I'm Rob, I'm a highly passionate, 40 something male. I suffer badly with classic symptoms of ADHD, including the worst part of rejection sensitivity. I overthink, isolate and unfollow people on a wim. I don't do it with malice, far from it, as if that person asks me if I'm okay, in most cases I'll reply and reinstate them, but until you know the battle I have with my own head over who is against me and who likes me, its all fight or flight. That being said, I feel I'm a highly creative person with huge enthusiasm to make incredible images. I feel my best qualities are in person, not online. ADHD misreads signals, and I can be oversensitive to replies. I tend to need direct signs. If you hype me to make big images, I can. My biggest hurdle is confidence. When I feel energy from people that love what I do, I can bring so much more out, but when I feel I have to 'prove' my value, I tend to go inwards and you don't get the best from me (classic rejection sensitivity) -(I feel this is shown in my portfolio easily).
I'm explaining all of this here to the small few that will read this, because ADHD makes me a difficult one to understand. I question why you don't like an image, I need to feel signs of appreciation as a photographer, as if not, im gonna feel rejected, isolated, not good enough. My entire world, revolves around feeling good enough or not. In or out.
Now that you've read that, I bet you're excited to meet me!! Haha.
It's a tiny part of why I go through daily as an ADHD sufferer.