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adhd gothic

you want to watch a movie. you put it on. two hours have passed. you haven’t watched the movie. there are five new tasks in front of you. you want to watch a different movie.

there is an object in your hand. it is extremely important you don’t lose it. you look down. there is nothing in your hand.

you don’t know your friend’s name. you’ve been friends for months. they just told you their name. you do not know their name.

your friend doesn’t laugh at your joke. why didn’t they laugh? do they hate you? they assure you otherwise. you know they are lying. did they ever like you?

someone asks you what you just said. did you say something? you said so many things. you said nothing. you said everything.

there is something you’re forgetting. you check. you check again. there is nothing you’re forgetting. there is something you’re forgetting.

you had something to say. you can’t remember. it was important. wasn’t it? you can’t remember.

there is a task that needs to be done. it should take ten minutes. you check the clock. it’s been five minutes. you check the clock. it’s been two days.

what-even-is-thiss

Who gave you this summary of my week

strangehorse

you are excited to do the thing. you are eager to do the thing. you do not do the thing and you cannot say why. your body is operated by a force beyond yourself.

you awake and lie in bed. you plan a detail to-do list in your head. excited, you step out of bed only to feel the motivation drain off of you like oil from a duck’s back. the bed calls to you like a siren to a sailor

did you lock the door? if you check, you will have locked the door. if you do not check, you will not have locked the door. if you check and have locked the door there is a reasonable chance you will accidentally unlock the door. there is no way to win this game.

you are hungry. you eat nothing. you are not hungry. you eat everything. the moon laughs at you.

you have had a tune stuck in your head for three days now. it is not a tune that exists on earth. it will not leave.

iraprince

weird little brain tweak/reframing that helped me out. i Often find that advice that seemingly helps Everyone Else doesn’t make any sense to me, in ways that are hard to describe, and it can be really frustrating. but when i find a way to explain it to myself that finally seems to break through and make it click, it feels really good

abcsofadhd

I call them ‘ONE THINGs’ (as in, one thing at a time).

ADHDers struggle with task switching.. holding different pieces of info slows us down and increases chance of us being distracted. Our brains also has difficulty automatically breaking down tasks into workable steps.

Therefore you want to manually break up the tasks into smaller tasks where you only have to hold one thing in mind.

Its actually the same as the comic says, you want to break them up into steps so you don’t need to think about anything else while doing it. Make it as mindless as possible, so you only have to focus on the thing you’re doing.

The smaller the tasks, the less you have to task switch and the less chance of fucking up.

So with the room cleaning example, our ADHD brains thinks of everything it needs to do at the same time, doesn’t know where to start and panics/ get intimidated.

Breaking down the task into workable ONE THINGS gives it easy instructions, that it doesn’t need to think about.

(It’s why habits are so useful for ADHDers.. it allows us to do tasks without having to think about it).

#holy FUCK #adhd

onemma-deactivated20211018

PSA if your family member/someone very close to you bites their lips/nails/fingers or picks at their skin or pulls their hair DO NOT draw attention to it or confront them about it in public, it feels absolutely horrible especially when done by someone you love and trust. thank you.

moth-doe

When I first started pulling my hair it was my eyelashes and eyebrows and I do it a lot in high stress situations; namely school. I was in 3rd grade and my teacher would go to my desk and tell me “stop distracting everyone” and she’d pull me up in front of the board and make me write “I won’t pull my hair”. My disorder has been written off as a bad habit for the seven years I’ve had it and I only now realize it’s a mental health condition and it makes me feel so validated because I thought for years that it was just a bad habit and I sucked at stopping.

thatgirlwithadhd

“I only now realize it’s a mental health condition and it makes me feel so validated because I thought for years that it was just a bad habit and I sucked at stopping.”

I think that’s a really common experience for people with trichotillomania, dermatillomania, or other related disorders, which is really unfortunate because these conditions are stressful enough without internalizing all that shame.

