My husband is presenting in an all-day #ADHD virtual conference with other experts in the field, including Dr. Edward Hallowell, for an #ADD/ADHD audience.
He put his slide deck on #Google Slides as required. Then technical glitches occurred (slides weren’t fully loading) during the test run. The IT person asked him if he was on a Mac (he is). According to the IT person, they have trouble with Mac users being able to run slideshows when there are multiple presenters.
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.
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").
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?
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
Some friends of mine who are on the neurodiverse spectrum (#ADD and/or #autistic) think I'm probably on the spectrum too. Their experience is that they get on better with people on the spectrum. They think that they like me is a strong indication.
What is your experience? Do autistic people have a "detector" for this characteristic?
Or is it really the case that you feel more comfortable with other neurodiverse people than with neurotypical people?
I tried #strattera to treat #adhd but it didn't do anything for me, so my doctor switched me to #vyvanse, but the pharmacy has been out of stock for nearly a month so I haven't got to try it yet. I'm about ready to just give up again, and go back to #caffeine and #cannabis. At least I can actually get those.
Bah, three hours sleep, and I didn't do anything productive or social last night. Task paralysis is a sonofibitch. I figure the conversation went like:
😁: "Alright brain what thing do next? Chores, server, peertube relaunch, music? Schoo-"
@ironicbadger - you mentioned journaling in Self Hosted 115… have you looked at the structure / process called bullet journaling? https://bulletjournal.com is the foundation. It really helps with #ADD / #ADHD. Also, you ever want to nerd out on #FountainPens, hit me up... I’m soooo addicted to them!
[#bujo#BulletJournal ]
Wondering about the experiences with #minfulness and #meditation for other folks with #ADHD, particularly "inattentive type" (or what we used to just call #ADD) and particularly if you experience hyperfocus.
I had a very adverse experience with a therapist obsessed with mindfulness apps who wouldn't listen or engage with my bad responses to them, and as I've tried to reconstitute my own practices, I'm wondering if hyperfocus tendencies alter what methods one should use. 🧵
Earlier today I posed on keeping my ADD driven space more organized by trying to make a habit of putting projects away before they're finished, but I realized that was coupled to how I store projects, so I had to write two posts on my "everything else" blog to cover it all off. This one links to the next https://ambitonline.com/nextrelease/2023/12/add-and-the-art-of-putting-it-away-before-its-finished/
This is instead of leaving the project out "until I get back to it", which leads to an archaeological dig with the most recent project overflowing onto the previous project, which is overflowing onto the project before that, which... this results in a huge, oppressive, unmanageable, crushing mess.
The time/effort of putting it away and bringing it back out is far less than dealing with the mess.
Being a couple with undiagnosed #ADD issues is darkly hilarious because my wife texts as she’s leaving saying it’s bin day¹ and that if I could chuck some of the bin bags currently housed in our back porch² into the wheelie that would save me having to cycle them round to the dump today as I’d planned³, and I reply “Sure, if my brain lets me do that,” and she understands completely. Just a couple of fuckups tryna get through the day.