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derekhalesbian · 8 months
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genuinely how i feel sometimes
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demiboydemon · 1 year
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ADHD People wouldn’t even realise we were being haunted
People with ADHD wouldn’t even realise it if we were being haunted. Items go missing: Damn it, I keep misplacing things. Weird noises while you’re working: is hyper focusing so hard that they don’t notice Cabinets and door mysteriously open: Fuck, I always leave these open 🙄 Lightbulbs flickering even though they just got put in last week: ugh, time for new lightbulbs? I can’t even remember the last time I changed them. Weird drafts: a vent has been broken for years since I’ve moved in, but I keep forgetting to figure out which one and fix it. Weird smells: I probably forgot to throw something away. I always do that haha Bruises and marks appearing on body: I wonder how I got this. I probably did something and forgot lmao
Then the ghost loses its mind and leaves because it wants someone who actually notices them 😂 ADHD ruining another friendship 😔👊
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This has been the year I discovered podfics. And what a year of beautiful stories it has been. AO3 can be such a time space continuum for me when I’m into something (which is kinda always) and having a desk job where no one checks up on me is sooo dangerous bc I can just get away with it!! Discovering podfics has made it possible for me to enjoy fics while doing data entry or making maps or even doing housework!! Game changer! I can get myself excited to actually do things by reframing those activities as a chance to listen to the pods I’ve been saving up.
Thank you thank you thank you to all those who record podfics and audiobooks and make them available online. Not only does it make fandom just that bit more accessible to fans of all abilities, its given this ADHDer some valuable time back in my life.
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neurodiverge-aunt · 6 months
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middle-of-the-night thought:
ADHD is like joycon drift for your brain
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floweraiss · 7 months
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People are always arguing whether red or blue is Monday's color. I personally believe red and I know people who believe something else entirely. I'd be curious to see what you think!
So if you have synesthesia/ attribute colors to the days of the week, please answer this survey. I'll share the results once I am done :)
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chronic-cane · 3 months
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It's so odd that ADHD is so commercialized, medicalized, and stigmatized.
I got an ADDitude magazine from the library to look through for anything that could help my current research project. A little over a third of the pages have ads. A lot of them specifically marketing towards helping ADHD. About 25 out of 70 pages. Compared to National Review's 3 out of 60 pages or The Progressives 5 out of 70. There is literally a dedicated section for advertisements in ADDitude.
In the past this group has been helpful for me a few times, but its also heavy in pseudoscience. Plenty of the ads were for "ADHD supplements" and shit. But it's the thing you first come across when looking for resources.
I'm fully aware that ADHD is seen as basically the anti capitalist machine disorder. The main focus behind treatment is to increase productivity most of the time. Which has lead to people rightfully pointing that out before then unrightfully stating that it isn't a real mental disorder or disability. So then those of us with ADHD see the ones that are dismissing us and even go so far to over medicalize ourselves in the process. Or at least the second part is my experience and what I theorize.
And that really sucks. I look to the autistic community more than the ADHD community at this point for support with my developmental disability.
We could have, and still can, incorporate ADHD not only as an example of some mental illnesses are socially constructed based off of societal norms, and instead a more extreme example of most if not all mental illnesses constructed off of societal norms.
We could recognize that even though medication helps focus and some behavioral aspects, we still appear odd, neurodivergent, to people. That we learn how to go through the world differently and face plenty of stigma and discrimination. Not because it's a medicalization of "bad character" but instead of form of madness impacted by sanism.
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chemicalcarousel · 1 year
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"my memory is great!" - person with a disorder causing memory problems
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Hi, two questions to the community. 1: Do you guys feel calmer and just (I don't have a better word) round when you are in water? I found that being in water, especially if it's salty, sends me to a very calm and happy place. I feel like it has something to do with sensory 'completeness'. Any ideas, experience or research on this one? I'd like to understand why this might happen so I can replicate the feeling in different setups as I live in a country with no seas or oceans. 2: Does anyone else struggle with active noise cancelling headsets? I've purchased one about a month ago but I don't really tend to use it, because it bugs me sensorily, it feels like there is constant buzzing in my ears but without the sound of it. (Sorry if what I wrote is hard to understand, English is not my first language and very specific feelings like these are hard to describe.) Your thoughts/comments/experiences will be highly appreciated.
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twinkletwinkletruly · 10 months
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Wanna know who’s a good representation on Autism? Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds! Is he over-the-top smart? Yes, which is a overdone trope that isn’t usually true for most of us with autism, BUT he’s also driven by empathy, he’s not always able to read a room right, he’s sensitive, and he can info-dump on stuff that he clearly is deeply fascinated by, despite the disinterest from his surroundings. He’s sweet and kind, and uses both logic and feelings to navigate the world. He’s not shown as lacking in empathy or compassion, and he doesn’t act like a robot or is so “logical” that he’ll get frustrated if others can’t follow his viewpoint or angry if others have a different way of thinking.
It’s so unbelievably nice that, even when they show other autistic people who may not be the most flattering of representations, it’s still some genuine care. It’s very comforting for a person like me, that it’s not just characters like “The Good Doctor” or “Sheldon” who are supposed to represent us. I just wish Reid was shown more often as a representation of a flawed but good character. It’s way too often that we’re shown as blunt, cold and arrogant or lacking empathy in place of logic. It’s just so frustrating, you know?
Sorry for the rambling =.=;
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ghostonly · 2 years
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So tired of neurotypicals inserting themselves into posts about, by, and for people with ADHD or autism to tell us "That's not ND! IT'S NORMAL!"
Like, first of all, who the fuck asked you?
