#stupid adhd brain

[pussycat-scribbles]

I love that OC in the yellow dress 🥺 she's very soft and elegant! Just a heads-up the actress's name is Anya though not Anna.

Oh, damn. My bad! I'm having an awful day for details - I legit got my birthdate wrong on a Very Official and Very Important government form just now, despite having my passport AND driving licence in front of me.

Thank you for letting me know, and for appreciating the artwork! :)

#pussycat response #stupid adhd brain #y'all ever just #fail to function despite your best efforts

[sparkles-and-trash]

I gotta finish 1984 tonight man, I’ll never be properly productive until that’s done

#stupid adhd brain #this season really makes me want a cig #yea yea I know its embarrasing i used to smoke #i have an ed okay #but yeah  #ahs #american horror story 1984 #ahs 1984 #american horror story #personal

[kowabungadoodles]

There's an adhd hack which I wanna describe but it's going to sound sort of fake and sort of like I'm saying "just do the thing" which I'm not.

Basically it can be impossible to start doing the thing, but once you've started it, it's actually fine right? It's just FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to start it, especially because you don't want to do it.

So I've got this way where I start it "without meaning to" a bit like if you were standing on the edge of the cliff and unable to make yourself jump off but... but you can jerk your body violently-- then you're falling and you don't really get a say in the matter any more.

A good example of this is not wanting to make a call. So you'd sit there and plan what you want to rehearse and hit the button when you're ready... or not, because actually you'd put the phone down and run off to do literally anything else.

So instead, I just hit call really fast, with no actual intention to make the call. Oh shit I really don't want to but now it's ringing and oh shit someone picked up and now we're already rolling and it'd be worse to hang up than to just talk--

I do the same thing with timers and work tasks where I've trained my brain to only be 'winning' the 'game' when the 15m timer is running so now if I hit the timer I'm like 'oh shit work started and I'm LOSING' and I'll jump up to do exactly 15 minutes of work... Only now I've already started and I might as well keep going, right?

Turning tasks into "reactions" not "actions"-- And reacting is way easier.

It's kind of setting the "poor impulse control" part of ADHD against the "Procrastination" part and making them fight.

#adhd #extremely stupid brain hacks #but it works #make the adhd fight itself

[weirdandnerdyinlasvegas]

Some day I hope to have the same kind of motivation and dedication to completing a writing project as the people who write blurbs for the Parental Guidance section on IMDb. It truly takes time and patience to count how many times different cuss words are used throughout the entire movie. Like bravo, man, bravo.

#wrtiting #writing is so fucking hard #can't finish anything #i swear I can do it #stupid adhd brain #and stupid real world #but seriously if you want something entertaining read the Parental Guidelines on IMDb

[ladytitanium]

my memory is so shitty and I was off this blog for a full year and people change their names+icons+urls and sometimes I wish there was a polite and not awkward way to go “ok who are you and where did I meet you again?” to people

sometimes I can remember but sometimes I can’t and I have to just squint at someone’s blog like... have we just been mutuals since 2013? are you from the old portal/tf2 days? did we meet at a convention? are you from one of my RP servers or tumblr threads? did you thirst follow me? multiple choice??? 

#the goodsola has spoken #not with everyone ofc but with enough people that this is an issue #stupid adhd brain #swiss cheese motherfucker #this noggin is either a steel trap or a sieve with holes in it #no in between!!!

[eat-rock]

“nobody understands me” but not in the “edgy suffering from teenager syndrome mad at mom” kind of way, but the “lonely isolating young adult realization that the specific combination of mental illnesses and past experiences i’ve had have resulted in a pattern of behaviors that are often misinterpreted and misconstrued by others” type of way

#maybe it’s the mental illness but boy howdy do i feel like an outsider #as a teenager it’s usually the feeling that everybody else is a stick in the mud and stupider than you kind of stuff #now i’m feeling like everybody else is a real person while i’m only partially a person #like there’s so much of myself missing and i can’t seem to relate with anybody else #it’s lonely feeling like nobody would understand how my brain works even if i tried to explain it to them #idk how to tag this but i hope anybody else can relate #actually neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #adhd #actually adhd #ocd #mental illness #mentally ill #neurodivergent #👁‍🗨 #🌀

[ruegarding]

we do not have five entire books full of percy's philosophical thoughts for rick to pull this shit. if annabeth was in character, she would be looking at this architecture and consider what she'd do different (and since she's redesigning olympus, she'd maybe also consider if she'd use any designs there). her fatal flaw is hubris and it should be a staple characteristic of hers.

#haha percy's a boy w adhd obviously he's stupid and simple and can't handle philosophical thoughts #every time i think hoo isn't *that* bad i open the books and realize my brain has edited shit for me to make it palatable #this is relevant to last post abt characterization and this annoyed me as i was rereading the chapters to double check #anyway. this is a reminder that hoo makes both percy and annabeth wildly ooc compared to pjo #annabeth does what i'm describing in pjo multiple times bc that's who she is! she sees something and thinks how she could make it better #ESPECIALLY when it's one of her interests! #annabeth chase #heroes of olympus #hoo crit #rr crit #min talks pjo

[gremlinwithakeyboard]

ok so hear me out, superpowers as a metaphor for neurodivergency

but like not in the “neurodivergency is a/gives you superpowers” type way

more in a sort of “everyone acts like it’s a superpower and anyone who doesn’t think so isn’t thinking positively enough”

Oh you don’t like being a telepath? Come on! You’ve got a gift there! You’re lucky! Just please stay away from me so you don’t read my mind.

