#managing ADHD symptoms

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Did you know that ADHD can also affect adults? This book provides practical information and tips for managing ADHD symptoms and living a fuller life. Get it now on Amazon. The book will be free until 04/21.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD isn't silly or quirky. it can hinder productivity, create a cycle of overcommitting and overextending to keep up with life, can give rise to feelings of guilt for things like resting and overall impacts relationship health (just to name a few). it's hard to manage and it's miserable.

[laestoica]

The two ADHD moods:

I can't do it.

I can't stop doing it.

The two types of ADHD time:

Now.

Not now.

The two ADHD memory modes:

I literally cannot recall the words that just came out of my mouth.

I can recite the opening paragraph of every single magic treehouse book.

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[magnetothemagnificent]

Non-ADHD and non-autistic disabled people whose only idea of ADHD and autistic people is shaped by media depictions of a nerdy white boy or a quirky goth girl with low support needs: "Yeah ADHD and autism are destigmatized and we should ignore people with ADHD and autism in favor of real disabilities. I am very smart and progressive."

Lateral prejudice towards other disabled people will get us nowhere.

[ssruis]

Was gonna hunt down tsukasa adhd moments but unfortunately we see very little of his school performance/what he’s like when he’s working on something he doesn’t want to be doing (beyond LSH & even then he’s not the focus there) which is unfortunately what like half of the adhd diagnostic stuff I would be using is over. However know that in my heart adhd is why he failed physics.

[yuri-puppies]

i am so fucking attuned to neurodivergent/neurodivergent king and kingmaker dynamics that for a brief, horrifying second i started shipping riz/kristen

[absentlyabbie]

it seems like so long ago, but i used to be a completionist, so i felt compelled to finish books and tv shows and such, even if it bored me or annoyed me or i just plain hated it.

mostly this meant a lot of suffering and irritation as i draaaagggged my way through finishing the thing, because being a completionist meant i wasn't allowed to move on to new books or shows or etc until i finished the one i had already stopped enjoying.

but then one day i broke free of these chains of self flagellation and stopped putting myself through that bullshit for absolutely no good reason.

i will drop anything now. book has stupid worldbuilding or won't stop overusing/misusing That One Word to death? ditch the bitch. tv show has become infuriating with bad writing choices or wildly inconsistent internal logic/backstory or keeps making incomprehensible shifts in characterization? let the trash take itself out.

we are supposed to be doing these things for fun. if i'm not having a good time, why am i still here? always remember the guiding principle in these situations, babes:

if it sucks, hit da bricks.

[skull-ishcloud]

I find it just hilarious how my mother will go all like "how can parents of disabled people not care to understand other disabled people". While she has a child with ADHD who she payed to get formally diagnosed (by that I mean she knows), and never ever bothered to search the symptoms.

[abstractlesbian]

Find someone slightly annoying but in really small harmless ways so I decide none of the behaviours are worth bringing up with them → realizing: hey, Im also annoying! solidarity! → realizing we have a lot in common and starting to bond → finding out other people find this person annoying and are vocal about it behind their back → finding out this person has ADHD like me that's (at least one reason) why we have all these traits in common → fear.

[cpotterphotos]

Did you know that ADHD can also affect adults? This book provides practical information and tips for managing ADHD symptoms and living a fuller life.

Get it now on Amazon. The book will be free until 04/21.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C24Q1GLS

[pawsitivevibe]

Well. I've always thought of this kind of thing as a "does it really matter" type deal. But. It seems like there may be some personal benefit to pursuing an ADHD diagnosis as an adult ... I think I want to know for sure. Since it keeps coming up. I guess that's another thing to talk to the doctor about ... I don't know how one goes about trying to figure out if that's what's up. There's like online services with counselors that I looked at ... Not sure that kind of thing is any good though.

[venacoeurva]

I’m gonna try to get on antidepressants again after weaning off safely as I clearly need to be on SOMETHING, but has anyone with unmedicated ADHD (my symptoms are pretty mild to moderate so I don’t bother pursuing it for that purpose and I am not diagnosed (working on that, slowly) but that shit is like. way obvious) have experiences with Zoloft?

Obvs it will be different for everyone, but Lexapro was an emotionally blunting brain fog sleepy nightmare that exacerbated my symptoms in the worst ways and I don’t want to repeat, but Zoloft seems like a decent alternative.

[ragingtwilight]

BRUH

EVERYTIME I feel like im starting to feel better my body just turns around and flips me off

mf sends me off w a shove down the stairs, nausea, sweating/tremors, headache, confusion, dizziness, it pantsed me, it stole my lunch money, it gave me a swirlie, i cant fuckin win

[dorianbrightmusic]

frick. mannn. i can not feel tired, but sleep deprivation really does make the adhd worse

[orcelito]

So I was chatting with my fellow very mentally ill queer coworker friend about mental illness (as we do) and I mentioned how I was realizing that my wildly manic depressive response to grief wasn't... normal...

& they were like 'oh my god Yeah I've been suspecting you're bipolar for a While now' bc apparently I get in... modes... where my pupils are Huge and I'm talking a mile a minute and doing 4 things at once and even my Posture is different

And then I'll come in the next day like all the life's been sucked out of me.

& she mentioned there's type 1 and type 2, 1 being the longterm episodes & 2 being them alternating on a day to day basis. And I'm just like... damng... I sure do seem to have that 2 thing...

Apparently it's not normal to alternate between manic and depressive states! Who knew!

[thethingything]

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