#ADHD is a constant struggle of talking your brain out of the equivalent of waking up one day and deciding to go out and run a marathon with zero preparation.
Me: I need a shawl pattern.
Also me: these don't give the dopamine drip.
My brain: *sings "interest, novelty, challenge, urgency, passion"*
Me: fuckit, this Niebling pattern is dope
My Brain:
A new-to me computer is en route. It has 32GB of RAM.
Somewhere in this house I might have another 32GB of RAM. I know where it was a year and a half ago, but I moved it a couple times since then. I also know I was starting to think I might not ever get that replacement computer. Hopefully I can find it.
Good luck, me!
I can see the thing I want to do in detail as fragments, and I can see the thing I want to do in abstract as a whole, and I can get tremendously excited about both, but I can't see how to connect the two.
正論パンチが人を壊す理由｜投影同一視とパワハラの境界線
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOqWajLtCo
#youtube_masudatherapy #精神科医 #うつ病 #発達障害 #メンタルクリニック #適応障害 #パワハラ #親子問題 #ADHD #ASD #パーソナリティ症
Ik vraag dit voor een vriend: Hoe kom ik erachter of ik ADHD heb en moet ik er iets mee, als student?
Ik ben een flapuit, kan me moeilijk concentreren, ik dagdroom veel en ben al te vaak m'n fiets- en huissleutels kwijtgeraakt. Mijn vrienden vragen me weleens of ik ADHD heb en ik denk stiekem dat het ook zo is. Hoe kom ik erachter en wat kan ik als student (anders) doen als ik ADHD heb? Liefs, Dagdromer Beste Dagdromer, Je noemt inderdaad wat kenmerken op die zouden kunnen duiden op ADHD. Zeker als je hier al langer mee te maken hebt en je merkt dat het je dagelijkse leven of je studie […]I've been on stimulant medication for over half a decade now, and it's still baffling to me how the primary sensation I experience while on them is a sense of calm?
It reduces my anxiety, allows me to do menial tasks like brushing my teeth and just... makes it so I don't have to worry as much about how having a disability can affect things.
Story of life with ADHD and overcoming addiction to be explored at talk in Lichfield
The side effects of this medication are no bueno, and I am not taking something that makes several of my health issues worse, and only slightly makes the one it was supposed to help better.
Maaaybe there is something else but the list of things we could try was small, and I think we have exhausted them all.
That's ok. I've gone 52 years without #ADHD meds, I can finish this journey without them.
(The first day was great! I loved everyone and felt I could do anything! 3 days later, not so much. 🤷♀️)
@PetraPhoenix You're kind of missing the point, but at the same time, demonstrating it.
The "standard" way of getting skills is going to a school, getting then, and then having them for life. Neurotypicals have only relatively recently adopted the slogans of "life-long learning" and such, and many still don't quite grasp the idea. It doesn't fit the idea of people being defined by "professions".
#ADHD people often have trouble with the "standard" way, but can pick skills up in ways that defy NT people. Do this often enough, and you'll be life-long learning new things.
The ability that comes from this tendency is valuable as a meta-skill. It means that you're not restricted by your "profession". (Asimov has an interesting short story about this sort of thing, btw, from long before the proper scientific research into ADHD. But I digress.) But because this goes against the "standard" way, "normalcy"-oriented people might easily disregard it — and insomuch ADHD people take cues about "normalcy" from the NT people, this disregard can be infectious.
Importantly, though, even NT people expect the executive class people to be universalists. Oftentimes, the expectation doesn't hold, which can, curiously, lead to an experience that superficially seems to uphold the expectation: repeatedly failing from an executive position to an executive position, or even upwards. "Normal people" can interpret this sort of career track radically differently in context of working-class people and executive-class people (or Nomenklatura-class people, in USSR-like systems).
ADHD is not cute. [vent]
If your family history feels like a knot of secrets & pain, you’re not alone.
Autistic elder. Born 1953. That's 7 decades of American history twisting MY family.
Check out ‘Slouching toward Montauk’.
#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Poetry #MentalHealth #Psychology #Neurodivergent
https://autisticaf.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/autistic-elder-on-this-moment-slouching-toward-montauk/
Went into town and placed my order for 'Normally Weird, Weirdly Normal' by @robinince . It's been recommended by several #ADHD and #ASD people, plus he's a good stand up. I've been meaning to do this for months and kept putting it off. Picked up a few more loon stickers too. Plenty more places for them to go.
Help! I got into hyperfocus and I can’t get out! #ADHD
A lethal material is sold as fidgets to autistic and ADHD people. 16,700 rare earth magnet fidget units were recalled by CPSC in just in the first 7 weeks of 2026. If pieces or flakes are ingested they cause severe intestinal damage and death. These rare earth magnet fidgets are often sold with illegal medical marketing claims of stress relief and as disability aids. Do not risk your life for these fatal rare earth magnet fidgets.
(I accidentally deleted the original post, so reposting this because it's vital info to know.)
It’s a bit of a red flag for me when an employer responds to an ADA reasonable accommodation request for Autism & ADHD with a note for my primary care physician to fill out.
I love my doctor but he knows about as much about neurocognitive conditions as the person who inspects my car.
Rrl lived metaphor for #ADHD today,
(as I resumed stimulant medications after 6months w/o ℞, during which did hella rationing last fill [and moved across state lines twice]):
>ceiling fans @ parent’ didn’t work, and it annoys me
>been this way for months or years
>Idk why switches & chains do nothing
>but (always) had clear idea where to start:
>but dad has stacked stored travel bags in front of breaker panel
> (this is the internal ADHD metaphor)
>but am re-💊’d today, so obvs
>I _simply_ moved the bag, opened panel
>breakers don’t look tripped,
> but just toggled off then back on anyway
> (mfw) now the fans work
Episode 27 - Arthur Lee Land Interview
From the archives! 🎙️ Episode 27 features an interview with musician Arthur Lee Land, discussing the strengths and challenges of being a hunter-type artist.
https://www.drummerandthegreatmountain.com/adult-adhd-add-tips-and-support-podcast-arthur-lee-land-interview
#adhd #neurodivergent #CreativeJourney
