About a month ago, an individual I was involved with disrespected me and violated my boundaries. Initially, I was hard on him, but I also tried to give him space to say anything that was on his mind.

I sent about one text a week to try to see where his mind was at or to acknowledge the nice parts of what we had been through together. I was ignored, and I finally decided to leave the issue alone. At this point, I am assuming he will never speak to me again, which is very sad to me because as far as I’m concerned, the only thing I did necessarily “wrong” was communicate my boundaries from a place of anger and disappointment right after the incident occurred.

I am curious about if the feelings inside a person with ADHD are overall negative and what exactly makes a person who is otherwise brilliant suddenly not be able to communicate. Selfishly, I need closure, since I’m moving away soon and this was our last shot at being on the same page. It’s clear we are finished but my mind still has an itch to scratch about what a person might possibly be thinking while in shut down mode.