Rejection sensitivity is a common symptom of ADHD, a difficulty regulating your emotional response to feelings of rejection (think: constructive criticism from your boss; friends hanging out without you). I always thought it was a personal moral failing.

 https://youtu.be/jM3azhiOy5E?si=vj4dHdeNxAr_EHYn

The more insidious effect of RSD is *anticipating* rejection so much that you end up not doing really simple things--like asking for a favor (or just asking for things more generally). If you're a founder--meaning you need to ask for things frequently--you can imagine how RSD complicates things.

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It's crazy because I know it's normal to ask for things. And I won't certainly get things without asking for them (something something if you don't ask, the answer is always no). Sadly, my brain hasn't registered that information yet--so here we are.

Slowly getting better at it, though.

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