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have a presentation tomorrow that i have to finish my powerpoint for and i also need to like go to bed at 12 so i just downed a whole mug of black tea in like 10 mins hopefully this will give me some focus maybe 😭
#michelle speaks#75mg of caffeine in 10 mins vs adhd who will win. the answer might shock u.#it is literally just a silly little presentation abt my externship that i hate that i have to do for TEN MINS.#but it’s fine. yes i will take my medication to sedate me an hr before hand so i will be out of it during even tho it doesn’t matter#crazy how i can raise my hand in one class and share my controversial feminist takes & not care#vs my externship seminar where not a single person even remotely cares w like 15 ppl i’m like i can’t do this presentation w/o lowering my#blood pressure until i am too sleepy to care anymore. what’s up w that?
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wild that my mom is so very autistic and yet did not think either of us were autistic until i got my evaluation (which required an interview with her) and was diagnosed. she still doesn't think she's autistic but at least she's come around about me.
#honestly think many of her OCD-type tendencies are primarily a manifestation of autistic traits#also her social skills feel uh. very autistic to me#i got my ADHD from my dad probably tho. when i got diagnosed as a kid he frequently talked about likely also having it#and he tried getting me to self-medicate with coffee too#sadly i have a brain that seems to not really respond to caffeine but at least i can enjoy a tasty beverage in the evening#and not stay up all night#poast.txt
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so we use these little packs of disposable travel toothbrushes that we can keep next to our bed and don't have to rinse after using them or anything because between executive dysfunction, sensory issues, and fatigue, this is basically the only way we can keep up with brushing our teeth regularly.
anyway, I realised we'd almost ran out and went to buy more and they suddenly aren't available anywhere. we'd get a pack of 24 for relatively cheap and now all I can seem to find are packs of 1 or 2 "travel toothbrushes" that are basically just normal toothbrushes for the same price as a pack of the ones we normally get. the brand that made them has nothing about them on its website besides a pack of 2 toothbrushes listed under the same name that aren't the same product.
so anyway now I need to figure out an alternative for the sake of actually being able to manage our dental hygiene because the one thing that was letting us do that somewhat adequately isn't available anymore
#personal#thoughts#🍬 post#vent post#we've found a couple of places selling them but they're places that don't ship to the UK#and it would be way too expensive to use a proxy service for them#also we do have a normal toothbrush but we pretty much never use it because having to get up and stand at the sink is hell#and sometimes isn't an option at all certain symptoms flare up too badly#and that whole ''keep a cup of water next to your bed to rinse it in'' thing doesn't work well with our contamination OCD#also on a related note I'm trying to buy energy drinks (the things we're reliant on for managing our ADHD at this point)#and the delivery options are like... we can get them on the 11th-13th for £4.99 or on the 8th for £22.99 which feels ridiculous#but we only have 8 left so I guess I'm going with the cheaper option and I'm just gonna have to not have caffiene for maybe a few days#and hope we don't completely lose track of everything given how bad our ADHD has been even with caffeine lately#the bad ADHD is the reason I didn't get round to ordering more of them earlier in the first place. ugh#I hate trying to work around so many different medical issues that all make it so fucking hard to do basic shit
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starting 2024 by cooking up a nicotine addiction
#поехали#ive been so fucking anxious like... yesterday i smoked a cig just because- ruining my rule of only smoking in social settings or travel#and im like fuck it might get a vape so i can take the edge off (without needing to go outside and freeze lmao) whenever anxiety creeps up#also like my consumption of caffeine has been bonkers for year i need another form of self medicating my adhd lol
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idk if it's genuine excitement or the energy drink i had earlier that's actually letting me focus and work but dude. i am CRUSHING this essay. this is Fun To Write. i think i'm actually doing a really good job here. wtf. i love my major man
