Adhd Things - Blog Posts

Question for the ADHD folk cause I might have undiagnosed ADHD.

Does y'all's brains ever...skip text? Like, a lot? So much so that 80% of what you're reading is your brain filling in the gaps between what you actually read? Please tell me I'm not the only one. PLEASE.

I sometimes will listen to Labor by Paris Palome and it’s such an amazing song

But sometimes my lil hyper fixation brain will try and make something about a character

Than I saw the Dean Labor video and I’m like so we just pulling things out our asses now??

If we all collectively agree that Sam is woman coded 👀 and his entire story fits a good chunk if not the entire song.. I’m just sayin 💀😎

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to make an amazing and emotional song about the struggles and pain of being a woman, into something for a guy

But it’s just something to thing about

Went to my favorite coffee shop to be productive and work and I forgot my headphones. Life is pain.

Just took my prescription for the first time in like months and damn unfortunately

the medical doctor with years of experience in my specific condition was right

I do need the pills they recommended.

My brain is back online again.

Guess I’ll have to get back to the mage (exhausted underpaid pharmacy tech) who relieves my malady (literal diagnosis of top 1% severe adhd) and take the potions (Adderall) from the apothecary (Costco pharmacy) until the end of days.

oh my god

I'm not diagnosed yet but I'm suspecting myself of it so I'll try this !!

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

I’m both at the same time

My brain deciding that solid food is allowed again after restricting me to a liquids-only diet for the last five days for seemingly no reason

the adhd kids missing the deadline but saving the day anyway is so personal to me actually

~**~ Pinterest Inspirations ~**~

Ngl I always felt like I was behind when I couldn't work on the same schedule as others or I would take longer to complete certain tasks. So many times I've beaten myself up internally for not being as efficient, as confident, as hardworking as other people. But now is the time to remind myself that this is not the case. I work hard. I do enough. I am confident. Just in my own way. And being neurodivergent doesn't make me a failure in life.

Even if it takes me longer to do one thing, doesn't mean I am any less than the others. I just am. I'm just me, living myself at the pace I choose 🩵

Transitions are hard...

Like I know I got diagnosed last year with ADHD, but I haven't felt like this in so long? Seriously, I don't know how I've functioned so well in college, and now in PhD, my brain is starting to give up on me.

I wish my school or someone had taught me how to use a neurodivergent brain growing up. Maybe it would be less difficult right now.

It feels like I make a plan, and then the next thing I know, my brain chooses not to follow it cause it's not exciting enough. I wish I could just work 4 hours a day and then rest and recharge using the remaining time. I know this is impossible with my current workload and commitment, but I can't wait for that day to come when I can create my schedule and I don't have to worry about not having enough income each month.

Good luck my pals who are also neurodivergent ~

OK ranting a little before I start...

I'm kinda sick and tired of people telling me all I need is discipline and consistency. Like you think I've never considered that??? That's what people say, like EVERYWHERE!

Has anyone thought maybe there is more to these two words? Or maybe there's more to people who consistently "fail" at discipline and consistency?

Before I make a tough decision every day - whether it is whether I should skip my class or what I want to eat for lunch - maybe I can stop and ask what my future self would like me to do? And then maybe I can finally be at peace when I choose to rest when I'm tired and enjoy my time with friends without feeling guilty.

adhd is wild. just got up from doing homework to go piss and ended up spending 15 minutes cleaning my toilet and sink. woulda cleaned the mirror too if the stuff for it wasn't in my sleeping roommate's bathroom.

it's 2:12 AM. what am i doing

Tell me when you get bored. A story about doses. [x]

I posted this on twitter and had a variety of aggressive ableism thrown my way.

This is a story about changing what I can in spite of what I cannot for the comfort of my loved ones. The thing that others find to be hurtful about me is that I like to spend time in silent solitude. People who love me often feel hurt that I tend to solve my own problems instead of leaning on them.

When we spend too much time together, people find my neutrality to be concerning, and it becomes too much for people to be unable to read me.

To show the people I love that I enjoy their company in ways they can understand, I pool my energy together to be high-energy, peppy, and social. Since this is not my natural state of being, it takes effort, which can only be expended in small doses. I amplify the things people like in me while filtering out everything they dislike about me when I am in their company.

I change my behaviors for those I love, but at the end of the day, I cannot change my neutral state of being, which is the thing that they want most out of me.

This is a story about me accommodating people in the best way I know how, not the other way around. I would truly appreciate it if people don't misconstrue this anecdote as me asking for dismissal of hurtful behavior when in reality, people find hurt in the fact that I simply exist, and I must change for them.

Me listening to the same song on repeat so I can perfect every frame of an animation I’ll never make-

except for two “frames.” that’s all you get.