Second, people with ADHD and/or autism are allowed to make posts about their shared experiences with other people in their community. You do not have a license to be the Trait Police.
Also, no one is out here saying, "If you experience this random thing that is common in people with ADHD/autism, you have ADHD/autism." (or if they are, I haven't seen them) More often, it's literally just people relating with each other and then someone comes along and completely misinterprets the point of their post.
This is as true with random commonalities as it is with literal symptoms of a disorder: just because many neurotypicals experience something doesn't mean it isn't correlated with ADHD or autism!
If 10% of NTs have experienced a thing and 95% of people with ADHD have experienced that thing, there is a massive correlation happening! You can't just show up and make people with ADHD feel like shit about relating over this common experience in relation to our ADHD just because it's something a bunch of neurotypicals have experienced too!
Plus, a lot of times that experience is experienced differently depending on if you have ADHD or are neurotypical. Even if the experience is of the same severity, it might be caused by something different, might lead to different feelings, or might have a different level of consistency/rigidity.
Showing up and going off about something being "normal" (a shitty thing to say about neurodivergent experiences btfw) is like if a group of people are discussing making pancakes with coconut flour because of a digestive issue and you come in and yell at them about how, "Everybody eats pancakes! Pancakes aren't specific to you just because you make them with coconut flour!"
Like, no shit Sherlock. No one here fucking said that people don't eat wheat-flour pancakes en masse. This is not a conversation about wheat-flour pancakes.
Basically, keep your disrespectful, neurotypical, tomfoolery the fuck out of ND conversations.
And it's a whole separate conversation but the same fucking thing applies to conversations about physical disabilities. Don't fucking butt in to tell disabled people that everyone gets tired, or struggles without enough sleep, or has back pain. Why? Reread the post!
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successfullyadhd · 6 months
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It’s bedtime for my 9 month old and she is crawling around, rubbing her face against the ridged wallpaper, the pillows, the blankets, trying to find the perfect texture to soothe herself to sleep. And I feel like it’s somehow relatable.
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thefaestolemyname · 1 year
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Anybody have tips / tools to cope with ADD symptoms, specifically in getting schoolwork done?
I got diagnosed fairly recently and am struggling badly in University - the content is easy but sitting down and doing work feels impossible.
Don't know why I didn't ask Tumblr before. I guess I didn't realize I could actually get people to see my posts?
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boydyke · 5 months
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adhd havers. does anyone self medicate with caffiene pills? what's like. a good dosage and time to wait inbetween. any experience?
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postcardsfromsamsara · 9 months
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Autism
I got a psych evaluation in high school where I was diagnosed with ADD, ADHD and "Extremely High Functioning Autism."
So for 10 years I've known I was diagnosed with these but I didn't take them seriously- least of all autism because according to the internet everyone I interacted with was autistic, so isn't it just being normal? I didn't think of myself as an individual with autism. Sure, I had been diagnosed, but everyone jokes about having ADD and ADHD so is it a real thing? Who cares? I'm just gonna keep being me.
And so ever since, I have just been pretending as hard as I can that I was a neurotypical. I have been trying to take care of myself, learn and live my life as if I was just an NT never once taking into consideration any of my diagnoses into my lifestyle.
And so ever since then, I have just thought of myself as a broken non-functioning human being. Trying to do all the things for NT's to live a good life and failing. And I have felt like a broken, misfit, non-functional, worthless and a whole bunch of other negative adjectives for this whole time because of it.
Only recently am I actually trying to take my status as a neurodivergent individual seriously and thinking myself as one and treating myself as one. It has not been an easy journey. I am unhappy. I feel broken. I wish that I could stop, I wish I had a cure.
I WISH THAT I HAD BEEN EDUCATED AND PROVIDED WITH THE RESOURCES I NEED IN ORDER TO FUNCTION IN THIS WORLD. I WAS NOT GIVEN THOSE THINGS. EVERYONE CONSTANTLY MADE A JOKE OF ADD, ADHD, AND AUTISM SO I TREATED IT LIKE A JOKE TOO AND DIDN'T PROVIDE MYSELF WITH THE SELF-CARE THAT I NEEDED TO BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY. I JUST FELT BROKEN AND LOOKED AT MYSELF LIKE I WAS BROKEN AND TREATED MYSELF LIKE I WAS BROKEN.
And honestly? I still feel broken. I still feel like a misfit. I still feel like I don't belong in this society or on this planet and wish I could just vanish and evaporate. Even now as I try to find ways to live with my diagnoses and make the adjustments to my life to live healthier and happier, I'm not finding the resources I need.
Normally googling things and learning that way is my superpower. But not for living as an adult with high functioning autism. I search for advice and guidance and resources but I feel like the best I get is "oh, yeah. Autistic adults struggle with this. What should you do about it? Fuck if we know." And I'm so frustrated and angry and sad.
I've been seeing a therapist for a year and when I selected her as my therapist I didn't even take into consideration my autism or finding a therapist trained to work with autistic individuals. But when I asked her what training she's received, she said "just the basics." But now I'm a year into therapy with an established trust and relationship with my therapist and I do NOT want to start over with a different therapist but I also would very much like to have a therapist who is knowledgeable on my brain problems to help me.
I've always known I was broken and was trying to repair myself but I didn't have the knowledge and tools to actually fix myself, I was trying to repair an under-preforming PC with hammer, nails and spot welder, just been fucking shit up instead of fixing it.
I'm frustrated and tired with all this shit and I just wish I was fucking normal. I wish I wasn't what I am. And something tells me that it's unhealthy to feel this way but I don't know how else to feel.
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sapphyhoney · 2 years
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adhd really is just you watching cleantok instead of actually cleaning sometimes
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fruitposting · 2 years
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