#adhd innatentive

[criminalmindsfanantic]

You wanna know what (my) ADHD is like?

ADHD is deciding you want to work on one of your WIPs so you grab a coffee and head to the library because it’s a change of scenery and it’s quiet, but you already had your AirPods in when you got there, so you spend the first fifteen minutes making trying to find the song that sounds suspiciously similar to the one you’re already listening to before you actually start writing.

Everything is going smoothly and flowing well until you have to fact-check something and while you’re looking for the answer you stumble across a TikTok video you made (because you use TikTok for fact/accuracy checking) and then you start scrolling through other videos you have made and find one that did really well, basically a collection of pictures of your favorite actresses, so you decide to make an updated version and you start alternating between Pinterest, Instagram, and Google to find photos.

Trying to find the perfect photos takes way longer than you expect because you find photos you think would be useful for other projects and you are also having to make sure the photos you chose for this project are the best quality, and during that process, you realize the lighting that is coming through the window where you’re sitting is really good so you snap some selfies and then you go back to looking for photos but then you notice a wholesome interaction between who you assume is a father and a daughter and you just have to write about it and then you can go back to looking for pictures.

At some point, you start thinking about buying a camera because you’ve been wanting one for years so you do about five minutes of “research” (looking up “best cameras for beginners” on TikTok and then doing a quick google search) before adding a camera and a lens to your amazon cart, but then you look at the total and think “that’s a lot of money” so you look up when cameras go on sale because the only sale you can think of is Black Friday/Cyber Monday and it’s currently February and you find there is usually a sale in July/August so you set a reminder in your calendar and move the two items in your amazon cart to your wish list.

After all of that, you switch back to the story you were supposed to be working on and you realize it’s been over two and a half hours, you’ve written 100 words for your work in progress, written a 186-word account of the wholesome interaction you witnessed, got nowhere near finishing the TikTok video you were working on, your music has changed from sad piano playlist to the playlist you listen to when you want to feel like the badass main character, you talked yourself out of buying $600 worth of camera equipment, and you are about to poop your pants from finishing your Dunkin cold brew over an hour ago.

ADHD is also being unaware that you were so deep into the hyperfocus zone until you’re sitting in your car and you return to reality and you remember that other people are not just NPCs.

ADHD is also coming back to edit this because you realized no ADHD person is going to want to read that long of a paragraph (including me) 🤦‍♀️ It still big paragraphs but it’s a bit better now imo

[thechainsawtango]

ADHD is not the “haha quirky” disability that TikTok trends made us out to be, and it’s so so disheartening to realize that some still think about our disability in this light.

Also, ADHD IS a disability. And we are just as disabled as those who have different disabilities. I’ve seen so many people make it like ADHD is like, a “diet” disability or something. To that, there is no such thing.

We struggle SO much. We mask, we develop RSD, our symptoms stress us out SO MUCH, and we’re still seen as “haha look! A squirrel!” Something that’s silly and quirky and glosses over our disability, and make us feel like we’re faking being disabled, that we’re not as disabled as others, or that we’re overreacting,

And idk it’s just kinda sad.

[amihungryorbored]

might have accidentally stolen an olive oil bottle from the grocery store

[timeflieslikeabanana]

ADHD

I want to sleep, but

My brain's hosting a party

It's crazy up there.

[hasellia]

At my sister's request, inattentive adhd creature.

[borderline-gays-club]

Wow dancing to my dopamine music really helps me emotionally regulate. Why did it take me this long to realize this 😂😂

[ddaeng-angmoh]

I really hate driving 😭😭😭

It's terrifying feeling like I am not fully attentive or aware even after taking my adhd medication. It's also hard to stim while driving djfjfjjf. There is this one road specifically I dislike because everyone speeds on it. It goes through a reserve with a lot of shops so I realllly hate speeding. I get so anxious and feel like I get performance anxiety and omg, are they judging me? Jdjdnjdf Ik people aren't but the anxiety says otherwise.

