I was reading an article about trying to do a daily schedule with an ADHD brain, and while reading that, I wondered what was in the sweetener I was pouring into my tea, and so launched a rabbit trail researching Truvia and erythritol… and five minutes later, I close the terminal I was wikipedia-ing on, only to find the same article I had started with staring at me.
I had completely forgotten what I was doing because…
For all those people out there who still claim that we are getting our kids high by giving them Adderall:
I took my dose at 6:30 AM , went back to sleep, just getting up now 10 minutes before nine.
#ADHD brains are chemically different. Normal brains, get high or focused or whatever. I become slightly more able to find the thing I set down three seconds ago.
@masukomi SAME. It doesn’t wake me up, it means I don’t have to go back to the kitchen five times before I actually bring my coffee to the living room like I wanted to instead of the five other things I did instead.
The hostility of governments towards tourists with ADHD who just want to take their medication is a true test of the effectiveness of that medication.
Within the EU, I must fill out a form with my pharmacist for them to file for each trip beyond Sverige’s border.
For my trip to Korea, I must download 2 Word docs from a website in Korean, submit a copy of my passport, flight information, notarized English translation of my Swedish prescription, and email it all 10 days before travel.
Given the decades of research, prescription, and millions of people using the medication, I think governments should stop treating people with ADHD like they are potential drug mules.
People buy enough alcohol in duty free stores at the airport to get shitfaced and that’s ok, but someone with a pill a day for the duration of their trip so their executive function works is a 🚩? Sure, Jan…
@kamikat yes, but for me this is somehow only for tasks I don't like or I don't want to do. As soon as I am doing / get to do something I am passionate about, I am only doing that and can't really be distracted... (Also I am still not sure if this is AD(H)D or just humanness or something completely different :neocat_googly_woozy: )
@cferdinandi I strictly cycle through my t-shirts to not stress out about that (and also to load-balance the tear/wear across them). Additionally, I prepare the clothes for the next day in the evening, also for energy reasons.
This sometimes leads to fun combinations of shirt and day, like wearing a "I don't give a shit" - shirt for a retrospective.
@kronn Even new out of the package they "feel different" to me. The sensory issues are STRONG. I like that you have a cycling system, though. That's rad!
@siljelb@cferdinandi I'm pretty certain that this phenomenon applies to everyone with a job description that doesn't include "spend your day in meetings"
@atlefren@siljelb yes, but neurotypical folks are often able to get some things done in those pockets of time between meetings, while folks with ADHD are not.
I think I might have some talent for teaching. Repeatedly now, the student I'm tutoring has remarked "Oh my god, it's that simple?" after explaining a computer science concept she was struggling with.
I think it's because I need to understand things quickly myself. If it's too complex, I lose patience. Explain to me like I'm five, please.
One disadvantage of being diligent is that a heavy workload doesn't bother you enough to stop and question it. I remember this from my brief period of taking #ADHD meds. I would be so concentrated on the task that I didn't pause to consider that maybe I should change my approach.
The benefit of impatience and procrastination is that they make you rethink things. "This is too hard. There must be a better way." And you procrastinate to see if there's an alternative. While you're putting it off, an alternative approach might emerge, or the problem might even solve itself.
Not great for completing tedious tasks right now, but great for coming up with new approaches and streamlining them later. If my entire programming career had looked like that, maybe I would've enjoyed my job. There's more demand for diligent workers who can churn through tedious tasks, but I'm pretty much useless in such roles.
Speaking of tedium. Me and a friend know a guy with #ASD and who was absolutely mental at tedious tasks. "Do this until we tell you to stop." and he'd just keep going. One of his favourite games was WoW because of all the grinding. He was also a great metal guitar player for the same reason. Relentless monotonous practice until perfection was accomplished.
Unthinkable for me. I have #ADHD, so I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I virtually never rehearse anything. I play the keyboard but I can't even play through a single song. There's just no patience. Certain keyboard techniques are inaccessible to me for that reason. They're just too tedious to learn.
