#adhd frustrations

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

It took me way too long to realise I genuinely needed more rests and sleep than other people because having four learning disabilities (including one that made moving my body more tiring than it needed to be, one that made reading anything more work than it needed to be, and one that makes focusing more draining than it needed to be) exhausts you faster than not having any of them or even only having them in moderation

My brain was out here being exhausted by the act of reading, moving, and concentrating on anything, and I never connected it to the fact that I constantly disagreed with people over how much sleep we needed

People would be like we 'only need 8 hours sleep', and my tired ass would be like 'um, actually...' and it's like 8 hours was probably true for them but not for my severely dyslexic, severely dyspraxia, and ADHD ass

My brain was exhausted just from existing let alone actually having to do stuff

Of course I need more sleep

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

So I've noticed, people don't really talk about how sensory issues can come with ADHD, or other neurosciences, so I wanted to suggest, for your consideration

The dyslexic ADHDer listening to music but by gods the lyrics are too much language to focus on whilst reading, and ripping their earbuds out to make it stop

The ADHD who looks at light and feels nauseous, even as they think they look pretty

The ADHDers who exist mainly in baggy clothes or always want to be existing in baggy clothes because anything else is too much fabric against their skin but they need something because no layers is awful in a different sensory way

The ones always wrapped in blankets and making their space the right temperature to warrant a blanket because no blanket is not an option

The ones who try to listen to 'meditative' noises but it is wrong and oh my gods this is hell, I need out of here, get me out, right the fuck now

The one who feels nauseous from the sent being too strong, even if they objectively like it in small doses, it's just too much

The ones who run their hands over everything in a shop to get that stimulus but then find the wrong texture and wanna crawl out of their skin

The ones who have the room at a certain temperature and anything above that could be hell, but to another anything below is just as bad, the heat feels oppressive and likes it bearing down making everything worse

The ones who love spices and flavour but too much is sickening

The ones who can't eat onions or other such foods because the texture is wrong, even though they like the flavour onions add

The ones who suffer with their senses because something is off and it is hell, but they can't zone it out because ADHD doesn't allow you to just turn off stimulus, it wants stimulus all the time but of the right kind because the wrong stimulus or no stimulus is worse than torture

[adhd-pi-frustrations]

Wouldn't it be amazing if internet browsers had the option of selecting all tabs and copying each link in sequential order so you could make a word document of all the links you had open during that hyperfocus state where you researched the hell out of your hyperfixation. Better yet be able to select all the tabs and save them as a session on the browser itself that you can name and make notes about and come back to at a later date. Assuming you remember to do so cuz if I'm being honest I'd probably forget.

[adhd-pi-frustrations]

ADHD might seem like a fun way of blaming your distraction on a disorder rather than your own disinterest. But trust me, you don't want this or lack the ability to selectively drown out environmental stimuli. The number of times I am startled out of focus by noises (loud or subtle like typing on a keyboard) that I can't remember what I was just thinking or doing is embarrassingly high. Or worse, being viewed as disrespectful and uninterested because all the environmental stimuli at a restaurant or cafe prevents you from maintaining eye contact with that person you do actually find interesting and engaging. And that's only the tip of the iceburg 😧

[naturallyalisia]

The ADHD annoyance when you finally tear yourself away from hyper-focusing on literal non-sense to work then someone comes to bother you by showing you a thing, talking about it, and then you miss the window of productivity and continue to procrastinate.

[dyslexic-dyspraxic]

Because of my short attention span and good memory, if someone keeps telling me something, if something keeps getting shown to me and I wasn't actively interested in it, or it's going in a direction I find uninteresting, my feelings will go from mildly uninterested to hating it very quickly which, let me tell you is annoying when you can't avoid the topic