Ignorant Savage

32-Male-PNW. I'm a framer, game development student, and digital artist. I share my life with my beautiful soulmate, @BrightOrangeRain. This is a random blog related to my interests and life. Topics include: Art, Web Comics, Game dev, relationship stuff, mental health, depression, anxiety, adult ADD/ADHD, memes, and whatever else I may fancy.

[adultadhd]

I made a whole comic!! wow 

[abcsofadhd]

‘I don’t know’

All ADHDers are very familiar with those three and a half words. 

My mom often used to get quite mad at me when she would ask me a question and all I could reply was that I didn’t know.

Why? Executive dysfunction.

We don’t know how we are feeling, we aren’t really alert to things happening around us and we can’t remember what the fuck we were just doing.

What do I want for dinner? I hadn’t even realized it was already evening, mom.

[fawllyn]

I made a meme to help cope with my suffering and I'm hoping that I ain't the only one

[ignorantsavage87]

The tribulations are genuine

[abcsofadhd]

A low percentage of ADHDers go to college/ university and a lot of the ones that do, tend to drop out.

This is understandable. Memory problems and concentration issues make it hard for us to remember and pay attention.

However, the big issue, which is a culmination of all our difficulties, is that we get over whelmed.

If we assume 12 weeks in a semester, then with every week, we are a bit further behind.

With every late hand in or low grade, we get more frustrated and feel worse about ourselves.

Hell, I’d go as far to say that its the emotional dysregulation that worse than the focus and memory issues in the long run.

Being unable to handle frustration and failing means that we do worse as time passes.

This is true for all ADHDers but especially so in college.

[ignorantsavage87]

This is so immensely relatable and puts perfectly into words a huge chunk of the problems I faced in school with my grades- throughout my entire life - not just college. I never really could figure out how to say this before. The cumulative frustration of repeated failure and hopelessness was absolutely crushing and eventually led me to drop out of my original HS in my 'super senior' year.

[missizayacupcake]

I love the universal gaming experience of “oh this game doesn’t have sitting so I’ll stand on this chair and crouch”

[silverhawk]

honestly minecraft is a good game and i will never forgive the internet for making people feel bad for liking a game about fucking mining and building houses

[amtrax]

Ya know what? Good post OP.

[spots-hate-blog]

Just want to share a fun story about Minecraft.

So, for some reason my school decided to get Minecraft. But before they could use it in classrooms they needed to test it out. That meant that my class was the first one to try it. After a whole hour of troubleshooting we finally got online. And you fuckin know what?

We loved it.

For a whole fucking hour or so a class of at least 20 senior high school students were just having the time of their life playing Minecraft. The guy sitting next to me had next to no idea how to play but we still fucking loved it.

I hate how some douche edgelords decided ‘Minecraft sucks’, because it’s so much mindless fun and helps bring people together with how much they hate lava

[juzavoices]

Visit Original Link

[toastbutteregg]

me after an exam i didnt study for

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Unborn babies are the only people allowed to kick pregnant women.

[femaleshits]

[chronicallyjessica]

How my joints make me feel when I first wake up in the morning

[showerthoughtsofficial]

The simple act of NOT replying to an annoying comment online often takes more mental energy than writing something

[nisaexploresadhd]

adhd is:  choices are so stressful, like the more i have the more likely i am to start panicing and just not make a decision

[showerthoughtsofficial]

It feels so good to crawl back into bed after your morning pee

[best-shower-thoughts]

People are more focused on looking rich than being rich, thats why they’re poor. Wasting money on stuff that give the appearance of wealth. (source)

[fucktheevanuris]

ADHD culture is saying “what?” when you heard the question someone asked you but… It didn’t fucking… Register… In the brain? And then you hear the question before they ask again and interrupt them when they’re talking because now you’re An Asshole™ who understands

[mostlyvoidpartlyplants]

Someone: Hey what time is it?

Me: What?

Someone: Wha-

Me: It’s 3:20

[attack0npotato]

This is actually a thing, while visual info takes 0.1 seconds to process, auditory infor can take 3 to 4 seconds to process, which is why you ask, and then actually hear the question because your brains only just processed it

[seashells-and-bookshelves]

My husband has ADHD and does this, and I hate repeating myself constantly. One thing that I feel has saved us from so much stress in our marriage is that I’ve just stopped repeating myself. After a while he caught onto what I was doing and stopped saying “what” over and over when I didn’t respond. Now occasionally he’ll ask me “what?” when I said something because he actually didn’t hear me, and I will happily repeat myself for him, but most of the time I just say silent and let his brain compute what I said. So now our conversations go one of two ways: 

Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote? Him: What?? Me: *silence* Him: I left it on the couch. 

Or 

Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote?  Him: What? Me: *silence* Him: Ok, I really didn’t hear you that time, what did you say? Me: *repeats question*

Even if you don’t have ADHD, I mean, auditory delay happens with a lot of people, not just ADHD folk. If you deal with it, try this approach with your friends and loved ones. It has helped us so much. 

[old-songs]

I jokingly suggested something similar to my gf called the “3 second rule”. If i don’t respond in 3s, assume I really didn’t hear you.  Tho Im p good at just masking the processing time with UUhhhhHhHhh

[adhd-informative]

Also pro tip for communicating with ADHD people: say the name of the person you want to talk to before you share your thought and wait for them to acknowledge you. That way if we are distracted or otherwise occupied you know can be sure are listening. We very well may still need to process, but it will greatly cut down on the number of times we genuinely didn’t hear a word you just said.

[dathen]

THAT LAST NOTE

PLEASE

I AM BEGGING

[ignorantsavage87]

Pixel painting I did of Mt Hood.