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