#things i believe to be adhd

[hyperfocusme]

Things I do that I believe are ADHD #17

'Cleaning' eggs.

Does anyone has to inspect eggs before putting them in a cake or making an omelette? I have to, so I don't find those veiny things in them later. I promise you, I can feel them in the omelette if someone didn't throw those out.

#adhd #mine #things i believe to be adhd #neurodivergence #neurodivergencies #neurodiverse stuff #eggs #food

[jasontoddssuper]

"Potraying Dick as a huge slut who's always getting put into fanservice is actually progressive because it normalizes casual sex and is gender equality because female characters get potrayed that way too!!!"I mean sure but i feel like we could prove those same points with a male character who's NOT a multiple time r*pe survivor of color that's gotten victim blamed for at least one his assault's and has been coded as demisexual with a discomfort towards sexual looseness for himself since the 80s anyway

#if you call dick a 'strong female character' for the way dc treats him i genuinely believe you're an awful person and deserve bad things #i'm 100000% serious #dick grayson #dick grayson defense squad #trans dick grayson #autistic dick grayson #adhd dick grayson #dick grayson has depression #dick grayson has ptsd #b///pd too #bi dick grayson #pan dick grayson #demisexual dick grayson #team mom dick grayson #batfam #teen titans #ntt #the titans 1999 #outsiders 2003 #robin #nightwing #dickkory #dickroy #robrae #dickbea #dickjoey #dicktiger #dickwally #sa cw #letters from summer

[edge-oftheworld]

real talk though how much of their success was facilitated by the fact liz hemmings sees 'child with adhd' and thinks 'future world renowned musician' and just invested so much love and time and money into nurturing not only her own child's ambitions but also these two kids he brought home from school and the table drummer from her year 9 math class of 2009

#she's one of my heroes fr #she believed in them so much #this is exactly what every kid growing up neurodivergent needs #and she's a teacher. she knows things!! it's not blind optimism #liz hemmings #5sos #5 seconds of summer #luke hemmings #ashton irwin #calum hood #michael clifford #neurodivergence #adhd #i'm not a doctor #neurodivergent acceptance fr #long before there was a mainstream conversation about it #some people just get it so instinctively and let's appreciate them! #disclaimer this post came almost entirely from thinking about ashton's artist friendly episode. i'm not here to armchair dx ppl #i chose to post it bc we can all do with thinking a bit about what we're seeing before we judge people for their adhd traits #or infantalise them or whatever and i think the fandom is ready #again i'm not here to say who does and doesn't have adhd i don't know that. but i do know its traits and i want to call them what they are

[pa-pa-plasma]

#polls #tumblr polls #fanfiction #fanfic #archive of our own #ao3 #believe it or not this isn't actually for like. me needing to know about hiatuses #this is just a sneaky way of finding out. something else #Danny Phantom #;) #on an unrelated note how do you feel about waiting somewhere between 2-9 months for a fic to continue on its original course? #it's probably closer to 2 if i actually do it #i mean the fic would still be updating but it would be. uh. spoiler alert cant say it'd just be 2~ months til the main storyline continues #i've been given the go ahead from someone who knows about it all but i need to know how people feel about rereading #it wouldnt be rereading but there would be an element of things repeating. it would seem to be repeating at first but isnt #oh my.... wait no.... i think i just realized where i got this idea from & it's killing me how i failed to see this sooner #literally listening to the soundtrack & watching all versions of it bro. i'm an ADHD stereotype #anyway the reason i want to know this is that. this part of the fic can be skipped. you dont NEED to read it #but you would need to wait for the rest of the fic to continue if you choose not to read it #it IS kinda important. it's just. A Lot #okay saying it's skippable but also important seems weird but trust me it's all in the name of beating this kid to the ground #''character development'' no. character deterioration #how can i make him better if he isn't super fucked up #he can't have a mental breakdown if he's happy. & i need him to have a mental breakdown #yeah im going the psychological torture route #also this isnt about timeloops btw. it might sound like it but it's not

[campspawn]

yknow i know a lot of people are upset about cassandra dying which i get. BUT. i can’t fucking wait for kristen’s ‘my deity is dead i’m a cleric and i’ve killed TWO gods in rapid fire succession what am i gonna fucking do’ arc because i think it’s gonna be the best kristen arc yet

