Being unaware of how people should treat you could lead you into a situation of a person treating you the way they want to. Know how you should be gets you treated as such.

Having emotional respect for yourself, stops others from using logical or technical reasons to manipulate how you are treated.

The mind of a person with ADHD is like a beautiful sunset. It's taken for granted until people stop to realize how amazingly beautiful our minds can be.

Overcoming ADHD is more than just making good grades or finding and keeping a job. It is about having a sense of peace, belonging, achieving to your fullest potential, getting the respect you deserve, and knowing you are not alone.

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.

The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is like. Furthermore, it’s quite hard to predict what you would do in the same situation. I find that the people most vocal about what they would’ve done in the same situation often have no clue what they are talking about – they have never been in the same situation themselves.
By invalidating the survivor’s experience, these people are defending an image of themselves that they identify with strength, not realizing that abuse survivors are often the strongest individuals out there. They’ve been belittled, criticized, demeaned, devalued, and yet they’ve still survived. The judgmental ones often have little to no life experience regarding these situations, yet they feel quite comfortable silencing the voices of people who’ve actually been there.