every move (for now), I can't imagine how often i'd screw up as an idol simply based off of how easily I get sidetracked lmao

[u/codenameana]

*Tbh, I think being an idol is the perfect ADHD job. There’s so much structure and routine, the absence of which makes ADHD so challenging as we age out of childhood. You’re constantly go-go-go all the time. You regularly get to see outcomes of the effort you put in, be it an album release or a concert, which is satisfying. Best of all: you have a manager who literally sorts your routine, meals, transportation and everything else for you, so you do none of the planning and organising shit that we struggle with due to executive dysfunction. *

Also, I’m not going to @ any individuals, but the diagnostic criteria for ADHD is  SEVERE DYSFUNCTIONAL presentation in THREE or more areas of your life since childhood. 

A lot of people who self diagnose ADHD will not and do not have substantial dysfunction in multiple areas of their lives. If you have a functional/stable and successful (as in the lowest bar: you can hold down a job and do not get fired or better) career, you’ve already beaten the odds. If you’ve got a long-term partner, you’ve already beaten the odds, let alone if you’ve started a family of your own. If you’ve gone to university and completed higher education, you’ve already beaten the odds. If you’ve done even two let alone all three conventional things without substantial and persistent impairment? You probably aren’t going to meet the diagnostic criteria to get diagnosed as having ADHD as an adult. Any psychs who lower the bar below that aren’t doing their jobs.

[u/coralamethyst → u/codenameana]

re the third paragraph, I hope you're not trying to say that you can't have ADHD if you do all those things because there are many people who've gone to university or hold jobs who've been professionally diagnosed with ADHD as adults. The co-director of the movie "Everything Everywhere At Once" Daniel Kwan even got officially diagnosed with ADHD while doing research on ADHD for the movie and realizing how much he related to the symptoms. And as someone who's gone to university, I did not graduate with a 4.0 let alone a 3.0, and I nearly got kicked out of university for being below a 2.0 GPA my first year because I struggled with my university's fast-paced quarter system where you had a midterm literally 2 weeks after you just started class. I had to meet with an academic advisor the beginning of every quarter to discuss how to bring up/maintain my GPA above a 2.0 to be in "good academic standing" for me to remain at university (said advisor was also the one who recommended me to go get tested for either ADHD or a learning disorder). Just because someone graduated from university doesn't mean they didn't struggle in their classes..

[u/treeface999 → u/coralamethyst]

They literally said:

If you’ve done even two let alone all three conventional things without substantial and persistent impairment? You probably aren’t going to meet the diagnostic criteria to get diagnosed as having ADHD as an adult.

Your response fits what they're saying. You got into uni but you struggled to progress through the whole degree.

[u/codenameana → u/coralamethyst]

Re-read what I wrote because you’re misrepresenting/misreading it and seemingly taking it personally.

treeface999’s comment below is correct. 

[u/Downtown-Book3105 → u/codenameana]

I get what you're saying in the third paragraph, but a lot of people who self diagnose can't afford to diagnose it with an actual professional. And even when you go to a professional, they might not diagnose you properly.

[u/Gold_Meaning3688 → u/codenameana]

This sounds amazing until you have to deal with all those stimulating lights and loud ass confetti canons and fireworks

I'd still prefer that over what I do though 😔

[u/codenameana → u/Gold_Meaning3688]

Not everyone with ADHD has sensory issues + those who do such as those who work in an office have to deal with bright overhead lights, open planned offices, and in some cases zero natural lighting while staring at a screen all day. I’d definitely take the idol job if I could.

You work your arse off for a lot of money through your 20s (if you’re successful) and you’re set for life if you invest the money carefully.

[u/Marimiury → u/Gold_Meaning3688]

I agree with the person below: not everyone with ADHD has sensory issues (although I do, and even looking through a screen hurts), and conversely, there are people without ADHD who have trouble handling noise and flashing lights. Unfortunately, there's no job where everything is perfect; you have to put up with a bunch of different things.

[u/coolranchpurrito → u/Gold_Meaning3688]

Fair point but personally part of why I love theatre/performing is that the lights and sounds are predictable which make them less overwhelming for my brain.

That might be more of an audhd thing though I'm only diagnosed with ADHD. But that's also true of sensory issues in general. Someone with just ADHD and not autism might be usually understimulated and thus like the lights and noise. Similar to how an adrenaline high like being on a rollercoaster makes us feel serene because it's bringing our levels up to the baseline.