#like i don’t think kristen actually believes in doubt is the thing. she’s an apathetic teenager struggling with adhd and burnout and so #mystery and doubt SEEMED awesome at the time but like. she says it herself it’s a hard pill to swallow! she tried to make a new god and it #failed because she’s a fucking teenager. she tried to resurrect an ancient dead god and failed because she’s a fucking teenager. #where does she go from here? frankly i can see kristen going chaotic evil/evil neutral VERY easily #OR maybe switching classes. but i think more likely we’re gonna see kristen god hunting again and she’s either not gonna find one and it’ll #be wild or she’s gonna find an evil one who’s willing to gamble on the god killing cleric #but i could see warlock in kristen’s future. archfey sworn warlock?? cassandra brought up that she had offers from the fey and afair the fey #haven’t come up much in fantasy high. it’s been very demon and diety focused devotion and magic #but idk i think we could see it! #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fhjy #fhjy spoilers

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Apparently, there are real people that exist that can do this absurd thing where they shut off their brains and don’t think about anything for hours at a time.

#sounds fake #I’ll believe it when I experience it which is never #I think it’s a hoax #I’m sure it’s just a prank that went too far and the people pretending to do this feel too socially awkward to admit they’re kidding #adult adhd #adhd #actually adhd #adhd problems #adhd brain #adhd things #adhd life #adhd memes

[cassettedec]

normal. normal and sane behaviour.

#can't believe i just did math Voluntarily. #iasip #its always sunny in philadelphia #lore dec #i wrote this all out on paper btw #sometimes i look at some of the things i do and go ohh yeah i have adhd

[jennilah]

when u feel it happening in realtime

#doodle #brain can we make this a seasonal thing because its gonna be weird if this lasts a long time #autism #i believe this also counts for #adhd #slashers #slasher art

[exclusivelyhomosexual]

I really don’t understand why people text back immediately.

Like. If I’ve taken 5 days to respond to your message (which is usually the case), do you really think I want to hear back from you immediately?? The amount of forethought it takes to respond and then they just BOOM text right back.

And ofc I’m allowed to have boundaries and not respond immediately back to their immediate response. But unfortunately I care about what people think of me a little too much.

Like please just let me be disabled in peace for a minute 😩😩😩

#texting is not for live conversations #i firmly believe this #audhd things #audhd problems #audhd #neurodivergent #adult autism #neurodiverse stuff #adhd #self diagnosed autism #adhd brain #autistic adult #autism #adult adhd #social anxiety #procrastination #executive dysfunction

[hyperfocusme]

Things I do that I believe are ADHD #26

Leaving everything on the floor and not being able to pick it up in days.

#adhd #mine #neurodivergence #things i believe to be adhd #neurodivergencies #neurodiverse stuff #Floor

[girlcalledwhatsername]

One of those "is it worth it" debates i find myself having with myself is about mental health related posts that may make good points otherwise but subscribe heavily to and reference and frame mental illness through the biomedical model and the widespread (but false) idea that a chemical imbalance causes these issues. Comprehensive explanation for this + resources here. (Also worth looking into this activist's work where she describes what paychiatric gaslighting looks like)

The thing is I do not want to spread that misinformation anymore. It was presented to me as fact despite there being little proof of it, for a long time in my life from psychology teachers to therapists to psychiatrists of course. Just treated as a natural fact when it was literally pseudoscience on the same level as most rudimentary psychoanalysis.

So I have to make the decision to either simply not reblog it and therefore not engage with the wider mental health discourse and let people be mistaken from what is possibly just an honest mistake as something that has been taught to us all so so largely, they very well might just honestly not know it not be true, and then by leaving it alone I am letting that myth perpetuate from well-meaning people...

Or...

I actually correct the person, get a bunch of people who find their worldview so suddenly challenged being angry about it and calling me anti science as often happens and get retraumatised over my experiences with Psychiatric abuse at large.

And although I mostly choose the former and simply don't engage it leaves me feeling uneasy because I know I was that person once who didn't think to question the validity of chemical imbalance theories and if someone had told me about it honestly it would have saved me a world of pain. But too many people are progressive only on the surface and hate to have to consider abolitionist approaches to oppressive systems, too many people genuinely believe a host of more stigmatised symptoms and disorders to be deserving of incarceration or erasure, and i have no way of knowing who these people would be. And this is why pop psychology and liberal mental health advocates have run the anti-psych movement into the shadows - a movement to which we owe every step of our liberation as mentally ill people.