#i am a LITTLE bit sad i cant do grad school bc like. im going to miss writing essays and researching and all once i graduate#i do genuinely like doing it. call me a nerd or whatever but i love it esp when its on smth fun and interesting like this#now im not sad enough to actually DO grad school lmao#unless i got offered a scholarship or smth idk. wont happen but. hm. if it did.#seriously tho. i would think more seriously abt it if it werent for my adhd. i just dont think its realistic for me#as much as i like my field i dont think i have the ability to focus well enough to complete the work id need to complete#i went to the meeting abt grad school i learned abt what it requires/why people do it and all. i just dont think i can do that#and bc i ultimately cant get diagnosed -> cannot get help/medication thats not going to improve any time soon#after years of learning how to adapt and work with my brain this is probably the best i can do without medical/institutional intervention#its not worth paying a shitload of money and possibly setting my career back by years only to fail out yk?#im not too torn up abt it. ill give it more thought if it becomes relevant but rn its not really on my radar#ive done an excellent job in school! im getting an honours degree (hopefully)! most people dont even get that far#a lot of people with my condition dont even get into university let alone graduate. im incredibly lucky to be able to do what i can#levi.txt#this is all over the place but takeaway is im having a good time! things are coming together i feel confident in my work#im gathering theorists and sources for the section on night of the living dead and having a blast#ive got my examples all lined up my arguments make sense in my head i know where to look for applicable theories etc etc#i just need supporting quotes and im working on that rn!! it hasnt even been that hard#ok. back to work. i need to harness the power of caffeine once more (made my brain quiet) (no longer full of bees) (im in charge)
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I haven't had an urge to write fanfic in years why do i want to do it Right Now when I have an entire presentation to put together by tomorrow
#i don't even have any good coffee#i bought cold brew cause it takes forever to make but the stuff i bought is awful#it tastes like water put in a thermos that's only ever been used for coffee#and i don't drink coffee very fast so hot coffee gets a Weird Texture as it cools#and it has to be coffee cause caffeine doesn't do shit for me but the flavor of strong black coffee does#something about grounding me maybe?#fuck if i know#but I've been on 6 different ADHD medications so i can tell you that stimulants definitely do not affect me even a little#ceaseless rambles
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spent like a whole half hour just calling pharmacies to see if they have my ADHD meds in stock and boy howdy am I glad I managed to call one right after they received a shipment of it bc this shit is, as they say, bananas
#I switched to a different pharmacy from my regular one back in the fall#not for my anxiety meds tho. no. just for ADHD meds. bc my regular pharmacy has had them on backorder for like six months now#and then last month I had to call around OTHER pharmacies bc the one I had switched to for my ADHD meds was now out as well#tbh the only reason I tried this NEW NEW pharmacy which happened to have my meds#was bc last month the doctor's office suggested it#tho even then the guy on the phone was like ''yeah get the script sent over NOW#bc I don't know how many pills have been promised to other people''#seriously this is fucking INSANE and I'm BEYOND frustrated#esp bc like. a lot of people with ADHD can self-medicate with caffeine if need be#BUT I. CAN'T.#I have a heart condition that requires me to take it easy on the caffeine now#gone are the days where I'd forget my meds and just drink Mountain Dew to get through school#I can only do like. tea.#and only every other day.#so if the pharmacies around here FULLY run out?#.....I don't know what I'll do#speecher speaks
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Exploring the possibility that my adhd might not be my brain being entirely broken, but might just be a norepinephrine deficit and I might need to switch meds
#when i did some looking. are you seriously telling me that SUDAFED can help??? ppl use it to make meth and what's an adhd med? same base#lowkey wanna try medicating with caffeine to see if it helps but idk about it with my POTS bc of my heart already beating fast#i sat there in therapy like. i just wish it was easier to do things. i struggle to do things i like doing#wanna draw all day at work and then i get home and open my sketchbook and i'm like. oh i don't want this actually#and snris got suggested and the more reading i'm doing the more it sounds like something i want to look into#they tried to put me on one years ago! desvenlaxafine; i just struggled to swallow pills so i couldn't take it#but i think it's worth revisiting; i think it would be cool to feel like it's not a struggle to perform basic tasks#shai speaks
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Speaking of my fear of malingering, the one nice thing about being denied caffeine for a day is I occasionally convince myself caffeine is “causing” my adhd (despite my symptoms having shown up long before I ever drank caffeine) and. No. I’m just as fidgety, just as distractible, just as reliant on alarms and rigidly enforced habit to move me from X to Y.
