If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.
I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.
The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.
@freemo it mostly comes down to the circumstances they live in. What they do, what their local communities expect.
Consider something more clear-cut and outside of mental health: myopia, near-sightedness. A condition with which one's eyes have a much closer focal range, meaning they see things worse from afar, but also better up close. Not just as close as people without it — even closer. Meaning that with a comparable retina a myopic can clearly discern much finer details. Kind of a superpower, right? If they do lots of work on a tiny scale it would seem like it.
And yet, street signs, menu posters in restaurants, numbers on the public transport and tons of other things are a lot harder to see, to the point of them being entirely nonfunctional, which reflects on the user – forcing unto them alternatives or aids (glasses, smartphones and their cameras, other people) through difficulties integrating into society.
Different lifestyles have different compositions of these components.
This comes as a surprise because
1.) I've had the Rx filed by Walmart off-and-on over the past 20 years or so.
2.) I had no issues with #CVS / no idea that this was "a thing"
Now closer to a WM pharm vs the prev CVS, it made sense to have this month sent here
(Adderall patients are forced through this rigmarole every 30 days).
Is there a term for the concept of switching all (or as much) of your digital life to old school text based interfaces for the purpose of reducing sensory input, convenience and dopamine traps? Is there a community for that and how many useful tools are there for that? #computers#digitallife#qualityoflife#add#adhd#linux
It is so cringe when i hear people hijack general less descriptive terms like "neurodivergent" to mean really silly arbitrary things like adhd and autism... we already have descriptive terms and that word already means something useful before you bastardized it.
Folks with ADHD, how did you feel when the acronyms shifted, and instead of having #ADD and #ADHD, now the "correct" term is ADHD?
When I was diagnosed in 2000, it was largely because they'd finally discovered that ADD without hyperactivity was a thing, and that girls/women presented as inattentive more often than hyperactive (thus why they were often overlooked). It still feels inaccurate every time I write "ADHD" in reference to myself (yet I often get corrected if I use "ADD").
@hollie what i heard was that the hyperactivity is either a physical one (the one people generally have in mind) or a mental one. That last one is not so visible, but do explain the inattentive trait, the mind is too busy so it's hard to process every outside data stream with clarity... i'm not physically hyperactive, but i do feel the constant humming in my mind, and do experience difficulty in focusing and staying present because of it. Realizing that made me at peace with ADHD designation.
I've been thinking of the hyperactivity in this way:
External: Classic ADHD
Internal: Inattentive presentation of ADHD
I'm not physically hyperactive, and in fact I'm usually a pretty low-energy kinda guy.
But nearly always, my mind feels like it's constantly racing, even if I'm not thinking about anything in particular. It's like little pings of micro-thoughts, constantly, over and over the entire day, making it hard to focus on anything, unless it activates Hyperfocus 😂😮💨
I came to the conclusion that impulsivity is not a symptom of ADD/ADHD but a consequence. Let me explain:
My main issue with ADD is that important thoughts (todos, dates, deadlines, promises, ...) never come up unless triggered somehow. Now, when any important thought comes up in my unreliable brain I have two choices:
act immediately
dismiss the thought, possibly forever
Note: ADD/ADHD is a real disorder in the brain's metabolism and not a popculture phenomenon. If you think you might be affected, contact a neurology clinic for diagnosis, medication and supportive therapy. I have been diagnosed twice by independent doctors.
When one of them does something wrong and we don't know which one, they will both claim it wasn't them. We find that upsetting, because one of them is lying to us.
We don't want to punish. We want a conversation about what happened and why, and an apology.
But it can take days of asking before one of them admits it, and that time is horrible. How can we get whoever did it to admit it sooner?
@RPBook Bonus points if you use the object yourself to regularly "confess" something of your own, having forgotten the milk at the store, or losing something on the train. Having them practice being the forgiver can help them get used to the concept.
GMs and worldbuilders of Mastodon: When there are just too many ideas that seem like they'd be awesome, how do you decide? I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm mostly like neurodivergent of the #ADD or #ADHD variety, and my creative loop gets constantly sabotaged by hyper-interrogated cool ideas until I lose creative confidence in them. Any advice on this is much appreciated, cause at the end of the day... I just want to build cool worlds and play cool games. #ttrpg#worldbuilding#rpg
ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to).
I'm real bad to start replying to a message before I read the whole thing. I judge books before I finish them, and start researching things I hear about in YouTube videos before they are over. It's an ADD thing I'm sure, and there's just not enough time to read and comprehend everything that comes across a screen, but it trips me up a lot.
I feel like I cannabis has a very different effect on me than it does on most people; it never made me hungry, if anything it made me put off eating. After quitting I started eating a lot more regularly and gaining weight. I just used it to make boring things interesting, something I now use amphetamines for.