#adhd problems amirite

[allastoredeer]

Oh the ever present dilemma of "should I write or should I draw." If only it was as easy as picking one.

[whumperofworlds]

Me: I'm gonna go write one of my WIPs that's been unfinished for a year!

My brain: Okay but I have another idea. And another. And another.

Me: GOD FUCKING DAMMIT.

[merlions]

Pretty funny how much time and effort my developmental psych textbook dedicated towards information on physical, mental, and learning disabilities & accommodation for them, given how it's only available on a website which has no function to increase text size or change text font/color, meaning that due to a confluence of my own physical, mental, and learning disabilities, I can't fucking read it

[stygianheart]

If anyone is wondering why I’m so weird today, it’s because I discovered (for the millionth time) that my actions, or lack thereof, have consequences. And unfortunately, so does not taking your ADHD meds for three days in a row.

[tonytylerdraws]

For the last couple of weeks (and for the rest of August), I’ve been taking a break from social media and concentrating on rebooting/reevaluating TonyTylerDraws and my art in general.

Don’t worry, I’m not quitting art.

But I want this to be something, not just flailing around like I have been, for years.

And I’d figure something out, only to see someone else doing something different, and upending all my plans to emulate them. ADHD problems, amirite?

So now, I’ve got my plans in place. My webcomics, my stores, my website, etc. Balancing what I want to with what I can do.

Let’s hope it works

[adhdandcomics]

SPONGEBOB!! WHY DID YOU SET ME ON FIRE SPONGEBOB!! WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST WRITE YOUR ESSAY!!1

[lyskari]

ISO: Impulse Control

Me: *Reads comment on their fanfic from an author they admire*

Brain: You know what we have? *Imaginary eyebrow waggle*

Me: No, no, don't you dare!

Brain: We. Have. D O P A M I N E.

Me: NO. It is 2AM. We are NOT writing!

Brain: BUT NICE AUTHOR COMMENTED AND THEY L I K E IT!

Me: NO. You are late night Harley brain. It's Sleep Deprived Delirium(tm) Harley brain that's the more witty writer, and I would rather not hit that level of sleep deprivation.

Brain: *Pouts*

Me: *Ignores*

Brain: *P O U T S*

Me: ...

Brain: ...

Me: *Sighs* Fine. You can write 3 paragraphs.

Brain: YAYYYYY!!!!

[strawberrymomhat]

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[wholesomey-artist]

I am sleepy, hungry but I really REALLY wanna draw everything at once

[bubbleboytyler]

The True ADHD Mood™ is for once having energy and motivation to do things, but not being able to decide which thing you've been putting off you should do while you're motivated to do it, so you end up basically doing nothing because trying to decide what to do is too stressful and you don't wanna ruin your Energy by Stressing but your indecision is in and of itself Stressful and by the time you are able to make a decision, you've lost your motivation

[adhdmoi]

car behind me: [angry honking]

me, can’t breathe because my chest just tightened so much, heart beating rapidly, fighting back tears: just tell me u want me to die already

[roaringdandelions]

I’m writing a bunch of stuff for The Dandelion Chronicles, so that’s fun... but I have random flashes of inspiration for a continuation of my Don Lothario storyline with his little girl... I’m so torn 😫

[melanch0ly-gh0st]

The relatable adhd/autism problem of not having the mental bandwidth to develop valuable skills and sulking over your own incompetence while everytime a family member talks to you about things you should definitely be more experienced with your skull starts melting. 😉

And also whenever you wanna talk to someone about it, you feel as though your environment would only push you down further and the feeling guilts you into silence.

[adhdeancas]

wait so fellow adhder I'm I think that actually all of the TFW are actually ND. Cas has autism, dean has adhd, and hear me out, Sam has ocd. the intrusive thoughts? obsessive behavior? eating and acting clean literally to a point where it is inconvenient for everyone involved? I think he is obsessing over being clean and fresh (compared to demon blood and souless Sam, sleazy and nasty Sam) also I have a few reasons for thinking dean us adhd but y do u think so sorry I'm rambling

let’i’ve been waiting all my life for you to come into my inbox and talk to me about this

of COURSE TFW are ND!!! of course!! and yes, yes, we all know Cas has autism I love my autistic angel and i love the hc that Sam has ocd because it does fit really well!

