#adhd alien

[adhd-alien]

Hey everyone!

I know I haven't been on here in a while, but I come with something that is really important to me, so I hope you can forgive me 💦 I adopted a dog from poland last year and got to know the woman who built her own shelter to save animals.

Aga started out working in a public shelter and conditions there were HORRIBLE. She took over it but they kept cutting funds, so at one point she decided to indebt herself to build her own shelter.

Now, she needs help keeping that shelter open

gofund.me/10086e61

It would mean the world to me if you could help in any way - sharing, liking, anything. ❤️

(Small warning for the link, in the middle of the page there is one image that’s a bite more explicit)

[laestoica]

[chrysocomae]

Some individuals with AD/HD, especially without hyperactivity, have an activation problem as described by Thomas Brown, Ph.D. in his article AD/HD without Hyperactivity (1993). Rather than a deficit of attention, this means that individuals can’t deploy attention, direct it, or put it in the right place at the right time. He explains that adults who do not have hyperactivity often have severe difficulty activating enough to start a task and sustaining the energy to complete it. This is especially true for low-interest activities. Often it means that they can’t think of what to do so they might not be able to act at all, or, as Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo say in You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!, they might experience a “paralysis of will” (pg. 65). “The clothes from my trip—a month ago—are just still lying in a heap in the suitcase.” “I spend a lot of time in bed watching TV but my mind isn’t watching TV. I’m thinking about what I should be doing, but I don’t have the energy to do it.”

- Sari Solden, Women With Attention-Deficit Disorder

[junflower123]

[dehvran]

GUYS I’M SO HAPPY

I just found out that my ADHD is indeed legaly recognized as a disability in my country, and my former psychiatrist made my ADHD report

I’m officially a disabled person

I’m so happy, finally gonna have my rights secure! I’m crying so much 

[afreakingdork]

I’ve been referring to my current hyper fixation as Brain Rot(tmnt)

[mort-the-destroyer]

Pros for reading the ADHD Alien Comics: It focuses on very specific things that come with ADHD and not just the obvious symptoms. They also point out things that I’ve done my entire life that I didn’t even connect to my ADHD, but are kinda obvious in hindsight.

Cons: I feel very called out and some specific posts about links to ADHD and Depression and anxiety give me middle school flashbacks.

Like this post has me in shambles.

It’s just so nice to have someone put it into words, that feeling of time not feeling real until the last moment.

[lymeandanxiety]

Why my ADHD makes it hard for me to read or watch tv shows/movies

It’s not that I can’t do either. Its not that I can’t focus on reading as a whole, Its that I can’t START doing it.

Once I get into a show or book or movie, and I like it, every episode is a reward in itself. Binge watching the latest season of young justice? Fuck yeah, new content of a favorite thing. New Spider-Man movie? Glued to the screen.

But when I first start watching a thing, even something recommended by a friend who knows what I like: there’s the chance I won’t like it and there won’t be that reward.

Perfect example: despite it being my FAVORITE SHOW now, it took 4 years of my friend telling me I should watch it before I gave it a shot because my boyfriend put it in the DVD player and turned it on (which just that one added barrier of finding a way to watch it only made it harder for me to give it a shot til then.)