(Fact check this please) I remember reading that adhd people and accidents increase by ~22% when unmedicated. I believe it when I know how I am even after meds

[depression-fork]

me as a kid reading pjo: that’s cool, but I can’t possibly have adhd because I’m not hyperactive and I do well in school.

also me as a kid reading pjo: I have never related to a group of characters more in my entire life.

me as a kid reading pjo: i wish i had adhd! that’s sounds so cool!

me rn: take it back. TAKE IT BACK I DONT WANT IT

[baskeigh-ball]

Ahhh, sorry minor thing (has to do with your body swap comic) just thinking about the Mikey sensory overload bit. I saw this thread on it talking about his sensory issues and it hasn't left my mind since. It basically was a bunch of clips showcasing those issues in the show so seeing it in a comic is such a woah moment. Basically I was just curious on your thoughts on it.

yooo there's a whole thread about it? i haven't seen that but now i really want to omg if anybody has the link or something lmk

ok anyways rant under the cut lets go

I have a Few Thoughts about the bros and their neurodivergencies, both the ones headcanoned by fans and the ones actually confirmed

And these are the two main confirmed ones from the writer/producer of the show! Donnie's was a given just by observing how he's characterized in the show, and Mikey's became obvious once you recognize how hyper and impulsive he can be sometimes.

That one scene in Donnie's Gifts perfectly encapsulates how his brain works for me, where he forgot to mention a famous chef turned into a pig mutant live on television because he wanted to make sure the food he was making at the time turned out right and literally just forgot about the whole ordeal right after lmao

I'll be honest, a lot of the characteristics of ADHD he exhibits for me are mostly personal headcanons since I never took much notice of how his actions in the show can be recontextualized with the knowledge he's neurodivergent, but the one thing I DID notice is how often he goes into his shell.

Obviously it's a box turtle thing, his species is more inclined to hide in their shell since the carapace can actually close fully, making it a viable survival tactic. And with ADHD, I imagine any kind of unpleasant sensation or a sensory overload would trigger this escape mechanism, since being in his shell is equated with safety and control for him. It keeps the Bad Vibes out and lets him recenter himself

As for what would cause a sensory overload for him I have no clue, maybe it wouldn't be anything specific and I don't want to just project my own sensory issues onto him so I shall leave that open ended for now.

Though I do imagine food would be a big thing for him. It seems like one of his bigger special interests, so I'd find it to be an interesting dilemma for him to have a limited palate despite his interest in cooking. He would definitely make it a personal mission to experiment and try as many things as possible just for the chance to find new stuff he finds enjoyable, but in the process end up finding out a bunch of other foods are practically inedible for him.

If anyone has other thoughts on this feel free to add them, I love these kinds of discussions on character analyses and trying to see how their neurodivergencies are portrayed within the context of the show :]

[madebypointlesswords]

If there's any meme that perfectly describes me (and my adhd) its this one

[thatadhdautisticqueer]

Ok, but this is so true. I've become an expert in this, even though I'm pretty sure I'm autistic because that's what I had to do to make people understand.

I'm sorry but us with ADHD can be great liars. I can't tell you how much I lied through childhood until now just to justify my lost items to my parents or why i missed my appointments to anyone.

[princessflaw]

"I def have adhd lol I just feel so hyper today" "isn't adhd just being quirky/loud?" "everyone is a little hyper/distracted" "this is the new tik tok trend"

[sweettsubaki]

Officially ADHD or as they told me : "you've got literally all the points of the innatentive type and like 1 part of the hyperactive type which is linked to the innatentive type aka impulsion".

Also apparently they couldn't give me an IQ answer because I alternated between average and really above average in between each exercise within the same parts of the tests. Which I personally find hilarious (tbf I think the IQ test is not particularly useful aside from testing somebody's memory and between my anxiety added to my then suspected ADHD, my memory has always alternated between excellent and absolutely terrible, so my main surprise was the average instead of terrible here). They did say I'd have some number about I don't remember what when they'd send me the file tho.

[catboyelimgarak]

I’m so tired

[amihungryorbored]

wait no I ate a pear at some point I think 4 hours ago?

realized I haven't eaten anything in 12 hours right after chugging a gatorade hello gastritis my old friend

[borderline-gays-club]

Bro it’s so hard to emotionally regulate anger with adhd shit. Everything is so fucking frustrating and I always feel overwhelmed with everything and shit is constantly chaotic and Big and A LOT . I’m so tired 🙄

Like my room is a mess, shit has been collecting dust for so long, all my digital files is a shit show, I literally will have pockets of time that just disappear, my short term memory is GOD awful, my auditory processing shit makes me annoying to ppl cus I gotta ask ppl to repeat shit (which then triggers BPD abandonment shit), I misinterpret social stuff too and am confused a lot lol (also has to do with BPD), and I just have stuff in piles and trying to organize things slowly has backfired a lot bc I keep moving shit around in temporary places and I forget where the fuck I put everything. Etc etc etc..

God as much as I love the positive traits of adhd, this shit is fully a disability in this capitalist world. Bc honestly if I didn’t have to work and worry abt money I don’t think this shit wud b this disabling. I can’t believe I didn’t think I was disabled like hello !!!!

Big sigh.