7 most adhd moods
âthe Only Mood everyone else knows about: i wanna do THIS and THIS and THIS and THIS and THIS andâSQUIRREL
âgalaxy brain: i was listening to the lecture but the prof said something that reminded me of something else and now iâm not sure how much time i was lost in thought
âthe tutorial only comes in video format: iâm sorry, but youâve thrown off the emperorâs groove *hurls product & its tutorial video into the sun*
âdamn you hyperfocus: i went to bed intending to wake up and write but this morning i was possessed by a cleanliness spirit and spent the next 14 hours organizing the apartment
âi dont think u tried at all.jpg: did i seriously spend an entire free day refreshing twitter b/c i didnât want to spend 10 minutes finishing my hw but wouldnât let myself do anything else until i finished it???? (yes)
âpatrick star: *unlocks phone* time to check the weather. *opens twitter* the weather. *opens messenger* the weather. *opens mobage game* the weather. *opens facebook* the weather. *opens twitter again* THE WEAâ
âsmells like depression: literally everything is too boring. iâm going back to sleep
Found it.
Itâs difficult to tell because *gestures* Tumblr, but this is the post that actually got me to get tested for ADHD. I reblogged it back in late 2018 like âWait, the video tutorial issue is a symptom of ADHD? Do I have ADHD? Surely not,â and a bunch of readers responded âDidâŠdid you not know? Because you very clearly do, we all thought you were just being discreet about it.â
And then it took me three and a half years to get a diagnosis.
Although being fair to me, if youâve ever tried to get tested for ADHD as an adult, just getting a motherfucker to call you back about setting up the test is a task. And after spending all of 2019 trying to accomplish that and failing, I then couldnât get to a testing facility because of a global pandemic.
Anyway, thanks OP for the post, it only took me five years to find it again, but you did a good dayâs work.
This, but via a more circuitous route. Iâm 52, got diagnosed last year, after about a year or two of âGee, these ADHD memes and callout posts are getting really identifiableâ combined with hitting the wall at work, home, and social life all at once. about a third of my oldest friends were âOh, we thought you already knew/were already managing itâ. One was even âOh, Iâm not only ADHD myself, so are my three children and Iâve been using you as an example of âperson with ADHD whoâs also got a career and good qualifications and educationâ example for my children, we thought you knewâ.
Can someone explain the video thing?
I thought it was because Iâm almost blind, and now youâre telling me itâs yet another ADHD surprise?
@varian-ross-horror-author YES I CAN EXPLAIN
I usually need help on one specific part, not the whole thing. HAVE FUN FINDING THAT PART :D
If I need help on more than one thing, Iâm not gonna keep more than one step in my head, so Iâll have to start, then stop. Then do. Then go back and check I remembered right. Then start. Over and over again. Just let me read them line by line as needed PLEASE
Related to (1), the voiceover and video will inevitably be slow, measured, and monotone, putting me to sleep on the parts I donât need help on & making it that much harder to find the part I need
The popularity of video tutorials has forced me to learn to deal with this, but itâs painful and Iâd still rather have written instructions on a single webpage/instruction booklet than a video
