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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • I’m a trans woman and was not aware when I got diagnosed, but during that process we went through an ADHD mastery course and most participants were women. The course itself covered early on how women are often diagnosed later in life because

    • Women are often better at masking
    • Women tend to be the inattentive kind of ADHD, which does not fit the stereotype and therefore is less often detected
    • Women are likely more often the inattentive kind because of how we are raised

    I discovered I was trans during the process and learning most women have my kind of ADHD was very affirming <3 Ofc, women can have both kinds of ADHD, but for irrational reasons it was still nice to learn







  • I’m not super out or involved in the community beyond here really.

    IRL I have both het, bi, and gay friends and they are all very supportive and sweet! So I’m rather happy with that. The progress flag hasn’t caught on much here, but I don’t know that that means much. Some find it kinda messy visually and prefer just the rainbow.

    I’ve noticed online that there are quite a few “allies” who are only allies to a point; other queer people who don’t take us seriously when we talk about the issues we care about and face on the regular and excuse their apathy or transphobia by explaining that they are gay and an ally. I don’t know if they are just a vocal minority or a more significant portion of the LGBT than I hope they are. Mostly it seems the LGBT movement is open to including us, at least in theory, so until I am proven otherwise I’m gonna hope that this is actually true, and that we won’t be thrown under the bus in the name of respectability politics as we have been in the past. Quite a few stonewall inspired organizations ironically didn’t support trans people or those doing drag.

    Mostly I am hopeful, even if there is increasing violence and discrimination against us. People are more vocally supporting us now than ever it feels like.






  • Yeah no, this would not work well. Minorities often experience being downvoted in great number and out-ratioed by those that have no understanding of what they go through (your regular lemmy user). It would just result in the ultimate echo chamber where largely only liberal white cishets have anything to say. At least as things are now queers can have a queer instance and feel safe there, even if things are not ideal.