#this shit fucking sUCKS!!!

mindboogling

I don’t really know how to describe this feeling other than stressful, so I decided to draw it

Please let me draw and “sketchnote”

#adhd

thatadhdfeel

adhd as vines/tiktoks + those with adhd energies #1

thatadhdfeel

favorite tags on this post

#i feel personally attacked by the last one especially #adhd

thorffour-deactivated20190920

this felt important enough to share

#do you know how validating it was to learn that this awful feeling is a REAL THING experienced by OTHER PEOPLE????#adhd

my-autistic-things

Me: Tries to recall literally any memory

My ADHD:

#is this????#an adhd thing?????????

seriouselderberry

So I had a friend who also has ADHD explain to me what happens to his brain when he puts something down and then immediately forgets where it is and it was a total realization for me:

Once someone with ADHD puts an object down, it becomes a facet of the room rather than an actual object that can be interacted with. It isn’t its own object anymore. That’s why we can scan over an object over and over again without seeing it because it doesn’t stand out.

I thought this was a fascinating way of explaining this situation and it helped me a lot in understanding my experience as a newly diagnosed person with ADHD.

#adhd #wowzers

adhdmorelikeyaydhd

i am very tired and decided that there were not enough wholesome adhd memes in my life, so enjoy

adhd-ead

this made me warm

#excuse me while i cry #adhd

The adhd mood is

#adhd

valtsv

this is LITERALLY what having adhd feels like

#adhd

queersona

Do any other ppl with adhd get really nervous or upset or on edge when they don’t have a hyperfixation? Bc I do

alloaro

I’ve definitely noticed that I get way more irritable when I dont have a hyperfixation

queersona

Me when I don’t have anything to hyperfixate on and I’m left to my own devices for like 10 mins:

attention-deficit-dragon

Man losing stuff when you have ADHD is the worst. Stuff just like… vanishes. People will ask: when did you last have it? Well I don’t know dude. I just know it exists and I don’t know where it is currently doing that.

#adhd

bongmamaw-deactivated20210105

i’ve stopped trash talking comic sans after learning the font is actually one of the only dyslexia-friendly fonts that come standard with most computers and i advocate for others doing the same

not-safe-for-earth

In the event that you would like to continue hating Comic Sans, other dyslexia-friendly alternatives include Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Century Gothic and Trebuchet.

bigbardafree

thank

invaderxan

Random fact: Verdana is one of the few fonts which was specifically designed to be as easy to read as possible, even at smaller type sizes. It was designed this way for use on screen, but the same principles apply in print too. This is part of why some Universities use Verdana as their default font for documents.

sanctum-sanguinem

“In the event that you would like to continue hating Comic Sans” is one of the best things I’ve ever read on this website

writernotwaiting

@pedeka @lunariagold @darklittlestories

anastasiaoftheironwood

I’ll take Comic Sans over Arial any day.

writernotwaiting

Century Gothic and Trebuchet are both quite handsome typefaces.

iamhisgloriouspurpose

I’m partial to Century Gothic as well. It’s serif, but not boring.

catwinchester-deactivated201901

There’s also a dyslexic font designed especially for dyslexic people to read.

You can install on your tablets, laptops and browers etc, so not only can you change things like documents into it, you can change websites into that font as well!

catwinchester-deactivated201901

I’m sure you’re bright enough to do a google search, but since I’m dumb enough to forget to post a link, here it is. Better late than never

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexie-font/

captainlordauditor

I default to arial for this reason, but I will now be defaulting to verdana or dyslexie. nice.

formlessdemi

I don’t think I have dyslexia but that dyslexie font was the easiest fucking thing to read ever. Books should be written in that shit.

lunariens

ALSO!!!

For computer reading, when you mix up lines of text, there’s a web browser app called Beeline Reader. It looks like this

The colors are also customizable, to an extent and while I don’t have dyslexia, I have adhd which makes reading large amounts of text harder and this helps A LOT.