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fleetnaturals:

sign up for the gold package of ADHD today and experience the following moods:

The Loop - opening and closing the same three websites in succession for 15 minutes at a time before realizing that there’s not going to be anything new or worth doing on those websites (my three are Tumblr, Youtube and Wikipedia)

The Ack - seeing you have a new message and, though you have no evidence that it’s anything even remotely noteworthy let alone negative, feel intense dread and procrastinate looking at the message for 30 minutes/5 hours/a week

The Shimmy - changing sitting/laying positions every 5 minutes because god dammit i’m not going to be able to focus on whatever task i need to do if I feel any unwelcome physical sensation

The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle - making a hot beverage for yourself and then putting it down slightly out of reach and then not drinking it until 45 minutes later when it has already gone cold

The Bellwether - scrolling on Tumblr and getting the urge to google something/look up something on Wikipedia, but you keep scrolling and forget what you wanted to look up so you frantically scroll back to the thing that prompted you to think about looking the other (un)related thing up in the first place

The Bop - earnestly insisting that you’re not anxious because the other person sees your leg bouncing and thinks that you’re about to go postal

The Poison Dart - hearing someone say something problematic out loud and freezing because, while you want to correct them gently, you also feel intense dread and RSD that if you even so much as suggest dissent the person will immediately and commensurately stab you to death or snap their fingers and open a trapdoor to hell beneath you

The Ghost Breath - realizing you haven’t texted your friend back/at all/in 3 weeks and thinking “Hmmm, I need to do that” and then you don’t do it and much more time passes by 

The Stim Package - eating an entire family-sized bag of chips in one sitting because having something to chew on helped you concentrate, at least a little

The Bullfrog - going to get something that you don’t use often but you know exactly where it is and then it’s not there and you just keep going back to that spot 5 more times before realizing you lost it or it’s somewhere else completely different (like, not even in the same building)

The Morning Mist - regularly forgetting what recent life events actually happened and which ones were from extremely vivid dreams

The Seesaw Rivet - feeling like a wounded child who is about to get in trouble during every interaction you have even as you are entering your mid-to-late-20s and genuinely wondering when that pattern is ever going to stop if ever

The Pull-Apart Muffin - having ADHD and about 3 other diagnoses and wondering what is even what anymore

I relate to all of these… i may just have to go see a doctor

This post reached out of my phone and slapped me across the face 13 times

This post reached out of

my phone and slapped me across

the face 13 times

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

funnytwittertweets:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

My friend has ADHD talking about her ADHD meds that’s a schedule 2 drug in America.

Let me remind you ADHD effects your working memory. So essentially if you gotta remember to call your doctor tomorrow, you will not remember to call your doctor tomorrow.

And let me tell you how hard it is.

1. First of all, you can’t get it on auto refill.
2. Second, you can’t get it refilled weeks before you run our. You only have a small time frame between when you can get it refilled and when you run out.
3. If the pharmacy doesn’t have it, they can’t substitute for generic.
4. If the pharmacy doesn’t have it, they can’t just move the prescription to another pharmacy. The doctor has to prescribe it AGAIN at the new pharmacy.
5. It has to stay in the bottle.

You have a whole group of disabled people with issues with their working memory, and you make it as hard as humanely possible for them to refill it? To the point where they can do everything right and still not have their meds filled on time? Even though suddenly stopping this medication has serious side effects?

And for what? This made up war on drugs?

I get SO MAD.

Because you have all these drug laws to criminalize Black and Hispanic people, but all its really doing is making it impossible for disabled people to get the meds they need.

Let me remind you. This is medication for people that have issues with their memory. You’re forcing them to rely on their memory, which doesn’t with correctly, to get it refilled on time.

And even if they do everything right, they still may not get it in time.

(My memory is shit from my migraines, and I’ll order my meds a month in advance because if I don’t remember to order it when I think about it, I’ll entirely forget.)

-fae

Oh! Oh! I forgot! To make matters worse.

Another symptom of ADHD is time blindness.

Which I do experience time blindness. It’s the inability to tell the passage of time. It’s why they often forget to eat and drink water.

Let me tell you what that’s like on a long term basis.

I dislocated my shoulder a few years back. It popped right back in before I realized it had happened, but it didn’t pop back in right, so it HURT. You know, pain after a bad fall is normal so you give it a few days. Well it still hurt so I went to the doctor. He said it didn’t pop back in right, adjusted it.

He asked how long ago the fall was…

I told him 5 days.

I then texted my friend to confirm while I was still at the office, because I’m not good with time.

It had been 5 weeks.

I still have nerve damage from that.

