#ugh i suck at being concise
Other people with adhd: racing thoughts! Multitasking! Gotta go fast! Gotta do everything!
Me: there’s honey in my mind making my thoughts slow and difficult, my mind is a black hole censoring my thoughts when I try to think, losing time, perpetually high, static Static STATIC
actually, this is a good description of how ADHD predominantly hyperactive-impulsive and predominantly inattentive can present themselves in some cases
people saying that they’re both somehow… let me introduce you to the wonders of the combined type!
This is kinda like the difference between type 1 & type 2 adhd. If I’m not mistake type 1 adhd (commonly known as add) has all the effects of type 2 adhd except for the hyperactive aspect. Type 2 will bounce from thing to thing to thing while type 1 will be sitting there focusing on 27 things and not making sense of any of it. Take a type 2 person, leave them in a blank room without distraction and they’ll be goin ing of the walls bored out of their mind. Type 1 will be sitting there bored as fuck thinking about 83 things at the same time while memorizing the pattern of the stucco ceiling.
(Note: I may have my type 1s and 2s switched so fact check, also feel like my explanation is lacking but I’m kinda in “thinking about 83 things at the same time while memorizing the pattern of the stucco ceiling.” Mood myself atm)
Going off of that, I think that seems pretty accurate for the most part, but it leaves out the brain fog that can come with type 1. I consider the thinking about 83 things more as a subset of type 2, since there’s hyperactivity in the thoughts, it just presents itself internally rather than as external hyperactivity. In type 1 I feel it’s closer to sitting in a room bored as fuck and unable to process anything. Like, they’re staring at the ceiling counting the tiles, but the brain is so fuzzy and unfocused they keep losing can’t or just staring blankly rather than thinking about anything. I once had a “scientist” tell me it was impossible to think about nothing, but I can say for sure from personal experience it is extremely possible to be completely blank minded. On my worst adhd days there is no thought, only a painful void
