#adhd attributes

[rollingsince91]

One thing I have learnt is that pattern recognition can prove to be such a strong attribute.

Man, I'm putting all my skill points on that!

[ofmiceandwomen]

After all those years of endless daydreaming, inability to keep track of my personal things, time blindness, auditory issues…

I got my official ADHD diagnosis today. I’m 27. I’m getting medication and I’m very hopeful.

[hilacopter]

hate how people can't fucking differentiate between ADD and ADHD and don't understand that it has different degrees of severity like autism does. don't know if it's just a my country/language thing but here we call it either ADHD or attention deficit disorder kind of just interchangeably, which is a big fucking problem because it doesn't acknowledge the hyperactivity and everyone with ADD just gets lumped in as ADHD because I guess we forgot what the damn H stands for. nowadays every kid is getting diagnosed with it (often self diagnosed or by their parents just because they daydream in class and fidget sometimes) so I get situations where I explain to people how I need to pace around and I need constant stimulation and I can't retain information well and all of my ADHD traits aren't things I can just change and they go "well I/my kid/whoever else has attention deficit disorder and they don't need to do all those things, stop using it as an excuse" do you understand my hell.

[lunathewafflelord]

I think I might have ADHD. I’ll have to bring it up next time I’m at my therapist.

To anyone who has taken a test for ADHD, what was it like? It’s been a LOOOOOOONG time since my autism diagnosis (like. over a decade) so I don’t remember much about what it was like, and I’m sure the tests are different now than they were then.

Is ADHD testing similar to autism testing? Or is it very different? I’d like to know about what to expect!

[moltara]

the fact i got laios on that dunmeshi uquiz continues to make me second guess my whole life btw like. Do i actually have autism??????????????

[wanderingmind867]

I still really relate to The Hulk. The idea of having two personas: one very quiet and shy while the other is the manifestation of the anger he bottled up... that's uncanny it's relatability. I'm incredibly lonely irl, with my only friend being my dad. But whenever I'm at school, I go all quiet and end up almost seeing like the most well behaved and reserved student. Yet when I get home, I have my violent mood swings wherein I'll sometimes even end up hitting my dad or calling him names. For me The Hulk is incredibly relatable for those very reasons. His personas pretty much represent two aspects of me, as well.

[macroglossus]

being evaluated for adhd by having one of those full psych evals that last like two hours. scared frightened etc.... last time i took it i lied extensively bc i was 13 and thought they might tell my mommy if i said i had suicidal thoughts. and i still have a habit of lying to therapists bc i'm embarrassed......... AGH idk. what if i take it and they tell me that the reason im Like This is bc im genuinely just weird and shitty and not bc im mentally ill at all. SCARED

[ileftherbackhome]

people getting mad headcanons to me is like getting mad at someone for playing pretend incorrectly like what do you mean i'm pretending this character is autistic incorrectly?

[whathehonestfuk]

Me knowing concussions are very bad but thinking people exaggerate them for fanfiction

My mom : you've had multiple diagnosed concussions in your life

Me who has zero memory of any of this: 😧

[do-you-know-this-adhd-character]

Do you know this (noncanon) ADHD character?

Evidence below the cut!

First of - he's really impulse. He easily gets angry and can be calmed down pretty fast. He has trouble with staying in one place and waiting. Second of - he can get really hooked on one thing and just become a specialist on it only if he's interested. It's partially the reason why he never finished school. He also has problems with speech and is overall quite clumsy. Also in general he can't make a plan that works. Honestly very oblivious example of a guy who everyone would call lazy but he clearly isn't.

[puppysdog]

sometimes im like maybe its not adhd maybe its ocd but i really hate that i keep realizing i possibly have more and/or other stuff

[georgierre]

noah fence but whenever someone continuously considers george's blunt honesty as rude or arrogant rubs me the wrong way .

[papertute]

Basically, it goes:

Am I neurodivirgent/neurodevergent/neurodivergent/neurodiverigent (Oh god, help, how do I spell it)?

Officially – no

According to my family – no, but there's definitely something wrong with you, why exactly you are like this? weird? Oh well, hopefully it will go away one day

According to my friends – yes, most definitely, either that or you're one crazy fucker, or both, actually, it would make a lot of sense honestly

According to random people I met – yesn't, because sometimes I feel like pretending to be a log and observing my hands, because oh wow, I didn't know I had whole TEN fingers, gee, and sometimes I make paper airplanes out of note that has my number in line for Final and Very Important Exam™ and then sent it flying through the awaiting room ignoring all other participants because I forgot they exist and are, in fact, capable of judging me.

According to online tests – yes, probably, you need to get help from professionals to make sure, tho

According to professionals – they have nothing to say about this, they don't exist in my close proximity, in my town, in my region, or in my fucking life (pardon for the language, I really tried, but there's this much I can do)

What about me? What do I think of this?

I think it doesn't matter. :D👍 Either neurodivergent folk is being very damn good at being relatable and I'm an asshole who overthinks stuff, or I'm one of them and I can- I don't know what I can do with that, actually. Yet again, in my country, the ✨✨✨Great Atlantis✨✨✨, we don't have any easily accessible medication or therapy for this kind of situations. So, I deem it unworthy to care about something that would bring me nothing but judge.

Instead I would prefer to take care of myself, acknowledge what I can do, what I can't, what I need for this and what I should avoid.

Make sure you take care of yourself too! ✨✨✨

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

Learning more about my ADHD through like, a book that talks about symptoms and traits I had no idea were from ADHD ironically makes me hate having adhd less

[bread-tab]

me when not dissociating: I need to be more self-aware. Hold on to my sense of self and agency. I need to remember my affirmations and resilience and stuff. I can do this

dissociating: It was a dark and stormy night. The cold seeped into him until his bones were heavy with ice and sorrow. An obligation loomed in the near future, social expectations like an electric fence at the bottom of the hill. There are no brakes on the wagon, no brakes, no brakes

[wanderingmind867]

A fear of mine is that I'll end up alone. Because i legitimately can't see anyone wanting to tolerate me besides my dad. Because I am a horrible, horrible person sometimes. If i opened up and showed you my temperament and anger issues, you'd find someone who throws things and screams at people and behaves madly when in a foul mood. But you'd also see someone so afraid of judgement that they never open up and share these issues with anyone.

Moving to another aspect of myself, you would also see someone who can't run a bath by themselves. Who can't cook, who can't do much of anything really. I rely on my dad for it all. If he dies and I have a friend, I will probably rely on them for it all too. I am lazy and cripplingly dependent. So that's why I'm terrified of him dying.

And finally, I'm a coward. Almost everything seems to scares me. And when I'm scared, I tend to like having someone there to call me down. Especially since my fright can sometimes get bad enough to make me panic about sleep for months on end.

So you see...this is why it's hard for me to make friends. I can't bring myself to share these horrible aspects of myself with anyone, because they'll probably ostracise me for them. I mean...who wants to deal with a violent and cowardly person who depends on people for help with everyday tasks? I'll make you help me, then I very well might yell at you. I'm deeply unpleasant (even I can see that). And I... I just don't see any way that somebody could see past all of that.