Tag adhd

ADHD is not “can’t sit still disorder” ADHD is “posting in 10 group chats, subreddits and other posting platforms, never using the search function to see incidents of the same question being raised, asking for tips on how to do complex things like feed yourself and do one task. Upon discovering that you just sort of have to do the thing, you close all the tabs. You ignore your previous attempts to find an answer and do the same post a week later in the hopes that someone has come up with the perfectly suited to you way to do one task. You feel shame and embarrassment and anger and often nothing at all, whilst neurotypical people tell you that it’s easy to do one task you just have to want to do it. You want to do a lot of things but even the things that give you joy are insurmountable” disorder :)

How did I only just find out that antidepressants can reduce dopamine? I might try and titrate off my Sertraline, as perhaps my lifelong depression was more about the lack of dopamine that ADHD gives me? (Yes I will be sensible, yes I will consult with a doctor)

@james@strangeobject.space the attempt to unify the diversity of humanity into clinical buckets.

BREAKING NEWS I just finished a cup of still warm coffee, in one sitting. Please clap. I no longer have ADHD.

I must have magic powers. I can put something down for 5 seconds and then it completely disappears.

Attached: 1 image Having this be the way to provide a free trial for an ADHD treatment is downright predatory.

Annoyed by a company responding to my application with interest because it interrupted my flow writing a cover letter for another job application, in case you're wondering what hyperfocus looks like.

Hyperfocus for hours to get my Linux desktop config just so. Fourth test run, there's an error somewhere that the window manager doesn't log or report. *(faint sound like dry twigs snapping in my head)* Reboot into Windows. #ADHD life

Attached: 1 image Really excited to tuck into this! @adhdjesse@mastodon.social has been one of my favorite voices on ADHD since getting diagnosed as an adult a few years back.

code test at the top of the hour not nervous about the test but brain very much in #adhd mode identified by "there's an important thing today can't think about anything else until that's done"

Content warning: Neurodiversity

I have an entry from July 2003 in my private journal that is titled “ADHD” and is just one line: Could this be what I have? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/2355245 I got distracted y’know …

My wife is away for a couple of days and my ADHD has already completely taken hold. Make me realise how completely chaotic and messy my life would be without someone stable around me. ❤️

I've not been around much because ✨Life Chaos™️✨, but yesterday the publication of an article and documentary by the BBC about a "journalist" faking ADHD to get a diagnosis has enraged me. I paid to go through a private diagnosis because my undiagnosed and untreated ADHD was destroying my life. The NHS kept rebuffing me and even if I did get referred, it would have taken years because of the chronic underfunding the NHS has received since 2010. #ADHD #BBC #Panorama

Attached: 2 images ADHD brains are different. When you ask someone with ADHD to focus and concentrate on a task they aren't motivated and interested in, the brain looks more like it's asleep than it looks like it's concentrating. It's not laziness. It's neurology. #TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJujMHUB/

Attached: 1 image RT @cyetain Jabe how come you know so much random shit…

Wrote out my todo list; I've 8-9 boring but important things and 1 that'll be fun but is totally optional. Decisions decisions... #ADHD

Ciaran McNulty (@CiaranMcNulty)Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:14 +0000

https://twitter.com/CiaranMcNulty/status/1642817756675338240

Lindsay (@DuncanDsrdrly)Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:46 +0000

i hate having ADHD. i hate feeling constantly overwhelmed by small tasks that i know are easily accomplished by other people. things that shouldn't be hard are so hard all of the time and i really wish my brain wasn't like this

jasminericegirl 🍚 (@jasminericegirl)Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:38 +0000

Man, been on my #ADHD medication for a week now and it feels really fucking nice showing up to stand up and actually having stuff to report. Here's a big ol' list of stuff I was able to focus on and complete. Wild right? I know, who knew I could be this productive.

https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1636637518803222531

Happy Birthday fellow Tech Nottinghamite who also is called Jamie! Your blog is actually what inspired me to finally get my ADHD diagnosis and I can't thank you enough for that ☺️. Have a great day!

Jamie C (@Themolian)Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:05 GMT

First day on meds. Let’s see if I can focus at work 🤞🏻#ADHD

Hey - it’s #ADHDObsessionWednesday! I want to hear from my #adhd peeps: what’s your current obsession or passion? I’m still obsessed with #Mastodon, the #Fediverse, and the possibility of a better internet. So I added a bunch of #IndieWeb features to my new site. (I was gonna do this on Monday but… I got distracted & forgot 😆) https://whatwasidoingagain.com/adhd-asides/adhdobsessionwednesday/

Now there is a Sidekick, who’s pitch is that it’s a “productivity browser”. Today it's launching a host of features geared to ADHD sufferers and the attention distracted more generally. Sidekick was a 2020 Y Combinator cohort member , and in March 2021 they raised $2M in a round led by Kleiner Perkins.

Attached: 1 image 🔘 I’m in this picture and I don’t like it #ADHD

https://twitter.com/myraccoonhands/status/1629568213309612040

Seeing swathes of people suggest that “ADHD is made up” is wild. Try living in the brain of a person that has ADHD, you wouldn’t last a minute.

Infosecsie (@myraccoonhands)Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:47 GMT

I'm slowly changing my attitude from: "I should be able to do work I don't find interesting" To: "I am not able to do work I don't find interesting" A small change but it feels important, enabled by gradually processing my diagnosis of #ADHD

Ciaran McNulty (@CiaranMcNulty)Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:06 GMT

oops tonight was my ADHD support group, guess I forgot about it again