Identity

If I identify as PDA, 

and some 'diagnosed' don’t like it. 

I just say – get on ya way

I could not care one bit

But reality is, that I do mind

Because it makes me less inclined

To be the me

I'm wired to be

I mask in class

I mask on task

I’m holding it all in 

You can’t see how my avoidance 

Is taking toll within

It is obvious to me 

That I have ADHD

But as I am yet to get the proof

and until that comes, does that mean I'm just a goof

These things are me,

my identity 

it’s not yours to question

that is my suggestion.

Rejection sensitivity, creates a fear in me

That I’m not your cup of tea

A part of me couldn’t care less

Another part feels intense distress 

So, when my identity is discussed

You really must

Include me

You seee…

You don’t know my inner world

Like I do not know yours

Our Neurodiversity may be similar, by definition,

but personalities shape us too

to make our composition

The group is for others like me

that could not pay the fee

to get that certification of proof

to prove you are not a spoof

that should not mean we are open to critique

if that could be respected, it would be magnifique

And that is why I want to voice

That PDA and ADHD is not a choice

We do accept that people say 

some may identify as PDA

but do not have the wiring 

but isn't it inspiring

that it’s so well known of today

And if it helps to have a name

that stops us feeling immense shame

we may have come to avoid, from different roots

but now were sharing the same boots