Re: ADHD family-member-to-be trying to sabotage me

[Anonymous]

the next time someone said anything to me personally, i think i’d do my best to laugh just a little bit too much, too loudly, wipe a fake tear from my eye, and say “goodness me, somebody thinks i’m really important and interesting if they’re bothering to go around passing judgements and talking about me all over the place- gosh, what an honour- i feel like a celebrity!” .

if she was present, i’d then ask her ‘just out of curiousity’ when she got her doctorate in psychiatry or psychology- cos you didn’t know she had one. then while she rambled, i’d ask if i needed to provide a notarised letter from my *actual* psychiatrist, to attend any further get-togethers, or whether perhaps life could possibly continue in some sembiance of normality without my needing to bother with any of that nonsense and her needing to make up special diagnoses- with a big grin, then add- ” oh! actually … i think i have his number in here somewhere… *rummage in purse* maybe you could call DR whatsamijig and explain to him where he screwed up his assessment- i’ll tell him to expect your call, okie- cos i’m sure he’d appreciate your insight!”….

then i’d say “well, this was um…. bizzarre…. i gotta go… things to pretend, people to murder….”, twitch a little bit, and then wander off chuckling to myself like nothing remotely worthy of my attention just happened. cos rising right above it and refusing to be bothered by it or take her REMOTELY seriously- let alone to get drawn in, that’d piss her right off.

honestly, if she’s that insecure and attention seeking, then anyone who knows her already will either know that she talks out of her arse about things she doesn’t know squat about, and roll their eyes at the latest crap she’s spewed and carry on as normal, or they’re terribily doomed to a lifetime of gullibility- either way, thats not your issue.

just don’t give her the satisfaction of getting wound up. you know that you have ADHD. THATS what counts. everyone else can think whatever they want to- and they will, regardless of how much energy you waste on it.

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