#adhd and add

[bchemiqn]

NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE !!! do u also hate it when other people u know irl (mostly neurotypicals) also like ur hyperfixation? i get weirdly possessive but since I can’t shut up about it, the people around me start liking it and then im mad lol.

i think it’s mostly due to them not matching my excitement or just some weird superiority complex i get with my hyperfixations

please share ur thoughts and opinions !!!

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

I had a thought: Nightcore & ADHD?

Without making this way longer than it needs to be...

I loved Nightcore like 7 years ago and still enjoy it from time to time, and I am going to get myself assessed for ADHD in the next year.

ADHD is correlated to brain go zoooooom

Nightcore makes the music go zoooooom

Maybe nightcore was/is appealing because it keeps up with my thought processing and such

[solidwater05]

Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

[retrogamingblog2]

[muppetfreak]

Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

[afilmbyemma]

THANK YOU.

I think it’s really important to start teaching people that Attention Deficit Disorders don’t always have hyperactivity as a symptom. I’m not hyperactive at all - my lack of focus manifests more as mental restlessness for me - so I had ADHD written off as ‘definitely not’. Then I got tested for it when I was 20 and when my results came back the first thing the nurse said was “yeah it’s so severe that it’s probably a minor miracle you graduated from high school.” In most places it’s a lot easier to get tested for attention deficit disorders than autism (if only because of bureaucratic nonsense and lack of funding) so yeah if you’ve been saying to yourself “I’d say I was ADHD if it weren’t for the fact that I’m not hyperactive” go get yourself tested.

[mothmonologue]

My life is a constant cycle between "I need to rest before I burn out" and "I'm wasting my potential, I should work harder"

[helluo-librorums]

I'm starting to romanticize my life again. For the past 4ish years, I've really struggled with my mental health and all of its issues. Every so often, I finally break out of it and can be semi-normal, and now is one of those times. Hopefully, it can last longer than the last time, but I never really know.

I'm gonna try and keep this updated, but I have a really bad memory when it comes to stuff like this. I think it is really important that mental health is talked about more, so I'm really going to try.

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[jaxyscreams]

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[chaosinplural]

i feel like the tragedy of being aroace is that i’m never going to be anyone’s favorite person. like at some point everyone’s favorite person is going to be whoever they have sex with and kiss and i’m never going to want that. hell i don’t even have a best friend now but even if i do i’ll still be second to their boyfriend or girlfriend or husband because that’s how the world works

[neurodivergent-brain]

🎀 when you realise you’ve been masking all your life 🎀

[typhlonectes]

[thehmn]

It might simply be that I don’t frequent ADHD forums enough but I haven’t seen a whole lot of talk about learned social withdrawal.

As a child I made friends left and right but as we all turned into self-conscious teenagers it slowly became more and more difficult for me. Plain and simple, other people thought I was weird. For some reason I never got bullied which I think is related to something my teachers kept telling my parents “She’s such a sweet, bright child and we can tell she’s not malicious or trying to be disruptive on purpose but we can’t teach her anything”

Basically people couldn’t figure me out. I had good social skills with both children and adults, I had a good moral compass, i felt compassion and empathy for others and was willing to go against my friends if I felt they were being bullies, I taught myself English and my drawings showed good observation skills. Because of all that it was decided I should start school a year sooner than most kids and my parents were very proud. Unfortunately that’s probably one of the main reasons why I was never diagnosed with raging ADHD as a child. People soon realized I didn’t do well in a school setting but assumed it was because I “wasn’t done playing” and my ADHD symptoms were interpreted as childishness.

So as I got older my classmates started to distance themselves from me. They were always kind and friendly but they didn’t know how to deal with me and ever since then people have always been worryingly comfortable with calling me weird to my face. I get the impression it’s because they think it’s a choice on my part. To them I’m clearly of “normal intelligence” so I must be acting like this on purpose and my parents would repeatedly tell me to “just act normal” as a child when I told them I was struggling to make friends. I tried so damn hard but kept failing. I knew something had to be different about me and when I first heard about ADHD I thought “That’s me! That’s how I feel!” but my parents said that was impossible because I wasn’t hyperactive.

Because nobody wanted to help me I eventually learned to just stop trying to make friends and keep to myself. I was so tired of being told by friendly, well-meaning people that I was so weird and quirky and unique only for them to distance themselves once they realized it was permanent and not something I could turn on and off for parties. I always enjoyed being alone so it wasn’t a huge loss but it did feel incredibly lonely at times.

Things got a lot better when I became an adult, mostly because adults are generally more chill than teens so my ADHD behavior isn’t as embarrassing to them and ironically they’re often surprised to learn I don’t make friends easily. Unfortunately I learned to be withdrawn in my formative years so new friends are still a rarity. Before I really sat down and put my past into context I even started to wonder if I had autism despite not connecting with anything autistic people said about their experiences. I went as far as to be tested but wasn’t surprised when the diagnosis was negative because of course it was, I kinda already knew that. I was just looking for an explanation.

So while there can be overlap between ADHD and autism (I have just such a friend) my experience is also that oftentimes people with ADHD simply learn to stay away from social situations and entertain ourselves which ends up looking like autism to outsiders.

[thejacketscloset]

Soap is extremely good at math, but his methods for getting his answers confuse Ghost to no end. He goes through added steps to equations Ghost would never even consider, he somehow factors and simplifies at the same time. Despite how complicated Soap's process seems to be though, Ghost has yet to see him be wrong.

Ghost asks Soap about his process once between missions. They're relaxing on base and Soap is going over his formulas for his demolitions, looking for any improvements he could make. Ghost gets another glance at his nearly illegible equations and forgets to hold his tounge before it's too late.

"How in the bloody hell do you make sense of all of that?" He grumbles out, sounding more confused than anything.

Soap glances over to where Ghost is peeking at his notes, and he offers a genuine smile.

"Ah dunno'. Just kinda clump together the things that make most sense." Soap answers. He points to a specific part of his notes as he speeks, but it does little to make them any more clear for Ghost.

Ghost hums and considers the answer for a second.

"Well it's impressive, Johnny. Lord knows I couldn't do all that."

He hardly thinks the praise is anything special, but then he's looking back to Soap's face and he's just beaming at Ghost, and damn if he can't fight off his own smile.