My ADHD stories

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falling asleep after drinking coffee

I always get sleepy 30 mins - 1h after I drink coffee and take a 1-2 hour nap. I don’t add sugar, only a little bit of cream, so this isn’t an insulin crash. 

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retarded reflexes - karate/sports

I was always horrible at sports because I’d be talking to myself in my head and just could not comprehend things like how to catch stuff. 

It’s only 80% of the time though the other 20% of the time I have PERFECT REFLEXES AND REACTION TIMES. I’m smooth as hell, catch balls, fast af in defending myself in karate, always make my shots in basketball. sometimes I really surprise myself 

Idk what it is maybe adrenaline? seems to only happen when I’m shocked or suddenly “jolted into reality” or something

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to do: don’t let jamal call when I’m multitasking

Isn’t gonna work anymore. hurts to have things be like this dont make it worse 

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how I need to be studying

Normally when I study, I search up every part of the book/text that doesn’t make sense to me or I want more information on. I try to understand the mindset of the author when they wrote it and what they were picturing and all the different little facts that relate to the sentences that made it to the book. This information overload helps me remember everything in the text because it makes more sense and is more interesting. 

BETTER WAY TO DO IT:

First remember how my brain did things when I was stressed. How it would extrapolate the most important data and relate it to the main topic. DO THIS FIRST.

Then write it down over and over again until it sticks.

Next, before I get bored, start going over everything in detail and trying to remember all of it while adding interesting information and stuff. This way I won’t run out of time

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Playing video games to do homework

Apparently this isn’t normal? 

I play turn based video games when I have to sit down and do homework. It takes up my entire phone so I can’t tab out and use social media or anything. And it’s engaging enough where I can ONLY focus on my homework and the game. 

I can’t talk to people while I study but I can text. It’s like, talking over rides the focus I have on reading/writing/texting but if I’m texting someone I can queue their response in line with the other 10 things going on in my head 

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hyperfocus as a kid?

I never thought I had adhd because I always described myself as hyperfocused. I thought I was lowkey an addict.

When I was a kid:

When I’m into a book I can’t stop reading it until I finish

When I knit/do art I can do it for DAYS on end and perfect it and never do anything else. I actually thought I was crazy. It was really calming to do pottery/origami and make everything as perfect as I could get it.

Mobile game addiction. Especially games that had levels and required some planning.

binge watching TV shows especially as a teenager

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Forgetting things when I’m multitasking

I can’t cook or do chores or clean my room. 

When I’m cooking, I just can’t seem to organize things in a way that would make sense. I take things out of cupboards and put them back in 20 times and take longer and forget ingredients. 

If I’m doing things super rushed I make stupid mistakes like pouring hot water in the wrong sink (on clean dishes) or washing spoons upside down and splashing water everywhere. If I have to add multiple ingredients I always forget one. 

if I’m cleaning, I’ll walk up and downstairs 10 times and still not manage to put 10 items back in their respective locations. I have to narrate to myself what i’m putting where, and constantly repeat it to myself after every dropoff 

However if I focus on cleaning I can sort my stuff better than sheldon cooper with everything in alphabetical/chronological/whatever order and remember where it is, down to like the orders I store my binders in.

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Another childhood traumatic experience

In grade 6 my teacher was saying something really boring and I was staring at the poster above her head and looked back at her after a while. She thought I was rolling my eyes and reamed me out in front of the class. Got home and got my ass beat bc of that.

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Not hearing people talk to me

When I was 9, in class, I remember once the teacher told the entire class to “stop what you’re doing”. I heard her and didn’t realize she was talking to everyone, continued what I was doing, until I realized the people around me stopped moving around. Then I turn around and she was FUMING. Screeched at me for being a “little princess” and sent me to the office crying. 

That night my mom beat my ass so bad too and I remember she kept telling me it was my fault and I just needed to pay attention more.