My doctor was very mad it took 5 weeks to realize my shoulder had been hurting too long, but in my defense I REALLY did believe it had only been 5 days.

You’re telling me that a group of disabled people that can’t tell the difference between 5 days and 5 weeks are expected to call their meds in on time? Really?

All because of this imaginary war on drugs to criminalize Black and Hispanic people.

-fae

i’ve needed an adderall refill for nearly 2 weeks. i get my scrip from my university, which won’t call in adderall refills to the pharmacy, you have to go in and get a paper scrip, take it to the pharmacy, then go back to pick it up.

Shockingly, I did remember to email the clinic for a refill, but I forgot to go pick it up before Thanksgiving break. Who knows if i will remember Monday. Never mind that not having it will affect my ability to do… school.

But this is clearly a fine and not harmful way of doing things.

tempestuoustower:

browniepokemon:

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earlgraytay:

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earlgraytay:

i’ll probably expand on this later, but the best ADHD Hack ™ I’ve found/sussed out is: 

bundle habits together, but don’t bundle tasks together.

Explain …

So okay. When you have ADHD, one thing your brain is very very good at doing is making connections between things- ideas, concepts, people, states of mind, etc. This can be a superpower- if most people wouldn’t think to make a connection between doing a) and b), and you make that connection, sometimes you can outthink people who aren’t as good at snapping things together.

The problem comes in when you start connecting things that you don’t need to connect, like “mild displeasure” with “OH GOD EVERYONE HATES ME” or “I feel a little crummy” with “I AM THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD”.

So when we’re talking about Life Skills/ADLs, you gotta use that power to make your life easier, not harder. You gotta connect things when it makes your life better and NOT do it when it makes your life harder. 

Here’s an example of the habits: 

I had a stretch of time where I was too sick to do much of anything. I could barely get out of bed to get to the bathroom. I was walking with a stick and generally just… le dead. And one of the problems I had was that I could almost never remember to take my morning meds. 

I decided that the first time I got up to use the bathroom every day, I’d take my meds. That way I was taking them no matter how crap I felt- I had to get up to pee, like it or not- and it was getting done pretty early in the morning. 

Getting up to pee meant taking my meds; they were the same thing. I didn’t have to remember to take my meds separately, or set an alarm to remind myself, or anything like that. I just did it as part of something I had to do anyway.

As time went on and I started getting better, I realized I could do the same thing with other parts of my routine. If you connect something you need to do with something you have to do, the thing you need to do gets done.

So like… say I’m already in the habit of getting up to take a shower. I’ve lived in crappy apartments my entire life, so the water takes a minute to warm up. Since my countertop dishwasher is right outside my bathroom door, I’ll take a second to empty and load the dishwasher while the water’s still heating up. It just becomes part of the routine of taking a shower. 

You don’t have to think about Doing The Extra Thing. Connecting it to something you’re already doing means that, after a certain point, it just… happens, automatically.

 The problem comes in when you start trying to do this with tasks- things that you only have to get done once, that already have a fair few steps to them. Especially if that task is has a lot of steps, has a time limit, or is otherwise Hard for you. 

Figuring out tasks with dependencies (I have to do this before I can do this!) is already hard for us ADHDers. Sometimes what happens is that you bundle two tasks together- you decide you can’t do something until you’ve done the other thing, even though these tasks are in no way connected. 

Here’s an example: 

I have three packages I need to mail. One of them is a gift for a friend in Australia, which costs a lot of money; one of them is a package for my Etsy store which is Not Finished Yet, and one is a very late Christmas package. 

I might decide, “hey, I need to mail all three of these packages together! I can’t mail any of these packages until I bundle all of them!” But it’s probably smarter to mail them separately! I don’t want to make my friend with the late Christmas package wait any more, so I can mail that first, and then mail the Australia package when I have the money and the Etsy package when it’s finished. 

But if I insist that I have to bundle these tasks… I won’t get any of them done. I’ll be too stressed out about the Etsy package not being done to mail the other two packages, and then I will run out of money for the Australia package, and the Christmas package will not get sent til Labour Day.

If you’re stressed out about a task with a lot of steps, sometimes it’s worth it to check and make sure you’re not bundling multiple tasks together. Can you do the thing without doing the thing that comes before? Do you have to do the other thing immediately after? 

Wait this is iconic. I keep bundling assignments together that I’ve had medical extension for, but I am having such trouble starting them because I have to get them all done. I need to just do one, and then decide if I’m able to do the others then or later.

reblogging for friends and mutuals with adhd

But if I insist that I have to bundle these tasks… I won’t get any of them done.

