#adhd blogging

[brehaaorgana]

From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don't obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

Edit: I also have this post on budgeting with ADHD + feel free to check my tags, coz I am trying to remember to tag as needed for this stuff. :)

[existentialterror]

ADHD video game concept:

There's a central gameplay mechanic that keeps drifting, like, visually out of focus. There are ways to reign in the focus but they involve trial-and-error on things totally unrelated to the main gameplay loop, or maybe with significant debuffs. Certain zones or arcs of the game or enemies involve new challenges, like inverted controls or distracting animations.

Also, one of the "distractions" is a completely different game, overlayed on your own, that is way more immediately mindless and attractive than the main game. A tetris clone or something. It can be played at the same time using a different set of controls. There is no score kept on the tetris clone and no benefit to the main gameplay loop from playing it.

[adhd-soul]

THISSS🗣🗣🗣

Yea we may make it look fun but it’s not.😭

I guess it can appear that way bc some of us have bubbly /goofy personalities, along with feeling emotions more intensely, and then mix that with inattentiveness and or hyperactivity.

It can also appear that way because our highs can be really high..🚀 Like sometimes you’re happy and then there’s just in a really good ass mood. You might light up the whole room or draw attention to yourself because you’re in that good of a mood.

-You may laugh at something for minutes or for days till your tummy muscles aches

-You might be telling everyone and their mom about the fact that 🗣👥👥👥 :

-Maybe you accomplished something that your proud of

-Started a new hobby

- Have a new bf or gf

-Bought something new

^the oversharing struggle 🗣👥👥👥

-You could just be in a good mood and accidentally talking too loud or maybe laughing too loud. 🤫😥Or just being a chatterbox ( I got my name written on the board in class for that one )

- or just passionately talking about something your very passionate about like you could have your own talk show lol and maybe dump a lot of info to others bc you’re an expert on the topic

Then our lows can be really low..⚓️😓🤬Like when you’re mad you’re mad. Can go from 0-10 real quick. Something that may not bother a regular pupil may feel like a slap in the face. Then there’s the struggle with emotional regulation…😭

-Might take me more time to get over something than your regular pupil would 🙃

-Easy to make me cry😓 ( sometimes especially when I was younger )

-argumentative ass that has to have the last word 😆

-Being short tempered

- If I have a plan and it all goes to shit I might huff and puff 😆😤

- might be a little sassy on the road 🚘 ( I try to think now it as it’s not worth it and too many accidents happen everyday or what if someone’s just having a bad day or are spacey soul like me and didn’t mean to drive like crap lol ( also if I leave earlier and not running late there’s a less chance of road rage and sassiness 😭 )

Back to the goofy and bubbly personality thing I had an someone very close to me once tell me to “never change “ so at least one positive thing about the ADD/ADHD is having a unique personality. I think I also me laughing a lot sometimes or trying to be funny, make others laugh or smile is one of my ways of coping and just trying to make life and more fun and positive because some days are really tough.

(Might add more to this later my original post I didn’t save as a draft and it got deleted and I didn’t remember everything I wrote 😭 )

Thanks for reading. Hope you all are having a nice weekend.

[subtextread]

pharmacy delay on my wellbutrin script but I’m scared to start it anyway so 🤝

[altschmerzes]

adhd is like [watches movie] [gets distracted by phone] [misses one of the best parts] [rewinds] [gets distracted by phone] [misses one of the best parts] [rewinds] [gets distracted by texts making this post and forgets it for ten minutes] [clicks back into app to finish post] [gets distracted by making post about getting distracted] [misses one of the best p

[lyraeon]

so far the most noticeable difference from the ADHD meds is that the dialogue in my head is now like... a proper dialogue? whereas before, even a single full sentence felt obscured in black fuzz more than 3 or 4 words away in either direction. fog of war in my head.

any attempt to question what was going on - by myself, in my own head - was usually met by incoherent screeching or static. It’s that “can’t operate the robot” feeling I’ve complained about before - I’m sitting in the cockpit but none of the controls work no matter how much I pound on them. I’m not necessarily really truly *physically* stuck, but I’m so frozen I might as well be.

but now I just... can think things through? without having to write them down? and can mostly remember what my previous sentence was while talking?

My brain now: "oh right, we dropped that in the shower earlier. why didn't we pick it up?" "we forgot" "fair enough, it was behind us. we should pick it up now." "I don't want to." "why not?" "because it needs rinsed off since it was sitting there" "well shouldn't we pick it up sooner rather than later then so it only needs rinsed not cleaned?" "ohhh true yeah I guess, rinsing now > cleaning later" proceeds to actually do thing my brain before the meds, like 360 days a year: "oh why is that wrapper on the floor" static with brief flashes of unwrapping the thing earlier "ok let's pick it up" sudden paralysis "...let's go pick it up" dial tone, body remains frozen to chair "pick it... argh. fine, we'll pick it up when we get up later, let's finish watching-" blinks "wait why do I have 9 unread discord messages, how long have I been zoned out out here? over an hour? and I still haven't hit play?!"

so yeah, big improvement?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[sarsaparillia]

genuinely love how many of y'all see anything i post about adhd and immediately hit reblog like we're all in this together ❤

[tarysande]

Just Little ADHD Things

Am I close enough to the deadline for panic to kick in and give me the much-needed adrenaline/motivation necessary to finish this work?

How about ... now?

Now?

...Um, brain? Brain. Buddy. Pal. Now? ... Now? 

PLEASE NOW???