I'm noticing a small pattern in my hyperfixations: every time I'm going through a stressful period, some hyperfixation from my childhood calls my attention again. Example number one: I just left university, and the hyperfixation I had for Beauty and the Beast when I was 6 years old has come back and is more alive than ever.

i don't understand why my friends think i have a speech impediment (nothing wrong w having one, i just haven't had one since i was 6-ish) (i can't tell if they're trying to be rude or joking when they say that tho), but i think it's because i talk VERY fast and my words get jumbled,, That's the auDHD at work, i'm assuming

ADHD life hacks #41,279: Vegetable Management

source tweet: X

Having no control over the absolute wreck you call your brain. Thinking in parallel to the speed of light. Millions of thoughts fighting to share the stage in your head even if it's dark all around it. It's chaos. It's life. It's electrically alive.

hungry but you don’t want to move from what ever your doing because you know your going to get distracted and forget about the thing you were doing before

I felt this…

Autism

ADHD

Hunger

I DID NOT KNOW THIS AND THATS SCARY.

I would also like to also like to mention that I learned the hard way that you shouldn't mix cold medication (especially those containing decongestants) with ADHD medicine.

Both those medications increase your heart beat and blood pressure so obviously mixed together basically takes it to a whole new level.

Idk how to describe the feeling, but it wasn't fun, but I remember part of it was feeling really anxious beyond what my typical dose of Adderall does for me, I'm ok though. It wasn't enough to hospitalize me but I have a feeling if I continued it would've.

They should really tell us these things, a lot of cold medicines and antacids are over the counter so its not like our doctors can cross check for us.

(why were you taking Adderall when you had a cold?

There's no such thing as a day off from school for me)

the joy of AuDHD and executive dysfunction 😅

anybody else in the club feeling this one

the one time i wanna have an animal crossing theme for my birthday, i had to be told off and wont be getting it cause it’s too “childish” 😨

cw rant. cw parents, bullying & ableism (?)

since my birthday is a few days away now, i told my mom that i wanted an animal crossing birthday party and a cake and even if she didn’t order the cake, I’ll just have the cake toppers and stick it on my cake. either way is okay.

she goes ahead and asks me why i didn’t tell her sooner but what she doesn’t understand is that, we were ordering a limo to come to my house and go fun places and have the BEST time EVER, so that when I grow older in the future, I can remember all that and to live the best life. on top of that, we were buying a cake, party stuff, balloons, crowns, etc and stuff were OUT of stock and that I didn’t wanna ask and they didn’t see. I DID see a cake that had Tom nook a day ago but when I confirmed the order, it went out of stock FAST. that’s what I said and the MAIN reason why I couldn’t say.

she has the audacity to bring up my neurodivergency and goes “no wonder you’re not normal!” towards me knowing that i struggle with things. and then she goes “can’t you see thats for babies? you’re so old for that anyway..” and I told her, “but it’s my fixation game? getting a cake will just make it better because I’ll be really happy.” and she says, “you’re a fucking grown bitch. you’re not a kid anymore, youre a teen thats working, stop being childish. youre too fucking young for that. pick something else!!!” and then storming out the room.

i just feel really bad because when i was younger, when I played mario kart for the switch, isabelle was the first character that made me addicted to playing as her in the mario kart game and then, when I discovered SSB (smash bros for the 3ds and switch), I became obsessed with both male and female villager. so since they introduced me to animal crossing, that’s when I thought of getting a cake of them so that I can remind myself that nothing can stop me from loving the characters and the game.

SHE LITERALLY BROUGHT ME THE GAME. she KNOWS that I cannot HELP watching it ALL the time. she knows that i like Tom nook and wants his birthday balloon to carry to my work place with party bags but loads of people hate me for being different and neurodivergent. nobody really likes me. expect 2 people. so therefore I can’t do shit about it. I didn’t wanna be seen as the “weird autistic person who likes childish stuff”. but she makes me feel like that.

now I have to do my birthday without it for the last time, and then get it for my next birthday that’ll be next year in 12-13 months since it’s in February.

I just feel so bad and mad at myself for asking cause she brought up how autistic i am. and because she always gets angry for stuff I cannot control nor the amount of stuff I get told. nor my health issues and totally shutting down and lashing out on everyone when mad.

she gaslights me alot also. and is severely negative to me. so now I have to do my birthday without it and have a normal birthday in order to avoid being “weird” or seen as “not normal” and “stupid” and “socially acceptable.”

And she told me to stop watching those characters because they don’t “matter”. like alright i get that im retarded and a weirdo. no need to make me feel dread about it.

Omfg yes I feel like its almost all the time

yall with adhd or autism or such ever just get…. bored. like so Painfully bored. like its not “oh hehe i was so bored and i made this” to flex or “oh im so bored bc i have nothing to do” but like a “i am physically incapable of ending this horrible understimulation with any activity i might attempt” and its genuinely fucking painful

me *having had only a handful of strawberries, two cups of coffee and an energy drink*: why hand shaky :(

Is it just me or does anybody that has just exceeds at gov knowledge just because of your ADHD. It’s also the same for climate change and LGBTQ+ laws for me

Me:*is taking ibuprofen with some lemonade in a bottle in the fridge with the door still open*

Me: *sees ‘made with real cream cheese’ in the corner of my eye*

Me: “Ooo, interesting”

Me: *proceeds to read entire label*

apparently an ADHD five-year-old boy can overstimulate an ADHD teenage girl SINGLE-HANDEDLY