Xaiydee
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Snail painting tax
bozybozybopbittybop
I hate ADHD posts because I'm 50+ years old and only recently have started to accept that it's me. I feel embarrassed and guilty. The depression hits hard.
Xaiydee
Oh no, don't feel guilty. That's just how you are.
CuntCrotchula
#2 i hated middle and high school english class so much for this exact reason. Like i struggle to read shit that i enjoy, but you expect me to read some of the most boring books ever written? (Looking at you scarlet letter, great gatsby, tom sawyer, etc)
Xaiydee
Intrigue and Love for me
Pats0r
#5 im in this picture and i dont like it
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
fuk, i clicked it and read the bottom.
DrewK98
#5 God dammit.
Xaiydee
:)
Wapusk
#5 WHY IS THAT NOT A CURCLE?!
WeariedParrot
#7 https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dGY5Y2N1M21zYmV4enIzdjRqZnI4Nmk4c3o1YWYzemRxOTFvYXk4cCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/xT77Y0CoGA6Nu24PzW/200w.webp
DrKonrad
When someone says something very important (like their name) and my brain is like
Calicious
#5 also adhd inattentiveness: not reading anything on the image because the only thing you can focus on is how the last pie chart isn't a circle.
draconicus
#6 Don't forget to gaslight yourself about whether or not you're capable of living a normal life where you're consciously in control, any time you land on "a valid reason"
wqfvfxzvfdxzARfg
You forgot the most important part - they treat ADHD with meth!!!!!!
vanderzee
UpstandingGoose
*and also this third pill I found under your chair
vanderzee
i forgot about that one ...
MajorasTerribleFate
That was the "major depression & generalized anxiety disorder" pill.
ThatHurts
#1 my wife does a lot of "say it now or it's gone forever" and I can't find a nice way to say "sometimes it's ok if you just let some thoughts be silent."
Xaiydee
Hehehe :)
WhiteRhino723
#5 Hyper focusing on the wrong things.
pushingchildrenintotraffic
Here's one that I only recently found out. People without adhd apparently wake up and their minds aren't already zooming. when I go to sleep I dont go peacefully into that goodnight I have to day dream until I forget im awake and then eventually im dreaming, when I realize im dreaming boom awake. if not that then its like my blinks on and off and im " aware" again. I dont know what to call this
Carl99
Not just ADHD, Autistic here and same. Even had it coming round from general anaesthesia. Went from black to awake trying to sit up and looking around instantly. Still groggy and seriously messed up, but not only half with ti like everyone else in the room seemed to be.
OverthinkingThis
Oooh "I have to forget I'm awake" is a *marvelous* way of putting it. I'm stealing that
pushingchildrenintotraffic
credit me if you win a pulitzer
xeoxion
I feel this so much.
I have to take a ton, like 150-200mg thc at night to sleep. Only way I get to sleep is to start daydreaming about anything and building a fantasy world in my head till I translation from daydreaming to sleep.
I wake up still dreaming and sometimes can keep focus and get back to sleep.
Never remember anything of my dream once I am fully awake.
But I wake up feeling better the next day as if I had a separate life in the dream that was enjoyable and full.
stickywiggit
"I have to day dream until I forget I'm awake" is an amazing way of describing this process. I basically have to drug myself every night to have a chance of getting 7 hours of sleep. It's like chemically turning off the TV.
riddmkidd
same! I swear it changed after having COVID too. I used to have a "fade to black" moment when falling asleep and now it no longer happens. it was either COVID or Wellbutrin. dammit I wish I could remember which one.
Jwhite777
Same, I have to make up a situation with characters and provide all the dialog for everyone in the scene until my brain just takes that work on. At that point I'm asleep but it sometimes takes forever.
NotTheMamaNotTheMama
Yes, me too!!! I have enough material to write a book.
pushingchildrenintotraffic
yes exactly this. I've got a bunch of dunno if you would call them scenarios or tableaus. I call them worlds because I'm ostentatious
lozeldatkm
#1 if I don't, then by the time I get to speak, you'll be on a completely different topic
Xenarion
#1 At to the chart: "If I don't talk over, I will not get to speak at all." and "The conversation topic is about to change."
wadatahmydamie
I like your snail painting
Xaiydee
As a disclaimer - it's not made by me but by my tattoo artist, who's also a painter. :)
Mumalot
#5 ignoring the entire text because i'm hyperfocused on the "circle" being elongated/squished...
BladeTurMoiL
#5 missing the part where it is actually getting distracted by squirrels.
Xaiydee
-----> ß
neddyhill
You can be one or the other at any time and it's a flip of a coin.
FireJake
Laughs and then becomes visibly angry by #5
Xaiydee
Sorry!? 😬
FemgineerDeltaConagher
I got diagnosed with Autism in my early thirties back in 2017. I glanced over the paperwork, blah blah blah... Last month I had to go back and look over the paperwork to fill something out... Took me 8 years to notice I also had an ADHD diagnosis. So yeah, that checks out.
SkyHighInc
#5 I did not come here to be called out like that
Xaiydee
I'm sort of sorry
SmashySashimi
#1 Yeah, so if you don’t give me an opportunity for a turn, I will in fact interrupt you and feel no guilt.
Xaiydee
So etimes they just pause too long for a thought whilst I had three
fartharder
Holy shit sometimes people don't even give you a chance to even agree with them
StarshipSuperTrooper
"I have awaited a decent 2 minutes of you talking interrupted. I will say the thing I need to say or pay admission to your one person play"
TripUpStairs
#5 lmao yes 🟢
jiloh
Normal amount of pain is zero? Well, f*
Xaiydee
Not here
TurduckenMcNugget
#1 Because if I finish your sentence for you, then that will show you that I fully understand what you're saying and that we are on the same wavelength and I should totally be your favorite person because I get you. Readers added context: this behavior does not, in fact, endear him to anyone.
