#adhd check

[bakuqay]

i’m no longer hyper fixated on bakugou i feel free

[arvaamaton]

Time for ADHD challenge!

I dare you, I double dare you!

Take the trash out!

February 25, 2021 DOP 44/100

[forest--frog]

pov. you go sit for like 4 hours and do these tests

[pink-tiger]

Is it an adhd thing wanting to go out and participate with your friends but feeling like they might not want to if you propose it so you do nothing and end up feeling bad when they do plan stuff and dont actively invite you so they just assume you didn't wanna go because you didn't say anything?

[not-available-rn]

Where is that post that said "ADHD culture is listening to mute airphones for hours" because I just spent 3 hours like that and it got too real

[halfpint55]

I’ve had a new thought about how I can describe adhd to my neurotypical friends, and that is having adhd is what I imagine it feels like to try and break free from the hold of bloodbending...

There are days where it takes every ounce of strength we have, and all the while we feel like we’re fighting our own bodies, our own minds. We have to claw, and fight, and exert all our effort. 

We’re not in control. Our executively dysfunctional, dopamine deficient brains are.

Someone else is driving and it takes everything we have to wrench the wheel back in order to make ourselves do even sometimes the most basic of things. 

When we say we’re doing our best, and it looks to you like we haven’t done much of anything at all, it’s perhaps because we are so drained from trying to do the bare minimum to take care of a body that is resisting us every step of the way. It’s entirely likely that after wresting control back, all we managed to do was shower and brush our teeth, because that’s all we have left in us for that day.

Because we do the equivalent of fighting Hama every. single. day. 

Some days the fight against your brain is easier to win than others but she’s never really gone, and we’ll be having this fight for the rest of our lives.

Be patient with us, be gentle, be understanding, and never ever assume that we’re not trying.

I have a lot more to say but I’m going to put it under the break because that ^^ is the crux of what I wanted to say, but please read on if you’re able <3

To continue the metaphor:

Katara draws strength from the moon but she also draws strength in love; her loved ones are in danger.

Just like Katara, our strength on good days can come from external sources - like meds (which i think of as the moon in this very extended metaphor) - but also the things we love.

ADHD is a dopamine deficiency in our brains, that’s why we appear to have poor focus or short attention spans - we’re always actively seeking new things that raise our dopamine levels. And guess what those things are! Yep. The things and the people we love - our special interests, our passions, social time spent with loved ones.

Some little afterthoughts...

We have better days and worse days. Sometimes we can keep a hold over our brains for days, months at a time. It’ll look like we have it all together, and then all of a sudden we lose the battle again and things we could do one day are just an impossibility the next. 

It can be really frustrating and confusing to the people in our lives when we appear to suddenly be unable to complete a task we had no apparent trouble with 3 days before. It doesn’t appear to make sense. 

It often doesn’t make sense to us either, and we’re equally frustrated and upset at our sudden inability to do the little things. We often fall into the trap of feeling as though because we are capable of something - we are, we know we can do it, we’ve done it before, right? - that we should ALWAYS be able to do the thing. We are often our own harshest critic, and believe ourselves to be our own worst enemies, because we forget who, or what, it is we’re actually fighting against.

[mandalamartens]

Not me repetitively scratching my knuckles because I want to make them red and because I got anxious.

I had a long discussion about my home life, so I had to do something to distract myself. This was not a healtht way

[verizon-official]

if, hypothetically, you went back in time and stopped your own birth, you would also not be dead. because you were never born which means you weren’t able to go back and stop yourself being born, meaning you were born, but then it’s just this endless cycle of life and death and the only sure thing is the existential doom that you’re going to be Not Born but also that you’re still alive