- Stopping mid-sentence because you know what you want to say, but its like someone is saying it in the other room and you have to listen thought the wall to know what to say next so you end up spending ten whole seconds in the middle of a sentence and you can just feel the conversation dying.
- Having the mental fogginess of someone who pulled an all-nighter regardless of how much sleep you got.
- Leaving to go somewhere that’s 15 minutes away at 7:40 and then getting there at 8:15 and legitimately unable to answer why you’re late.
- Spacing out and knowing you’re spacing out but not knowing how to get back because literally everything has stopped and you don’t really have the ability to function and this is during a job interview and is the most inappropriate time for this to happen and
- Having a SPD or LD or mental illness but thinking, “No I can’t have _____, I already have ADHD. I can’t have both.”
- Stuttering when you don’t have a stutter and as you’re stuttering thinking, “Stop it you don’t have a stutter,” which only makes it worse.
- Not admitting you’re afraid of driving because of how often you space out behind the wheel going 45mph
- Episodes of cognitive dysfunction
- Expecting to fail before you’ve even started
-Losing track of your thought and struggling to get words from your head to your mouth and its really frustrating and tiring so you gave up and say you lost your train of thought.
- Being scared to ask a question because it was probably said and even though you’re sure you were paying attention you probably spaced out and didn’t realize it so if you ask that question then you’ll get in trouble for not listening even though you really were.
- People joking about how they’re sooooo ADD because they misplaced their car keys but you almost forgot to send in your taxes and when all you had to do was sign one piece of paper and stick it in your mailbox and its been sitting on your kitchen table for weeks in plain sight and now you might go to jail for tax evasion and you’re going to die in prison because you were too lazy to sign and mail a piece of paper.
- Sitting down to do work but not actually being productive for another hour.
- Seriously doubting your ability to get through college
- Eating out of boredom and trying to busy your mind with something else but no matter what you do your mind is still on food even though you already ate an entire loaf of bread when you weren’t even hungry so now your stomach hurts and you feel sick and gross but your mind is still telling you to eat more.
- Hyperfocusing on something and not eating all day and realizing you’re suddenly super hungry and overeating and then eating more because you only ate once that day and you must be hungry but you don’t know what hungry really feels like, you only know what appetite feels like.
-Doubting your abilities because no matter what precautions you take: leaving early, double triple checking, making lists, taking medication, setting alarms, you always seem to mess something up and at this point you’ve run out of ideas on how to not mess up literally everything you do.
- Was that my ADHD or did I just have an absence seizure? Have I had epilepsy this whole time? Am I being prescribed the wrong meds? Is ADHD even real? Wait was that a stop sign? Am I driving? How long have I been driving? Where am I going? What’s the speed limit?
- Fantasizing about basic social situations and relying too much on the script you wrote in your mind. But it never goes as planned, so you force the joke you thought of into a conversation that kind of makes sense, or someone doesn’t say what you planned on them saying, so you flounder to respond since you can’t be present in conversation and your social skills are garbage
- Neurotypical people minimizing your ADHD as a silly quirk when it really destroys most of your self-esteem because literally no matter how hard you try it seems to never be enough.