#i do get shit from doctors etc about it from time to time#and while I know that many people with adhd self-medicate with caffeine#there’s always that seed of doubt#I also have chronic insomnia and it’s easy to lay that at the feet of caffeine consumption#but it honestly doesn’t make a difference#I can Really Tie One On with the tea and sleep like a baby#(if I can overcome the ‘finally getting snuggled into bed and OH GOD I HAVE TO PISS’)#and the insomnia and general sleep problems ALSO predated my caffeine consumption#i can know all this. but when someone’s giving you The Look and they’re an authority figure.#hard not to feel like maybe IM the problem
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Idk if it's bc I had my first soda in years about 9 hrs ago but I feel so focused like I haven't felt in ages
#ignore me#maddie lifeblogs#I mean. I'm still distractible but I felt so energized to be productive earlier??#then ofc I got trapped by tumblr lmao#but man. that plus the nice warm sunny weather I was like. I'm gonna Get Stuff Done#this is what I mean when I say it legit takes me 9hrs for caffeine to kick in so I never bother#but we had free lunch at work w drinks and there was diet mt dew..... my beloved.......#like. I don't feel hyper or anything just. laser focused?? like where's my fanfic wips I feel like I could actually do something w those#................wait is this what self-medicating w caffeine is like for adhd omg#huh yknow what I can see it now#also too bad it's my bedtime :) I want to get stuff done but alas :)
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Anyway. A friend turned this into a creative writing assignment and got a high grade, points for creativity, and a "by the way, I really enjoyed the Ninja Turtles cartoon, it made me remember the one from the 80s" from the professor. Happy New Year to me.
Anyway. This is neurodivergent parallel play. Yay!
#ROTTMNT#these good boys#rise of the neurodivergent teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the tmnt#the ninja turtles are autistic#the ninja turtles are not monsters and they never were#the ninja turtles can cross over with anything#the tmnt are eternal#the ninja turtles are codependent and intertwined#being neurodivergent#parallel play#cryptid culture#weird as us#how do you do fellow humans#being autistic and adhd with processing disorders is a neat trick#but everything changed when my mentor coined neurodivergence#the changeling theory of autism#adhd is autism's excitable twin#donnie isn't shy#mikey and donnie slide around the autistic spectrum like me#adhd raphael is accepted#leo stims with kata practice#mikey stims with cartoons and parkour and music so of course he's loud and physical#mikey stims and medicates with caffeine
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coffee is a fucking miracle. I'm so glad I'm one of the people with adhd that caffeine affects like medication
#i can DO THINGS#my room is clean and has been clean for a whole month#not just ''not messy'' either. its CLEAN#im like. sanitizing my counters and mopping regularly#all because of COFFEE#the wall between needing to do something and then doing it is fucking gone#listen i may still want to die but at least my room is clean#anyway i only drink it on the weekends and only ever one cup so i (hopefully) wont develop a caffeine addiction#but if im honest. its worth it.#i know sometimes caffeine can help w adhd for a few years and then suddenly stop working#but im hoping that bc i drink it so infrequently that it'll be a while before that happens#and therefore i might be able to get my hands on real medication by then#for now: coffee#also i can handle the bitterness of black coffee WAY better than the bitterness of black tea. idk why
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I went five days without my adhd medication (I was waking up waaaay too late to take something that could maybe negatively impact my sleep. I already struggle with insomnia. I’m not giving my sleep meds any disadvantage) but today I woke up earlier (by comparison) and I’m vibrating. It will be normal again tomorrow, but I hate when I first take it after missing at least a day. My body decides that I need to speed run my day before it gets normal about it
Me, once again, having missed a few doses before this one, experiencing this:
#emma posts#adhd meds at it again#I promise I’m usually normal about it#this just happens when I miss a(few) doses#I hate how stimulants can either make my brain work while being chilled out. or I’m thinking better but everything is going at Mach five#or whatever#my heart is going so fast and I’m vibrating#this is why i don’t drink caffeinated beverages#I at least get normal on my meds after a day#anything stronger than tea though and the caffeine makes my body go so fast#even sitting down#I let myself stim again now and it’s like most of this left my body#starts moving a limb and suddenly goes limp#what is wrong with me?#it’s my first day back on medication for adhd and I’m being soooo normal about it#I hate when people use that as an example of why my meditation is bad. give it 24 hours and I’ll be normal#more normal than when I didn’t have my medicine even!#I tried taking something that wasn’t a stimulant but it barely did anything#so my doctor put me back on a stimulant (just a different one than before) and I can focus now when it’s not like this#so day two onwards I actually will be so normal about this#it just takes one day of suffering to get relief from my usual struggling#not a cure all but oh my god do I love being able to do tasks
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a fun and fucked up fact about me is that when i was in sixth form (16-18), approximately 10 years prior to being diagnosed ADHD, i drank SO MUCH store brand energy drink that 2 things happened
1) It became such an obvious and well known Thing about me that my tutors started putting "too much red bull can kill you" news articles on the walls. These were not present in rooms I didn't have classes in. It was not a college-wide initiative. That was for me, specifically. Nobody said it but we all knew.
