a tumblr classic!
- you place an overdue library book on the floor in front of the front door. the library book merges seamlessly with the environment. six weeks later, you trip over it on your way out the house to go to the library.
You got the last part wrong. I tripped over it on the way home from the library…
Ha!
Wait, were you going to the library? I’m sure there was somewhere else you need to go to run errands. Was it the grocery store? Better check the pantry and fridge to see what you need. End up on the couch eating and watching TV for the rest of the day.
you haven’t watched the movie.
I know this is a common experience with ADHD, but somehow I’m the opposite. Visual media makes me hyper focus. As a kid, I was usually the only one still awake at the end of a late night movie. If there’s a tv on and someone is trying to talk to me, it takes a lot of effort to focus on what’s being said to me. I can’t put things on in the background unless it’s just music. Does anyone else experience this?
Thats a fairly common aspect of ADHD, hyperfocus on some specific domain. Its like we min/max what we think about.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Yeah I always thought I was just weird for how much I focus on politics and programming. Recently discovered I have ADHD and it makes so much more sense now.
I don’t to my knowledge have ADHD but if there’s a movie on it’s hard for me to completely ignore it. I memorably had to switch seats at a restaurant once with my partner at the time because I could see some shitty movie playing behind them and it was too distracting
I’m easily mesmerized by televisions and have been my entire life!
Very similar experience for me, even down to being the last one awake. If someone wants my full attention the movie has to be paused.
I got diagnosed with ADHD at 40 but up till now I’d just assumed I was a bad lazy person who’s badness at life was the reason for all of my various problems. Stuff like this has me wondering if … perhaps I was not just awful and lazy all the time?
I think you’ll find that awful or lazy was never true, and the potential was always there buried deep. You just didn’t have the right tools.
so many people with executive dysfunction have come to this realization thru memes ❤️
I would add: beyond executive dysfunction, people who also have low intrinsic motivation (ability to “just do it”) and/or difficulty initiating, are also not bad people!
while it is our responsibility to always work on and improve our weak points, these aspects of temperament exist as they are, no matter how much moralizing busybodies insist otherwise.
Is ADHD just SCP?
Well no, but actually yes
this just hurts to read
I feel personally attacked…
I scrolled away and back to this post 3 times to try to finish reading it.
I didn’t finish reading it and now I’m commenting.
A lot of these are fairly common experiences, though, right? Or do I have undiagnosed ADHD?
The Fun part of ADHD is there’s nothing unique to ADHD. Being overwhelmed with anxiety doesn’t mean you have anxiety disorder. It’s when you have frequent overwhelming anxiety and it’s interfering with your life.
Having a tendency to put things down and lose them doesn’t mean you have ADHD. Constantly having to find that screwdriver that was just in your hand and realizing that desk has been half complete for six months because you keep spending thirty seconds looking for it before getting distracted by other tasks? That’s ADHD. Unless it’s focus issues rooted in something else. Like anxiety or depression, which can cause ADHD like symptoms. But also ADHD can cause anxiety and depression, or be comorbid.
That said, you are here voluntarily on an ADHD community finding common ground with an ADHD meme. If you’ve wondered specifically about ADHD or more broadly felt there’s something different about you’ve just never been able to put your finger on - this is your sign. My advice is to find a psychiatrist who really understand it, dig as deep as you can for hard evidence that you have or don’t have it, and keep an open mind to alternative explanations. A diagnosis of “no you don’t have ADHD” is also important information.
They’re certainly common if you have ADHD, and ADHD is actually quite prevelent.
Ouch.
halfway through reading the somethings/someones were turning into everything/everyones… halfway through typing this i had to go back up and read the thing again… I read it in 6 different halves, jumping around, the first time and twice, in separate 2/3’s chunks just now… i’m thirsty. and kinda sad this post makes as much sense as it does.