My family thinks ADHD medication is a drug, so i'm being refrained from getting proper meds
I have AuDHD, and life has been..not easy for me. I haven't been diagnosed, but the signs are all there. I'm very awkward, its hard for me to focus on talking to people, its hard to focus on things i love, and I'm generally a mess, and i really, really want a solution!!
However..It's been very bad, i live in a place that doesn't have alot of representation when it comes to cases of ADHD or autism. When i tried mentioning medication to my family, their only hangup was the fact that 'your gonna get addicted to it, it has bad side effects!' and like..yea, have you ever drank water?? i NEED to be medicated!
I'm not normal and it's ruining my life, I feel down just about every single day due to how alienated i feel by this world, and the best part their solution was 'we shhould get you in a strict diet, that'll fix your insides, and fix ADHD!'. Yes, diets are good, but they do NOT cure ADHD, infact not even medication does, but it certainly helps more than i've ever seen diets do for me. And this is a poorly-thought idea, because guess what - i CANT focus on a diet when my AuDHD continues to exist! So i'm just forced to continue existing in this hard reality..i really need to get medicated soon. The aspects in which AuDHD affects my life socially and mentally makes life so unnecessarily difficult, and causes me so much pain and spiraling. How do i deal with my backwards parents and convince them i need it? Because i've tried telling them that other people have tried it and it's FINE, but i need irrefutable proof of sorts.