ADHD Moments

logging through blogging– personal anecdotes from my ADHD life

[mileymint]

I listen to music with headphones not because J wanna go deaf or be disrespectful, but so I don't have to hear the electricity in the walls and dog whistles and other NOISE that DISTRACTS me and ANNOYS me.

But there's more.

I want to hear every instrument that takes part in the melody. The breaths of the singer. The leitmotifs, every note, has meaning.

Music is a form of art, and I have trouble focusing without it. Even if it seems distracting or extra to you, it actually fuels me.

[adhdmomentsposts]

I need my music to flow from my innermost layer of hearing– protective bubble of sound that shields me from the cruel world

[drumlincountry]

Why do they even make apps for ADHD. You want me to use my 24/7 handheld immediate distraction device? To manage my 'gets distracted too easily' disorder? Ooooh we developed the perfect tool for managing your anemia. Its hosted in Dracula's castle. 👍

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Oversharing

Future ADHD

[intheshapeofahuman]

shout out to people with adhd who can't brush their teeth

shout out to people with adhd who have cognitive impairment due to how bad their adhd is

shout out to people with adhd whose hair has fallen out due to inability to take care of it

shout out to people with adhd who don't have the quirky relatable type of adhd

shout out to people with adhd who hoard or have rotting food in their room

shout out to people with adhd who are deemed gross

shout out to people with adhd who don't understand/can't follow politics

shout out to people with adhd who have moderate or severe adhd but weren't diagnosed until adulthood because they were abused or neglected

shout out to people with adhd who wear the same clothes all the time

shout out to people with adhd who get angry when understimulated

shout out to people with adhd who are disabled and will always be disabled by their adhd

[sanjerina]

My teenage nephew has plans to travel to Salzburg on a school trip, and I found out he had never seen The Sound of Music. Which obviously we had to rectify posthaste, so we watched it last night.

I haven’t seen that movie in about 20 years, but when I was a kid, I basically had it memorized. Maria was such a role model for me. I remember dancing around with couch cushions singing “I have confidence!” when I was still in kindergarten.

So in the scene where she runs into the abbey, late, and runs past the nuns who have just been singing about how to solve a problem like her, I said to my nephew, “we stan our ADHD nun queen” and then I was like, OHHHHHH.

Realized I haven’t seen The Sound of Music since I was diagnosed with ADHD, and oh holy crap. Everything makes even more sense now. 

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

I’m always fascinated by people who can trick their brain into doing things.

“If we finish this chore then we can have a treat.”

I have ADHD. My brain says orrr I can have the treat and never do the chore

[whyenn-reader]

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

[adhdmomentsposts]

Especially in the digital era when everyone's dopamine receptors are fried, this is a much needed reminder 🙏

[matchacakedragon]

once i master my adhd and stop believing that i’m waiting for my life to begin and accept what i cannot change and finish cleaning my room and stick to a productive schedule and drink enough water and meditate and organize all the important papers in the paper pile and start being consistent and say the nice things to myself and gain confidence its OVER for you bitches

[adhd-chaos-queen]

Having ADHD is like owning a house, but there are 50 uninvited guests and they won't leave or behave:

-They talk loudly and turn on the TV and radio on full volume.

-They don't take off their shoes, leaving mud anywhere.

-They mix up your cleaned and dirty laundry.

-They take food out of your fridge but don't put it back.

-All your chargers have been fried in the microwave.

-Every single table and chair has been put upside down.

-All your shoes have been mixed up.

-They keep turning the lights on and off and occasionaly just steal a bulb.

-the computer is now in the bathtub.

-Everyone keeps opening the cupboards, grabbing stuff and then leaving them open. There is not a single clean fork left.

-There are several small fires, but they throw around the fire extingisher like it's a ball, always out of your reach.

-You beg them to leave you alone. They won't. You neighbor can't see them and says it's so easy to keep a house clean, you're just lazy and need to try harder.

The house is my brain...

[adhd-chaos-queen]

If someone could stop the 25 simultaneously running, entierly dissaranged, non-sensical musicals performed by uncontrollably loud 3rd graders in my head, that would be great, thank you. 🙂

[adhd-vibes]

saved from impulsive me (about to cut my own bangs) by disorganized me (lost the scissors)

[adhd-vibes]

ok i think one thing that is quite ⚠️forbidden⚠️ by my ADHD is simply....estimating how long a task takes. even tasks i've done many times before. if you also find time shrouded in mystery FEAR NOT. our investigative reporter (me) is on the case (cleaning with timer)

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

"adhd isn't a disability"

breaks down over trying to start tasks until he deadline is stupidly close

unable to do basic chores unless it's like 4am and then the whole damn house gets cleaned

speaks too fast

tangent and tangent and tangent. makes social situations hard

literally unable to stop themselves from interrupting people mid sentence (and the constant "*interrupts*- sorry, please continue")

knows what they want to say, cannot find the words, even if it's something basic

auditory processing disorder (pretty common with adhd), like how do you explain that you can hear but your brain has minecraft server lag and the chat will appear soon

hyperfixations, and people thinking they are special interests when they are not (they are short term, literally stops you from basic care like eating and drinking when in) edit: it was brought to my attention this comes across like special interests are easier to live with which is not the case, please do not take that away from this post!!!

impulse purchases making bank accounts cry

all or nothing. not hungry to pain. don't need to pee until pain. you get the picture

cannot sit still, like actually can't, constant moving and shuffling which people think would be cute but actually just pisses people off

doesn't have a fidget toy, not bc they are popular but bc they would have to put it away bc dylan over there got a fidget spinner and has been loudly playing with it (dylan is neurotypical)

cannot do anything if there is something else to do that day, must wait

just stfu it is a disability

[adhdmomentsposts]

Does anyone else's ADHD type flipflop between the day and night?

Like during the normal-awake-hours I can sit relatively still for hours on end perfectly fine, but my mind is existing on at LEAST 3 different channels at once at all times with a chorus of mental stims on loop in the background, and my attention span/limit before I get bored or understimulated and open another channel in my head is literally 10 seconds.

But at night, suddenly, the voices dampen, and my mental clarity, focus, and working memory improve enough to actually power through an entire process in one session (I know, unheard of), HOWEVER, I suddenly MUST move or I lose my flow

***Post intermission-> list of recent favorite nighttime activities:

1) Dancing my ass off around the room while sorting/folding/putting away laundry

2) Doing calf raises/leg stretches while writing emails and other computer tasks, usually leaning down/over since I don't have a standing desk (or if I'm on the couch, becoming a kinetic pretzel installation and twisting myself up into all kinds of positions that would make even the most flexible yogis cringe and maybe wince a little)

3) Hopping and hobbling around in a crouch-stance (alternating between frog mode and goblin mode) while sorting through a doom pile (3 times is the charm: once by size (and then trying to make as tall as a tower as I can before it fall), once by color to make a gradient, and then once in actual practical categories before putting things away).

End of intermission***

It's like I either get normal-brain mode or normal-body mode but never both at the same time. I've started planning to do certain tasks at day/night accordingly but I'm not sure if there is a better solution. Thoughts?