Adhd Problems - Blog Posts

Me: wants to post things to my blog and be interesting and various things

my ADHD: Oh do you now? :3

going through the ADHD tag and feeling understood, and loved, and oh-so-comfortable in my own skin the way I haven't been for WEEKS is 🫶 i love this silly little app

ADHD math is like… ok schools about to start so it’s basically Halloween and after Halloween is thanksgiving which means it’s almost Christmas which is in winter and after winter is spring and school ends in spring so it’s basically almost summer again

Don’t you hate it when you forget to take your medicine that’s supposed to help you not forget to take it? - my dad after asking me why i didn’t ask to take an immediate release (A version of my ADHD meds) and I said “Oh! I forgot about them!”

That's the most accurate thing i've ever read about adhd

I feel like there are a lot of people out there who needs to hear this:

If you dropped out of school because of diagnosed (or undiagnosed) ADHD, Autism, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, schizophrenia etc… You did not fail. The education system failed you.

i felt that

Object impermanence is all fun and games until you leave your vibrators in the sink and your dad finds them

Side note: how do I hire a hitman on mysel?

Reminder that executive function/ task paralysis isn’t force-of-will-able for the most part

Can you force your brain to think of a word on the tip of your tongue? Can you snap your fingers and recall the exact appearance of your first article of clothing? Can you tell the oxygen in your lungs where to go?

Who has complete control of their brain, their body, and the chemicals within? Not me.

To everyone who says “you need to find a place to keep your things so you won’t lose them and keep them there every time”:

Bold of you to assume I am aware of setting something down.

I hold things and then they disappear into the abyss.

Average attempt at communication with adhd.

Particularly stupid words I cannot seem to conquer when attempting to type thoughtlessly:

- hte

-becasue

-threfroe

It took me over a decade to figure out that I was mistaking hunger for thirst. All those bathroom trips and for what

do you all ever miss one of your old daydreams and the characters that it had? it feels like a old movie or book that i once watched or read. Sometimes like friends that i used to hang out with.

I really miss one of my daydreams now and i wish i could watch it all over again. That was one of my favourite. I even have some of the dialogues written in my notes and a drawing.

Bruh

I’m just going to leave this here…

adhd mood: that feeling when u forgot something but like u Just forgot it so theres this fuzzy place in ur brain where it was 2 seconds ago and u try to grab it but u cant quite get it and its like trying to grab mist 

The concept of time is the bane of my existence

I hate how so many people I know think it’s weird that I use a scale to help me cook and bake. It helps me use the exact amount of ingredients and helps me decrease a lot of mess caused by my shaky hands. I wish people would stop telling me how to do those things just because they think I could do it way faster.

The writing process seems counterintuitive to me. It makes more sense to start writing, then edit to make things fit. College teaches you that you should plan and do the opposite, organize first then write.

Is there a writing process that better fits neurodivergent brains? College makes me feel broken sometimes.

autism: I do NOT like having no idea what I'm doing

ADHD: wait, what was I doing?

This is really helpful!

Autistic overload is like internet bandwidth.

If you're struggling to understand why you are good on some days and bad on others, one way to think of your brain is like internet access.

Some people have direct access, so any information incoming is fast, easy to process and unless they start being really silly and downloading 20 movies at once, not too much is going to interrupt their experience.

Autistic brains are more like public internet access. It's not that greatly connected in the first place, it can't handle large data packets, and if you're not careful you may get some unwanted information downloaded.

If you're accessing this when not much is happening, you may not get a bad experience. Not much is draining the limited bandwidth and processing times are faster.

The next day, however, you may get a completely different experience and even just connecting is impossible.

So, it's okay to sometimes switch off that access and just recover for a while.

Autism is having a special interest and researching every niche aspect of said interest, being really excited to share info about it when someone asks. ADHD is being unable to give someone complete info on your special interest when they ask because your memory is shit and you can only remember vague details.

ADHD be like:

Oh I haven’t watched this show in years, I should watch it again! The nostalgia is wild! Oh I love the soundtrack, I wonder if I could find piano sheet music for it. I should go play it on the piano. Oh wait I love this scene, it’s so cute! I wonder if there’s any fics for this character. Lemme check. Oh yeah, piano music! Dude the animation on this show is so silly. I wonder who that voice actor is. Am I actually going to go play the piano? I should post this on tumblr.

✨ Dance ✨

Sometimes I get really self conscious about the way I stim thanks to my ADHD.

I’m an all or nothing kind of gal, so it’s really hard to contain anything, especially the happy emotions.

It’s a full body experience for me, I feel it from my head to my toes. Self diagnosed with WBS, Wiggle Butt Syndrome, and I just gotta move.

Sometimes even I feel like it’s too much, so I can’t imagine how other people must feel.

But…then again…I’m the only person at work to get other coworkers to come and dance with me, no matter their age or language. When I see the light that reaches their eyes when they smile at me being silly, the shame burns away under the light of a warmer realization.

That being the type of person who is so unapologetically themselves at ALL times and IN all places to the point YOU encourage people to dance, is pretty tender indeed.

So…it can’t be all that bad right?

Don’t stop stimming friends, you’re beautiful 🧡✨

some of you didn’t have mothers that told you ‘everyone gets anxious like that’ when you described your horrible anxiety around new places or things or that ‘everyone struggles with that’ when you described a symptom of ADHD only for you to get diagnosed in high school with both and subsequently motivate her to get diagnosed as well and be so mad that all that time she was dismissing you but also sad because she’s been struggling by herself for so much longer than you have even been alive and now you listen to her talk about how different she feels on meds and feel the rage and joy battle in your soul and it shows

The only reason I've been able to get A*s on my two previous Chemistry assessments is because the night before each of them, my ADHD decided that hyperfocusing on Chem for six hours was the only thing that I should have been doing so now I'm gonna fail tommorow because I have five other assessments to revise for and I cannot bring myself to do anything because there's so much. That's why I'm sitting on my bedroom floor scrolling through bullshit on Instagram. I just want to take a nap.