(sectioned all of this out because it’s better for adhders to read, you get it)

his ocd directly bleeds into his poor self-esteem like you said with the demon blood! he feels the need to be pure and even though he canonically knows that these things (like eating clean, running, etc) can’t help his problem, he still tries because he kind of... has to. 

also OCD is often connected to a need for control, and the physical state of sam’s body is the one thing he has control over (which is also where we get into eating disorder territory). Sam has had so little control over his life, especially growing up, and for most his childhood, he didn’t even control what he ate (with Dean making/buying his meals). SO once he gets out of that environment, he hyperfixates on this new freedom!

we can also go to the hand pressing with this. a literal compulsion that even after the effect of the pain wears off once the hand heals, he still does it as a grounding method. nonsensical compulsion to calm anxiety? yes OCD 

can also be linked to childhood trauma but what ND can’t be amirite

emotional regulation once again - remember Angry Boy King Sammy? So angry he doesn’t know what to do and can’t control it and feels like he’s gonna explode with the rage?

intrusive (sometimes violent) thoughts are a huge marker for OCD and Sam’s obviously sometimes come from Unnatural means but they are also a part of him and kind of always have been

religious themes are also huge in OCD which Fits and makes me EMOTIONAL Sam I’m so sorry he spent his whole childhood feeling unclean and unholy and Fixated on that to the point of praying to a God his family didn’t believe in just so he could be Clean fuck

also i think it’s really interesting and cool that of the two brothers, Sam shows the most obvious signs of OCD even though he is canonically the messier brother and the brother not worried about IRL germs (i know the writers didn’t try to do this but i don’t care they didn’t play into the OCD means i must germex! trope)

AND ADHD DEAN!!! 

let’s first look at the obvious: Dean is highly skilled in combat, even though he hates physical exercise. Why? ADHD brain tied up with anxiety is hardwired into flight or fight, not sit and focus on one thing. it’s constantly picking up on threats and peripheral vision and all that shit 

he also has a spotty history with books! like i’ve said before, not shit writing, this is Dean’s ADHD. Dean as a kid read some high-brow books and he still does occasionally but he doesn’t nearly as much as an adult because it became much harder!! and because he just couldn’t devote that much attention, even as a kid, to things that he wasn’t really interested in! This is why he hates research

he’s known far and wide for his impulsiveness, his knee jerk decisions. it’s part of what makes him a good hunter and part of what makes him human disorder incarnate - It’s ADHD

Low frustration tolerance and rejection-sensitive dysphoria! Dean has a really hard time regulating his emotions and especially anger - especially especially especially when he feels like he’s being rejected or abandoned. it’s literally his worst fear 

^^^^ rejection-sensitive dysphoria also plays into his low self-esteem (god poor kid to have RSD in an environment growing up where Everyone Was Constantly Busting Each Other’s Balls and couldn’t be emotionally available to also tell you they actually love you), high self standards, and social anxiety (he’s a bullshitter, his chameleon charm is also a symptom of his social anxiety and RSD) 

also Dean has lots of sleep problems both ways and complicated relationships with motivation and inner restlessness versus a yearning for stability 

comfort items / food!! now i can’t find the research on this so forgive me because i know i’ve read it somewhere that ADHDers tend to gravitate toward familiar things or foods! (like Dean’s burgers and his car / motels that are all basically the same) it is a very ND thing in general as well

along that line, ADHDers tend to have sensory processing issues - it’s why Dean has an Outfit Recipe of the same types of clothes that he sticks to - also why he delights so much in sensory stuff like magic fingers and the Dead Guy Robe

(((jfc i thought of this point while writing out the last one and then forgot it and had to stare at the screen for a minute, now I’ve forgotten it again while writing this thank you adhd))) AH YES! auditory processing! Remember how we make fun of Dean for his lame comebacks? Remember how we make fun of him for his buffer speed in The Scene? baby that’s because it takes him five extra seconds to translate those words let alone RESPOND

not to mention people with ADHD often have much higher rates of anxiety/depression (duh) and substance abuse (yes)

lmao in researching this the article I was looking at says that lead exposure as a child can lead to ADHD and jfc you KNOW those shitty motels had Exclusively Lead Paint smh

BUT ONE OF MY FAVORITES of course has to be that Dean gets along so well with autistic Cas!! as an adhd dude with an autistic best friend, WE DIG! adhd and autism go so well together because we can get each other in ways that others just Can’t. adhd and autism have a lot of overlap/similarities in brain function and shit. 

tend to eschew social conventions and be much more straightforward/want that in others

they can both have the tendency to fidget and depending on upbringing mask that for some people - which also leads to being social chameleons

they both have comfort items / foods that NT find really strange or childish in my experience

sensory disorders!!! cas with his ONE OUTFIT and Dean with his different colored ONE OUTFIT 

Anyway i’m in love with this and i have so many thoughts but here are a few of them thank you very much for this ask i love that you came to me 

[umbrellahat07]

Story time, because I just remembered this, and I think it's funny, so I hope the funny stories of my middle school misadventures make your day a little better.

So, to preface this story, my partner whom I have been with for over 2 years has adhd. And sometimes, because of that, she does this thing where she thinks she's saying actual words, but really she's just standing there with a blank expression on her face going "umm..... uh... uhh... yeah."

At the time of this story, however, I was unaware of this thing that sometimes happens. So, that important context being established, on with the story:

So we must think back to those weird, awkward days of middle school, 7th grade to be precise. It was a nice October afternoon, a Monday, about an hour after the end of school, the sun was shining, we just ended a Model UN meeting, and we were the last two leaving (on purpose might I add, I was purposefully stalling for privacy because I knew I would probably embarrass myself)

See, earlier that day, (or probably the week before actually, I planned ahead) I had made up my mind I was gonna tell my crush I liked her. So we're standing near the front door of the school, outside the library. As dramatic as it sounds, there was this kind of golden light all over from how the sun was shining through the windows. It's the perfect moment to tell her, really. Very romantic and all that.