Your fire powers are awesome! You’d stop accidentally setting things on fire if you just put your mind to it.

What do you mean your super gravity powers being treated like rubbish telekinesis gave you lasting childhood trauma? At least you’ve got powers!

You lost your voice pushing your noise amplification powers to the limit? That’s kinda sad but just don’t do that next time! Your powers are still super and your voice will come back for you to do more cool tricks for us with!

#random thoughts with gremlin #adhdposting #adhd #actually adhd #I get it is good sometimes but please stop telling me I need to be positive about it all the time #this may or may not be directed at this one girl from choir #who corrected me when I tried to say I was pretty smart despite my brain being wacky #ok I get it if you think about your autism that way #but please let me be frustrated with my brain being stupid sometimes

[gabrielsbubblegumbitch]

Working on the next fic I've ended up with this very weird and specific headcanon that Valentino has a beef with Ronald Regan and spent almost 30 years waiting for him in hell.

#this is so stupid i don't think i'll include it #but i had to share the thought #my adhd brain just went off reils #valentino #hazbin hotel #valentino hazbin

[thescholarlystrumpet]

me: wow these artists are So talented! how did they get so GOOD?? my brain: practice. me [ignoring that): I mean the skill, the details! such clean lines....how?? my brain: practicing. they do it over and over again me: I could never be that good... guess I'll just stop... my brain: JFC

#former gifted kid #neurospicy things #neurodiverse stuff #adhd things #adhd problems #adhd brain #neurodivergent #perfectionism #recovering perfectionist #perfectionistproblems #spicy brain #gifted kid burnout #executive dysfunction #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid problems #art #creativity #stupid brain #mental health #imposter syndrome #art is hard #artist struggles #writing is hard #this applies to all creative things

[braindamaged007]

Me: I will cry.

#i will cry #lol oof #self deprecating humor #stupid humor #memes #lol memes #oof lmao #being autistic #possibly autistic #actually autistic #dank humor #dank memes #lmao #meme #autistic feels #autism #dank meme #adhd brain #adhd inattentive #dankmemes #lol #adhd #adhd life #adhd post #adhd problems #funny meme #relatable memes #stolen memes #lmaooo #funny memes

[pallanophblargh]

As part of my ADHD diagnosis intake process (or whatever you call this), there’s a massive quiz I have to take. I THOUGHT I was prepared. I was not.

Aside from leaving it to almost the last minute (I have a week to complete), I just... these questions... what. WHAT. I mean, some of them are super easy, but a good chunk of them have caused a level of internal anguish I normally assign to tax returns, math, or social interactions with strangers.

I don’t know if this proves anything. I’m only half way through and part of me wants to cry.

I think a good chunk of the anxiety stems from the hard dichotomy of a simple “true or false” answer system. I am in hell.

#april rambles #mental health #kinda sorta maybe ADHD #aaaaaa I need clarification! #and nuance! #brain freaking out over way too many of these #i have an unfortunate tendency towards hyperbole hence my additional anxiety #how can you exaggerate and downplay in the same breath? it's a skill #sitting here rocking back and forth pondering #stuffed plush goldfish in one arm and eggnog in the other #STUPID BRAIN ACK #and i've been sort of not really joking that if it's not adhd then it's probably autism #that's what others have thought anyway #why not both? ahhahaha naw

[drawnecromancy]

The adhd/not adhd variables were proposed by my partner, likely because this is literally an adhd thought that came out of nowhere while i was thinking of pouring myself a glass of orange juice.

I did get my orange juice btw. Sipping it as i write this poll.

#poll #polls #tumblr polls #adhd #something something reblog so i can have more people answer and hopefully funny results #don't hesitate to have thoughts in tags #maybe you have a funny anecdote ! maybe you want to yell at me for asking insane questions to strangers (that's fair) ! #this is my blog and i'll post the stupid ass questions that run through my brain sometimes

[turns-out-its-adhd]

I think one of the reasons I took longer to learn a 12 hour clock as a kid was that the whole thing really pissed me off.

#adhd brain #adhd #time blindness #time management #adhd memes #adhd tumblr #neurodiverse stuff #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #stupid things humans do #dyscalculia #meme therapy #relatable memes

[halffizzbin]

The more times I re-watch Lost the madder I get that ANYONE still wants to leave the island once they discover there are showers and processed foods. What more do you even need? Smartphone-induced insomnia?? Office jobs????? Robocalls??? Vacuuming???? INCOME TAX????????

#I am specifically referring to the characters without any family or decent relationships back home lol #but like #I have parents and a sister and nephews and a cat #and I'd still be like. Not in a massive hurry #sure if you're not a main character there's like a 1% chance you get offed by an Other or Smoky or dynamite but is it worth it? Maybe! #and I would be forced to redirect my stimulation-junkie ADHD brain away from stupid shit and just obsess over learning new skills lol #teach me how to butcher a boar or something I'll get SO good at it just WATCH me #it will be all I care about for weeks until I find the next thing like throwing knives or tying knots or hand-to-hand combat #I won't have to grind my teeth over not being able to contribute to my Roth IRA EVER AGAIN #Do you even KNOW how many cool spiders they have in tropical locales? #My skin and my curls look SO good in humidity #JACOB #I WANNA GO #DO YOU HEAR ME JACOB???? #Lost

[recoveringchurchgirl]

So who was gonna tell me that Veritaserum doesn’t work on the ADHD girlies and the Autistic besties!!

#too fucking high #smoke #humans are space orcs #harry potter #truth serum #headcanon #i hate my brain #humanity fuck yeah #stupid #besties #actually adhd #autism