2) Several friends suggested, in all seriousness, I contact the Guinness Book of Records to set a record for "most caffeine consumed with no physical effect" after I had 3x 1 litre bottles in about an hour and my heart rate was still exactly the same and nothing about my demeanour had changed at all. Meanwhile Ryan had 1 bottle and was physically vibrating. Because he's normal.
(I didn't do it because it would require having a medical professional present the whole time to verify and like absolutely nobody with a medical degree is going to do that in good conscience)
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Heat Intolerance
This disability pride month I'd like to talk about heat intolerance. Because honestly although it's not the first health issue that presented symptoms in my life. It was the first time I was like "I don't think my body works right".
And honestly given disability pride month is during one of the hottest months in the year. It seems fitting. Especially because there's a lot of disabilities and medications that cause it.
What is heat intolerance?
Simply speaking it's the inability for the body to regulate it's temperatures especially in hot settings to cool itself down.
Why is awareness important?
Because gaslighting people or worse not providing them a place to cool down just because you "feel fine" is extremely fucking dangerous.
What are the medicines that can cause heat intolerance?
Antihistamines (Allergy medications) . Decongestants (Sudafed or any medication that has the D at the end of it). Stimulants (ADHD medications. Steroids. Caffeine.) Beta-blockers (blood pressure medications). Overactive bladder treatment. Psychiatric medications (including but not limited to medications for depression and anxiety). Pain relievers. Antibiotics.
What medical conditions can cause heat intolerance?
EDS (Elhers-Danlos syndrome). Autism. ADHD. Migraines. Brain/spinal-cord injury. Sensory processing disorder. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Endocrin problems. POTS. Menopause. Hypothyroidism. Diabetes. Heart Disease. Multiple sclerosis. Mental health disorders.
What should I do if I suspect I have heat intolerance?
Reduce time outside during hot months. Keep your electrolytes up. Drink plenty of water. Stay out of the sun whenever possible if outside. Be aware of the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Clothes that are best worn for heat intolerance. Loose lightweight breathable fabrics. Natural fibers. Long sleeves that protect from sunburn as sunburns will increase your risk. Light clothes that reflect light. Wide brimmed hats that shade the face and neck.
Cool. So what are those symptoms I'm supposed you be looking for?
Headaches. Excessive fatigue. Mood changes. Muscle cramping or weakness. Nausea/ vomiting. Rapid heartbeat. Excessive sweating or not sweating at all.
When should I do to the doctor?
If you suspect you have heat intolerance you can go to your PCP to discuss what medications you may be on and what you can do about it. Otherwise, please go to the emergency room if you have symptoms of heat stroke.
This is good information and all but why are you making this post?
To raise awareness. Not just for the people that have it but weren't aware of what it was called. But for all of the idiots that tried to gaslight me when I was in school because I was like "I don't think this is normal. Every time we do our mile run outside I vomit all over the place but other kids aren't doing that."
Also because people always blame me for over heating if I wear long sleeves or pants. I always like to take notes from what people in the middle east wear because they literally live in the excessive heat and spend long hours in the excessive heat. Often in clothing that covers most of their body. They've gotta know what they're doing, right?
I have some type of xenophobic comment about why people from the middle east cover up
Shut the fuck up 😊
-fae
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((there's something incredibly hilarious about getting asked if you have adhd by three different people you only just met fdshgkfdj
#ground control (ooc)#((my dad and i set up a surprise dinner for my mom with her friends#so i met one of them a few days ago and then two of them tonight#and during dinner we were talking about caffeine and i mentioned how it doesn't work on me and that was their immediate response fdjfhdsgs#two of them have adhd and i really do just need to get tested because that's not the first time I've been asked#or the first time I've wondered if i do have adhd or not sdjgjshfh))#((my biggest issue is whether or not i can actually take medication for it if i do have it because of something else I'm on#that i need to take so i don't get incredibly sick))
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