So I turn to her, pull her aside for a minute and say I want to ask her something, and proceed to confess in just about the most awkward way I possibly could have. It went something like this:

"So, you know how I said I had a crush on someone, and that they're a girl? Yeah well, that was true, and you're the girl. That I have a crush on. I like you."

To which she, ever so eloquently replied:

"Uhh.... um.... uh... Well anyway, bye, see you tomorrow!"

And I fucking panicked. This is NOT what was supposed to happen, this is not what happened in the fanfiction I read, she's supposed to say she likes me too, and then we kiss, and angels sing and butterflies follow us around and there's rainbows and we live happily ever after, the end. Ok not really but still.

So I'm absolutely panicking, freaking out, a nervous wreck, but quietly, because my mom doesn't know about this yet. And we don't talk that afternoon, and I'm freaking out because I think she hates me now and our friendship is ruined and my friend was wrong when they said they thought she liked me and I am literally so anxious I cannot function. This continues into the next day, and she was not there because the universe just fucking hates me apparently, and I go to all my friends to ask them what to do. They tell me to calm down, as one would expect. So I try to calm down and come to terms with the fact that I'm probably fucked, but at least I have another day of things being ok before she's back tomorrow.

So halfway through the day she comes back, she wasn't sick, she had a doctor appointment. We sit next to each other in our second to last class, which at the time was band, and it's very awkward but we don't get a chance to talk yet.

So we walk together to our last class, PE, and on the walk to PE she finally tells me she likes me too.

Omfg did that take way too fucking long amirite? Btw, there was also about a month of painfully awkward and comical miscommunication and avoiding our mutual crushing on each other before all this went down, but I decided to spare the details on all that.

The point is that only recently did I learn the funniest part of this, while telling my partner this story from my perspective. What I thought was them being awkward and not knowing how to respond to me saying I like them, they thought was actually words. They thought they said they liked me back that afternoon. They actually said "uh....um....bye" THINK OF THE PROBLEMS WE COULD HAVE AVOIDED IF I HAD KNOWN THIS WAS A THING THEY DID! Anyway so the point is that a relationship is a difficult and actually really awkward thing and communication and getting to know your the way your partner communicates are very important and can avoid a lot of problems. And also the point is that me and my partner were awkward idiots in middle school and we think it's funny.

Anyway I hope yall find this as funny as we do because omfg we were such idiots! (Sometimes I wonder how we managed to do anything.)

[strawberiitea]

help i missed today’s stream and it was canon please tell me what happened

*dramatically cracks fingers*

Techno and Techno bonding we love that

Techno gave Tommy a turtle helment that Tommy fuckin adores

They plan to make a tunnel to L'manburg (specifically their dogs)

Mother fuckers got spot by connor

Techno's adhd proceeded to kick in

They take connor hostage

They torture connor for a bit

Techno tries to bargain Connor for his items back

Techno realises that his plan is flawed as shit

Techno proceeds anyways

Ranboo and Tubbo get involved

Tommy and Tubbo face eachother for the first time in ages

Tubbo tries to process that tommy is alive

Tommy reminds Tubbo that he exiled him and is overall bitter

There's just a bunch of angst while connor cries in the background

Tommy's allyship with Techno is also revealed

Tubbo is upset

Tommy tells him he had no choice

Man. ✨angst✨

Techno successfully traded connor's life for his pickaxe and rocket launcher

Tommy processes his encounter and wonders if Tubbo is a "wrongen"

Techno encourages this thought (personally i don't think this is manipulation at. All. I honestly think Techno genuinely thinks Tubbo is a bad person with the knowledge he has ((tommy being exiled by him, tubbo never visiting)))

Dream catches them as they try to leave to the nether

Tommy panics

Dream tries to further manipulate Tommy, while Techno interjects with comments about his homelessness

Tommy openly states and acknowledges Dream's manipulation

Dream demands Tommy comes with him

Techno steps in and protects him (very fucking pog champ)

But then immediately mentions the favor (this made me hella fucking sus of him and made me question his intentions and this whole arc, but i care them so im hanging onto the loose thread that he could've been bluffing)

Dream shoots it down, foreshadowing it's use in the future

Dream tells Tommy he lives another day. For now.

Tommy cusses him out (good for him. Good for him.)

Tommy freaks the fuck out about it afterwards

Mans proceeds to feel invinsible

Like he starts celebrating it and jumps into fucking lava taking no damage

"Hey Techno? Thank you."

"No problem."

They get back to their base

Tommy asks to see Techno's rocket launcher

He realises it was the same rocket launcher that killed tubbo

Haha. Ptsd amirite❤

Tommy leaves, trying to process the events.

I'm at your service 😌