#adhdlife

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I hate it when people say things like “don’t take adhd medications, they turn you into a zombie” because I’m still the exact same person I was before except I’m a person with clean laundry and a hot meal now.

I think it’s important to highlight a couple of things here:

1. Feeling like “a zombie” happens when you’re taking the wrong dosage of your meds. Always consult with your doctor if this is happening to you. There’s no universal medication+dose, so your doctor should find what suits you best according to your experience with your meds AND dosage.

2. Medication is ABSOLUTELY important. Even if some ADHDers don’t need it, acknowledging the importance of medication so we can make our brains work is sadly something we still need to be loud about so we can help others understand. People aren’t out there telling diabetics to stop taking their insulin, so why should they say that to us?

3. This is totally about my personal experience in my country, Chile. Most of the bad rumours I heard about ADHD medication came from my neurotypical classmates in law school who would illegally buy those meds knowing that they did not have ADHD to perform better in school. When I got my diagnosis they told me a lot about the different meds they tried and wanted to buy mine.

Of course they would experiment side effects, it’s the chemical equivalent of wearing the glasses of a very near sighted person while having perfect vision and then saying YOU shouldn’t wear glasses because when THEY tried ones they made them sick.

lostgalaxyexplorer:

Just read a scientific article that found that we ADHD folks tend to focus on the cost of a task more than the benefits and that medication helps us see the benefits of tasks more which helps with motivation for hard tasks.

And god does that make sense to me, it explains so much! It explains why it’s so hard to get anything done no matter how important to me the end result is. I procrastinate even for things I really want like making chocolate chip cookies. My brain just thinks of all the things I would need to do to get those cookies and gives up instead of thinking of how amazing it would be to have freshly baked cookies.

For someone who has typed upwards of 200,000 words for their novel, taken advanced English all their life, has a family of multigenerational English teachers, and has a formidable library in their room, I sure can’t spell worth a damn.

I spent a length of time I will not disclose cursing spell-check, more confident than I had any right to be that “paid” was actually spelled “payed.”

aspergersissues:

It’s posts like these that made me realize I had ADHD in the first place. This hits home so hard.

i swear some nights my brain is like a middle school sleep over, and im that one girl desperately telling everyone to be quiet so i can sleep

Having Adult Adhd is HARD and it’s not talked about enough

I was at a college dessert party and I got a popsicle I didn’t like because I didn’t want to say no to after waiting in line. So I started asking strangers if they wanted it, thoroughly weirded them out, then apologized and walked away. So whatever happened today at least you didn’t do that.

ADD writer blog 1: Today I read eight pages of the Hobbit and I’m already overwhelmed. I should be finished this time next year.

[ADHD AND LANGUAGE LEARNING/STUDYING]

Hello! For those who are ADHD, what does your developed study process look like? I find that I rely on my current mood a lot when it comes to studying so it’s a bit difficult to build a routine. I honestly don’t think I want to have a schedule, maybe just a skeleton I can work with that’s flexible. I’d love your insights and tips!

“There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”

—Dulce Maria Loynaz, Absolute Solitude

Me:*bakes cupcakes*

Me after 4 minutes realising I forgot to put on the timer:fuckfuckfuckfuckfcukfuckfuckfcukfuck

apileofglitter:

chi-thewitch:

I want to read your experiences before being diagnosed with adhd? How did you realized? How did you feel?

Me:bitch . I have adhd and I need therapy and meds

Family member: bUt dO YoU waNt tO bE laBeLed???

Me, timidly: um…. no…..

Me, in my head: guess the internet’s my only safe place for mental health huh

i was diagnosed at 4. i had no idea until a school counselor accidentally broke the news when i was 17. assignments that took my friends an hour took me three. i almost never finished my tests. half of my homework was late. my mom tried to get me into assisted study hall and i refused. my counselor gave me countless planners and checklists and i could never keep them for longer than a week. my mom sent me in to get signatures from my teachers so i could prove i talked to them about my 0’s.

my twin sister had been in accelerated school programs since we were 9. i wanted to be like her so bad. i hated help, hated admitting i needed help, would rather fail than ask for help, because nobody else seemed to need it. i wanted to be able to do what everyone else was doing and i was desperate to prove it, because i didn’t know i had adhd and thought everyone else had just diagnosed me with stupid. my mom insists i knew. i didn’t.

fast forward to now, i’m a grown woman and i’m still finding out day-to-day more and more of my behaviors that are related to my adhd. i have the sense of self awareness i was denied for most of my childhood. i’m still stuck in the depression that stemmed from leaving my adhd untreated for so long. i’m experimenting with different medications and i’m doing well. but i still feel like i’m the only one in my life who understands how i work.

please tell your kids what’s happening inside their brains. talk to adults with adhd and ask them what their childhood was like. stop reading those adhd parenting books that were written in the 90’s. they’re not relevant anymore. i always wonder what my life would look like now if i didn’t burn out three years before i graduated high school, if i’d understood what was going on, if i had someone else who understood looking out for me.

i know i’m preaching to the choir here, but i needed to get that out there. it may have seemed like a minor issue when i was a kid but maybe if i had been treated properly i wouldn’t want to die today.

adhd moods as saiki k songs idk anymore lol

i have so many questions

plz i need more options

adhd ask game!

SELF-DIAGNOSED/ UNDIAGNOSED PPL WELCOME!!! as always <3

1. what is one thing you wish more neurotypicals understood about adhd?

2. a hot take/untalked about issue about adhd that deserves more attention?

3. do you have any comorbidities?

4. what is ur adhd subtype?

5. do you have any adhd study tips?

6. what’s ur current/most recent hyperfixation?

7. your most embarrassing/weirdest hyperfixation?

8. what’s your mbti/enneagram type (sorry it’s my hyperfixation lol)?

9. favorite stim/stim toy?

10. any experience with ableism you want to share?

11. did you get a diagnosis? if so when.

12. do any of your relatives have adhd?

13. any good adhd/neurodiverse representation recommendations in media?

14. that one character you just KNOW has adhd?

15. do you have sensory issues?

16. i can’t believe i almost forgot this question do you take meds, and what is your relationship with meds (whether you’re on them or not)?

17. kinda weird question but do you think being neurodivergent had any affect on how you figured out/are figuring out your gender/sexuality (if you are lgbtq+)?

18. what’s the hardest thing about having adhd?

19. what’s the best thing about have adhd (if there is one)?

20. what is the biggest difference you notice in friendships with other neurodiverse people vs neurotypical people?

21. if you could tell everyone on tumblr with adhd one thing what would it be?

when people say adhd is a superpower are they referring to my inability to complete any task or my ed sheeran hyperfixation?

Adhd culture is using an uppercase and lowercase i in the same sentence.