till the end of the line

Beau. 26. Netherlands. My obsessions change every 0.2 seconds.

[anxietyproblem]

[oak23]

We forgot about it

[dickheaddutch]

[calicoatelier]

(Related) Fun fact! ADHD has the tendency to dropkick most things (Including exam answers) into your short term memory, while nondescript things, like how you found a cool leaf on the 12th of September 2004 (because that’s important) get filtered into long term. Short-term memory is held for as little as 20 seconds to a minute. That means when you add in the processing gap, you may have forgotten what they have said by the time the information is done processing. So most people with ADHD have some form of short term memory problems.

TL;DR if you have a mixture of anxiety/depression and ADHD (as they tend to be linked) your memory is fucked!!

[raccooninapartyhat]

literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)

me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat

[wetwareproblem]

My go-to-sleep routine involves ramping down with less stimulating input for a couple hours, but having some form of media until I literally can’t keep my eyes open.

Of course, my sleep schedule is “surprise me,” so this may not be the best advice.

[rosa-buachaille]

If you’re someone who experiences an absence of stimulation as [negative] stimulation, it makes sense that that advice wouldn’t work for you. 

(I don’t know whether it’s that way with ADHD, but it can be with autism, so I’m thinking it’s likely.)

Health advice that excludes disabled people is a constant irritation.  I saw an article once about research supposedly finding that spending much time sitting down shortens your life, and someone who needed a wheelchair full-time commented underneath “Well, that’s me fucked, then”.  Sums it up.

[ms-demeanor]

Heyyyyyyyy you want a piece of life-changing advice from your local ADHD gremlin?

Hang out in bed.

I kept hearing that you should only be in your bed for sleep and that all your other activities - like reading, internetsing, talking on the phone, playing games, etc. - should be done somewhere other than the bed so that you could associate the bed with sleep.

You know how I’ve averaged three to five hours of sleep a night for about seventeen years? (you probably didn’t know; let me tell you IT SUCKED) I’m approaching a MUCH healthier average of five to seven hours through the simple expedient of hanging out in bed around bed time.

You know why?

Because I would get sleepy out in my not-bed but I couldn’t get my executive function to cooperate with getting me into bed.

I’d sit in my chair and hang out on tumblr or have a book in my hand and around 3 am I’d be fighting to keep my eyes open but I wouldn’t get the motivation to get out of my chair and go to bed until around 4.

Now I start hanging out in my bed at about midnight and when I get tired at one or two I can just take off my glasses and go to sleep. There are still hyperfocus incidents - I’ve gotten sucked into a book until 6 once or twice since I started doing this, but that’s once or twice in four months instead of going to bed at 5am every night.

So yeah, FUCK sleep hygeine if it’s actually preventing you from getting to sleep. There is no way the blue light from my phone could be worse for sleep than the ADHD “I’ll get up and go to bed in a minute” mode was for me.

[hedwig-dordt]

this is the bedtime version of “running the dishwasher twice”

[flipocrite]

pay the ADHD tax upfront; embrace the second-best solution rather than the perfect one you’re half as likely to do or use

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

All literally me. Back when I was a kid and we only had the one family computer, I’d sit awake until 6AM reading fanfiction because I couldn’t get up and go to bed. I’d just sit there.

Now (and for the past several years) I keep my laptop on a small nightstand by my bed, and I watch/listen to youtube videos while reading fanfiction until I straight up pass out. Then I eventually wake up in the middle of the night and half asleep shut down the computer. 

I chase stimulation every second of every day. Every waking moment. But doing this I can average 5-8 hours a night of sleep.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[twentythousandvolts]

i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????

[buckypascal]

Bucky doing the thing

[courtofcwls]

Anthony Mackie has been giving this caliber of performance as Sam since 2014 and it’s about damn time he got the proper recognition for it

[dankmemeuniversity]

[aphony-cree]

What people think this means “I’ll use this as an excuse to do whatever I want all day instead of committing to other things that need to be done”

What it actually means “I’ll be obsessively checking the clock all day because I’m constantly worried I’ll be late if I don’t. I also worry that if I commit to doing anything else important that day it’ll distract me from the time and I’ll miss the appointment. This will be a day filled with anxiety and in no way relaxing until the appointment is over with"

[babyanimalgifs]

I don’t understand but I agree.

[j-liz]

[funnytwittertweets]

[ghoryy-deactivated20230813]

if we date i’ll probably stare at you a lot, I like to admire what’s mine.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

[dama3-deactivated20210619]

old school hate mail

[jakovu]

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

[thesparkofrevolution]

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

[skeletonrex-deactivated20151101]

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

[thesparkofrevolution]

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

[prokopetz]

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

[ source ]

[sumerianlanguage]

every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it

[dduane]

Here, by the way, is Leo Oppenheimer’s translation of the tablet at the top.

Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:

When you came, you said to me as follows : “I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.” You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: “If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!”

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…

[brightwanderer]

..... Ea-Nasir is that YOU

[supreme-leader-stoat]

HE LIVES

[nunyabizni]

[el-joselito]

[jimxugle]

[catsandcrisps]

when you listen to a song you used to listen to ages ago and you get that weird as fuck spine chilling feeling as you remember how your life was at that point in time

[everythingfox]

“When u get carried through a match but still try to help out”

(Source)

[nisaexploresadhd]

adhd is: well ive done 75% of this ive lost interest now

[la-pou-belle]

hey yall I didn’t want to have to do work for my online classes so i made a uquiz instead. answer some questions and i’ll tell u what aspect of your personality annoys me the most

[la-pou-belle]

So far, people who get the same answer rb and tag this in VERY SIMILAR WAYS. Which is so cool!!! You know what really kills me though? People who get “you don’t like being held accountable” NEVER reblog it. BUT YOU GUYS ARE THE MOST POPULAR RESULT. I KNOW YOU’RE THERE. which tells me that you don’t like being held accountable SO MUCH that you will boycott a whole ass uquiz bc of it. And that, my friends, that is beautiful.

[la-pou-belle]

1) yeah, this is where ur name goes when u enter it in – idk why they even ask for it either

2) Sadboihrs, if you’re out there, I am COMPLETELY UNSURPRISED that you got conflict avoidant.

Edit: also this one

[teaboot]

Hi hello are you aware you’ve dragged me for filth