Sometimes, I feel the Imposter syndrome about #adhd because I don't have an official diagnosis. But then I have experiences that show me that neurotypicals don't understand and their advice is not helpful, even when they are loving, compassionate human beings trying to be helpful.
Just heard from the head of my program. She's going to try to create a space for all the "neurospicey" students and teachers to chat and hopefully support each other.
Large animations can easily be highly distractive for folks with #ADHD. Being able to pause them individually doesn't make things much better, especially if reloading the page starts them all over again.
It's really disappointing to see a design-focused company like #Figma use that type of purely gratuitous graphics on their #Config conference website, and do so without offering a way to disable them all at once across the site.
That’s a sad lack of consideration for true #A11Y. 🙁🤨🤬
@jochenwolters I just checked https://config.figma.com/ using MacOS with the "Reduce motion" setting, and they have done it correctly -- the animations are gone. (At least by default, though they still happen if you hover, so they've got it half right lol)
Po rozmowie z rodzicami doszedłem do wniosku, że szkoła stawia nadmierne wymagania uczniowi z lekkimi objawami impulsywności mieszczącymi się w normie (dolnej granicy, ale normie). W dodatku okazuje się, że przez 3 lata nikt nie mówił, że są jakieś problemy wymagające interwencji i dopiero pod koniec klasy 3, gdy pojawia się widmo 4tej jest coś co wymaga diagnozy.
Gimnastyka umysłowa z uwzględnianiem wszystkich danych diagnostycznych lepsza niż ☕️
It could end up as a wealth of info for you in any number of alarmingly large settings: government support, healthcare, joining specialist extra-curricular groups, etc.
But more regularly and more close to home, it'll help HUGELY in the transitions which happen even within school. When the new teacher comes along next (or every!) year, there's a solid record that everyone can look at and agree on. It's not just in your or their heads.
@lizzard@adhd ...It may even be (as has sadly been the case with us) that you end up creating a record of things which were requested but not delivered. It feels a bit rubbish to build such an archive of disappointing paperwork, but gradually it can add weight to your case, particularly with other organisations.
"We've been asking for X for years, look! It hasn't been delivered because you didn't think it was necessary, but here we are again in yet another meeting... Can we try it, now?"
as long as i am crowding up the place asking for wisdom of the crowd
hello fellow #adhd havers, and-or #chronicillness havers, does anyone have like a cleaning checklist that breaks it down weekly for things to do per room/area?
i know that there's an absolute incredible amount of people doing such things on pinterest because they are doing the whole "i am a perfect housekeeper and behold my perfect life" thing but i am more interested in like. people also in these trenches lol. things that other people use and that work for them, basically.
it doesn't have to be the whole big shitwhack of spring cleaning whatnot, but just a checklist of daily cleaning going area by area so that i have a guide to follow that doesn't get me paralyzed in trying to figure it out all myself and screaming in terror at everything that needs to happen lmfao
mhm, i have an exam in two weeks, i haven't started revising yet, and im beginning to feel the squeeze
time to learn effective study techniques for people with adhd for the thousandth time (i end up forgetting or abandoning it every single time, its extremely frustrating)
Adding something to a TODO list makes it generally less likely that I'll do it.
If I add it to the list, then I'm far less likely to just remember it, because it has less permanence. So whether I'm later reminded, depends on whether I remember to check the list.
So for each case, I have to evaluate which of those two is more likely.
Then for anything I'm reasonably confident of remembering -- it's more likely to happen if I don't create a reminder for it.
@SaraSoueidan I lean on contextual reminders a lot -- like, if I have to do Y and I know that X will remind me of Y, then I only need to remember X, if that makes sense?
@siblingpastry That’s the main reason I need a todo manager with start dates. Just throw todos at me that I could do today and have me organize or ignore them. 😂
@Faintdreams A good argument against claims of purposeful design, really (along with many others; my wife says "knees!".). And there are fair arguments that consciousness is an accidental side effect of trying to manage multiple social relationships in growing primate bands, or indeed a lie told by the brain to itself.