That’s exactly what happened to me during the holidays this year… I had to really kick myself and push it to finally ship everything out. Oh my goodness, this makes so much sense in my penchance to binge my activities, whether it’s binging (slash bingeing) a show, work, etc. It’s like I’m mentally “all or nothing” and it’s hard to shift gears and meet threshold to actually do the thing.

And like I know I have to do it, I know I need to do it, but I just don’t get it done. This was very helpful. I love all these tips.

bestial-eyes:

✦ADHD is not a personality quirk

- some things that tag along with ADHD are:

        ~sensory processing disorder

        ~executive dysfunction

        ~poor fine motor skills

        ~sensory overloads (that lead to meltdowns)

        ~sensory seeking (self stimming)

        ~hyperfixations

        ~moderate to severe memory problems

        ~Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria- is an extreme emotional sensitivity and emotional pain triggered by the perception that one is being rejected, teased, or criticized. The emotional response is complete with suicidal ideation and people suffering from RSD often get misdiagnosed with serious personality disorders. RSD is only seen in people with ADHD and the emotional sensitivity/reaction is much more severe than that of a neurotypical person.

✦Some other “fun” ADHD things! 

          ~inability to regulate emotions

          ~no concept of time

          ~noticeable public stimming (resulting in stares from neurotypicals) 

          ~no impulse control

          ~insomnia

          ~listen but cannot absorb what is being said 

          ~no volume control 

          ~increased inability to focus when emotional

          ~difficulty stopping a task and transitioning to the next 

          ~social anxiety

          ~higher levels on generalized anxiety

          ~extremely forgetful 

          ~”all or nothing” mentality  

@ neurotypicals- some things to be aware of: 

- you cannot hyperfixate. only people who are neurodivergent can hyperfixate. please don’t use that word when describing your latest obsession :-)

- please don’t stare at neurodivergent people who are stimming in public

- be respectful of those who actually need fidget toys so they can subtly stim in public 

- if we forget something you tell us it is not because we don’t care, we just have a million other thoughts racing through our mind and no way to filter through them. 

- please be gentle with us. no don’t tip toe around us and treat us like we aren’t human, but be aware that even offhand comments can trigger RSD. no we aren’t being too sensitive, our brains are wired differently than yours. 

thatadhdfeel:

• adhd and add were combined under the DSM IV, and are now:
• adhd inattentive type
• adhd hyperactive type
• adhd combined type
• the brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed three years in some regions
  
• adhd is a neurodevelopmental disorder, not a behavioral disorder
• emotions are felt more intensely
• adhd makes it hard to deal with these emotions
• there’s no such thing as “outgrowing” adhd
• girls are underdiagnosed

adhdfeels:

Since auditory processing issues can be common among some/many people with ADHD, I thought you might want to share the following just in case some of your followers may find it helpful:

What is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)?

Auditory processing disorder (APD) means, you may be able to hear sounds with your ears, but the brain does not process the sounds well. It may be hard to understand what people say–even when you’re paying attention! APD is often under-diagnosed: only a professional audiologist who specializes in APD can give an official diagnosis for it. Even some audiologists do not have expertise with APD. APD is also sometimes called central auditory processing disorder (CAPD).

APD and ADHD

Auditory processing issues are more common among people with certain disabilities–including, but not limited to, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). No, that doesn’t mean that you necessarily have APD just because you have ADHD. But if you have had problems understanding people for all or most of your life–even though an audiologist might have said your audiogram looks fine–then it might be something to look into. 

APD is more common among people with ADHD, dyslexia and other specific-area learning disabilities, autism, anxiety, ODD, SID, SPD, Tourette’s, OCD, developmental coordination disorder, depression, etc. 

Resources for People with APD

• Here are some APD resources for people who have auditory processing issues, or who are trying to figure out if that might be them. This has web links to basic information about APD. It also provides a starting point for people to explore technologies to help them understand people on the phone, or find captioned movies at local theaters, etc.
• Here are some Tumblrs by people who have auditory processing issues! No, these aren’t all about APD, this is just a resource to help Tumblr users who have known or suspected auditory processing disorder find each other.
• Finding Other People with APD – find Facebook groups, a Listserver, and more blogs, Twitters, and other social media platforms. You do not need an official diagnosis to join a group. 
• Sometimes people with auditory processing issues decide they want to learn sign language. This list of sign language resources might be a helpful start.
• Know of more resources? Please submit more resources for people who may have auditory processing issues.

I’m a person with attention deficit disorder (diagnosed in my 20s, during my first semester in graduate school). I also have been deaf since birth–and only found out in my late 20s that I almost definitely have auditory processing disorder, which means that even the things I *can* hear are not as clear as they could be. I’m now 46.