So how do you make this a bigger conversation again?

Like. Tell me this isn't blatantly a mass misinformation campaign at this point

[linked here]

#mental health stuff #anti psych #anti psychiatry #mental health advocacy #neurodivergent #actually autistic #psychotic #psychosis #bipolar #depression #mad liberation #bpd #npd #adhd #adhd tag #funny thing is i think talking about shit in terms of 'ooh neurotransmitters' and 'brain chemistry' makes it sound believable and sciency #because that was Psychiatry's attempt to align itself with the natural sciences #and we all fall for it! #oh they're talking about chemicals they must be right they must know what they're talking about #I'm sorry but serotonin imbalance doesn't cause depression #what it does do is give you that headache you get when you oversleep trivia of the day

[nordic-language-love]

love waking up from a dream having been gifted with THE MOST PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE THAT I MUST WRITE DOWN AND SHARE WITH THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY only to properly wake up like 2 minutes later and being like "this is nonsense".

#i dreamt my friend from okinawa was teaching in the classroom underneath mine (apparently there was a classroom underneath mine) #and the kids from his classroom kept escaping and coming into mine via stairs i didn't even know existed #and he described them as 'indigo children' looking for 'the road of dreams' #and then he came to me afterwards - having turned into patrick stewart but retaining his hair - and he said: #'do you know the way to the road of dreams? first you must go up' #and i had a little tricycle/truck hybrid thing with an inflatable hamburger some wooden blocks and a beach ball stuck to the back #and i was like. this is it. this is the key. if i have these things then i can find the road of dreams #and i woke up like okay i must write this down i must remember this #and it took me between getting off my bed and turning on the air con to go 'wait no this is dream nonsense' #i did find out indigo children were actually like a pseudoscience thing in the 1970s/80s though so there you go #and the characteristics that describe indigo children are pretty much me haha #and then i kept reading and it was like 'a lot of so-described indigo children actually have adhd' #but parents prefered to believe their kid was gifted and destined to lead a religious revolution than to accept they had 'a disorder' #so that makes sense lmao

[yeonban]

I might be ~quirky~ for this (welcome to my twisted mind and etc) but I genuinely have so much fun with shipping nowadays, ever since I chose to be singleship for each muse. I feel like my adhd has never allowed me to pour even half as much care and attention into a ship as I'd have loved to when I had multiple ones at the same time per muse, so being able to focus on a single romantic dynamic per muse really feels like a weight off my shoulders

#* ooc. / posts. #I also know my adhd is all over the place so at times I may go a few months w/o bringing that specific muse (and thus ship) up #(unless you approach me in dms; in which case my mind typically instantly goes !!! on the muse & ship) #so I'm INCREDIBLY touched whenever my ship partners agree to be singleship w me. It's truly such an honor and blessing to me #and I feel like it's much easier for my muse to get very attached when their romantic attention only goes to a single person; #so you can best believe that from the moment we start shipping your portrayal will ALWAYS. and I mean /ALWAYS/ be intertwined with mine #doesn't matter if you drop the muse or leave tumblr or stop writing altogether. your muse will Always be my muse's special someone #I've had tons of ships where my partner disappeared off the face of the earth one day and yet all I've done was change 'singleship' #to 'noship' bc my muse's heart to this day (several irl years later) continues to be with their portrayal; REFUSING to look at anyone else #Granted this is also why I'm so picky with shipping; in the sense that I let my muse lead the way til they fall in love #and only THEN do I ask the mun if they're fine w our muses being a thing (and thus being singleship w me) #I used to say yes to people just asking to ship and while I know that's a neat option too; I simply. Cannot do that these days ADGHSAJDSDK #nothing against anyone nor against that route; but I've had a good share of ships that crumbled or made me lose muse bc my muse wasn't #feeling the ship. so I'm no longer going ahead unless the muse falls first and makes ME start shipping it rather than the other way around #and that decision has unironically made me feel so light and comfortable here AHDSAJDSKDJ #AH NEY WAYZ!! I need to be sedated bc why am I awake at 11 am. I HAVE NOT SLEPT.

