#adhd tag

[euniexenoblade]

People still get surprised by this but doctors have confirmed this with me, for a lot of people with ADHD, caffeine either does nothing or has opposite effects (it puts me to sleep). Similarly, I've been told a lot of sleep aids (ie. doxylamine/NyQuil stuff), also might have opposite effects (this also checks out with my sleep struggles and experiences with sleep aids). Just a thing I thought I'd mention.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[bibliocharlie]

the most helpful thing i have ever seen from neurodivergent internet spaces is “THERE ARE OTHER TIMES OF DAY TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH”. this has genuinely saved me from executive dysfunction spirals so many times.

[thebibliosphere]

One of the pitfalls I've been struggling with over the last three years while focusing on recovering from ADHD burnout is trying to find stimuli that are enriching and not just distracting because distracting stimuli might feel like it's keeping me from being bored, but really it's just keeping me numb enough so I don't have to process being bored or any of my emotions.

And that's not great when you're trying to heal trauma.

The problem is, I'm not finding a lot of things enriching at the moment. A lot of the things I've been relying on to keep my brain quiet since 2020 now feel overstimulating and are actively making me agitated rather than numb. Which I suppose is progress? It means I'm processing things and actually aware of them again instead of perceiving everything as background static.

It's just an odd predicament to be in. I don't think I've been this 'aware' of my own brain in a long time and on the one hand, cool. Great. Probably a good thing. On the other, aaaaah. Why is it so noisy in here?

[missingno-polaris]

I COME BACK WITH MORE

some were made on request :D

also, turns out there's an ADHD one?

anyway, enjoy them :D

edited this 3 times because i forgot tags

extra edit: psst, this is part 2, part one is here

[chronicallycouchbound]

May Your Hands Always Be Loud

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5 years old— subsequently I was forced to take various high levels of stimulants, be in special ed classes, taught to have “quiet hands”, bullied for being weird, and over and over was still unable to keep up with neurotypical peers. It was suffocating.

I remember my senior year of high school, I was in alternative education. It was the one and only year I got honors, didn’t fail any classes, and it was the only year I got the accommodations I needed: being able to stim freely in class, listen to music whenever I needed to, arrive late/leave early, able to do homework in class, and whenever I struggled, my teachers checked on me.

Such simple accommodations changed my life. And it wasn’t until after 12 years of continuously failing classes, punished for being the way I am, years lost to being grounded for never being able to have good grades, so much more. I internalized that I was the problem. But I never was. It was the inaccessible world around me.

Let neurodivergent people, children especially, exist as they are. They are beautiful just as they are. May your hands always be loud.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

i guess this is vent art sort of? anyways look at these weirdos

i know there's several ocd creatures already but i didn't vibe with any of them so here's mine. its name is smh creature. it moves around by hiding into the ground and then reemerging (at the worst possible moment) but can also slide around.

[pinkheartfleece]

I passive aggressively emailed my professor to make him stop ignoring my adjustment plan and then used the phrase "as a disabled student" to make him shit himself into doing it

round here we call that a

[clowningcrows]

my god ive MISSED the feeling of being so intensely hyperfixated on smth (bonus points if its special interest related) that i feel a little bit like im losing my mind vibrating foaming at the mouth over it and can think of nearly nothing else except that thing

[abcsofadhd]

(Source: Me, on twitter)

[europasage]

adhd tip: in lessons, if you are struggling to focus on what the teacher is saying, keep a tally in the corner of your page of how often they say a specific word. for example, in a biology lesson, the word might be "cell" - every time the teacher says the word cell, put in the tally.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[jjkpjmoon]

when i’m overstimulated and someone tries to comfort me

[boatcats]

IDK what autistic or adhd person with a selectively extremely accurate memory needs to hear this but... write yourself the reminder note even if there's only a chance you'll need it.

[misssclumsy]

[fcntasmas]

having adhd and continuously putting off important tasks is so fucking embarrassing like i want to i WANT to get through this important, time-sensitive task but idk how to explain to you that my brain is just refusing to compartmentalize and yeah i’m doing it last minute or yeah the date i was supposed to do it by is a week behind me now do you think i’m HAPPY about that do you think it doesn’t eat at me from the inside to know i’m incapable of doing something important on time sometimes do you think i’m telling you about this now because i WANT to feel your judgement over my failings and not because i have to explain myself somehow???

adhd is fucking embarrassing and i wish some people online would stop making it a funny silly quirky thing to have lmao