Xaiydee
That's a better explanation than I already know what you were goin to say cause A: you told me before, B: I know you that well, C: It's a talent.
- and so I tried to save the both of us life time...
ThisismyconfessionTherearemanylikeitButthisoneismine
Have a friend that rants (not talks) and we determined a key word to note "I know what you are saying, please move on".
aRootinaTootin
#9 Not true according to my doctor.
Me: “Hey doc, everything aches and I’m always feeling tired.”
His diagnosis: “No shit, you’re fucking old!”
Lugh314159
Yeah, but how good is your insurance….
aRootinaTootin
Pretty bad man, I’m American.
Xaiydee
I'm trying not to think about that fact 🫠
OutOfTheHat
at the doctor: any complain I had was answered by -- loose weight, then we can talk about your aches. I am 5 kgs over the "normal." my friend at work is 50kgs over "normal" and he gets told he's only big boned.
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
Yeah, there comes a point in life where doctors tell you "your [knee, back, digestive system, ability to focus etc.] is fucked now. That's your new normal. You'll simply have to adjust to it."
theshinobi23
My digestive system was fucked when I was 18. In a 2 month period, I had my gallbladder removed and got my first kidney stone. A colonoscopy showed I have diverticulosis, IBS, and they removed 2 polyps. They also found that nothing moves except when more food is put in to push it along. All in one year. Many other lifelong issues with the rest of my body have been diagnosed in the 20 years since then.
Mairoa
I got that talk in my late 20s. I have fibromyalgia, but that Dr just assumed I was old when I was like...28?
al3xinw0nderland0000
I was 19 when I got my diagnosis for fibro. the docs didn't believe me until I was fully unable to walk or make coherent sentences from the stress-damage to my brain. and even then they called me a druggie (hadn't even ever smoked weed at this point) or hypochondriac. eventually got some coverage when I moved to another state.
that was many years ago. things are substantially better now. there's plenty of bad days, but amazingly there are actual good days.
Gerokeymaster
My mom ended up with permanent damage to a ton of different parts of her body because he doctor just kept telling her the symptoms she had were her "getting older". Turns out the new hypothyroid medication she had been switched to wasn't being absorbed by her body, and it took *years* for her to finally get someone to actually believe something was wrong, run tests, and find the issue. She's been back on one that works for about a decade now, but her skin, bones, liver, heart, hair, just...so/1
LadyCrickett
My stepmom dismissed some back pain as too much manual labor for her age. It was cancer and spread because she kept quiet about it. Fuck cancer
Gerokeymaster
Yep. Lost an uncle to something similar. He'd had throat cancer but was in remission. Started getting real bad body aches, but ignored it. Turns out it had metastasized to his bones. Might've caught it in time if he'd gotten it checked out, but he was never big on doctors to begin with, and I think he was basically afraid of getting the exact diagnosis he ended up with, so just kept putting it off.
Gerokeymaster
many things, are basically damaged beyond the point that they can recover because of how long she was sick with no one believing her. So it's sometimes a good idea to get a second opinion, and to push for testing if you randomly have new or strange pain/symptoms, because it's not *always* "just aging".
ADDGirl
I was going to say something similar but without the personal experience. That fucking sucks, I'm so sorry the medical community failed your mother so thoroughly.
I'm so glad I have a doc that says "It's likely nothing, but if you want me to run X test, we can."
cjandstuff
As kids, we always wondered why old people were so cranky.
johnnydarkside
Just wait until half your joints hurt because it's going to rain in a couple days.
Kotarisu
We are cranky because we are creaky.
SalmonMax
Yeah. So...when I was growing up, ADHD was not a thing. I'm definitely not diagnosed. But every time I read about it, I get that 'sit up straight' moment where I think, "Hey YEAH." These days it's probably too late to do much; my psyche is basically a pastiche of workarounds and self-hacks that let me be basically functional, and I'm terrified to mess with it at this point lest it fall apart. But I do wonder what could have been if I'd just gotten specific treatment and support.
DrewK98
My daughter is diagnosed. She's told me now that she knows about it and has terminology for it, she's 100% sure she got it from me.
terajack2048
You gave her life too so call it evenl
DiabloGrandeArts
I like to say "undiagnosed, but something ain't right" when referring to myself sometimes.
VelvetSin
I felt this way, scared to mess with the status quo in case it made things even harder, but I can say that starting treatment with a psychiatrist and psychologist at age 43 is the best thing I ever did, and I am sad I didn't start earlier
SalmonMax
Ah yeah, I do see a therapist. Not specifically for symptoms of ADHD, but just for general well being.
somedaybuddysomeday
#1 as someone whose main pet peeve is being interrupted, do it enough times and I will just stop talking to you
Xaiydee
Ya, at some point I deem my information not necessary for you and you will have to live with that
ThisismyconfessionTherearemanylikeitButthisoneismine
If you don't provide space for input, you may need to be interrupted. Not saying it's a good thing, but can be necessary.
Ninethousandone
Yes, I call it “being talked at” and I fucking hate it. But I also hate being interrupted when I talk (which isn’t very much.) This is probably why I naturally keep my thoughts to myself and they are quickly forgotten.
NotTheMamaNotTheMama
Best conversations I have is with another adhder because we just keep interrupting each other but it doesn't matter because that just provides more topics to talk about and nobody cares that we didn't finish what we were saying because we're both jolly and having fun. At some point someone exclaims: oh, btw, I didn't finish what I was saying, and then proceeds to continue the story, until being interrupted again. The amount of topics covered in a 10 min talk is just crazy 🤣
somedaybuddysomeday
No, I absolutely agree.