[nonokoko-draws]

I have realized something hilarious

Not the poorest and richest students having the same initials XD

#twisted wonderland #twst kooky (🐰🌸) #even funnier because I hc Kalim as autistic + ADHD and Kooky is awaiting an official diagnosis to know if they're too 😭😭😭 #the funniest thing? I ship them with Jamil and she's Kalim's friend #what if they get each other letters because people keep seeing 'K.A' and thinking is the wrong one #imagine you despise the airhead chaotic nepo guy you have to serve #then fall for an airhead chaotic gal with his initials. Same energy except they're broke and depressed #AND THEN see the dumb dumb person you despise being all besties with your dumb dumb crush. How embarrassing for you Jamil #omg #what if they get each other letters because people keep seeing 'to KA' and thinking of the other #Or if they sign with their initials people believe it's the other #this opens the door for many scenarios I love it #twst mc #twst yuu #nonokoko ocs #also a small peak of my next birthday gift for myself

[amokslime]

About the whole ADHD "finding a way to motivate yourself without using the stress of impending deadlines" thing:

I hate to say it, but learning to be nicer to myself changed a lot of that for me. I really truly hate to say it. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta find a way to be nicer to yourself inside your own head, in whatever way works for you. I know it sucks so bad to hear.

The other thing is, if my brain is really refusing to tackle a task, often times the main thing I'm feeling is confused and understimulated. Which leads to me sitting there with the jeopardy theme song playing in my head, and then I unconsciously gravitate towards something that's more stimulating and therefore easier to wrap my head around. So overstimulating myself in some sensory way helps me be less confused about what I needed to do. Everybody's brain is different, though.

And uhh the other thing that helped is concerta, and listening to my body, and working on not being so ashamed when I failed. Which means you will probably have to fail a little bit unfortunately

#im so so so sorry #it sucks so bad because so much of what i found that works sounds so much like the trite advice we always get #you have to do it while being nice to yourself. if you try it while still motivating yourself through shame it won't workkkkkk #and the path to chipping away at all that learned shame is really individual and difficult #but the shame and stress are buddies that go hand in hand. they come from the same place #i had to make myself physically incapable of tolerating stress before i realized that it just doesn't matter #like you have responsibilities to your neighbors and loved ones and some of them are time sensitive. but HOW you complete them doesnt matte #and you just will mess up. there is nothing you can do about that. you have a disability. ADHD is a disability #''but if i mess up I'll face severe consequences. that's why i motivate myself through stress in the first place'' YEAH I KNOW IM SORRY MAN #it is still good to try and untangle the shame around doing tasks. it's still helpful. #even if it doesn't help you be more productive it will help your relationship with yourself and the world. #which is actually a really worthwhile and not at all selfish thing to prioritize. believe it or not. #anyway. love you!! sorry!! byeeee #personal #brain stuff

[rackartyg]

in therapy today i just talked about the dark urge and astarion and my therapist was elated about it. it was fantastic. “wow you’ve really been using this story and those characters to process things. that’s amazing!”

the era of being ashamed of my interests is over. it’s apparently Cool and Healthy to use fiction to cope. i wish i could tell fifteen year old me about this it would blow her mind

#she speaks #arctic plays bg3 #bad brains blogging #you’re gonna have to pry SFF from my cold dead hands because ‘this creature is not human but nonetheless a person’ is THE most #important thing ever actually #i love taking my feelings and experiences and externalising and concretising them through metaphor #my favourite thing about astarion is how he both has literal cptsd AND metaphorically through his vampirism #that fucking rules #also shoutout to another thing therapist said today: #she was originally sceptical of my potentially having autism #then she was like ‘ok you have some traits but you’re probably not diagnosable’ #then today she was like ‘you make so much sense when one thinks of you through the lense of autism’ #amen sister i’ve been right there with you #but now i’m getting my second assessment soon! which won’t change anything about me i am and will be ‘tism-y regardless #but it’s going to be interesting to see what happens #also i told her about my WISC scores and she was like ‘jesus christ tell them to evaluate you for adhd too’ so uhhh #they already screened me for that and i believe i tested negative but let’s see #the WISC score was why i was even referred for an assessment so